Lot
2585 
Panama, Colombia 1881, Registration, 10c red on orange, manuscript "973" registry number, used with Colombia 1883 10c orange yellow, tied by "Colon, Oct 2" duplex on special registration envelope to France, red "Panama, Lig. A. Paq. Fr. No 1, 2 Oct 84" octagon d.s., reverse with Bordeaux (10.25) arrival cds, Very Fine. Scott No. Colombia F8 + 119 Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
A REMARKABLE EARLY REGISTERED USE FROM COLON, PANAMA CARRIED BY FRENCH PACKET TO FRANCE.
Presumably the special registration envelopes and Colombia F7 were sent to Colon in 1881, but no Colon registered covers are recorded from 1881 and 1882. This is one of the earliest recorded registered covers from Colon, of which only a few are known from the 1880s.