1c Blue, Ty. II (7). Horizontal pair, large margins to in, left stamp tear at top, cancelled by large "PAID" precancels in upper-case type and affixed to wrapper to Kingston Ala., some wear

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE LARGE "PAID" PRECANCEL ON ITS ORIGINAL WRAPPER. A MAGNIFICENT SHOWPIECE.

Little is known about the "Paid" precancels on the 1c 1851 Issue. The Ashbrook 1c book illustrates several varieties of actual and supposed precancels (Volume 2, pages 92-97), including the pair offered here. About this wrapper, Ashbrook notes that "the wrapper evidently originally enclosed a newspaper, and the stamps were unquestionably precancelled before they were applied to the wrapper."

This would make an excellent companion to the wrapper offered in our 2004 Rarities sale, which bears a pair of Scott 9 with a different variety of precancel used in Cleveland, Ohio.

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