£400 - £500
Retaliatory Rate / Late Fee. 1848 (June 24) Entire letter from Liverpool to Philadelphia franked by three 1d reds and two embossed 1/- stamps (both cut square, touched on one side only, differing shades, one with tear at lower right corner and crossed by file fold), paying the 2/- double packet rate + 3d late fee, carried on the "Caledonia" which left Liverpool on the day of posting, arriving at New York on July 8th, charged 58 cents. Two pressed file folds, otherwise fine and attractive, a scarce late fee letter carried on the first retaliatory rate sailing from G.B to the USA, treated as unpaid and charged in the USA in retaliation for the British P.O treatment of letters carried on U.S vessels. Photo on Page 86.
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