5¢ Red Brown (12), huge margins including bottom right corner sheet margins and part of adjoining stamp at top, rich color, tied by red grid cancel and black "New-York Jul. 15" (1856) circular datestamp on blue folded letter and printed circular to Trie sur Baise, France, red "New-York Br. Pkt. Jul 13" circular datestamp, sent to Boston for the Cunard Canada sailing (departing July 16, 1856, arriving Liverpool July 26), red British transit datestamp (July 28) overstruck with "2" oval grid, Calais arrival datestamp (July 28), re-rated in manuscript from "13" to "26" decimes due (weight over 7.5 grams), "26" decimes handstamp also ties stamp, receiving backstamp, Extremely Fine, a magnificent corner-margin 5¢ 1856 Imperforate stamp on cover--one of the two or three finest single frankings extant--ex Krug, Klein, Mayer and Hackmey, illustrated in Frajola-Mayer book (p. 80), signed Ashbrook, with 2005 P.F. certificate

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