DESCRIPTION

24¢ Green & Violet (120), rich colors, centered to upper right, used with horizontal pair of 10¢ Yellow (116), well-centered, intense shade, tied by circle of wedges cancels, mostly clear “New-York Apr. 5” (1870) circular datestamp on bright white cover to Lima, Peru, sender’s notation “Photograph” at lower left, red “24” credit handstamp, large red crayon “2”--carried on the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. steamer Alaska, departing New York on April 5, 1870--blue Lima receiving backstamp

PROVENANCE

* Siegel Auction Galleries, 5/29/1974, Sale 452, lot 567, to Grunin

* Louis Grunin (cover collection sold privately, 1979-80)

* Siegel Auction Galleries, 9/7/1984, Sale 637, lot 842, to Dr. LeBow

* Dr. Robert LeBow, Siegel Auction Galleries, 9/26/1994, Sale 761, lot 762, to Mandel for Kuphal

* Edgar Kuphal (“A European’s Large Gold Collection of The 1869 Pictorial Issue”), Siegel Auction Galleries, 12/13/1999, Sale 819, lot 2323, to William H. Gross

CENSUS, LITERATURE AND EXHIBITION REFERENCES

* Michael Laurence, United States Ten-Cent 1869 Covers: A Postal Historical Survey, fig. 7-11, p. 89

CONDITION NOTES

* Extremely Fine; tiny opening tear at bottom right corner

* “R.H.W. Co.” backstamp (Weill)

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