1861 Cover with Poignant Cancellation and Upside Down Year: New York to Stoughton, MA miner Each measures 9 3/16" x

Each measures 9 3/16" x 5 7/8" x 1/2" and while they show wear they are in very good overall condition

3/4 x 2 15/16 x 2 7/8 d and in overall pretty good shape

and I interpret the image as a woman's face in profile

There are a range of different nails

with a wonderful little dog guarding the front porch of this house with terrific green shutters and half pulled yellow shades

1861 Cover with Poignant Cancellation and Upside Down Year: New York to Stoughton, MA miner Each measures 9 3/16" xI was recently reminded, coming upon this and a couple of other covers envelopes listed today, of the beauty of fancy old cancellation marks and also how they bring a certain drama to whole face of an envelop, formally and informationally. Here I love the vertical stripes of the cancellation, blacking out the profile portrait of George Washington (like placing him behind bars), with this nice intersection of the red ring around him and the black ring