5¢ Red Brown (1), large margins to just in at upper right, rich color, tied by red square grid cancel, matching "New-York Jan. 22" (ca. 1848) circular datestamp, used with G. A. Mills, New York, N.Y., (2¢) Black on Green Glazed (109L1), large to ample margins, slight creasing and cracking in enamel and uncancelled as usual, on buff envelope to Miss Charlotte W. Gridley in Utica, New York, minor cover edgewear, Very Fine and rare, in his article on Hall & Mills and G. A. Mills (The Penny Post, October 2006), Larry Lyons records 13 possible genuine covers with the G. A. Mills 109L1 stamp, plus seven stamps off cover or on piece, four covers have 1847 Issue stamps, comprising three 5¢ (one has a P.F. "decline opinion" certificate) and one 10¢ (which is unlisted in the USPCS census), ex West, Hart and Boker, signed Ashbrook

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