Letter
Object Details
- Description
- Clinton submits a stamped cover for an opinion as to whether the stamp is a counterfeit or whether an attempt has been made to remove a prior cancel and use it again. "I suspect that the stamp is genuine," he says, "that it has been once ink cancelled, and that the chemical process resorted to, to remove the Cancellation has produced its changed color & appearance."
- Data Source
- National Postal Museum
- Date
- August 15, 1848
- Object number
- 1997.2001.24
- Recipient
- Cave Johnson, American, 1845 - 1849
- Writer
- George William Clinton, 1807 - 1885
- Type
- Covers & Associated Letters
- Medium
- paper; ink / handwritten
- Dimensions
- Height x Width: 9 3/4 × 7 1/2 in. (24.77 × 19.05 cm)
- Place of Origin
- Auburn, New York
- See more items in
- National Postal Museum Collection
- Topic
- American Expansion (1800-1860)
- Covers & Letters
- Record ID
- npm_1997.2001.24
- Usage
- CC0
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