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cover 12c Black (17), horizontal pair, huge margins to cut in at left, used with 3c Dull Red (11), horizontal pair, huge margins to just barely in, tied by bold "Hannibal, Mo. Jun 17, 1857" c.d.s. cancels on fresh neat gray folded letter to Neustadt, Weimar (Germany), ms. "Germany: Postage Paid/pr. Prussian Closed Mail", bold red "N.York 7 Br. Pkt. Paid Jun 24" exchange h.s., red boxed "Aachen 8/7 Franco" h.s., Neustadt backstamps, carried by the Cunard Line packet Canada, this cover paid the 30c rate to Germany by Prussian Closed Mail, very fine a neat handsome cover photo