cover 3p pale blue, 1sh purple (2, 6; S.G.4, 8), the former just cut into at one corner, the latter cut into at base but with huge margins on the other three sides, tied by oval grids to Nov. 1860 folded letter from Halifax to Amherst; backstamped Halifax NO 26 1860 and showing Amherst NO 27 1860; cover with vertical filing creases, one of which crosses the adhesives; a very rare usage to pay the five-times local rate