Lot 81503 – 1853 (Feb 15) Folded cover with very fine “Paid/At/Bahia” crowned circle

1853 (Feb 15) Folded cover with full contents from Bahia to Cadiz (Spain), directly consigned to the British mails, where the endorsement “Via Teneriffe” was added, as the British packets were calling at this port in the Canary Islands between 1851 and 1855, charged at “2/-” double rate and struck with very fine “PAID/ AT / BAHIA” crowned circle in black, then embarked on the RMSP “Teviot”, entering the Spanish mails at Tenerife, with red Baeza cds’s of the Canary city and Cadiz on arrival, subjected to slits of disinfection (an uncommon practice on transatlantic mail in this period); a very rare usage and one of less than ten recorded.