5c Red Brown (12). Large margins to clear, tied by "Annapolis Md. Jan. 10" circular datestamp on 1857 folded letter to Spezzia, Italy, neat strike of Anglo-French accountancy marking, ms. "10" rate, Boston, London, Calais and Genova transits, some slight edgewear, some bleach spots also affect stamp, hinge reinforcements along folds, still Very Fine, only eight covers recorded from this correspondence to a U.S. naval surgeon on the U.S.S. Susquehanna, unpublished Census No. 12-COV-269, ex Moody

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