5¢ Red Brown (12), huge bottom sheet margin and full to clear at left and top, slightly in at right, crisp shade and impression, tied by clear strike of "Peoria Ills. Oct. 31" (1856) circular datestamp on buff cover to Eperies, Hungary (now known as Presov, Slovakia), sender's directive "p first Steamer via Liverpool" and prepaid for the British Open Mail rate, but evidently arrived too late for the November 5 Cunard sailing from Boston--carried on the Collins Line Atlantic, departing from New York November 8, 1856, and arriving at Liverpool November 20--treated as totally unpaid with "N. York Am. Pkt. 23 Nov. 8" 23¢ debit datestamp for U.S. portion of 30¢ Prussian Closed Mail rate, red Aachen transit backstamp (November 22), blue manuscript "48" kreuzers due, "CASCHAU/26 NOV." italics two-line receiving datestamp on back--the Military District of Kaschau was one of the administrative units of the Habsburg Kingdom of Hungary from 1850 to 1860

Very Fine and a unique 5¢ 1856 Issue cover to the Austro-Hungarian Empire.

Ex Paul C. Rohloff, D. Scott Gallagher, Tito Giamporcaro, Frederick R. Mayer and Joseph Hackmey. Illustrated in Frajola-Mayer, The United States Five Cent Stamp of 1856 (p. 150). With 2005 P.F. certificate.

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