12c Green, Re-Issue (128). Natural s.e. at right, used with 7c Vermilion (149) on legal-size 6c Red entire to Wurzburg, Germany, stamps tied by "New York R" registry ovals, purple "Registered May 19, 1881 New York P.O." three-line datestamp, receiving backstamp, Hamburg registry label, trivial edgewear, stamps have small faults

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. ONE OF THREE RECORDED COVERS BEARING THE 12-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL RE-ISSUE. ONE OF THE GREAT RARITIES OF THE ISSUE AND A NEW DISCOVERY OFFERED TO THE MARKET FOR THE FIRST TIME.

The 1869 Census book lists the two previously-recorded 12c 1869 Re-Issue covers: one to Hungary (offered in our auction of the Millard Mack collection, where it realized $47,500 hammer) and a cover to Germany bearing the 1c, 2c, 12c and 15c (the EDU, ex Sheriff and Coulter, where it realized $160,000 hammer). The cover offered here becomes the third recorded. The 25c postage pays the triple 5c U.P.U. rate plus 10c registry fee.

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