By: Cherrystone Auctions
lot # 58 - United States 1870-71 Issue
1870 24c purple, used with 10c horizontal pair on double rate Bissell correspondence cover to Ahmednagar, India, sent via Southampton, with red Boston paid cancel, Sea Post Office (Jun 19) and arrival handstamps on reverse, some usual cover wear, still a fine and attractive franking, with a notation on reverse that this cover sold for $920 in a 1995 Christie's auction
Estimate: $750
153, 161
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