Lot Details

purple datestamp on cover originating in Portland, Oregon May 24, 1918, addressed to "834 Aero Repair Squadron, Hazelhurst Field, No. 2, Garden City, Long Island, New York, American Exp. Forces", light edge wear, fine strike and cover, the Wabash Terminal R.P.O. opened in September 1917 to handle mail for the A.E.F., only two examples of this handstamp recorded (both on mail addressed to the A.E.F. originating west of Chicago), a wonderful R.P.O. rarity, illustrated in Piszkiewicz (page 346)