5¢ Red Brown (12), large even margins, rich color, tied by neatly struck "New Orleans La. Jan. 19, 1857" circular datestamp on light blue folded letter to Massevaux, France, sender's blue oval handstamp, red "New-York Am. Pkt. Feb. 1" circular datestamp--carried by the Collins Line Atlantic, departing New York on February 1, 1857, and arriving at Liverpool February 14, the last American Packet sailing of the "Three Months" period--red Liverpool transit backstamp (February 16), "GB/40c" oval Anglo-French accountancy handstamp, Calais arrival datestamp (February 16), "5" decimes due handstamp for postage from England to France, French transit and receiving backstamps (February 18), Extremely Fine--the postage should have been prepaid 21¢ for the American Packet rate, but this was accepted with only the 5¢ stamp, it is recorded as the only 5¢ 1856 known on an American Packet cover to France during the "Three Months" period--ex Dr. Martin, Mayer and Hackmey, illustrated in Frajola-Mayer, The United States Five Cent Stamp of 1856 (p. 69), signed Ashbrook, with 1985 P.F. certificate

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