12c Black (17). Vertical strip of three, mostly full to large margins including parts of adjoining stamps at right, touched at lower left, used with horizontal pair of 3c Dull Red, Type I (11), huge top margin with adjoining stamps, other sides touched to slightly in, tied by grid cancels and partly readable red New Orleans circular datestamp, red "New-York Am. Packet Nov. 28" (1855) circular datestamp on folded cover to Paris, France, sender's directive "p. United States Mail Steamer"--carried on the Collins Line Pacific, departing New York Nov. 28, 1855, and arriving Liverpool December 9--red Liverpool backstamp (Dec. 10), Calais arrival datestamp (Dec. 10), "16" decimes due handstamp, vertical file fold through 3c lightly cleaned, otherwise Very Fine, double 21c rate American Packet covers via England are very rare, and this franking with the strip of 12c 1851 stamps is extraordinary, ex Gibson, Hackmey and Gross, with 2019 P.F. certificate

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