Lot
29 
Ecuador, Quito., bold straight line first type postmark on October 6th, 1769 folded letter from the President of the Audience of Quito addressed to the Royal Treasury in Popayan (Colombia); cover with some light cleaning, Very Fine; with 2001 Moorhouse certificate.Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
THE EARLIEST DATED PRESTAMP MARK OF THIS FIRST QUITO POSTMARK - ONE OF ONLY THREE KNOWN EXAMPLES IN BLACK.
This letter from the President of the Audience of Quito, directed to an official of the Royal Treasury in Popayan, may have gone on the second northbound dispatch to Quito to Cartagena under the Spanish Crown's newly established mail service, the "Royal Renta de Correos". The manuscript cross at the top of the letter was placed there to indicate "safe carriage in the sight of God".
Realized: $13,500