United States in-coming Trans-Atlantic Mails
"Paid at Liverpool, AU 19 1848" red octagonal datestamp, on folded letter to New York, red "1/-" prepaid packet rate handstamp, red "24" U.S. due handstamp (the 24c "retaliatory" rate for letters carried on steamships, carried on the Cunarder Niagara, a fresh and very fine Retaliatory Rate cover,
with 2007 Philatelic Foundation certificate #457972 ("it is a genuine usage"),
ex: Alan Goldberg Collection (Robert A. Siegel, sale #939, 09/26/2007, lot #8, realized $258.75)
Rupp Brothers’ selling price, to acquire this attractive 1848 Retaliatory Rate cover, is $295
Rupp Brothers, as a courtesy to our customers, pays all shipping an insurance costs.
If you have questions regarding this cover, please email or telephone Christopher Rupp
Rupp Brothers - established in 1975 - our 49th year as professional philatelists
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