Lot 2461

✉ HAITI. 1881. Typographed emisión 2 c. dark violet, 3 c. bistre and 5 c. green. Letter from GONAIVES, L'Artiborite department, one of the seven ports of Haiti, prepaid with 2+3+5=10 cents. (Haiti entered UPU in 1881) addressed to a ship owner in Tornsberg Norway. The stamps are cancelled with the three line cancel (type II) VERVIERS/8 10 4/COELN (8 October, train nº 4*) on the German train post office X, running between Verviers (Belgium) and Cologne (Germany). This is the only cancel seen until now from the office towards Germany. In the opposite direction: the COELN/DATE/VERVIERS canceller (type II) is know from 22.01.1877 to 08.09.1890. The letter has been forwarded to New York, where it entered in the closed mail, via England and Belgium, opened in the train post office, thence further over Hamburg to Norway. Outstanding and unique cover. Cert. VAN DER LINDEN.