£550 - £750
RARE 7½d-RATE COVER TO G.B. WITH 3d BLUE PAIR + DIAGONAL BISECT IN SINGLE STRIP; 15 Nov. 1856 env. (opened out; some overall wear and dusting - small stain well clear of stamps and marks) to Liverpool 'per first steamer' with 1st-Issue 3d blue strip of three (RH stamp bisected diagonally; close to wide margins all round except where bisected; tiny rub at one corner) tied by fair Albion Mines barred ovals and a fair red tombstone-framed "PAID/LIVERPOOL" ds with black Halifax (?) hs "5" accountancy mark (crease) beside the stamps. Rare early bisect transatlantic cover.
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