Lot 10
U.S. 1847, 5¢ red brown (1), block of four, wonderfully bright color, large to ample margins except fractionally touched at lower right, 5½mm scissors cut in margin between left vertical pair, tied by squared grid on front only of letter sheet (which has been attached to a non-related folded letter) to Montreal, C.E., matching New York/Oct 27 c.d.s., manuscript 9 (pence due), an ironed vertical filing fold crosses the left vertical pair, Very Fine and outstanding franking with the 1847 5 cents block of four to make up the double rate to Canada. Illustrated in Baker, U.S. Classics.
Estimate 50,000 - 75,000
THE ONLY RECORDED USAGE OF A 5¢ 1847 ISSUE BLOCK TO CANADA.
Provenance: Waterhouse, Emerson, West, Dick, Rohloff, Kapiloff, Zoellner
There are just three recorded usages of a block of the 5¢ 1847:
A pen cancelled block of 5 on an 1849 cover to England sold in our Sale #252, Nov. 2002
A block of 4 from Fredonia, N.Y. to Albany, N.Y. sold in our Sale # 266, Sept. 2003
The block of 4 to Canada offered here.
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| Realized $125,000 |
