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Fall Postal History 2022
Our Fall 2022 Postal History sale includes the John D. Bowman Collection of Boyd's City Express Post, the William B. Robinson Collection of Wisconsin Postal History, material from the collections of Steven M. Roth and Graham Booth, FRPSL, and much more.
LOT# : 428
Date: 26.10.2022 - 21:00
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red oval with two strikes of matching straightline "Free" on 1845 folded letter to the "J.G. Bennett, Esq, Editor of the New York Herald", carried outside the mails from Southbridge, Massachusetts where this letter originated, very fine, fewer than six recorded examples of Boyd's free delivery to the press (a policy Boyd had in place from the beginning), all from the spring of 1845
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Starting Price: $100
Hammer Price: $325