Lot 153
1847, 5¢ dark brown (1a), vertical pair, mostly large margins except top stamp in at left and clear at top, tied by blue grids, matching "Buffalo N.Y. Jan. 21" c.d.s. on 1849 folded letter to Millard Fillmore, then the state comptroller in Albany, manuscript. "Due 10", docketing in Fillmore's hand, Very Fine usage.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
Contents (from a friend, S.G. Haven, writing to Fillmore while waiting in court) indicate this contained an additional three letters, making this a quadruple rate; there is also an amusing reference to Nathan K. Hall, later postmaster general under Fillmore.
Shortly after this letter was sent, Fillmore resigned the comptrollership, having been elected vice president on the Whig Party ticket with General Taylor in November of 1848. The writer of the letter, Solomon Hall, was a partner in the firm of Fillmore, Hall and Haven.
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