Both with
Manila dateline, MA/NILA oval h.s. and matching 4.U.
ornamental
framed h.s., both in red, large 7R dull red h.s.
Sent by Italian
Nicolo Belletti who spent nearly half a century
in the Far
East travelling on the "Manila galleons" sailing to and from Acapulco,
New Spain,
sometimes as Maestre de Plata (Cargo Master), and establishing
a regular
mail carrying Spanish mail via Mexico, this the first North American
overland mail,
no Mexican markings but a 1781 LS from the same
correspondence
bore Acapulco h.s.'s. Ex-Charles Meroni.
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