5¢ Red Brown (12), three full to huge margins, miscut vertically into left but with huge part of adjoining stamp at right, rich color, trivial corner crease, used with 3¢ Dull Red, Type II (11A), full margin at right, close to slightly in on other sides, both stamps tied by bold strikes of "Albany N.Y. Nov. 7" (ca. 1856) circular datestamp on light buff over to Worcester Mass., manuscript "204" registration number, small edge faults and creases, Fine, the 5¢ registration fee effective July 1, 1855, was supposed to be paid in cash, but as this cover demonstrates, it was sometimes prepaid with a stamp, only two such 5¢ 1856 covers recorded, ex Peltz, Mueller, Mayer and Hackmey, illustrated in Hill book (p. 7), "Registration," Alexander (Chronicle 139), Frajola-Mayer book (p. 41)

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