3c Pigeon Blood Pink (64a). Attractive centering, the color is dazzling -- a true Pigeon Blood Pink with all of the characteristic bluish-purple tint remaining in the pink pigment -- tied by grid cancel with duplex "Cleveland O. Oct. 25, 1861" circular datestamp on yellow cover to New Lyme O.

EXTREMELY FINE STAMP AND COVER. HIDDEN FOR MORE THAN A HALF-CENTURY SINCE THE 1956 CASPARY SALE, THIS MAGNIFICENTLY PRESERVED 1861 3-CENT PIGEON BLOOD PINK IS A BEAUTIFUL REMINDER OF WHAT THIS COLOR VARIETY IS MEANT TO BE.

Ex Brown and Caspary (where it realized $975 in 1956). With 2015 P.F. certificate

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