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VERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTREMELY RARE, POSSIBLY UNIQUE, USE OF THE 2-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ON PRINTED MATTER FROM KANAGAWA (YOKOHAMA) TO FRANCE. THIS IS THE EARLIEST RECORDED DATE OF USE OF THE 2-CENT 1869 FROM CHINA OR JAPAN.
The port of Yokohama lies in the Kanagawa Prefecture on the Japanese island of Honshu. This printed market and shipping report is one of several known pieces of mail sent to J. B. David in St. Etienne, France, through the U.S. or French post offices in Yokohama.
This cover, listing an August 24, 1869, sailing in the shipping table, was carried on the P.M.S.S. Great Republic sailing of August 29 from Yokohama, arriving in San Francisco on September 18. The "X" cancel is one of a series of Japanese "chops" used on mail carried by P.M.S.S. Co. steamers between San Francisco and ports in the Far East. It appears that each cancel was used exclusively on one trip, then discarded. This chop is identical to the one used to cancel stamps on the cover offered in lot 331, which was definitely carried on the Great Republic August 29 sailing. None of these early covers has the "Yokohama Japan" circular datestamp, which came into use in July 1870 (reference: Riddell, U.S.A. Consular Post offices in Japan)
The two 2c 1869's underpaid the required postage on this printed matter from Japan to France. A subsequent cover from the same correspondence (Ishikawa sale, Sotheby's 7/6/81, lot 36), which left Yokohama on Sep. 29, 1869, has a strip of four with 15 decimes due in France.
The earliest recorded cover with 1869 stamps used in the Far East is the "Miro" cover with 10c and 30c 1869 pairs, which was carried on the P.M.S.S. Japan, arriving in San Francisco on July 20, 1869. The "Miro" cover has a strike of the "China and Japan Steam Service" oval, but there is no indication of the cover's origin. The next sequential 1869 usages from the Far East are: the 2c cover offered in this lot, the 10c cover with "China and Japan Steam Service" oval offered in lot 331, and, a 10c cover carried on the same trip to Bingham in Ridgefield Conn. with "China and Japan Steam Service" oval. (Image)
VERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY EARLY USE OF THE 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE FROM THE FAR EAST.
This cover was carried on the P.M.S.S. Great Republic sailing of August 29 from Yokohama, arriving in San Francisco on September 18. The "X" cancel is one of a series of Japanese "chops" used on mail carried by P.M.S.S. Co. steamers between San Francisco and ports in the Far East. It appears that each cancel was used exclusively on one trip, then discarded. This chop is identical to the one used to cancel stamps on the 2c cover offered in lot 330.
The earliest recorded cover with 1869 stamps used in the Far East is the "Miro" cover with 10c and 30c 1869 pairs, which was carried on the P.M.S.S. Japan, arriving in San Francisco on July 20, 1869. The "Miro" cover has a strike of the "China and Japan Steam Service" oval, but there is no indication of the cover's origin. The next sequential 1869 usages from the Far East are: the 2c cover offered in lot 330, the 10c cover with "China and Japan Steam Service" oval offered here, and, a 10c cover carried on the same trip to Bingham in Ridgefield Conn. with "China and Japan Steam Service" oval.
Illustrated and discussed in Chronicle 101. Ex Grunin. With 1979 P.F. certificate. (Image)
VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS FAMOUS COVER IS THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THIS FRANKING FROM HIOGO, JAPAN, PAYING THE 10-CENT TRANSPACIFIC RATE AND 6-CENT TREATY RATE TO CANADA.
When this cover was sold in the 1977 Juhring sale by Sotheby's (lot 795), the bottom 2c stamp was missing. It appeared as an off-cover stamp in the same Juhring sale (lot 369), and eventually the stamp and cover were reunited. The story of this reunion was told by Michael Laurence in an article entitled "Frog Turns Prince" (Chronicle 109).
Ex Juhring. With 1981 P.F. certificate. (Image)
VERY FINE. EXTREMELY RARE EXAMPLE OF 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE PAYING INTER-CONSULAR RATE BETWEEN POST OFFICES IN JAPAN.
The letter mentions correspondence between the French and U.S. consuls.
Ex Ishikawa. (Image)
VERY FINE. EXTREMELY RARE USE OF THE 6-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE FROM U.S. POST OFFICE IN SHANGHAI. ONLY A FEW COVERS ARE KNOWN WITH THE 1869 ISSUE PAYING 6-CENT INTER-CONSULAR RATE BETWEEN CHINA AND JAPAN.
The Pacific Mail Steam Ship Co.'s branch line Oregonian arrived with this mail in Nagasaki on June 2, 1870. In the 1981 Ishikawa sale, this cover was reported as the only recorded 6c 1869 cover with the U.S. Post Office in Shanghai datestamp.
Illustrated in Rose book (p. 68). Ex Ishikawa. (Image)