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

Notes:

Stamp tied by red “Paid” on Aug. 20, 1846, folded cover from Samuel D. Torrey to Isaac Davis, Worcester Mass.
“Milbury Ms. Dec. 16” (1846) cds
“5” sans-serif numeral in circle
Older PFC, number not available

Provenance:

1884 One of two letters with Millburys in bound volumes of correspondence donated to the American Antiquarian Society in Worcester Mass. (other 7X1-COV-18)
1895 To Sir William B. Avery
1909 To W. H. Peckitt (London dealer)
1910? To Henry J. Duveen (died December 1919) from Peckitt
1922 Duveen Collection, consigned to Charles J. Phillips
c1922 To Alfred H. Caspary from Phillips
1955 Nov. 15 Caspary sale, H. R. Harmer sale, $9,250, to Ezra Cole for Arthur Hetherington, Lot 42
1983 Oct. 27 Hetherington sale (“Quality” Collection, H.R. Harmer, Lot 1
1989 E.G. to Weill
1989 Oct. 12 Weill sale, Christie’s RL, $210,000, to John Salomon for a collector, Lot 632

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