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E-COM: An Early Form of Electronic Mail from the Post Office, 1984
This cover will not be found in the Scott catalog (if it were, it would definitely be a "back of book" item), but it was a step in the...
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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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