24c Lilac (Scott 78) tied by 11-bar circular grid cancel on tissue paper cover to J. English & Co. in Feckenham, England, with red New York Jan. 9 and 19 integral rate and red "Paid Liverpool Br. Packet 20 JA 66" circular datestamps with docketing at top "The S.S. sailing from New York Jan. 10, 66" written by the sender and "arrived Jany 21st 1866 as ????", "Bromsgrove JA 21 66" backstamp

carried on the Cunarder "Australasia" on its 24th crossing, leaving New York on January 10th.

"19" represents US 19c due to the British Post Office for transport between New York and its final destination

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