10c Green, Type II (14). Three singles, each with large margins to slightly in, stamp at right has trivial corner crease, used with 1857 3c Dull Red, Type III (26), cancelled or tied by "PAID" straightline handstamp with additional strike and "Greenfield Ms. May. 18" (1858) circular datestamp on buff cover to Reverend Henry Blodget, Shanghai, China, red "New-York Am. Pkt. May. 22" circular datestamp on back, magenta manuscript "12" credit--carried on the Vanderbilt Line Vanderbilt, departing New York May 22, 1858, and arriving Southampton June 2--red "London Paid KN JU 2 58" circular datestamp, "Hong-Kong 20 JY 1858" transit backstamp

EXTREMELY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL COVER TO SHANGHAI, CHINA, WITH THE 10-CENT 1855 IMPERFORATE AND 3-CENT 1857 PERFORATED ISSUES PAYING THE 33-CENT RATE BY BRITISH MAIL VIA SOUTHAMPTON--CARRIED ON THE AMERICAN VANDERBILT LINE RATHER THAN A CUNARD LINE STEAMER.

Ex Haas (his acquisition note "Fox 3/63 200" on back) and Mizuhara.

For information on the Blodget Corrrespondence: https://siegelauctions.com/2021/1248/blodget.pdf

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