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5c. red-brown, cut-into the outer frame line at bottom, otherwise good margins, tied by date stamp "NEWÂ ORLEANSÂ FEB 21 1857" to entire letter from Tabasco, Mexico with adjacent merchants' cachet "ROMANOÂ HERMANOS /Â TABASCO" to Bordeaux, showing on front red "NEW-YORK BR. PKT. MAR 4", accountancy mark "GB 1 F 60 C" and tax stamp "8"Â (decimes); the stamp with tiny marginal tear at bottom, usual slight toning; a fine and rare cover, one of only 3 recorded 1856, 5 c. usages originating outside the United States; certificate PFÂ (2005). Scott no. 12 Provenance: Hubbard Joseph Hackmey
