Sale 1185 — 2018 Rarities of the World
Sale Date — Wednesday, 27 June, 2018
Category — 1861-66 Issue
1c Blue (63). Rich color, tied by segmented cork cancel on 20c Red & Blue on Buff entire (U43) to Vevey, Switzerland, refolded from legal to letter size by the sender prior to use, red "Boston Paid 18 Oct. 31" credit datestamp, sender's directive "Per French Mail" at upper left, 1865 French transit, boxed "P.D." also ties stamp, receiving backstamp, sender's note on top flap reads "photos $5.00 per doz! I mail today 4 Nos. Chris-Witness"VERY FINE. A SPECTACULAR COMBINATION OF THE ONE-CENT 1861 ISSUE AND THE 20-CENT "PUMPKIN" POSTAL ENTIRE PAYING THE 21-CENT RATE TO SWITZERLAND VIA FRENCH MAILS.
This entire is one of three known, all from one Boston writer to correspondents in France (Marcou) and Switzerland (Daves), including a 12c 1861 on 30c entire (ex Vogel and Gliedman) and 3c on 12c entire (1995 Rarities Sale, offered in the following lot). All were originally large envelopes, skillfully refolded before mailing by someone whose preference for small-size covers nicely anticipated modern collecting tastes.
These covers were described in an article by Chip Gliedman ("Cut Down Postal Stationery from the 1861 Era") in Chronicle 230. Regarding the addressee on this cover (and the 12c on 30c entire), Gliedman wrote: "Both these covers are addressed to the same recipient, who, upon closer examination, is actually E. G. Daves, rather than Davis. Edward Graham Daves (1833-1894) was a North Carolina-born, Harvard-trained lawyer who taught Greek at Trinity College in Connecticut until 1861 when he went to Europe and 'for ten years remained abroad giving instruction to English youth on the shores of Lake Geneva, or traveling with his pupils.' As Vevey is on the north shore of Lake Geneva, there is little doubt that Professor Daves was the recipient of these two covers."
Ex Ishikawa.
