Lot 1165
1847, 5¢ red brown (1), single with margins to cut in, used with 1¢ blue type IV (9, two) and 3¢ dull red (11), each canceled by distinctive matching pen strokes, on small mourning envelope to a Mr. Augustin W. Hale in San Francisco, paying the 1855 10¢ transcontinental rate, red "Exeter N.Y. Jan. 4" c.d.s. ties left 1¢ 5¢ with trace of another red c.d.s. at lower left, evidence of being a twice-used stamp, cover with docketing at upper left, ca. 1856, Fine, a spectacular usage. Illustrated in Letters of Gold, p.42. Accompanied by a 2nd cover from the same correspondence, paid with a single 1¢ and a strip of three of the 3¢ 1851.
Estimate 30,000 - 40,000
A SECOND SPECTACULAR POST-DEMONETIZATION USAGE, THE OTHER OF THE TWO RECORDED 1847 COVERS WITH THE 1851 ISSUE, AND THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF A 3¢ 1851 USED WITH THE 1847 ISSUE.
Expertization: 1990 P.F. Certificate.
Provenance: Gibson, Hart
Of the approximately twenty 1847 covers either mailed to or from the West coast, only three show the 10¢ over 3,000 miles rate, which came into effect April 1, 1855. These consist of a pair of the 5¢ from Tehama California to Washington (1856), a single 10¢ tied by a black New York Ocean Mail postmark forwarded with the addition of a single 1¢ 1857 and strip of three of the 3¢ and the present cover. A fourth cover, from Eel River, Cal. in 1859 to the Washington Pension Office, is franked with three 3¢ 1857 plus 1¢ and 10¢ 1857's in addition to a single 5¢ 1847; unseen for many years, it needs to be examined.
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