Sweden. Postal stationery, Double postcard, Facit bKd3, Reply card 10+10 öre with correspondning unused reply part still attached. Sent insufficiently prepaid, undetected without any postage due, from STOCKHOLM 23.12.1885 via PKXP No 2B Utr N (mail train compartment Nässjö–Malmö, 1878–1903) 24.12.1885, and LONDON 26/12 1890 to Colombia. Most probably sent by Royal Mail Steam Packet Company "Nile" (1) from Southampton 31.12.1885, via Barbados Jacmel, and Jamaica to Colón, and thence from Colón to Savanilla. Earliest recorded postcard to Republic of Colombia according to Ferdén, in which work the pc is also pictured.
