Lot 42216 – Entire letter from a sender on board the HMS « Harrier » at Callao addressed to Brussels, with letter’s perambulations around Europe beginning at Liverpool, then London, Brussels, Geneva, Nice, Lyon, Milan and Florence,

1838 (March 14). Entire letter from a sender on board the HMS « Harrier » at Callao addressed to Brussels, with contents being mostly maritime gossip incl. a duel between two Americans, so the author was presumably a naval officer, with letter’s perambulations around Europe beginning at Liverpool, then London, Brussels, Geneva, Nice, Lyon, Milan and Florence, the letter being apparently prepaid at Brussels (blue hs) incl. « Franco Frontière » hs, following rate markings of some complexity, red « T.F. » and « W P », Geneva transit, Italian hs, etc, an extraordinary usage from a military sender.