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Scott Number: R164 Collection Reference No. for Communications: 3518

Denomination/Type: 2c carmine rose, rouletted 5.5

Estimated Retail Value: $ 75.00 What is this?

Cancel Method: Handstamped - Other

Cancel Date: November 03, 1899

Cancel or Company Type: Law Firm, or Federal, State or Local Government

Company: USPS

City: Philadelphia

State: Pennsylvania

Lovely improper/illegal use of a 2-cent battleship documentary revenue stamp as postage on an advertising cover with a great strike of an 1899 National Export Exposition cancel.

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