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cover 1823 entire to London with disinfection stains and slits, rated "1/3" and showing step-type "QUEENSBOROUGH/SHIP LETTER" in red on reverse; 1841 entire to Genoa slit for disinfection and with cachet of the Genoa Sanitation Magistrate on reverse, and 1844 entire letter from the Spanish Consulate to their counterpart in Malta with disinfection stains and spike holes, showing Consulate cachet on reverse and curved-framed "GIBRALTAR" on face. Also 1853 "Gibraltar Chronicle and Commercial Intelligencer" containing an Official quarantine proclamation for ships coming from Portugal, Cuba, Madeira and the Azores. An interesting group