Lot 30230 – 1852-59, 1sgr brown-red, single and pair on cover to Germany, one stamp also tied by framed “PD”

1852-59, 1sgr brown-red, well margined vertical pair and single with each showing part of frame line of neighbouring stamp and tied by nine-bar oval handstamp on 13 May 1854 cover from Luxembourg to Gotha (Germany), dispatch cds at base, the single stamp being additionally tied by framed “PD” (a very rare usage on the stamp on cover), reverse showing Trier, Neunkirchen and Gotha ds; carried at single rate for the third German distance corresponding to destinations 30 miles beyond the border; cert. Demuth (1981); ex Seligson (Grand Prix), Del Puente and Houser.