Lot 40261 – 1877, 200r black, on single rate cover from Corumbá, Matto Grosso to Italy

1877, 200r black, paying the single U.P.U. rate on commercial envelope from Corumbá to Varese (Italy), tied by “Corumba/9 Nov 82” cds in blue, Rio and Varese backstamps; a rare transatlantic mail originating from this locality in Matto Grosso on the border between Brazil and Bolivia; this city is in the natural region of Pantanal, with all the challenges that it implies for the carriage of mail to be located in the most significant plain of all humid areas in South America, which is also one of the most exuberant and diversified natural reserves on the planet; ex Chusyd.