Census of Millbury Mass. 5c Black on Bluish Postmaster's Provisional (Scott 7X1)

Notes:

Stamp sound and tied by red “Paid” on folded letter to Miss Sarah D. Sibley, Oxford Mass.
“Milbury Ms. Dec. 7” (1846) cds
“5” large numeral in circle handstamp
Scissors-cut in cover to left of stamp
PFC 30782

Provenance:

189? Discovered and sold to C. H. Mekeel
189? To Frederick W. Ayer (sometime between 1892 and 1897)
c1897 To William H. Crocker
19?? To Sir Nicholas Waterhouse
1955 Jun. 27 Waterhouse sale, H.R. Harmer London, £1,500 (approx. $4,200), Lot 2
4/29/1969, Siegel Auction Galleries, United States Stamps, including another section of the Lorenz More Collection, Sale 352, Lot 1, 1969 Apr. 29, $2,100 (this sale included Lorenz Moré collection), to John R. Boker Jr.
197? To Rolf-Dieter Jaretzky

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