Lot 61704 – 1844 (June 26) Cover from Montevideo to Havre

1844 (June 26) Cover from Montevideo to Havre, bearing “MONTEV°.” straight-line in red, framed “COLONIES/&c.ART.12.” exchange marking in orange-red, French entry cds and “15” decimes ms charge on receipt (ink erosion in the fragile paper), English and Paris transits on back, carried by the warship “Niper” and from Rio by the “Peterel” to Falmouth, an unusual mail during the Great War; ex Lee.