Collect/Six Cents/for/Hale & Co. Red framed handstamp with manuscript rate change to “18-3/4” on Nov. 5, 1844 bluish folded letter from Liverpool, England, to Hartford Conn. via New York City, manuscript “6”, sender’s directive “Queen of the West” on inside letter and "QWest" on address panel, file fold, faint toning, Very Fine, extremely rare use of Hale & Co. service to forward transatlantic mail, the 6c and 18-3/4c rates and absence of postal markings indicate that this was enclosed in another cover or carried into the U.S. outside the regular mails, illustrated in Gutman Hale book (p. 330), ex Hall and Dr. Puliafito

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