France 1871 - Rare letter from Marseille bound for Karachi (Pakistan - June 1871) - The last known

Are you interested in this item? This item is up for auction at Catawiki. Please click on "respond to advert" (orange button) to get redirected to the Catawiki website. Catawiki’s goal is to make special objects universally available. Our weekly auctions feature thousands of unusual, rare, and exceptional objects you won’t find in just any store. This letter was sent on line V which connected Marseilles to Alexandria and it turns out that it is the last known letter having transited on this line with postal agents on board.

I enclose an extract from the Salles catalog which qualifies a letter of April 1871 - then the latest known date - as an amateur piece with a rating of RR 67527227 Read more