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Instructional Marks

Advice of Receipt (AR)

                                                                             22 January 1898 - Freetown to New York, USA

Manuscript ‘A.R.’ notifying the Advice of Receipt service, with pin hole marks at the top left of the envelope where the return card was fixed. The
postage rate is unclear: at this date the rate to the USA was 4d per ounce, plus 2d registration, plus 2½3d AR fee.

Type 716.00
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