1861/95 Hermes Heads Postal History collection neatly presen...

Hammer

£3,100

1861/95 Hermes Heads Postal History collection neatly presented and written up on pages in album. There are 66 commercial covers, 44 of which bear the earlier types and include the 20L Paris printing and no fewer than 24 mixed and (mostly) multi-coloured frankings (2 bearing 5L, 10L, 20L and 40L), mostly addressed to Trieste. Significantly also is an 1863 cover from Rome to Athens with Papal States 7b blue and 20L blue affixed on arrival in Athens (very scarce). The 22 covers bearing the later types include Registered to Colchester and Denmark, a spectacular multi-coloured (8) and franked cover to Dresden etc, with a batch of supplementary, later covers included. A superb assembly