5c Brick Red (27). Vertical pair, unusually choice centering with perfs clear of projections on both stamps, gorgeous color, neat strike of "New Orleans La. Apr. 8, 1859" circular datestamp, single nibbed perf at bottom

EXTREMELY FINE. A SCARCE CENTERED MULTIPLE OF THE 1857 5-CENT BRICK RED.

In our opinion, the 5c Brick Red is very much under-appreciated by most collectors. The poor centering and heavy cancels prevalent among Brick Reds reduce the supply of choice stamps to a small minority of the total population. Lightly-cancelled singles and multiples with centering any better than Fine are truly scarce.

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