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Auction: 144 - August Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 489

#8, 2c Brown red, vertical strip of five, just in at top and right on the top stamp, otherwise clear to large margins, tied to opened-out wallpaper cover by ms. pen strokes and also bearing black cancel ink that offset on the front of the cover, posted to Augusta, Ga with the strip paying the forwarding postage to Newton, Ga., originally posted with 10c Blue (#11) tied to the reverse by "Albany/Ga/Mar 4 1864", some ink deterioration in address and the bottom fold of cover hinge reinforced because of the fragile nature of the wallpaper, fine and extremely rare; this usage and correspondence is confirmed by a similar cover to the same addressee offered by Siegel Auction Galleries on March 16, 2006, this was a rebacked cover (not wall paper) forwarded out of the Augusta, Georgia post office that was believed at that time to be the only recorded example of a strip of five of #8 used to pay forwarding postage, but this cover confirms that this post office used strips in this manner and the similar usage from the same correspondence authenticates the usage on this cover; Scott lists but does not price a strip on a wallpaper cover, this certainly being the only known cover with a strip of #8 used for forwarding on a wallpaper cover.

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$2,700