cover 'Falmo. 2:16' (Falmouth, Maine, 2 dwt 16 grains), bold ms. pmk. on stampless folded letter headed 'Falmouth, Dec. 22, 1769' and addressed to 'Mr. Samuel White, Merchant in Marblehead (Mass.)', business contents mention bills (of exchange) originating in NY and a brother residing in Maryland, some cover soiling, minor erosions in and minor splitting along cover file folds, otherwise a very fine example of this extremely rare (one of only three recorded) Maine stampless cover from the Colonial period, this cover is the earliest known (by three years) and is regarded as the finest of the three known, a key exhibition showpiece for the collector of Maine postal history or Colonial Stampless, ASCC $4,000.00 photo est.