Los-Nr. 598

1859, Washington 12 c. black, horizontal pair with  sheet margin at right, tied by black grid cancel and cds. "WILMINGTON DEL. SPE. 21" to envelope via "NEW YORK 24/ 23 SEP." (24 cent debit to France) with adjacent red boxed "SHORT PAID", French octagonal "ET.UNIS SERV. AM. D HAVRE 8.OCT.59" and tax mark "16" to Paris with arrival mark and re-directed within France. A fine short paid letter, treated as completely unpaid.(Scott 36)