30c Orange (38). Bright color, cancelled by red criss-crossing grids, matching "N. York Am. Pkt. 7 Paid Sep. 14" credit datestamp on 1861 folded letter to Glogau, Prussia, stamp also tied by red boxed "Aachen Franco" transit handstamp, endorsed pr Asia", this did not make the Sept. 11 sailing of that Cunarder and with clear strike of "TOO LATE" straightline handstamp, carried on the Havre Line's Arago instead, which departed New York on June 14, receiving backstamp, fresh and Very Fine, unusual usage, apart from the routing this also overpays by 2c the Prussian Closed Mail rate which was reduced from 30c to 28c on Sep. 1, 1861

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