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Object Details
- Description
- A mark on a piece of mail by this wooden handstamp indicated that the mail had entered the mailstream free-of-postage. The marking head is a tight-grain hardwood such as boxwood. Two incised lines encircling the handle bulb are generally associated with products sold by E. S. Zevely, who owned a manufacturing shop in Pleasant Grove, Maryland. This handstamp was likely produced between 1850 and 1854.
- Reference:
- Postal History Journal. May 1957, No. 1. pp 45-54.
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- 1850-1854
- Object number
- 1987.0905.18
- Type
- Mail Processing Equipment
- Medium
- wood; metal
- Dimensions
- Height x Width x Depth: 4 3/4 x 1 x 1 in. (12.07 x 2.54 x 2.54 cm)
- Place
- United States of America
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- Currently on exhibit at the National Postal Museum
- Topic
- Mail Processing
- Record ID
- npm_1987.0905.18
- Usage
- CC0
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