Registered cover airmailed from France to Greece, secured with wax seals impressed “N M”; stamped “RECOMMANDÉ” with perforated “R 067” etiquette stamped ‘CHALAIS’ and ms endorsed “Par avion”. Franked with French 1935 set ‘in favor of the needy intellectual workers’ (50c+2Fr ‘Music’ [rare] + 50c+10c ‘The attic’), and other commemorative adhesives (1.25Fr + 75c + 90c (1933-1935), and 2.25Fr airpost ‘Blériot’ (1934), cancelled with “CHALAIS CHARENTE 24-1 36” date-stamp. Ms notation below stamps: “affranchissement par l'expéditeur” [Postage stamps by the sender].
Total franking: 6 francs for domestic surface mail and registry fee plus 2.25 francs for airmail surtax on the Paris-Athens service.
Backstamped entering Greece “ΑΘΗΝΑΙ ΑΦΙΞΙΣ ΣΥΣΤΗΜ. ΑΕΡΟΠΟΡΙΚΩΣ 27.I.36” [Athens (Central PO) Registered Airmail Arrival, 27 January 1936]; postmarked next day at final destination ‘ΑΘΗΝΑΙ ΛΕΒΙΔΟΥ 28.I.36’ [Athens, Levidou PO Annex 28 Jan. 1936).
Condition: Fine, albeit opened roughly at bottom; see scans.