379th Auction

1848, folded letter from "MÜNSTER 27 12" endorsed "via London per mailsteamer" with manuscript rating "20" (Sgr) to New York, carried from Liverpool on Cunard's "Canada" to New York with matching red handstamp "6" postage due, fine and scarce restored rate cover from Germany

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

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 

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

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

1861, Faltbrief ab "NORDHAUSEN 20 7 * 5-6" nach Goderich, Ontario, Kanada, mit "8 3/4" Sgr. voll bezahlt über Bremen mit rotem Ra1 "PAID." sowie New York mit EKr. "N. YORK BREMEN PKT AUG 20 PAID", rückseitig mit Ankunftsstempel "GODERICH AUG 22 1861",etwas umgefaltet und gestützt, ein attraktiver Brief mit seltener Destination