90c Carmine (155). Used with 30c Black (154) and 6c Dull Pink (159), cancelled by blue targets and also by matching "Cincinnati O. Oct. 31" circular datestamp on reduced courthouse cover to St. Louis Mo., Feb. 1874 docketing, 90c stamp faded, some slight overall wear

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTREMELY RARE EXAMPLE OF THE 30-CENT AND 90-CENT NATIONAL BANK NOTE COMPANY UNGRILLED ISSUE ON A COVER. ONLY THREE EXAMPLES OF THE 90-CENT ARE REPORTED ON COVER, AND THIS IS ONE OF ONLY TWO DOMESTIC USAGES.

The only example to a foreign destination known to us was offered in our 1974 auction of the Braus collection. It bears a single 90c with a 15c Orange (152) used by the Consolidation Coal Co. to Rio de Janeiro. The other domestic usage is illustrated in Linn's U.S. Stamp Facts and is also from Cincinnati on a courthouse cover used with a 12c to St. Louis.

With 2010 P.F. certificate.

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