Third Avenue Post Office, New York, 2c black on bluish paper, touching oval frameline in places as usual, pleasing dark colour, with 1855 3c dull red affixed beside and partially overtop "Paid" manuscript notation, tied by "New-York / May / 19" c.d.s., to Brunswick, Maine, an extremely attractive example of this rare local, one of only a handful of any Third Avenue Post Office examples recorded on cover, and the only recorded example of this type on cover, with 1999 Philatelic Foundation certificate; ex-Caspary, Lilly, , and Golden.