5¢ Red Brown, Double Transfer Type E (1-E), vertical pair, top stamp showing double transfer of "U", "Post Office" and left numeral "5", large margins to just touched at lower right, tied by bold strikes of red square grid cancel with matching "New-York Jan. 8" (1849) circular datestamp on blue folded New York Supreme Court document to Rochester, New York, file fold barely creases bottom stamp at bottom (not the double transfer stamp), still Very Fine and extremely rare pair showing the "Mower Shift" double transfer, this may be the only on-cover vertical pair extant, ex Saadi

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