£280 - £400
EARLY STAMPED MAIL TO JAPAN; 18 Feb. 1865 env. (few peripheral faults; with contents) 'via Southampton' to Captain Mairis in Yokohama franked 6d Lilac tied by Bristol duplex and with Portishead and London cds on rear. Note: H.M.S Severn was sent to Yokohama following hostilities with the British Legation in Yedo (Tokyo). With four contemporary card-mounted photographs of Captain & Mrs Mairis. Illustrated in Royal Marines at page 46. Early example of mail of Japan and sent a fortnight after the very similar example, from the same correspondence that sold in the Brühl collection (Mar. 2017) for 660 Cross Reference: JAPAN, OVERSEAS DESTINATIONS
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