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#4 Stone 2 (margin in at the right and minor faults)
tied by a PAID (?) in a Circle handstamp.
There is a number in the circle,
but it is difficult to distinguish exactly what that number is. No town
postmark. Coarse paper cover addressed to Miss Queen Clark Care of C.
C. Clark, Lynchburg, Va. With no town postmark, this cover very likely
represents a Lynchburg, Va Overpaid Drop Letter. Lynchburg was not
known to have used this particular handstamp device during the war
years
but did use a PAID 3 in a circle handstamp pre war. This appears to be
a
Lynchburg pre war device which was at hand and was used by the
postmaster to cancel the stamp on a drop letter. Part of backflap
missing,
and a repaired upper corner but still of exhibitable quality and
believed by
Gen Bush to be the only recorded example of this marking used as a
cancelation. This cover was used as an illustration on Page 79 of Gen
Bush’s Fancy and Unusual Cancel book at which time he described it as a
PAID 2 mark. But no such PAID 2 mark is known from Lynchburg, so
now believed to be most likely the pre war PAID 3 handstamp with the
numeral obscured.
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