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D. Deliveries and Shades Black Browns
1"' Delivery - July 1, 184 7 to March 13, 1848

Black browns - Darkest of all shades due to concentrated pigments yielding heavily inked stamps.

Chocolate brown Blackish brown e Deep olive brown e

Blackish brown
AU 17, 1847 to
Baltimore, :MD. e

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Fuscous black
DE 18,1848
Origin unknown
to Elbert Co., GA. e