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March United States Postal History
Featuring The Leonard Piszkiewicz Collection of Chicago Postal History, The Van Koppersmith Collection of Philadelphia Postal History and The Tony Dewey Collection of Hartford Postal History
LOT# : 1155
Date: 03/28/2023 - 17:00
Illinois Postal History
black circular handstamp on ca. 1867 3c Pink stamped envelope mailed without an address, November 25 Chicago backstamp, forwarded to Washington, DC where a blue Dead Letter Office datestamp was applied, manuscript "$5" probably refers to a banknote contained within the envelope, very fine, the only recorded example of the earliest "returned for better direction" handstamp used in Chicago, illustrated in Piszkiewicz (page 447)
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