5c Red Brown (1). Two singles, large margins to just in, intermediate impression, left stamp pre-printing paperfold, slightly overlapping and tied by red square grid cancels, matching "New-York Nov. 11" circular datestamp with day slug inverted on blue folded cover to Kingston, Canada West, red "Queenston U.C. Nov. 14, 1848" transit datestamp, manuscript "11-1/2" pence due for distance of 201 to 300 miles, receiving backstamp, light file folds well away from stamps, Very Fine, this cover and the cover in lot 592 were the subjects of an article in Chronicle 211 (accompanies), this cover took five days longer and cost the recipient 8-1/2 pence more than if it had been routed via the Cape Vincent and Kingston exchange offices, where it would have been charged a 3-pence ferriage rate instead of 11-1/2 pence, ex Mirsky

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