Lot 51343 – 1898 one of two known registered mail receipts with Puerto Principe frankings

1898 Registered mail receipt from a correspondence originating in New York (USA), franked with 2c on 2m orange-brown, position 4, first printing, tied by blue Puerto Principe cds on 18 January 1899, backstamped in Havana (22 January, just two days before the stamps were withdrawn); some creasing and damage at top not detracting; a 2c Spanish colonial rate is very rare for this type of postal document, being one of two known registered mail receipts with Puerto Principe frankings (both included in this sale); ex Prats.