Lot 189
1856 (Oct. 11) Annapolis Md. to Spezzia, Sardinia, folded cover addressed to a surgeon on-board the flagship U.S.S. Susquehanna, bearing 5¢ red brown (12)deep bright color, large margins on three sides, close but clear at top, tied by distinctive "Annapolis Md. Oct 11" c.d.s. in red, endorsed "5 cents prepaid" and "Per Cunard Line", red "New-York Br. Pkt. Oct 15" exchange office c.d.s., red Liverpool "OC 28 1856" (backstamp), "Etats-Unis. Paq. Brit. A. Calais 28 Oct. 56", and "Paris 29 Oct. '56" (backstamp) transits, "Genova 31 Ott 56" and "Spezia 1 Nov. 56" backstamps, manuscript "17" rating; minor wear, Very Fine, the 5¢ British open mail rate carried by British packet per ½ ounce, plus 17 décimes due for sea postage and postage from England to Sardinia. Illustrated in Frajola and Mayer, p. 98, fig. 8-4.
Estimate 4,000 - 5,000
A STRIKING COVER FROM THE PINKNEY CORRESPONDENCE.
Provenance: Haas
This letter was handled via New York on the Cunard Line steamer Africa, which departed from New York on October 11, 1856 and arrived in Liverpool on October 27. It transited Calais, Paris, and Genoa, arriving in Spezzia on November 1. It was rated as postage due 17 décimes, approximately 32 cents, representing the postage for an unpaid letter from Enland to Sardinia, 10 pence rate plus 6 pence fine for being unpaid.
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