Lot 2111
Postal Reply Card, 1920, 1¢ on 2¢ Single Card Dies on Severed Message/Reply Cards. Two cards with Cleveland dies on a Message and a Reply cards & two cards with New York dies on a Message and a Reply cards, Very Fine, rarely offered, particularly the New York cards (UPSS S48-2, S49-2; S48-7, S49-7, $500+).Estimate $200 - 300.
The special dies for revaluing paid reply cards were not delivered to postmasters until sometime after the single card dies had been distributed. In the interim, a few postmasters had proceeded to revalue paid reply cards by severing the message and reply halves and surcharging the severed halves as single cards, using single card dies. (from UPSS 2005 Catalogue).
Realized: $425