10c Black, Diagonal Half Used as 5c (2a). Top right diagonal half, large margins to clear, crisp impression shows short transfer at top, tied by orange-red grid cancel, light strike of matching "Gardiner Me. Apr. 28" circular datestamp on buff envelope to Mrs. George Evans in Brattleboro, Vermont, from the famous Evans correspondence, stamp with tiny surface scuff at upper right caused by rim of the cancel (utterly inconsequential and mentioned only because the 2013 certificate notes it)

VERY FINE. A CHOICE 10-CENT 1847 TOP RIGHT DIAGONAL BISECT ON AN ENVELOPE FROM THE FAMOUS EVANS CORRESPONDENCE.

Working with the USPCS census, we have verified 12 Gardiner, Maine, 10c bisect covers. These include four with bisects that cannot be matched (including the cover offered here). The other eight covers have bisects from four stamps. They were all used between April 26 and May 26 of 1851.

Ex Sampson, A. E. Guenther, Boker and Gross. With 1949 A.P.S., 1964 and 2013 P.F. certificates

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