3c 1856 Orange Brown, Type I (11). Position 7R4, gash on shoulder variety, with top sheet margin, other sides large to touched at bottom left, brilliant color in the 1856 Orange Brown, tied by blue "Wells, Fargo & Cos. Express S. Frco. 3 May" double-circle datestamp, two additional strikes including one cancelling the indicia of 3c Red on Buff Nesbitt entire (U10) with Wells, Fargo & Co. frank, addressed to Roseburg, Oregon, 1859 docketing (just after admission as a state), Very Fine, a lovely use of this scarcer shade carried entirely outside the mails but properly franked for a double rate, with 2012 P.F. certificate

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