Lot 74
1856, 5¢ red brown (12), four even margins, rich color, tied by dark red "Mobile Ala. Nov 26" c.d.s. on blue folded letter with blue merchants oval to Marseille France, red "New-York Br. Pkt. Dec 2" exchange office c.d.s., red Liverpool backstamp, "Calais 16 Dec. 56" entry c.d.s. with "8" (décimes) due handstamp, various French transits on reverse including "Lyon 17 Dec 56", Very Fine, the 5¢ British open mail rate via British packet, France processed incorrectly as prepaid via American packet with 8 décimes due for postage from England to France. Illustrated in Frajola and Mayer, p. 26, fig. 3-23.
Estimate 5,000 - 7,500
A CHOICE COLOR CANCELLATION USED ON THE 1856 5¢ FROM MOBILE ALABAMA.
Provenance: Moody
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