Lot 430
British Columbia: 1863 (July 10) cover from Yale, B.C. to San Francisco, bearing British Columbia 2 ½d pale reddish rose (S.G. 3) wing margin pair canceled by "4" barred oval obliterator, matching oval "Paid" handstamp adjacent and "General Post Office/British Columbia" dispatch c.d.s. on reverse, in combination with U.S.A. 3¢ rose tied by "San Francisco/Cal." c.d.s. (July 10) and the Paid handstamp voided by corresponding circular grid, pencil "1187" is the San Francisco post office's ledger number for mail "held for postage," Extremely Fine exhibition item.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
This is the perfect illustration of one of the very few instances when mail was carried privately to the border and deposited with a local U.S. postmaster and processed as a domestic unpaid letter rather than the standard practice of being carried to the USA by boat and being handled as a foreign letter at the 10 cents rate.
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| Realized $10,000 |
