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EXTREMELY FINE. A COLORFUL AND BREATHTAKING 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE COVER SENT FULLY PREPAID BY BRITISH MAIL AT THE 22-CENT RATE. EXAMPLES OF THIS RATE PAID BY THE 1869 ISSUE ARE EXTREMELY RARE.
This cover is pictured and discussed in U.S.-Spain Mails via British Convention, 1849-1876 by Richard F. Winter (supplement to Chronicle 147, pp. 15-16). The Convention rates effective from Jan. 1, 1868, to Dec. 31, 1870, followed a progression of 10c U.S. per -1/2 oz. and 12c credit to G.B. per 7.5 grams (-1/4 oz.). Therefore, this letter must have weighed no more than a quarter-ounce and was prepaid with 22c postage (12c U.S. credit to G.B. and 2p G.B. credit to Spain). It was carried on the Cunarder Java, departing New York on Jul. 14, 1869, and arriving off Queenstown on Jul. 22.
Ex Juhring and Grunin. (Image)
VERY FINE. A COLORFUL AND RARE 1869 PICTORIAL COVER TO SPAIN VIA BRITISH OPEN MAIL.
This was presumably stamped for the 22c fully-prepaid British Mail rate to Spain, but it was over the 7.5 gram (-1/4 oz.) weight limit and was instead marked "Paid Only to England" with 8 reales due in Spain. The 10c rate to Spain via British Open Mail lasted only nine months after the 1869 Pictorials were issued.
With 1983 P.F. certificate (Image)
FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS THE ONLY RECORDED 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE COVER TO THE AZORES. ONE OF ELLIOTT COULTER'S MOST HIGHLY PRIZED DESTINATIONS IN HIS "AROUND THE WORLD" DISPLAY.
Horta is the main city on the Island of Faial (Fayal), a part of the Azorean archipelago. It lies in the Atlantic about 500 miles from Lisbon, one of the transit post offices in this cover's journey from the United States.
Ex Wunsch (Image)
VERY FINE. A SPECTACULAR 1869 AND BANK NOTE MIXED-ISSUE USAGE DEMONSTRATING THE COMPLEXITIES OF FOREIGN-MAIL RATES DURING THE 1869-70 PERIOD.
According to the PRA 1978 Register article on the Lyman correspondence, this cover was franked for the 4c British Open Mail rate, but the foreign mail clerk in New York rejected the prepayment. It evidently cleared New York on Dec. 15 and arrived in England after the route to India via Marseilles terminated. It was sent via Brindisi, but the surcharge for this route was not charged in India, thus they applied the 8a-8p due marking for the old via Marseilles route (30c less 4c because of the "Paid Only to England" marking).
Benjamin Smith Lyman was a mining engineer for the Department of Public Works in India. The small Lyman correspondence is a challenge to postal historians, each cover presenting a peculiar franking and complex array of markings. Elliott Coulter always considered this cover the "pick of the litter" of the Lyman group. (Image)
VERY FINE. AN OUTSTANDING 1869 PICTORIAL USAGE, BEING THE ONLY COVER TO BURMA RECORDED IN THE 1869 PRA CENSUS. IDEALLY SUITED FOR EXHIBITION.
The Cunarder China departed New York on May 4, 1870, and is reported to have landed at Liverpool on May 13. The significance of the notation on back is not known.
Illustrated in color in 1869 PRA Census (p. 136). Ex Knapp. (Image)
FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTREMELY RARE MIXED-ISSUE FRANKING FOR THE 28-CENT BRITISH MAIL RATE TO CEYLON VIA SOUTHAMPTON.
The 28c British Mail via Southampton rate to Ceylon was reduced to 22c on Jan. 1, 1870. (Image)
FINE. ONE OF TWO RECORDED 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE COVERS TO THE SEYCHELLE ISLANDS. A REMARKABLE FOREIGN-MAIL USAGE.
Signed Ashbrook with his notes on back. Illustrated in color in 1869 PRA Census where described as "one of the rarest destinations" (p. 130). (Image)