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Lot 137

serifed circular datestamp with manuscript date and matching “25” rate on 1836 folded letter to Springfield, Illinois, where an additional datestamp was applied and the letter forwarded to Westfield, Massachusetts (an additional 25c was charged for a total of 50c), splitting along file folds, very fine, one of just three recorded examples of this postmark, a great rarity of Wisconsin postal history