Page 101 - Charles Shreve - William H Gross United States 1847 Issue

B. Panama To Mexico

The US Post Office Despatch Agent, Amos Corwine, was responsible for the mails crossing the Isthmus of Panama.
All rates from that office were in multiples of 10~. He was the only agent on foreign soil to receive 1847 stamps.
Stamps supplied: 10~- 5,000- Shipped to Panama on July 16, 1850.

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Written at Lima, Peru on JY 13, 1850 to Tepic, Mexico. - Positions 85-87R, 95-97R, 71, 81 and 91R (partially tom off)
Privately carried from Lima to Panama City, New Granada. Triple rate (3W x 3) letter to the Pacific Coast carried by US
contract steamer to San Blas, Mexico and either carried privately to Tepic or by the Mexican postal service.
Earliest recorded and highest rated cover using 1847 stamps in Panama
Earliest recorded use of the up ANAA1A, hands tamp (It is found under the stamps)

NO 11, 1850 to Mazatlan, Mexico.- Positions 51-53R
Carried privately to Panama City where it entered the mail stream.
Delivered by a ship of the Pacific Mail Steamship Co. on its way to San Francisco, CA.