| JUNE 3,
1870: 30c blue & carmine (#121, #137), 1870-71 6c carmine, tied
by two strikes of segmented cork cancels on folded letter bearing red BOSTON
JUN 3 PAID, Storer forwarder, "2", "32" (packet credit), LONDON PAID 16
JU 70 and "Via Marseilles" on front, Hong Kong transit and small MANILA
3 AUG 70 receiver on reverse.
The other
example of the short-lived 36c single rate via Marseilles.The letter departed
New York June 4 on the North German Liner "UNION".
The letter
is lightly inked and very' hard to read.
A MAGNIFICENT
AND COLORFUL FRANKING,
WITHOUT
DOUBT THE CORNER PIECE OF THE MANILA FIND
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