1851 Windsor GB 10d embossed to Gibraltar via France and Spain

1851 Windsor, GB10d embossed to Gibraltar, via France and Spain

Letter from Windsor to Gibraltar, Sir James Cochrane, Chief Justice of the Supreme Court of Gibraltar. One of the most notable cases he handled was the enquiry into the Mary Celeste.

Postal Marks:-

Windsor April 11^th 1851

London April 12^th 1851 PAID datestamp with Foreign Post Office PF mark (signifying to the frontier of egress of the receiving country

French TPO ANGL 2 CALAIS 2 Van der Linden¹ type 158 April 13^th 1851

Madrid Transit mark

San Roque Baeza backstamp and 11R rate April 22^nd 1851

Gibraltar none

Rate:- UK To Gibraltar via France, compulsory payment of ten pence for up to a quarter ounce from² 1st June 1843 to³ 23rd March 1854. Five pence was for the GPO and five pence for the French Post Office. This only paid the postage to the Franco –Hispanic exchange office at Irun.

Spain From⁴ 16th November 1807 and confirmed⁵ on 4th September 1815 to⁶ 28th June 1853 the rate charged on mail to the Andalucia Baja region of Spain was 11 reales for a letter weighing up to six adarmes. Since the Spanish Post Office treated Gibraltar as if it was a sub office of San Roque, the same rate applied.

Adhesives:- Ten pence brown embossed, die 2.

References

1 Van der Linden Marques de Passage Soluphil, Luxemborg 1993.

2 Treasury Warrant dated 9^th May 1843