3c Dull Red, Type II, Vertical Half Used as 1c (11Ac). Plate 5L, left half tied across cut by grid, used with three singles, each with matching grid, one tied by "Wrentham Ms." in circle with manuscript "June 4" date on small cover to San Francisco, circa 1856, two full stamps with small tears and bisect with small corner crease

FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTREMELY RARE TRANSCONTINENTAL EAST-TO-WEST USE OF A 3-CENT 1851 ISSUE BISECT.

The census of 3c 1851 bisects, published by David Beals in Chronicle 76 and updated by Stanley M. Piller, contains a total of 16 covers. Of these, one is the strip of four bisects used from Milton, Massachusetts, seven were bisected for use as 1c stamps to pay part of the 10c transcontinental rate and eight were bisected to pay the 1c circular rate.

Ex Worthington, Tyler ("Mr. X"), Krug, Rust, Piller and from our 1987 Rarities sale. Described in Chase 3c book (p. 217). Signed Ashbrook. With 1941 American Board of Experts and 1950 P.F. certificates

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