£120
OVAL "PORT.LOUIS/POST.PAID" ON COVER TO FRANCE - RARE OFFICIAL FREE TO P.O. EMPLOYEE: c.1816 part-wrapper (faults & stains) to Marseilles with partly very fine oval "PORT.LOUIS/POST.PAID" addressed to "M. August D'Hotman EMPE. au Bureau des Post A Marseilles". With no postal charge; rare example of official P.O. mail to France. Intriguingly it has been endorsed on the flap "...Auvoire Deshire(?) la Premiere Envelop ... qu'il la promise a Son ami D'Hotman". Unique item? Cross Reference: OFFICIAL MAIL, FREES
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