Letter
Object Details
- Description
- 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 . . . ."
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- October 26, 1847
- Object number
- 1997.2001.15
- Recipient
- Cave Johnson, American, 1845 - 1849
- Writer
- James Buchanan
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink / handwritten
- Dimensions
- Overall: 25.4 x 20cm (10 x 7 7/8in.)
- Place of Origin
- Baltimore, Maryland
- Place
- United States of America
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- American Expansion (1800-1860)
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_1997.2001.15
- Usage
- CC0
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