(Retaliatory Rates) 1848 (July 30) Galveston, Tx. to Schwanden, Switzerland, folded cover with red "Galveston Tex Aug 2" cds with matching "10" prepaid rating, red "New-York Aug 11" exchange cds with large "24" debit h.s. to Bremen, carried by Ocean Line Hermann from New York Aug. 21st to Bremerhaven arriving Sep. 7th, various manuscript ratings; file fold, F.-V.F., a rare First Bremen Treaty cover to Switzerland. Estimate  $200 - 300. Bremen debited Hannover 9 gutegroschen (manuscript red crayon upper left). Hannover added 1 1/3 ggr. transit fee and debited Thurn & Taxis Post 10 1/3 ggr. Thurn and Taxis Post converted this to 46 kreuzer (blue pen in center) and added 18 kr. transit fee to Baden. Basel marked letter for 70 kr. total foreign postage (which included 6 kr. Baden transit fee) and 76 kr. debit to Canton of Glarus, adding 6 kr. for transit fee to Glarus. Total postage due included 4 kr. internal Canton of Glarus fee, or 80 kr., which was 1 gulden 20 kr. (red crayon lower right). $0 (Image)