SR45

Cross Border Pre-Blockade Cover from Mexico to New York through Confederate New Orleans Feb-Mar 1861. Folded Letter Complete in Spanish datelined "Puebla (Mexico) 14 February 1861." Cover was taken to Vera Cruz where it entered the mails with a Vera Cruz forwarder's blue oval handstamp and the Vera Cruz oval postmark dated 21 FEB 1861. Cover was sent unpaid with no evidence of Mexican or US postage pre-paid. Cover presumed to have been placed on a US contract mail ship the Tennessee of Charles Morgan's Texas Line which serviced Vera Cruz and taken to Confederate New Orleans with the New Orleans, La CDS applied 27 FEB 1861 (US Mail Service in Confederate New Orleans). The "STEAMSHIP 10" was not applied in New Orleans but was a New York mark applied to unpaid mail received from the Havana-New York steamship mail run. So the cover made its way from New Orleans to Havana (possibly under a separate cover or in a locked bag) and then to New York where the STEAMSHIP 10 mark in black was applied indicating 10c due on delivery. Period docketing shows that the letter was received in New York on 6 MAR 1861. Very Fine.

$1,000.00 SOLD

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