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Scott Number: R155 Collection Reference No. for Communications: 5796

Denomination/Type: 2c pink Washington, type III, blue large I.R. overprint, perf. 12

Estimated Retail Value: $ 50.00 What is this?

Cancel Method: Handstamped - Circle

Cancel Color: Black

Cancel Date: September 10, 1898

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

Company: Swiss Post

City: Basel, Switzerland

Not a postal use of a revenue stamp, but rather a lovely historical item. Provisional overprint sent from San Francisco to Basel, Switzerland, in September 1898, with notation that reads 'Dear Sir The stamp on the margin marked I.R. is a postage stamp turned into an Internal Revenue Stamp of the War issue, provisionally to supply the demand before the regular War issue could be got out by the Government.'

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