Lot no. 420

5c. orange brown, fresh colour, deeply blue paper and full to large margins all round with traces of frameline of adjoining stamp at top, with black grid on 1851 folded letter with adjacent cds. "WALLINGFORD Ct. 11 SEP" to Columbus Ohio, a rare demonitized usage, one of the finest known examples, signed Ashbrook. Provenance: Ryohei Ishikawa Joseph Hackmey