Lot 211
1865 (Oct. 28) Elmira, N.Y. to Kanagawa, Japan, duplex c.d.s. with cork cancel tying 90¢ blue (72) along with 1¢ blue, 5¢ brown, 10¢ yellow green (63, 76, 68) on Hall correspondence cover via Marseille and Shanghai, red "N. York Br. Pkt. Paid Nov. 1" backstamp, traveled via Cunarder Scotia leaving New York on Nov. 1 and reaching Queenstown Nov. 10, light London transit in red, red crayon "96" credit and "2" penny, reverse with indistinct blue "Shanghae" transit and pencil Jan. 27 arrival and Feb. 11 '66 answer docketing; light edge wear, Very Fine and exceptional four-value franking; double the 53¢ British mail rate via Marseilles effective June 1863.
THE ONLY RECORDED 90¢ USAGE TO JAPAN AND ONE OF THE GREATEST 1861 ISSUE COVERS.
Provenance: Ishikawa
Francis Hall was an upstate New York bookseller who traveled in 1859 to Japan for collection of material for a book, and to serve as a correspondent for Horace Greeley's New York Tribune. Hall kept an intensive journal during this period that has been published, Japan Through American Eyes, 1859-1866. Seeing the opportunities for commerce in Yokohama, he helped found Walsh, Hall and Co., which became the leading American trading house in Japan. Mail from the United States to Japan during the 1860s is scarce with the Hall correspondence accounting for a large portion of the recorded covers.
Literature:
Census listing No. 45 from the Herzog and Starnes census, 'Cover Usages of the 90¢ 1861 and 1868 Issues', The Chronicle, No. 140, Vol. 40 No. 4, pp. 260-265.
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