Lot 10144 – 1857 (Feb 21) Part cover (front and top backflap) from Montevideo to Genoa, Italy

1857 (Feb 21) Part cover (front and top backflap) from Montevideo to Genoa, Italy, with neat green oval despatch, endorsed at top left and put onboard SS “Italia” from Buenos Aires to Rio de Janeiro, where it was transferred to the Compagnia Transatlantica SS “Genova” to Genoa with 17th April arrival bs, charged at single rate with ms “11” decime (1L10), very fine and very scarce usage from Uruguay.

Note: The Compagnia Transatlantica only operated eleven trips in the period 1856-57. The route from Genoa called at the ports of Marseille, Cadiz, Lisbon, Tenerife, Madeira, Pernambuco, Bahia and Rio de Janeiro, from where the passengers and the mail were carried to Montevideo and Buenos Aires by another steamer of the same company.