375rd Heinrich Köhler auction - Day 1

1858, 4 sk. orange-brown, 2 copies with ample to mostly large margins, used on lettersheet, both cancelled with ink cross with adjacent "an O. Journ. A No.49/1860" addressed to the General Customs Directorate, probably with an application for a grant or benefit payment. In order for the public not to enjoy 'free mail' through applications handed in at the local customs office, the sender was required to affix adhesives appropriate to the rate of the letter, which was then sent to Copenhagen with other documents from the local customs officer. An extremely rare letter of greatest post historical interest; one of two letters of this nature recorded in private hands
Reference: Nordisk Filatelistik Tidsskrift no. 1, Januar 1949