Lot 90223 – Yokohama. 1871, 10c and 3c (6) on rare forwarded cover from Nagasaki to Yokohama, then to London

Stamp of Japan » Foreign Post Offices » U.S. Post Office Yokohama. 1871, 10c and 3c (6) on rare forwarded cover from Nagasaki to Yokohama, then to London
Stamp of Japan » Foreign Post Offices » U.S. Post Office Yokohama. 1871, 10c and 3c (6) on rare forwarded cover from Nagasaki to Yokohama, then to London
Stamp of Japan » Foreign Post Offices » U.S. Post Office Yokohama. 1871, 10c and 3c (6) on rare forwarded cover from Nagasaki to Yokohama, then to London
Stamp of Japan » Foreign Post Offices » U.S. Post Office Yokohama. 1871, 10c and 3c (6) on rare forwarded cover from Nagasaki to Yokohama, then to London

Lot 90223 – Yokohama. 1871, 10c and 3c (6) on rare forwarded cover from Nagasaki to Yokohama, then to London

Japan » Foreign Post Offices » U.S. Post Office
Prix réalisé
800 EUR
Estimation
800 – 1’600 EUR
Date de vente
Sat 9 Dec 2023 at 10:30 (Europe/Zurich)
Description

Yokohama. 1871, 10c brown and 3c green pair, paying the U.S. 10c and the U.S.-G.B. 6c rates, tied by segmented cork cancels and “Yokohama Japan Nov. 22” cds on November 13 entire letter to London, with « L.Kniffler & Co./Nagasaki », “via San Francisco” and “Europe” cachets in blue applied by the sender alongside, red New York (Dec. 27) and « London Paid » (Jan. 8, 1872) cds’s also on obverse. Carried by the PMSS Great Republic (Yokohama 11.23 – San Francisco 12.17). Vertical file fold slightly affecting on the 10c stamp, otherwise very fine. A rare forwarded cover from Nagasaki.

Provenance:

Ryohei Ishikawa (« The Forerunner Foreign Post Offices in Japan », Tokyo 1976, p. 98)

Dr. Spicer

« Magnolia » (Part 4, Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries sale 1271, 13.12.2022, lot 346)

Catalogue ref: Scott 147, 150

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