Lot 1177 - Kidder's City Express Post, 1847, 2¢ black on pale blue. Initialed "I S" (Isaac Snedecker). Margins large to just shaving frameline at right, affixed mostly on backflap and around to front, canceled by strike of "Paid" handstamp with second strike alongside with both strong strike impressing through to reverse, on a most intricate pierced lace Valentine cover neatly street addressed in Brooklyn, matching lace Valentine enclosure with handwritten 8-line poem and "St. Valentine'....Est. $3,000-4,000 Sold for US$ 2,900

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