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Scott Number: RB30 Collection Reference No. for Communications: 5412

Denomination/Type: Proprietary: 4c purple, watermark 191R, rouletted 5-1/2

Estimated Retail Value: $ 200.00 What is this?

Cancel Method: Handstamped - Other

Cancel Date: December , 1905

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

Company: USPS

City: New York

State: New York

Illegal/improper use of a 4-cent proprietary battleship as postage on a 1905 cover, with a ton of different auxiliary markings as well as the tattered remnants of a post office seal.

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