Overseas & Switzerland | Autumn Auction Series day 5

1857 5c Blue, mostly good margins but with faults,
1857 5c Blue, mostly good margins but with faults, uncancelled but offset ties stamp at corner, red HONOLULU US POSTAGE PAID JUL 18 (1860) cds alongside, used with two vertical pairs of US 1857 3c dull red type III, tied by SAN FRANCISCO CAL. AUG 3 1860 cds on cover to Petersburg, Virginia, carried on American bark Frances Palmer then carried overland on Butterfield stage, an extremely unusual franking to prepay US rate, ex Knapp, Krug, "Honolulu Advertiser" and Gross, signed Ashbrook, cert. PF