Lot
1109 
1854 (Dec. 1) San Francisco, Cal. to Paris, France, blue folded letter with "San Francisco Cal. 1 Dec" cds and matching "PAID 26" rating handstamp, red "New-York Am. Packet Dec 27" exchange cds, carried by Collins Line Pacific from New York Dec. 28 to Liverpool arriving Jan. 9, red London (1.10) transit backstamp, Calais (1.11) entry cds and "8" decimes due rating handstamp, F.-V.F. Estimate $300 - 400.
The was the first Collins Line sailing changing to Wednesdays because the Crimean War curtailed Cunard Line sailings. See Hubbard and Winter (page 103, note 18).
Realized: $325