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CALIFORNIA PENNY POST CO. FIVE-CENT BLUE
USED ON "MISSENT" COVER
(California) Penny Post Co., 5c Blue (34L4), affixed at top left, 10c Green type II (14), a superb copy, fine early impression, tied by New York "Ship" Sep. 8 datestamp on cover from San Francisco to Massachusetts, "Via Nicaragua" imprint, blue Gloucester Mass. datestamp with tiny "Missent" straightline, redirected to Dorchester, faintest traces of gum staining to left of 10c stamp
EXTREMELY FINE, THE FINEST OF THE FEW RECORDED COVERS BEARING THIS LOCAL ADHESIVE AND THE ONLY EXAMPLE WITH THIS COMBINATION OF MARKINGS. Ex Brown, Jessup, Grunin. With P.F. certificate
USED ON "MISSENT" COVER
(California) Penny Post Co., 5c Blue (34L4), affixed at top left, 10c Green type II (14), a superb copy, fine early impression, tied by New York "Ship" Sep. 8 datestamp on cover from San Francisco to Massachusetts, "Via Nicaragua" imprint, blue Gloucester Mass. datestamp with tiny "Missent" straightline, redirected to Dorchester, faintest traces of gum staining to left of 10c stamp
EXTREMELY FINE, THE FINEST OF THE FEW RECORDED COVERS BEARING THIS LOCAL ADHESIVE AND THE ONLY EXAMPLE WITH THIS COMBINATION OF MARKINGS. Ex Brown, Jessup, Grunin. With P.F. certificate