Lot Details

yellow datestamp with matching straightline "Paid" on folded letter to Boston, 1847 5c Brown red (full margins) with manuscript cancel, 1848 docketing at left, very fine, this postmark was originally red-orange but degraded to a distinctive mustard color, the earliest recorded use of this Haverhill marking and the only reported Haverhill cover bearing an 1847 5c, ex-Craveri (USPCS Census #4163)