Lot 40278 – 1865 (Nov 8) Incoming and very early cover from Amsterdam to Yokohama through the French P.O.

1865 (Nov 8) Incoming cover from Amsterdam to Yokohama, displaying red dispatch cds at left, red french transit at right, and very fine strike of “YOKOHAMA/BAU FRANÇAIS” cds on 4.1.1866, endorsed “per Overland mail via Marseille” and carried by the British for the largest part of its journey, being transferred, for unknown reasons, to the French P.O. on arrival; one of the earliest incoming mails few months after the opening of the French P.O. on 7.9.1865.