750000 | transatlantic post
Opening: 120 €
1848, folded letter from "ST.P.A. BREMEN 20 11" endorsed "p. Steamer Via Ostend" with adjacent straight-line "FRANCO" to Petersburg, with "1/-" manuscript, carried on Cunard's "Canada" from Liverpool to New York with red integral cds. "NEW YORK SHIP 34 cts"., a scarce and attractive retaliatory rate cover from Germany
102500 | German States ➝ Bremen
Opening: 100 €
1848, (Sept. 18) folded letter from Philadelphia via "NEW YORK SEP 20" endorsed "per Steamer to Bremen", charged with "29" (cent) with blue boxed "PAID" and erroneously struck straight-line "PAID PART" alongside to Bremen, a fine and scarce entire
Opening: 180 €
1849, (Aug 8) folded letter from "HANNOVER 8 Aug" endorsed "Via Newyork pr. Steamer Washington" via "ST.P.A. BREMEN 9 8" with red boxed "PAID ALL." applied to Baltimore, fine and scarce and the to our knowledge earliest completly paid cover from the Kingdom of Hannover to the USA
Opening: 700 €
1853, (Sept 30) folded letter written in San Francisco with senders cachet "HOBE & WEIHE TOBACCONISTS" and cds. "SAN FRANCISCO OCT 1" with straight-line "PAID" alongside via New York, without any processing, to Herford, upon arrival in Bremen red two-line "AMERICA ÜBER BREMEN" and blue italic "Fr. 2" applied, a very rare cover and the only known strike of the blue "Fr. 2." handstamp