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datestamp with matching grid on 3c Green Banknote cover to Mora, New Mexico, cornercard for "Wholesale Grocers and Commission Merchants", reverse with all-over illustrated street scene advertisement, barely reduced at right, very fine and attractive

magenta double circle datestamp with duplexed stock intertwined "US Mail" (Cole US-148) on 3c Green entire to St. Louis, just reduced at right, very fine, the earliest recorded example of this postmark

datestamp and duplexed target on 1c Postal card to Denver, reverse datelined "Plum, Sept 16, 1874", very fine, one of two recorded territorial postmarks from Sedalia (the other on a piece), ex-Bauer

double rim circular datestamp duplexed with wheel of fortune ties 2c Green Banknote (toned perforations) to cover to Decatur City, Iowa, additionally the same device used as a receiver on a September 24, 1887 (earliest known use), both fine

exhibit collection covering the first 60 years of Denver's history in two binders, approximately 110 covers and postcards spanning the 1860s to 1910s, we note 14 territorial covers, early statehood covers, fancy cancels, duplexes, and machine cancels, all fine to very fine and well-organized