Lot 61278 – 1860 CAPE TOWN to La Flèche, FRANCEThe mail was fully

1860 envelope from Cape Town to France with 1d brick red and 6d deep rose lilac tied by small triangular obliterator, mixed margins, paying the 7d per ¼oz rate to France, Calais transit and La Flèche arrival, cover with cosmetic reparations, a very rare surviving example of this obsolete foreign rate; ex R. Johnson.Note: This little seen rate/destination was in force from 1858-1860 which was changed to 8d per ¼ oz from 13th August 1860.