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Scott Number: CB117 Collection Reference No. for Communications: 5923

Estimated Retail Value: $ 50.00 What is this?

Cancel Method: Handstamped - Design/Symbol

Cancel Color: Black

Cancel or Company Type: Unknown

Very unusual use of a customs baggage stamp on a book cover jacket, tied by a handstamp cancel typicvally used with these bagge stamps. Possibly the book was lost by a passenger and the turned into the ship's lost-and-found, where the stamp may have been affixed.

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