Details
cover 12c Black (17), three large to immense margins, barely in at top, used with 10c Green type III (15), two singles, clear to huge margins, tied by red cork cancels on fresh neat buff cover to Paita, Peru, addressed to "Capt. William H. Almy, Bark Cape Horn Pigeon, Paita, Peru", red "New Bedford, Mass. Paid Mar 3" c.d.s., ms. "in care of Capt. Alexander Bathurst", bold red "12" h.s. credit (to Britain), this cover paid the 32c rate to Peru via American Packet then British Packet via Panama, very fine, with 1988 P.F. certificate, a very handsome and colorful franking to a very rare destination, one of only three or four known 1851 Issue covers to Peru photo