Lot 1694

✉ FRANCIA. 1873. ALEXANDRIA. SYRIE LINE. FRENCH AND ITALIAN PACKETS. Letter from PORT SAID to BOLOGNA. It was posted on board of the "Syrie" line French packet with a call in Port Said, having the 40 c. stamp tied by the "lozenge ancre" mark and alongside the octagonal PORT SAID PAQ. FR. X n-4-3 Oct. 73. The letter had to be disembarked at the call of Naples of the "Syrie line" but cause of the cholera epidemic then current in Naples, it, at the call of Alexandria, was delivered to the Italian Post Office that embarked the letter on the Italian Packet "Egitto" of the "Rubattino Co." proceeding for Genoa with a call in Naples where was disembarked and receiving two fumigation cuts.