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Auction 25

Lot 209

Circular Open Grid (New York), fine strike in red ties 10¢ green (position 73R2, curl in "T" of "CENTS"), additional tied by New York Ocean Mail c.d.s. on a neat and clean cover to San Francisco, Very Fine, an unusual usage, Ex-Richards. Scott 35. Skinner-Eno NYFM 60-1.
Estimate $300 - 400

This letter was first directed to the New York Foreign Mail Division and canceled by the red grid, then properly handled by the Domestic Division which added the Ocean Mail handstamp. Contrary to some people's opinion, California was not then a foreign country .

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