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Sale 91: The December Sale

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Foreign Mails - 1850 to 1859

Lot 1555    

1850 (Dec. 17) Memphis Tenn. to Wü

rttemberg, Germany,
light blue folded letter with blue "Memphis Ten. Dec 17" cds and matching "Paid" handstamp with "34" cent rating, red "New-York, Dec 20" exchange backstamp and bold "PAID PART" straightline, carried by Collins Line Arctic from New York Dec. 21st to Bremen arriving Jan. 7th, Hannover red "America/über Bremen" two-line and "1 1/3" debit handstamps, various manuscript ratings, Very Fine and scarce Bremen Closed Mail use, Letter was in the fifth Bremen Closed Mail sent from New York.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

The "Paid Part" handstamp is a New York marking indicating that the letter was prepaid only to Bremen. Starting in 1849, if there were no Ocean Line sailings, Bremen Convention mail was sent in closed mails was sent through England under a provision of the U.S.-British treaty.

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