Lot 44 POSTAL HISTORY

Maritime: Moveable Box 1906-13 Four PPC's to London bearing France adhesives each tied by LONDON / M.B. cds cancels. Moveable Boxes (or boite mobile) on board private ships we used through a special agreement between France and Britain for mails since 1856 and the service became so successful that moveable boxes were employed to process the mail carried by private ships at a cost of One Penny. Includes two later or part cancel example. (6).