Great Britain, 1841, 1d red brown. Mostly large oversized margins, paying the inland postage on 1846 folded letter sheet to New York, tied by red "London Paid, May 18, 1846" cds, manuscript "1/" rate and red "7" handstamp for U.S. postage, Extremely Fine and choice, a magnificent early transatlantic usage; with 1997 D. Brandon certificate. SG No. 8. Scott No. 3  Estimate $4,000 - 6,000. $0 (Image)

Great Britain, 1841, 1d red brown. Large margins to just touching at bottom, tied by 15 bar cancel paying internal postage on 1852 folded letter sheet to San Francisco, California, small Glasgow circular handstamp and Paid straight line, red "Glasgow, Paid, Jan 16, 1852" octagon date stamp and manuscript "4/8" rate, endorsed per West India Packet via Southampton, Extremely Fine, a wonderful transatlantic usage to California. SG No. 8. Scott No. 3  Estimate $2,000 - 3,000. $0 (Image)