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FINE. THE EARLIEST OF TWELVE RECORDED COVERS WITH THE 40-CENT TRANSCONTINENTAL RATE PREPAID BY THE 1847 ISSUE.
This cover was carried by the USMSC Ohio from New York to Havana (dep. Oct. 16, arr. Oct. 24); from Havana to Chagres on the USMSC Falcon (dep. Oct. 24, arr. Oct. 29); and from Panama to San Francisco on the PMSS Panama (dep. Nov. 10, arr. Dec. 1).
The 1847 cover census by Thomas J. Alexander records thirteen 1847 covers with the 40c transcontinental rate, including one with a Philatelic Foundation certificate stating that the 10c stamps did not originate. Of the remaining twelve covers, four have 10c 1847 singles and eight have multiples (including the 80c franking, ex Kapiloff).
Signed Ashbrook and described in Special Service (p. 391). Illustrated in Coburn Letters of Gold (p. 43). Ex Stollnitz, Giamporcaro and Walske. With 1987 P.F. certificate (Image)