1d Mulready Envelope sent from Vera Cruz Mexico to Liverpool via New York

1d Mulready Envelope (Forme 2 Stereo A153). Very fine used example sent from Vera Cruz Mexico to Liverpool via New York cancelled by a red oval handstamp of Gilpins Exchange – Reading Room and Foreign Letter Office – New York with a handstruck 8 (Robertson M65) alongside indicating an 8d charge as an incoming Ship Letter. Backstamped with a Vera Cruz dispatch cds for 16th December a F.Karck of New York forwarding agents cachet and a Liverpool/Ship Letter handstamp (Robertson type S14). This famous Mulready remains the sole recorded example posted to the UK from outside Europe. An important and extremely attractive exhibition piece.This Mulready is illustrated on page 118 of the Mulready Postal Stationery By Allan Huggins and Alan Holyoake.Ex. Grunin and Mayflower. 1998 BPA Cert.