5¢ Red Brown, 10¢ Black (1, 2), both with large margins all around, tied to each other and 10¢ tied to cover by blue grid cancels with matching "Buffalo N.Y. Aug. 18" (1847) fancy oval datestamp on folded letter to Lockport, New York, slight overall toning of cover and stamps, 10¢ has lightened pen cancellation (possibly a re-used stamp), appears Extremely Fine, a rare combination paying triple the under-300 miles rate (Buffalo and Lockport are only approximately 30 miles apart) the half-ounce rate increments were eliminated in March 1849--for this and other reasons, examples of 5¢ and 10¢ 1847 combinations for the half-ounce increment are rare--ex Brown and Boker, with 1976 P.F. certificate

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