Lot 1917 Great Britain - Queen Victoria

1870 3d Rose, Plate 5 (CD) An entire sent from Liverpool to Le Harvre, France August 1st 1870. Bearing 1868 3d rose stamp SG 102/103 (specialised J30) tied 466 duplex for Liverpool and a horiz. town cancel Z LIVERPOOL 1AU70 36 CBP 7/20). The front has a Calais transit mark ANGL 2 AOUT 68 AMB CALAIS and a red PD mark in a circle (CBP 9/63). Company mark in blue for Leo Schuster Brothers. Reverse has a single ring transit mark for London in red LONDON PG AU2 70. there is a further transit mark for Paris to Le Havre PARIS AU HAVRE 2 AUGT 70 B and a indistinct receiving mark for Le Havre. Leopold Schuster was German but moved to northern England in the early part of the nineteenth century. He setup on a cotton trading company in 1820 which operated in Liverpool and Manchester. The firm continued to operate through the nineteenth century although Leopold himself moved to London in 1855 where he setup a merchant bank cover became the Chairman of the London and Brighton Railway. The contents of the letter to Thomas La Chambre are commercial and concern cotton trade between the two companies.