The colors of the paper on which the NY Provisional was printed include bluish-white, gray and blue. Bluish-white accounts for perhaps 95% of all stamps. The others – blue and gray – are believed to have come from the last printing of 100 sheets which was delivered on January 7, 1847. All known blue and […]
Burma to Boston 1855 via Southampton
This 0-1/2 oz. tissue paper letter was datelined in Henthada, Burma on Feb. 17, 1855 and sent to Boston. A pair of the first Issue of India paid the rate to Calcutta, but it was unpaid thereafter. From there it took P&O steamers to Southampton and a Cunard steamer from Liverpool to Boston. The 1 […]
Patriotic Cover From China
Patriotic sent from overseas are very scarce. This cover was sent from Hong Kong on September 11, 1861 via various P&O steamers to Marseilles, and from there to Liverpool where it took the Cunard steamer Niagara to Boston. It arrived on November 16, 1861 and was rated 45c as a 0-1/2 oz. letter sent by […]
Four Color Franking to India
From the Goddard correspondence, this 1/2 – 3/4 oz. letter was sent from Nathaniel Goddard in Boston to his brother Benjamin in Calcutta. Sent by British Open Mail on an American packet, it was prepaid 42c in stamps to prepay the inland (2x5c) and sea post (2x16c). The North Atlantic Steamship Co. steamer Adriatic left […]
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