BOXED "PACKET" WITH CROWNED CDS ON COVER "PER BRITONS QUEEN"...

Hammer

£110

BOXED "PACKET" WITH CROWNED CDS ON COVER "PER BRITONS QUEEN" FROM FRANCE VIA CEYLON: 22 Sep 1849 EL from Port Louis to Bordeaux "Pr Briton's Queen Via Pointe de Galle" with rare boxed "PACKET" mark (fine strike, somewhat under ms "20" decimes charge) on the front along with fine crowned "MAURITIUS/GPO" hs & Marseilles 'Paq' entry. Bordeaux & "COLOMBO/STEAMER-LETTER" backstamps. Cross Reference: FRANCE, CEYLON/SRI LANKA