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.