Lot 30755 – 1864, Cover sent from Puerto Cabello to Hamburg franked

1864 Cover sent from Puerto Cabello to Hamburg, franked with vertical pair of 2 Reales green, endorsed top « via West Indies mail », tied in transit by London « 50 » foreign office cancel, with very fine strike of the rare « Hamburg Consulate in Puerto Cabello » mark in blue-green to the front and extraordinarily to the reverse also, London dated ‘AU 29’ and Hamburg arrival to the reverse, slight soiling and edge wrinkles not detracting from the great beauty and freshness of the stamps and handstamps; illustrated in the Ringström-Tester on page 23; signed Holcombe; only two covers known with the dual castle marking.