Lot 524

✉ INDOCHINA FRANCESA. 1893. Mourning envelope to FRENCH CHINA bearing France Type Sage 25 cent blue (Yvert 97) tied by HEREPLAN double ring routed via Saigon to the French Post and Telegraph Office Long-Xuyen Indo-China with French General Colonies 2 franc marron (Yvert 16), applied on arrival. This cover is the first recorded with the 2 fr used in Indo-China it would have been used as a form of accounting the tax on incoming mail in groups of eight unpaid letters. A superb item.