5c Red Brown (12). Three huge margins showing bits of adjoining stamps at sides, clear at top, rich color, tied by perfectly clear strike of "New Orleans La. Feb. 18, 1857" circular datestamp on blue folded cover to Amsterdam, Holland, sender's ship-name directive "Europa" (sailed from Boston on February 25, but this did not go on that Cunarder), red "New-York Mar. 4" circular datestamp, manuscript British "1/" debit and Dutch "80" cents due, red Liverpool receiving backstamp (Mar. 17), Amsterdam receiving backstamp (Mar. 19) and matching "16" in circle, horizontal file fold clear of stamp

VERY FINE. THE ONLY RECORDED 5-CENT 1856 ISSUE COVER TO HOLLAND.

Although the sender directed this to go by the sailing of the Cunarder Europa from Boston on February 25 (1857), it was held for the March 4 sailing of the Cunarder Asia from New York, which arrived in Liverpool on March 16.

Ex Dr. Robertson, who acquired it in a June 1966 H. R. Harmer sale.

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