Lot 1246
Liverpool, England to New York N.Y. via Boston Forwarder; 5¢ red brown (1), ample margins to touching, fine late impression, tied by grid on May 24, 1851 folded letter from Liverpool to New York, clear four-line handstamp in red: "Forwarded By/ Wm. Bailey Lang/ Commission Merchant/ Boston" struck at lower left, red "Paid" handstamp and matching "Boston 5cts 5 Jun" c.d.s.; stamp with tiny corner crease at bottom left, Fine, a very rare forwarder's handstamp with the 1847 Issue.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
Bailey Lang is an unrecorded forwarder, and this marking is most likely unique, and almost certainly so on the 1847 issue.
|
| |
| Realized $2,600 |
