Item - #FRIT-1835

  

FRANCE STAMPLESS COVERS

1835 PARIS TO BOLOGNA DISINFECTED MARITIME COVER

A Complex, Colorful  and Richly marked French-Italian Cover and Letter to Monsieur Le Marquis Joseph. Replete with colorful blue Paris dispatch cancel, two red French transit cancels, a Straightline French Pacquet boat Cancel, Papal States Post transit mark to Bologna, manuscript rate marking, Bologna receiving backstamp, as well as a Bologna Disinfection backstamp & double slits


 


Front: .
Reverse: . ex Gaston.
Notes:
Condition: T.
Contents: Autograph letter enclosed letter states in part: "Our poor friend has diarrhea and all his strength has been sapped. he feels so bad that he has made his last will and testament. He was going to buy a mill in Marseille but to hell with that now. He is thankful to the Bologna boy friend for the money. It helps a lot in this awful situation."


Pontifical Post Mark for Bologna


Example of Complete Mark
Another Example of the
 S.E.O.F. Pontifical Post
 Mark of Bologna


Black Two-line "VIA DI BEAUVOISIN"
French Steamer Marking


Example of a Complete
 "PONT BEAUVOISIN" Markmeaning it had transited though Beauvoisin or over the Bridge (Pont) at Beauvoisin that marks the border with Italy.



Examples of the "VIA DI" or on line above BEAUVOISIN which is also a possibility. That part is very faint on this cover


Paris 11 December 1835
Blue Cancellation


Example of Complete mark


Red "SAR" Marking


Bologna Receiving Mark
21 December 1835


Example of Complete Mark


Red C.P.4.R.
Stands for "Correspondence Prussienne Rayon" part of the French Prussian postal treaty first established in 1817. There were 5 Rayons or Postal Districts. #4 ran through the South of France

 
 


Manuscript "15" [centimes] showing rate Paris to Bologna

 


Manuscript Directive
"E'tats Romain Italie"
Roman States Italy

 

Contents of Letter in Italian
 

Offered by Berryhill & Sturgeon, Ltd.