1889, "Correo del Comercio/Entre Coro y La Vela", Bird carrying a letter ½ real black on blue, large balanced margins all round, with violet three-line handstamp "Anotada/Correo Del/Komercio" on envelope to Bayonne City, New York with transit and arrival mark. Carried by sea from La Vela to Curaçao, where Curaçao 1873 Willem III 25c. yellowish brown with cds. "CURAÇAO 30 1 1891" was added, paying the single weight up to 15 gr., an extremely rare, attractive and fascinating usage of which this is the only one with the Curaçao stamp overlapping the franking, signed Diena Provenance: ex Heister
