1855 | INDIA TO RUSSIA

Wrapper (1855 July) from Calcutta to St. Petersburg, Russia. Sent by Calcutta-based merchants, Schone Kilburn & Co., the letter went via Marseilles to London. There Fred. Huth & Co acted as the forwarding agent paying the postage due of 1s10d and making arrangements to get the letter delivered to Russia. Boxed INDIA, merchant’s handstamp. and datestamps of Calcutta (3 Jul) and London (15 Aug). Letters from India to Russia are rare. Part of the Heinrich Schliemann correspondence; Schliemann was a St. Petersburg-based merchant and later credited as the finder of the city of Troy.

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