Incoming Mail Overland via Brindisi & Suez 1892 (April 8): Monaco
10 c. postal stationery card, small piece of corner missing at top
right,
Incoming Mail Overland via Brindisi & Suez 1892 (April 8): Monaco
10 c. postal stationery card, small piece of corner missing at top
right, used from Monte Carlo, Monaco to Sydney, New South Wales and
cancelled by a very fine Monte-Carlo datestamp, prepaying 10
centimes for a postal card to New South Wales with Sydney arrival
on the reverse. Rare, being the only cover recorded by the vendor
from Monaco to the Australian Colonies before Federation. Route:
Departed Monte Carlo 8 April 1892 by steamer to Alexandria. P&O
Line: Departed Alexandria (15 April) via the Suez Canal, Aden (19
April) to Adelaide (11 May); by rail to Sydney, arriving 13 May
1892 (35 days)
