datestamp on folded letter from Berge, Saxony to St. Louis, Missouri, straightline "Berge" origin handstamp and manuscript "10/4" rating, Bremen backstamp, carried by Ocean Line Washington from Bremerhaven April 15 arriving New York May 4, "May 19" handstamp suggests advertising, very fine, the listing example of this 25c integral rate handstamp which Winter notes was only in use from May 3 to May 30, 1852