CORINPHILA AUCTIONS 297 - 308 Day 3

1800/1900: The outstanding Exhibit collection (199 items) of Maritime Mail by Spanish ships, Spanish Naval vessels, private ships and companies, with mail from 1799 cover from Santa Fé, Colombia via Corunna to Havana, 1800 cover to Guatemala with YNDIAS in red, covers with ESPANA truncated handstamp (2), 1801/09 covers from Mexico to Calella via Havana with NEUVA ESPANA handstamps in black (2), covers with YNDIAS markings in red, blue or black (16), range of covers with ISLAS DE / BARLOVENTO handstamps in black (usually incoming), blue, green or in red (22), two unique 1819/20 covers with "DE YNDIAS" handstamps in red (5), Havana Maritime Service covers with oval "E" marking on 1831/47 entires from Galicia and Barcelona and one to London (4), "CORREIO MARITIMO" handstamps in blue or green with numbers 1-6 (17), unique 1842 cover with circular "E / YNDIAS" handstamp applied in yellow - a great rarity of Cuban Maritime Mail, covers with circular "E / NA" markings in black or red, "E/NE" cachet in black on 1840 entire, 1827 cover with rare small "NE" mark in black and 1837 cover with rare "ИE" handstamp in black (five recorded), 1842 cover with rare italic "ESPAÑA" in red, 1847 entire from Bordeaux to Havana with circular "EMPRESA / INDIAS" ship datestamp in blue (one of five reported), 1848 cover with circular "EMPRESA / N. AMERICA" datestamp in blue, two 1850's covers with "EMPRESA / ESPANA" handstamps in red, early Cuban town markings of CARDENAS, HABANA and HAVANA, PUERTO / PRINCIPE, disinfected mail, rare oval framed PUERTO RICO in red etc., 1855 Antilles/Cuba First Issue ½ real used on cover to Cadiz per "Conde de Regla" - just 11 covers are recorded used on the first Day of Issue of this stamp - two are in museum collections, thereafter with single and double weight usages on 1855/59 covers (29) including fraudulkent usager of Cuban ½ r. from Barcelona to Pto. Principe - just two examples known (cert. Comex), 1862/75 Lopez & Co. covers from Cuba to Spain with a variety of frankings (18), 1877 cover front with Alfonso 50 c. black tied dotted "DM" in blue (rare, with cert), Cuban Coastal Mail covers (5), US Mail covers (14) incl. fine "NA" usages and 1861 cover with 10 c. green pair to Manzanillo, British Mail incl. PAID AT VERA CRUZ and PAID AT HAVANA Crown Circles etc. A superb well written up collection; careful and studious viewing is recommended.