10¢ Black (2), large to huge margins with frameline of adjoining stamp at bottom, fine early impression, tied by neat red square grid cancels and by "1/-" shilling due handstamp on May 19, 1848, greenish folded printed prices current from Charleston, South Carolina, to Greenock, Scotland, A. R. Johnston correspondence, a letter is included at bottom and the prices current is imprinted "Per Cambria Steamer", also with manuscript "p Steamer 24th May" on front--carried on the Cunarder Cambria from New York on that date, arriving at Liverpool June 6--Liverpool transit backstamp (June 6) and Greenock receiving backstamp (June 7), fresh and Extremely Fine, wonderfully choice quality for a transatlantic 1847 cover, ex Grunin, Garrett, Dr. Kapiloff and Saadi, with 1994 P.F. certificate

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