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United States and Confederate States Postal History continued...

Restored Packet Service, French Royal Packets and Transatlantic Mails continued...
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1227 c ImageNew York to Bordeaux, France via First American Packet. Red "New-York Jun. 1" circular datestamp with matching "Paid" in arc handstamp on 1847 folded cover to Bordeaux, France, prepaid 24c (not indicated), endorsed for and carried on the Washington -- the first Ocean Line sailing for the new American Packet service, departed N.Y. June 1 and arrived Southampton June 15, carried by auxiliary steamer to Le Havre where rated "18" decimes due, including 10 decimes discriminatory sea postage credit to Great Britain, manuscript "W" indicating 10-15 grams weight, partly clear strike of red "Angleterre Par Le Havre 17 Jun. '47" double-circle arrival datestamp, transit and receiving backstamps

VERY FINE. A RARE COVER CARRIED ON THE FIRST SAILING OF THE AMERICAN PACKET OCEAN LINE SERVICE AND ONE OF ONLY TWO EXAMPLES RECORDED TO FRANCE FROM THIS SAILING. CHARGED DISCRIMINATORY SEA POSTAGE FOR GREAT BRITAIN DESPITE CARRIAGE BY AMERICAN PACKET -- FORESHADOWING THE "RETALIATORY RATE" PERIOD.

The so-called Retaliatory Period resulted from Great Britain's effort to maintain its monopoly on transatlantic mail carriage through the subsidized Cunard steamship line, which operated without competition from 1840 through 1846. In response to the emergence of subsidized American Packets in 1847 (the Ocean Line), the British issued an order (effective June 9, 1847) authorizing its receiving offices to collect the usual British Packet postage on letters carried to England by American subsidized steamers. This effectively allowed England to collect 24c packet charges for every inbound letter, whether or not any service had been performed.

The cover offered here is from the first sailing of the new American Packet service, and is one of only two recorded examples from that sailing addressed to France -- the other recently offered in our sale of the Steven Walske collection of U.S.-French mails (Image)

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 E. $ 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $1,600.00
Will close during Public Auction
1228 c Image(Canton, China, to Boston) "Canton, 27th March 1847". Dateline on folded letter addressed to Boston, endorsed "overland" and crossed out, clear strike of George Peabody London forwarders double-oval handstamp on flap with manuscript June 3, 1847 date, two strikes of red "Ship 6" in arc handstamp struck on arrival, Very Fine (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction
1229 c ImageHavana, Cuba to Bordeaux, France, via New York. Folded letter datelined Havana Nov. 26, 1873, blue forwarder's oval handstamp, "New York 12 Dec. 3" debit circular datestamp, bold strike of "G.B/3f 60c" Anglo-French accountancy handstamp for unpaid mail, Calais transit datestamp and "15" decimes due handstamp, Very Fine (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction
1230 c Pioneer Steamship and Sailing Packets. Approximately 300 covers on annotated exhibit pages in nine albums, each volume identified by line or vessel as follows: Falmouth Packets (1791-1836), Great Western Steamship Co. (1838-46), S.S. Liverpool (1838-40), Blue and Red Swallowtail Lines (1827-54), Pioneer Steamship Lines (two volumes, 1838-49), Sailing Packets (1798-1854), and Black Ball Line (1818-47), an extraordinary array of markings and usages including maiden and final voyages, Freight Money letters, Harnden markings, U.S. Express Mail, Canada "U.S. Post Paid" straightline, low-volume lines such as Cope's Philadelphia, Welsh, Red Star, Black X Line, Dramatic Line, New Line, H & H, New York-Grennock Immigrant Line, Red Cross, Boston Importing Co., N.O. & N.Y., several "Consignee Letter" endorsements, British "Ship Letter" handstamps

AN EXCELLENT OPPORTUNITY TO ACQUIRE AN EXTENSIVE COLLECTION OF BEAUTIFULLY ANNOTATED AND DESCRIBED COLLECTION OF PIONEER STEAMSHIP AND SAILING PACKETS.

Each item is described in meticulous detail with extensive background notes and letter transcripts. This period of transatlantic mails is filled with history and romance, and this collection represents a unique opportunity to acquire a lifetime's work assembling a representative collection of covers carried by pioneer steamships, sailing packets and obscure early mail lines.

Ex Arthur White

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 E. $ 10,000-15,000

SOLD for $6,750.00
Will close during Public Auction
1231 c ImageTransatlantic Maiden Voyages. Three folded letters showing maiden voyages of a transatlantic steamer, Royal William maiden return voyage to England Aug. 4, 1838, Hibernia maiden voyage to America 1843, Sarah Sanders maiden voyage to America 1847, Very Fine trio (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
1232 c Stampless Transoceanic Balance. 27, including folded cover to Auckland, New Zealand with red boxed "30" handstamp and Panama forwarder's backstamp (no indication of origination); few from France or England to California, interesting use to Indiana with enclosure dated Dec. 19, 1858 from Hong Kong

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $1,500.00
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1233 c Transatlantic Stampless Covers. 1838-72, collection of 29 covers, 17 to USA (mostly New York City or Philadelphia) and 12 to Europe (mostly London), mostly British, wide range of postal markings, debit and credit handstamps, better including few maiden and final voyages, 96c rate to Philadelphia, neatly mounted and written up on pages, most with pictures of packet boats on which covers were carried, Fine-Very Fine, a valuable group, ex Hubbard

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $500.00
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1234 c ImageStampless Covers to or from Europe. Five, including Bennett Temperance House cameo corner card from Buffalo N.Y. to England; French's Hotel illustrated corner card from New York to Belgium with 36c credit circular datestamp; New York to Liverpool with 21c debit marking (1857 use); purple 1865 cover from Buffalo N.Y. to Luxemburg charged 30c due; last is from Germany to New York with 23c U.S. Notes circular datestamp and "Advertised" in oval, some faults, appear Fine (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction

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