Los 3339

1898, from Valletta to Albany New York USA, registered cover franked with 2 1/2d ultramarine and 2d grey Queen Victoria keytypes, both tied by barred MALTA duplex cancels, large oval REGISTERED MALTA 27 AP 98 and matching transit handstamps including red London exchange and blue New York registry label number 40841, bold black boxed R registration marking at top right, addressed to Mrs. S.C. Camourette in Albany, clean envelope from the final decade of Victorian rule on Malta, mailed during British imperial peak with Malta as a strategic naval outpost in the Mediterranean, attractive classic transatlantic registered letter, ex Kugel, XF! Estimate 400€.