National Postal Museum
Circular date handstamp
Henry Chambers & Brothers · 1902
Bruno, Nebraska, postal workers marked the back of mail pieces "received" with this handstamp. The practice of backstamping mail, that is marking mail when it was received at a post office, was discontinued in mid-1913 by order of Postmaster General Burleson.
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