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Hoogs & Madison Dispatch Post, San Francisco, Paid 10c. frank (Haller FH12), printed local express company frank in a double lined box with a fancy horse and ribbon design, used with 3c Pink on buff entire (U35, not listed by Haller on this envelope), pen-cancelled and ms. dated Nov. 24, 1864, also clear double circle 'Hoogs & Madison Dispatch, Paid' express company marked, used with Truman & Chapman's Express. S.F. & S.(an) J.(ose) Rail Road printed frank (Haller FT12, type 1a), in double lined box with illustration of railroad cars, to San Jose Cal., quite fresh and very fine, very scarce, this combination possibly the only one recorded, little is known about Hoogs, which was a real estate firm during the 1860s, partially illus- trated in Nathan where is mistaken for a label, ex Polland