Lot 449
1861, 24¢ steel blue (70b), single used with 3¢ rose (65), tied by "Naperville Ill. Nov. 12 '63" double circle and target duplex in pale ultramarine, on folded letter to Solothurn, Switzerland, red "New Paid York 18" exchange postmark, red Calais transit and matching "P.D.", manuscript "Paid p. German Steamer" at bottom, Very Fine usage, very rare with this colored cancel.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
Though the cover was franked for the obsolete 27¢ Bremen-Hamburg rate, it was sent by French packet and overpaid by 6¢.
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