Lot 231
French Indochina, (France) 1867, Napoleon III Laureate, 20c blue on bluish, vertical pair, tied by 3171 dotted lozenge handstamps on well traveled cover addressed to "Mr. Ernest Pichez, medical officer 2nd Class, passenger on board the transport Orne going to French Cochinchina at Toulon", with "Rochefort-S-Mer, 26 Fevr, 67" origin cds alongside, forwarded to hospital in Senegal, West Africa with "De Toulon, 1 Mai, 67" forwarding cds and blue "Senegal, St. Louis, 6 Juli" arrival cds, again forwarded to Suez and finally to Saigon with numerous transit date stamps on reverse; cover wear, light toning and opened at sides for display, Fine, a remarkably well traveled finally arriving in Saigon, Cochinchine. Yvert No. 29.Scott No. 33 Estimate $500 - 750.
Realized: $250