5c Red Brown (1). Horizontal pair, large margins to full, grayish shade and intermediate impression, tied by red grid cancels, matching "New Bern N.C. Jul. 29" (1851) circular datestamp on buff envelope to Greenfield, Massachusetts, top flap with "New Bern Hotel N. Carolina" hotel forwarder's handstamp, original enclosure with "51" yeardate, stamps with indents from edge of cancel, faint corner crease at bottom left, cover lightly soiled

VERY FINE APPEARING AND RARE DEMONETIZED USE OF THE 5-CENT 1847 ISSUE ON A NORTH CAROLINA HOTEL COVER -- (ILLEGALLY) OVERPAYING THE DOUBLE 3-CENT RATE.

This is a rare demonetized use overpaying double the new 3c rate. This is also reported to be the only North Carolina hotel cover extant bearing the 1847 Issue.

Ex Boker and Gross.

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