12c Black, Plate 1 (36). Horizontal strip of three, some perfs scissors-separated causing straight edges, used with horizontal pair of 1c Blue, Ty. II (20), tied by "Washington D.C. Oct. ?" circular datestamps on cover to Richard Potts on board the U.S.S. Powhatan in Hong Kong, China, red "Boston 15" dateless credit handstamp also ties strip as does red boxed "Aachen Franco" handstamp, Boston and Hong Kong backstamps, various manuscript rates, docketed "Rec'd at Wampoa Decr. 26th/58" at left, cover torn and repaired at top and affecting top flap, slightly reduced at right, still Fine, scarce, the U.S.S. Powhatan was Admiral Perry's flagship during his 1853 expedition to China and Japan, this remarkable cover was sent to Wampoa via Prussian Closed Mail during the height of the Second Opium War

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