5¢ Red Brown (1), large margins to just clear at bottom, deep rich color and detailed impression, tied by blue grid cancel with matching "Mobile Ala. Dec. 2" (1849) circular datestamp on folded letter datelined at New Orleans and addressed to Paris, France, sender's directive "p Steamer from N. York to Lpool"--carried on a Mississippi River steamboat from New Orleans to Mobile, then on the Cunarder Canada, departing New York on December 12, 1849, and arriving at Liverpool December 24--red London transit backstamp (December 25), red "COLONIES/&c ART. 13" Anglo-French accountancy handstamp, red Calais arrival datestamp (December 26), manuscript "30" decimes due, Very Fine, a beautiful 5¢ 1847 cover to France, ex Hubbard and Boker

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