Lot 1178
Elaborate Negative Geometric (Weiss GE-EN8), fine strike ties 10¢ brown (150), beautiful color, on Lyman correspondence cover to Yokohama, Japan at the 10¢ American packet rate via San Francisco, red "New York P.O. Sep 10" exchange c.d.s., docketed as received Oct. 20, 1874; top edge nibbled, still a Fine and scarce NYFM use to Japan.
Estimate $500 - 750
THE ONLY GE-EN8 USE TO JAPAN.
Benjamin Smith Lyman (1835-1920) was an American mining engineer, surveyor and amateur linguist and anthropologist. In 1870, Lyman surveyed oil fields in the Punjab for the Public Works Department of the government of British India, and developed a lasting interest in the Far East. In 1872, Lyman was hired by the Japanese government to survey the coal and oil deposits of Hokkaido and along the Sea of Japan coastline of Honshu. He stayed on in Japan from 1873-1879 as chief geologist and mining engineer to the Meiji government. While in Japan, his mail correspondence has yielded many of the rarest U.S. Postal Agency usages and exotic incoming treaty rates.
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