Lot 61704 – 1844 (June 26) Cover from Montevideo to Havre

1844 (June 26) Cover from Montevideo to Havre, bearing « MONTEV°. » straight-line in red, framed « COLONIES/&c.ART.12. » exchange marking in orange-red, French entry cds and « 15 » decimes ms charge on receipt (ink erosion in the fragile paper), English and Paris transits on back, carried by the warship « Niper » and from Rio by the « Peterel » to Falmouth, an unusual mail during the Great War; ex Lee.