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Sale 63: The Donald Richardson Collection of U.S. Postal Rates 1851-1863

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The Netherlands

Lot 1135    

1856 (Jun. 14) San Francisco Cal. to Sneek, Holland, blue folded cover with blue Netherlands Consular handstamp corner card, black "San Francisco Cal. 5 May" cds and red "Paid" handstamp with magenta "26" cent rating, red "New-York Am. Pkt. May 31" exchange cds, carried on Havre Line Fulton from New York May 31st to Southampton arriving Jun. 14th, black "U.S. Pkt." straightline, red London (6.14.61) transit backstamp and manuscript "4" pence due rating, Sneek (6.14) arrival backstamp and "400" Dutch cents due rating, Very Fine.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

This is the only recorded example of the 26¢ West Coast rate by American packet via British Open mails to Holland.

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