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Scott Number: R164 Collection Reference No. for Communications: 5350

Denomination/Type: 2c carmine rose, rouletted 5.5

Estimated Retail Value: $ 100.00 What is this?

Cancel Method: Handstamped - Other

Cancel Color: Black

Cancel Date: June 1900

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

Company: USPS

City: Sanford

State: Maine

A little beat up, but great aesthetics. Oversized cover with 3 2-cent battleship documentary revenue stamps used illegally as postage, caught, and 5-cent and 1-cent postage stamps subsequently affixed over top of the revenue stamps and canceled.

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