Page 55 - Charles Shreve - William H Gross United States 1847 Issue
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A. Domestic Mail Quintuple Weight Rate - up to 2 /2 oz.
1. 5~ per % oz. < 300 miles Sextuple Weight Rate - up to 3 oz.
The only two covers recorded with this franking combination
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Quintuple weight rate- :MR. 3, 1848 to Lockport, NY. e
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Sextuple weight rate- :MR. 4, 1851 to Plattsburgh, NY- 5 ~ due.
The only 10!1 and combination cover nom Rouse's Point, NY
The Postmaster confUUled by endorsement that the letter was posted a day earlier after the mails were closed.
Prior to March 3, 1849 this would have been a quintuple weight rate letter.
