Sunday, August 16, 2009

Second Empire Covers



Napoleon III great covers to collect.

Interesting field of investigation specially for covers sent to foreign countries. Could be very interesting to follow the long delivery process in some case, or realized how fast was the delivery at this time. Many different marks are involved, some date cancellation are very scarce, special cancellations for train, steamers .... OR AIR MAIL. The case "Ballons montés" is unique in history. Extremelly desirable and expensive.

Second empire covers du to colonial wars offers many army marks issued during campaigns as Mexican war or european wars. Inusual destination countries are sometimes tough to find and could be expensive to buy. I am specially interested by second empire covers sent to South and North America. Mexico, Chile, Argentina, Peru from this periode with steamer mark or Panama mark.

Second empire covers sent from Mexico to France with army marks are my favorite.

Don't hesitate to let me know if by chance you have some of those to sell or trade.



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