Lot 90224 – Yokohama, 1874, 10c brown with 6c dull pink on cover

Yokohama. 1874, 10c brown and 6c dull pink used on entire letter endorsed « via America » to London, cancelled or tied by circle of wedges, showing very fine strike of associated “Yokohama Japan May 22” (1874) cds at left, blue « Valmale, Schoen & Wilson/Yokohama » sender’s oval cachet, magenta “San Francisco Cal. Paid Jun. 16” and red « London Paid » cds’s alongside. Carried by the PMSS « Great Republic » (Yokohama 5.22 – San Francisco 6.1). Illustrated in the Frajola-Perlman-Scamp « The United States Post Offices in China and Japan » (Collectors Club, 2009), on page 162. Vertical file fold impinging on the 6c stamp, otherwise fine.

Provenance:

Ryohei Ishikawa (« The Forerunner Foreign Post Offices in Japan », Tokyo 1976, p. 83)

« Magnolia » (Part 2, Robert Siegel auction 1261, 29.6.2022, lot 349)