Page 124 - Charles Shreve - William H Gross United States 1847 Issue

D. Europe Via the British Isles US-Bremen Treaty
3. Germany Via the Ocean Line

Both covers were carried on the same voyage of the Ocean Line,s Washington (Apri/19-May 5)
and are the only two 1847 covers recorded carried on this Line

AP 14, 1851 to Heidelberg, Baden, Germany.
Entered the mail stream with the Michigan Central railroad route agent.
The 10~i paid the domestic postage> 300 miles while the strip of five-5~i (Positions 41-45R)
overpaid by 1~i the 24~i prepaid rate by American packet under the 1847 US-Bremen Postal Treaty.
The only recorded 1847 cover carried by the Ocean Line with prepaid ocean postage

AP 14, 1851 to Steinenstadt, Baden, Germany. e
1W double weight (up to 1 oz.) "to the port" rate. "48" marking indicates double ocean postage due (2 x 24~i).