90c Blue (39). Used with 1c Blue, Type V (24) horizontal pair, 10c Green, Type V (35) and 30c Orange (38), beautiful rich colors, tied by three strikes of Boston large "PAID" grid cancel on blue folded letter datelined “Boston July 16, 1861”, addressed to Edwin Howland at Port Elizabeth, Cape of Good Hope, sender’s blue “Iasigi, Goddard & Co., Boston” oval handstamp on back, manuscript route directive “via England per Persia”, red “Boston Br. Pkt. Paid Jul. 16” circular datestamp on back, red crayon “1.32” on back (quadruple 33¢ rate) and “1.12/4” credit on front (quadruple 28c credit)--carried on the Cunarder Persia from New York on July 17, arriving in Queenstown on July 26--red “London Paid EE JY 27 61” transit datestamp, red “4” quadruple 1p British Colonial rate, red Capetown and Port Elizabeth backstamps, 1c small piece missing, 10c crease and tear, cover folds reinforced with stamp hinges

THE RENOWNED NEWBURY 90-CENT COVER, DESCRIBED BY STANLEY ASHBROOK AS "ONE OF THE MOST OUTSTANDING GEMS OF UNITED STATES PHILATELY". ONE OF SIX RECORDED COVERS WITH THE 90-CENT 1860 ISSUE, AND THE ONLY ONE USED TO AFRICA.

Ex Ashbrook, Robert S. Emerson, Saul Newbury, Benjamin D. Phillips, Ryohei Ishikawa and William H. Gross.

Illustrated or discussed in “The Ninety Cent 1860” (American Philatelist, Dec. 1921), The United States One Cent Stamp of 1851-1857 (Vol. II, p. 322), “The U.S. Ninety Cent Stamp of 1860” (1951 Congress Book), “Through the Newbury De Luxe Collection...” (Stamp Specialist), More of the World’s Greatest Stamp Collectors (p. 198), United States Postage Stamps of the 19th Century (Vol. I, p. 265), “Great Stamps Make Greater Covers” (American Philatelist, Oct. 1977, illustrated on front cover), and “Tracing the Family Tree of a 90¢ '57 On Cover” (Stamps, November 16, 1946)

Exhibited: Providence Night, Collectors Club of New York, Mar. 20, 1929 (Emerson), Centenary Exhibition, Collectors Club of New York, May 1940 (Newbury), ANPHILEX 1971 “Aristocrats of Philately” and 1996 Invited Exhibits, Collectors Club of New York “Aristocrats of U.S. Philately” 2000 (Gross), World Stamp Show 2016 Court of Honor (Gross).

“R.H.W. Co.” backstamp (Weill). With 1993 P.F. certificate

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