Lot 10138A – 1868 (Aug. 31). Envelope (back flap missing) from Lima to the Ottoman Empire, bearing 1dinero green

1868 (Aug. 31). Envelope ( large part of back flap missing) from Lima to Salonica (Greece, Ottoman Empire), paying the inland rate with well margined 1d green, tied by dispatch cds, repeated alongside, routed via Panama to Colon to be embarked on the RMSCP SS « Seine » to Plymouth, « GB/1F90c » Anglo-French accountancy marking, continuing its transmission by French packet from Marseilles to final destination, paying « 16 » (1fr60c) including 1fr20c for the carriage to France and 40c for the Mediterranean portion of the journey, reverse showing London and French arrival « Salonique/Turquie » cds’s, as well as part « Dardanelles/Turquie » cds, some minor soiling; an extraordinary transatlantic destination from any South American country in this period, and as far as we can say, unique from Peru.