Lot Details

Sullivan's Dispatch Post, Cincinnati, Ohio, 1853, (2c) black on green, cut octagonally and affixed to folded letter datelined 18 June, 1853, postmarked with blue "Cincinnati O. 5 / Jun / 25" c.d.s., to Louisville, Kentucky, vertical filing folds, one through adhesive, of no importance given the unique status of this example, with Robson Lowe's handwritten guarantee on reverse, a rarity. 

Three different types of the Sullivan's Dispatch Post local are recorded; the (2c) black on green glazed paper offered here, a (2c) bluish black on wove paper, uncancelled on a magazine, one of two examples of which is housed in the Smithsonian National Postal Museum; and an unused (2c) green on wove paper.