5c Red Brown (1). Red grid cancel with matching "Tampa Flor. Apr. 2" (1850) circular datestamp on folded letter datelined "Fort Meade Florida March 30th, 1850", addressed to Tallahassee Fla., stamp with small defect in top right corner, Very Fine appearance, an extremely rare use of the 1857 Issue from Tampa, the USPCS Census lists only four covers from Tampa (two 5c, two 10c), each from the Beard correspondence, illustrated in Florida Postal History Journal (July 2005)

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