Lot 51040 – 1815ca Cover to Santiago with “Balparaiso” (S.F.C. MPF48) to Rafael Beltrán Iñiguez

1815ca. Cover to Santiago with “Balparaiso” straight line in red (S.F.C. MPF48), with the “1” reales rate applied before 1818. The letter was addressed to Rafael Beltrán Íñiguez, Spanish Royalist who after the disaster of Rancagua was appointed member of the Council of Santiago by General Osorio; after Chacabuco, he left for Peru and returned with a Spanish Fleet to Concepción supporting the march of the Royalist to Santiago (he would be captured after the victory of Maipú and would lose all his belongings, but he would remain in Chile).