French Post Office. 1866 (Feb 1) Single rate envelope to Bordeaux, bearing 1862 40c vertical pair cancelled by "5118" dotted lozenge, showing "YOKOHAMA/BAU FRANÇAIS" and red French entry cds's alongside, two vertical creases clear away of the franking, a rare mail in the year of the Great Fire of Yokohama; cert. Roumet (2002), signed Calves; (Yv €700); ex Jun Ichi Matsumoto and Max J. Mayer. (Image)

1866 (Feb 28) Cover to Lyon, paying the single rate with 1862 80c, tied by "5118" dotted lozenge, with superb "YOKOHAMA/BAU FRANÇAIS" and red French entry cds alongside, bs on receipt, very fine, carried by the British mail with involvement of the "Cadiz", "Baroda", "Delhi" and the "Tanjore" ships, sent some months before the Great Fire of Yokohama; cert. Roumet (2002), signed Calves and Pothion; (Yv €1'000 for the franking); ex Jun Ichi Matsumoto and Max J. Mayer. (Image)

1878 (Feb 4) Envelope via Brindisi to Offranville carried at single GPU rate, bearing 'Siège' 40c, tied by "YOKOHAMA/BAU FRANÇAIS" cds, repeated alongside, red French entry cds, a couple of toned perfs., scarce; ex Max J. Mayer. (Image)

French Post Offices. 1895 (April 19) Cover to England franked by overprinted Sage 25c, tied by "SHANG-HAÏ/CHINE" cds, redirected from Dover to Canterbury with application of 1881 1d violet tied by Dover "258" duplex, with receiving cds on back, an unusual combination. (Image)

1899 (Nov 24) CIP 1c postal stationery card to Charlottenburg (Germany), uprated with China 1898 1c and 2c, tied by bilingual Hankow cds, transferred to the French mail with overprinted Sage 10c type II, tied by French Shanghai cds, German receiver at lower left and bilingual Shanghai cds on back, very fine. (Image)