By: H. R. Harmer Inc
lot # 58 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps
D.O. Blood & Co., Philadelphia Despatch Post, (2c) black, with background shading, large margins, tied by faint manuscript "X" to locally-addressed folded letter datelined Philadelphia, November 9, postmarked with neatly-struck double-circle "City Despatch / D.O. Blood & Co / 2 Cts.", accompanying certificate suggests the manuscript “X” is “probably” not contemporary, nevertheless a scarce and attractive cover, unrecorded in the Morris census, with 2023 Philatelic Foundation certificate.
Scott 15L5
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