National Postal Museum
Letter
Cave Johnson, American, 1845 - 1849 · October 26, 1847
The postmaster who issued the Baltimore Postmaster Provisional stamps reports on his concern that stamps are being cancelled so ineffectually that many of them are being used a second time. He proposes that ". . . a sharp instrument that would cut, or pierce [the stamps] . . . would be advisable . . . ."
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