[Victoria, via California and OMC Route], cover to New York, blue "Post Office Paid Victoria, Vancouver Island" oval frank for the 5c Colonial postage paid, prepaid US postage 3c rose (#65), treated as unpaid steamship cover at San Francisco with their bold "Foreign" handstamp and "Due 7" rate, stamp cancelled by San Francisco cogwheel, their Sep 3 1864 datestamp, San Francisco applied the 10c incoming steamship rate to mail from British Columbia and Hawaii from August to November 1864 and used the “FOREIGN” handstamp to explain the extra charge, one of two reported uses from British Columbia

ex Wilkinson and Walske (Image)