15c Indigo (227). Rich color, tied by purple handstamp and used with complete set of 1c-$1.00 Clipperton Island stamps (unlisted in Scott), on Macqueen House of Miles City Montana corner card cover to Hanover, Germany, each of the Clipperton Island stamps cancelled by light strike of purple "W. Frese & Co., San Francisco, Agents for O. P. Co." double-circle handstamp, New York registry label effectively ties three stamps, purple "Registered Miles City Mont., Nov. 15, 1895" boxed backstamp, New York and receiving backstamps

VERY FINE. A COLORFUL AND RARE COVER WITH AN ENTIRE SET OF THE CLIPPERTON ISLAND STAMPS, USED TO GERMANY. THIS IS BY FAR THE FINER OF THE TWO RECORDED COVERS BEARING THE FULL SET.

Clipperton Island lies 670 miles southwest of Mexico in the eastern Pacific Ocean. It was an important source of guano fertilizer and home to 150-200 miners at the time the Clipperton Island stamp was issued for use on mail carried from the island to San Francisco. This cover to Germany entered the mails in Montana; it is probable that there is a mining connection between the sender in Montana and Clipperton Island. The other cover with a full set was sent to Hamburg, Germany and is faulty.

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