Ref: 14984
- £395.00
1883 disinfected envelope addressed to Berlin franked 'TWENTY 20 CENTS' on 'SIXTY CENTS' adhesive tied 'COLOMBO' duplex 'NO 28 83' At Colombo it missed the sailing of the P&O 'Siam' The post office put it on board the French M.M. 'Pei Ho' (Ligne N. No 5) She suffered a broken propeller shaft at Aden, so her mails were transfered to P&O 'Khedive" then to the 'Cathay' at Port Said. Arriving 1st January at Venice. The envelope treated as German mail was put on the railway and slit by the Bavarians between Kufstein and Munich. The only recorded Ceylon envelope disinfected in Germany.
