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A Cover from the Ghost of Philatelist Gustave B. Calman, 1901
As a stamp collector, it's fun to come upon correspondence between renown philatelists of the past. One such cover in my collection was...
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A Famous and Not-So-Famous Drug Company from 1894
These two covers were sent from Baltimore, Maryland to the same address in Lowell, Massachusetts - "J.C. Ayer Co." - just one week apart...
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An Attractive Columbian Cover from 1896
This is a nice cover to highlight even though I have no clue who sent it. The cover has 2-cents worth of postage, which was the letter...
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Is It "Soda" or Is It "Pop"? A Milwaukee ("Soda") to Iowa ("Pop") Business Cover from 1893
On January 1, 1893, the US Postal Service released its first-ever commemorative stamps, i.e., stamps issued to celebrate a specific event...
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"Historian and Hobbiest" and the Independent Order of Good Templars, 1895
This advertising cover was sent from Milwaukee, Wisconsin to Greene, Maine sometime in the spring of 1895. In Figure 1, you can just make...
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