1857 (May 5) Buffalo, N.Y. to Bischofsheim, Baden, orange buff cover with "Buffalo, N.Y. May 5" cds with matching "Paid" and "22" oval rate h.s., red "N. York Brem Pk. 'Paid 17' May 7" exchange credit cds, carried Fritze Line Hansa from New York May 7 to Bremerhaven arriving May 24, blue "America/über Bremen/Franco" three-line transit, small cover faults including no right side flap, Very Fine, The Last Return Voyage of the Fritze Line. Estimate  $300 - 400. "Hansa" carried mails on this last return voyage of nine round voyages between Bremerhaven and New York by this short-lived Bremen steamship company, which attempted to compete with the American Ocean Line as a mail steamship line. Less than five examples of this New York marking have been recorded, a credit marking used only on prepaid letters at the 22¢ rate carried by Bremen steamships. $0 (Image)