1¢ Blue, Type IV (9), horizontal pair, each recut once at top and bottom, huge margins including part of adjoining stamp at left, cut in at right, used with 3¢ Dull Red, Type II (11A), full margins to just in, tied by "Charleston S.C. Paid Dec. 22" (1855) circular datestamp on blue folded cover to Nantes, France, from the Garnier correspondence, red "New-York Am. Packet Dec. 26" circular datestamp also ties 3¢ stamp, sender's ship-name directive "per Baltic" and carried on that Collins Line steamer from New York to Liverpool (departing December 27, 1855, arriving January 8, 1856), Calais arrival datestamp (January 10), backstamps include London (January 9), Calais (January 10) and Nantes (January 11), "16" decimes due handstamp, tiny tear at right of 1¢ pair, Fine, ex Hackmey

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