5c Red Brown (1). Large margins except at lower right where just barely in, bright shade on strongly blued paper, intermediate impression, tied by red square grid cancel, used with Blood's City Despatch, Philadelphia Pa., 1c Bronze on Black Glazed (15L13), acid cancel, faintly creased, both stamps tied by red "New-York Jul. 18" (ca. 1850) circular datestamp, matching "PHILADA. RAIL ROAD" straightline handstamp on cover to Albany N.Y.

VERY FINE. A RARE COMBINATION OF THE 1847 ISSUE AND BLOOD'S LOCAL POST STAMP ON A COVER CARRIED BY RAILROAD TO NEW YORK CITY AND CANCELLED THERE BEFORE CONTINUING NORTH TO ALBANY.

Ex Moody, Garrett, Boker and Gross. With 1979 and 2013 P.F. certificates

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