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10 d. blue on thin paper, tiny touched at lower right, otherwise clear to wide margins, tied by black cancel to part-paid envelope from "ANCASTER MR 8 1855" to Edinburgh with adjacent "CONVEYEDÂ BYÂ UNITEDÂ STATESÂ PACKET.", "MOREÂ TOÂ PAY" and tax mark "6"; a fine and rare entire, prepaid at the Cunard rate, but apparently too late and directed via the U.S. Collins Line with additional postage required; a rare example of the so-called 'Crimean war rate' and marvelous item of Transatlantic mail Provenance: Ed Richardson Carrington Warren Wilkinson (2007) Joseph Hackmey (2011)
