Lot 1977

✉ ESTADOS UNIDOS. 1857. NEW ORLEANS to DENMARK. 5c. red brown. Used with 10c. green Ty. III and 3c. dull red three 3 c. singles, margins to in, tied by NEW ORLEANS LA. May 19, 1857 circular datestamps on blue folded letter to Copenhagen, Denmark, magenta "24" credit, red boxed P.D. handstamp, NEW YORK and HAMBURG backstamp, presumably and additional 3c stamp is missing which made up the 27c rate via French Mails, still appears Fine, rare usage, one of only two recorded usages of the 5c. 1856 issue to Denmark, the other cover pays the 35c. rate via Prussian Closed Mail, unpublished Census No. 12-COV-335, ex Hugh J. Baker. (Sc 12,15,11).