90c Deep Blue (72).
Beautiful deep rich color and fine impression, used with two 3c Brown
Red (65) and 10c Green (68), one 3c has tiny trivial closed tear, tied
by circle of wedges on Nov. 1863 blue folded letter from Boston to
Shanghai, China, red crayon "96/2" credit for two-times 53c British
Mail rate via Marseilles, red London transit, blue Hong Kong transit on
backEXTREMELY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL MULTICOLORED FRANKING WITH THE 90-CENT 1861 ON A PRISTINE COVER TO CHINA. FROM THE AUGUSTINE HEARD CORRESPONDENCE.
Ex Waterhouse and Krug. Signed Ashbrook and with his notes on back. Illustrated in Ashbrook's Special Service (p. 110) and Brookman Vol. II (p. 65). (Image)
90c Blue (72). Tied by
quartered cork and also just tied by "Washington D.C. Jan. 9" circular
datestamp on 1866 cover to Sydney, New South Wales, red "N. York Br.
Pkt. Paid" datestamp, London transit, endorsed "per Steamer via London &
Marseilles", red ms. "80" credit, "Ship Letter Sydney MR 20, 1866"
backstamp, light vertical file fold away from stamp, part of back affected
by scuff and small piece out of bottom flapVERY FINE AND CHOICE. A RARE QUADRUPLE-RATE USAGE TO NEW SOUTH WALES. ONLY FIVE COVERS BEARING THE 90-CENT 1861 ISSUE ARE RECORDED TO THIS DESTINATION -- ONLY THREE OF THESE ARE SINGLE FRANKINGS.
All five recorded 90c 1861 covers to New South Wales are from the Hogan correspondence. With 1998 P.S.E. certificate (Image)