full margins with portion of adjacent stamp at top, tied by blue framed "Paid" company handstamp to locally-addressed cover, matching "Brady & Co. City Despatch Post 97 Duane St." handstamp alongside, November 3, 1857 docketing at left, light toning mostly confined to reverse, very fine and attractive, one of just four recorded covers with the Brady & Co. adhesive, an extraordinary local post rarity (Scott $10,000)

Provenance: John R. Boker, Jr. (Private transaction)