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EXTREMELY FINE. THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF A UNITED STATES 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE AND DANISH WEST INDIES MIXED FRANKING. THIS COLORFUL AND PRISTINE COVER IS WIDELY RENOWNED AS ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING 1869 PICTORIAL COVERS EXTANT.
This spectacular cover is illustrated and described in Michael Laurence's article on 10c 1869 covers in the Pan-American mails (Chronicle 118). According to Laurence, it was carried outside the mails by private forwarder from Venezuela to St. Thomas, then posted there for delivery to the Brazil Line steamer South America, departing St. Thomas on Oct. 14, 1869. The 3c paid local D.W.I. postage (as required, but usually paid in cash), and the 10c paid the contract ship rate to the U.S. Laurence further states "This is the only example of this particular combination of stamps that I have been able to locate." He also mentions the ex-Tows cover to St. Croix, which once had a D.W.I. stamp that did not originate (it was subsequently removed, and the cover is offered in lot 182). According to recent correspondence with Michael Laurence, previous reports of a second 1869/D.W.I. mixed-franking cover (dated 4/13/72) in a South American collection have proven to be unfounded.
Illustrated in the Rose book (p. 84) where he describes it as "one of the great mixed-franking gems." Ex Seybold and Krug. (Image)
VERY FINE. AN OUTSTANDING INBOUND STEAMSHIP USAGE OF THE 10-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE WITH A COLORFUL ARRAY OF MARKINGS.
This cover beautifully demonstrates the arrangement by which mail from various locations in the Caribbean and South/Central America could be sent to forwarders in St. Thomas D.W.I., who would put 10c U.S. postage on the letter and send it to New York on one of the regular Brazil Line contract sailings.
Ex Juhring (Image)
VERY FINE. A SPLENDID EXAMPLE OF THE 10-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ON AN INBOUND BRAZIL LINE COVER FROM PUERTO RICO TO NEW YORK VIA ST. THOMAS. THE FORWARDER'S ANCHOR-ILLUSTRATED MARKING IS AN UNUSUAL AND DESIRABLE ELEMENT OF THIS COLORFUL USAGE.
This cover was pictured and discussed in Michael Laurence's article on 10c 1869 covers in the Pan-American mails (Chronicle 118). (Image)
VERY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL AND RARE MIXED-COUNTRY FRANKING ON COVER FROM CUBA TO SPAIN VIA THE UNITED STATES.
This is the latest of ten 2c 1869 covers listed in the 1869 PRA Census addressed to Francisco Quadrada in Barcelona, Spain. All have mixed frankings adding up to 31c or 32c U.S. and 50 or 100 centavos Cuban postage, and they usually are overpaid. The postage on this cover was apparently intended to prepay a multiple of the pre-July 1875 rates, but it was received at New York's foreign exchange office on July 3, 1875, the third day of the new General Postal Union rates, which presumably explains the absence of credit and transit markings found on covers from the earlier treaty-rate period. This covers is one of the most attractive of the Quadrado correspondence, because it has a large number of stamps, all of which are tied on the front, and the condition is superior to many of the fragile covers from this group.
Illustrated in color in the 1869 PRA Census (p. 142) and described in Forster's 1982 Register article on mixed frankings (p. 89). (Image)