DESCRIPTION5¢ Red Brown (1), large margins, pre-printing paper fold, tied by red square grid cancel, matching “New-York Sep. 9” (circa 1848) circular datestamp ties Bouton’s City Dispatch Post, New York, N.Y., 2¢ Black on Gray Blue, Dots in Corners (18L2), two large margins, slightly in at right and bottom, also tied by “PAID/BOUTON” two-line handstamp, second strike at top center of rebacked front to New Rochelle, N.Y.

PROVENANCE

* Philip H. Ward, Jr., Siegel Auction Galleries, 4/1/1965, Sale 285, lot 725

* Ryohei Ishikawa (sold privately)

* John R. Boker, Jr. (collection sold privately to William H. Gross, 1994)

CENSUS, LITERATURE AND EXHIBITION REFERENCES

* USPCS census no. 7655

CONDITION NOTES

* Fine appearance; skillfully restored by adding backflaps

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