cover 12c Black (17), horizontal pair, ample to huge margins all around showing bits of six adjoining stamps, left stamp small corner crease, used with 1c Blue type IV (9), horizontal pair, large margins to slightly in, tied by "San Francisco, Cal. 16 Jan" c.d.s. cancels on 1858 blue folded letter to Montpellier, France, red "New-York Am. Pkt. Feb 10" exchange h.s., red French transit, Paris and Montpellier backstamps, carried by the Havre Line packet Union, this cover paid the 26c rate from the West Coast to France by British Mail (21c+5c West Coast surcharge), very fine, a scarce and desirable rate photo

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cover 12c Black (17), horizontal pair, ample to huge margins all around showing bits of six adjoining stamps, left stamp small corner crease, used with 1c Blue type IV (9), horizontal pair, large margins to slightly in, tied by "San Francisco, Cal. 16 Jan" c.d.s. cancels on 1858 blue folded letter to Montpellier, France, red "New-York Am. Pkt. Feb 10" exchange h.s., red French transit, Paris and Montpellier backstamps, carried by the Havre Line packet Union, this cover paid the 26c rate from the West Coast to France by British Mail (21c+5c West Coast surcharge), very fine, a scarce and desirable rate photo