Kedirie. 1870, 10 cent brown in pair on second weight letter from Kedirie to Batavia. The pair with excellent perforation, right stamp with a small nick in right side, tied to cover by clearly struck Kedirie half-round franco postmark 28.7 1872, with an additional strike on the cover, manuscript “Franco” below stamps. Batavia arrival 3.8 1872 on back. An extremely rare letter and most attractive, sent to the Parapattan Weezen Gesticht, an orphanage in Batavia; clean and tidy folded letter sheet without content and with an institutional red seal on back.
AN IMPORTANT SECOND WEIGHT LETTER FROM KEDIRIE. TWO LETTERS RECORDED WITH THE KEDIRIE HALF-ROUND FRANCO CANCEL ON 1870 ISSUE. A RARITY OF THE NEI HALF-ROUND FRANCO.
The Parapattan Weezen Gesticht, one of the earliest orphanages in Indonesia, was founded in October 1832 by the British missionary W.H. Medhurst. The institution is still operating in Jakarta today.
Provenance: Van Dieten, Voerman Collection, Jan. 1995, lot 294.
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