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209 - France, War of 1870, Le Lavoisier, C. PARIS/MINISTRY OF FINANCE on a mounted airmail envelope with the postage cut off, addressed to the Commander of the French Establishments in Oceania in Tahiti, with C. MINISTRY OF THE NAVY AND COLONIES in blue and C. TAITI (OCEANIA)/PAPEETE as the arrival mark on the reverse December 19, 1870 One of only two known letters sent by mounted balloon to Tahiti; the second also has a clipped stamp but lacks an arrival mark—a rarity in the collection of mounted balloons
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France, War of 1870, Le Lavoisier, C. PARIS/MINISTRY OF FINANCE on a mounted airmail envelope with the postage cut off, addressed to the Commander of the French Establishments in Oceania in Tahiti, with C. MINISTRY OF THE NAVY AND COLONIES in blue and C. TAITI (OCEANIA)/PAPEETE as the arrival mark on the reverse December 19, 1870 One of only two known letters sent by mounted balloon to Tahiti; the second also has a clipped stamp but lacks an arrival mark—a rarity in the collection of mounted balloons
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