12c Black, Plate 1 (36). Vertical pair, intense shade, tied by red grid cancel, used as forwarding postage on folded current accounts from New York to the Portuguese Legation in London, England, used with Boyd's City Express, New York N.Y., 2c Black on Green (20L14), cut to shape, light crease at bottom right, tied by "PAID J.T.B." handstamp, second strike at left, neat "Boyd's City Express Post Aug. 2" (1859) oval datestamp, red "New York 19 Aug. 3" credit datestamp, red "London Paid AU 15, 1859" datestamp, carried on the Cunarder Africa, departing New York Aug. 3, 1859 and arriving Liverpool Aug. 13, Very Fine and rare use of Boyd's stamp on transatlantic mail with the 1857 Issue

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