National Postal Museum
Naughright, NJ, postmark handstamp
1882-1889
This postmarker was manufactured by a shop owned by Benjamin Chambers, Jr., at Lodge, Virginia. A catalog published by Chambers in the 1890s identifies this style as item 169. Three generations of Chambers family held contracts for producing steel-head postmarking handstamps for the Post Office Department between 1866 and 1931.
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