EARLIEST RECORDED USAGE OF THE WIDE LAID PAPER AND THE BEST „WIDE LAID“ COVER

10k Carmine-red, wide laid paper, large margins all around, cancelled by pen-cross and low-boxed postmark BRAHRSTAD 12 AUG 1859 on folded cover entire letter to Kuopio, very fresh and very fine, only some notes of a philatelist have been smoothly erased in the left corner, earliest recorded usage of the wide laid paper, UNIQUE

Expertisation: Schwenson