10c Washington on cover
National Postal Museum

10c Washington on cover

March 13, 1851

paper; ink / handwritten; engraved
National Postal Museum
CC0 — Public Domain
National Postal Museum

This is a lower left diagonal bisect of a 10-cent stamp, used to pay the five-cent rate for a distance traveled of less than three hundred miles. It entered the mails on March 13, 1851. The letter is addressed to Miss Mary Stilphan.

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