Bidspirit auction | Pre-philately. Maritime Mail. Letter dispatched

Pre-philately. Maritime Mail. Letter dispatched from Hamburg on 18.9.1844, hand-carried to Lisbon, where it was delivered at the Post Office on 9.10, by the Agent of the ”Peninsular and Oriental Navigation Company / LISBON”. In Lisbon, a postage of 40 reis was applied, to be paid in Évora by the recipient. The agent's mark from the peninsula in Lisbon is unknown.