5c Orange Brown (1b). Large margins to clear, detailed early impression, cancelled by blue cork, matching "Wilmington & Raleigh Rail Road Mar. 29" (1850) route agent's circular datestamp on blue folded letter to Gand, Belgium, from De Coster correspondence, sender's directive "per Steamer Niagara from Boston the 3rd of April", carried on that Cunarder which arrived in Liverpool April 16, red rectangular accounting handstamp also ties stamp, blue manuscript "16" decimes due, light horizontal file fold barely affects stamp

VERY FINE. A COLORFUL AND FASCINATING 1847 ISSUE COVER CARRIED BY RAILROAD TO BOSTON AND THEN BY CUNARD STEAMSHIP TO ENGLAND FOR TRANSPORTATION ACROSS THE CHANNEL TO THE FINAL DESTINATION IN BELGIUM.

A total of eight covers with stamps of the 1847 Issue are known addressed to Belgium, including two with single copies of the 5c, three with pairs of the 5c, two with single copies of the 10c and the famous combination cover with a strip of three of the 10c and single 5c used in the Retaliatory Rate period. Only three of these bear a railroad marking (all from the Wilmington & Raleigh Railroad).

Ex Ishikawa, Hackmey and Gross. With 2013 P.F. certificate

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