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Sale 36: The Winter Sale

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U.S. Postal History: Advertising, Fancy Cancels & Patriotics

Lot 523    

Liberty and "Red Tape" Snake. Red and blue caricature design with "The Modern Laocöon" caption and J.M. Whittemore & Co. imprint at left, on cover franked with 1857, 3¢ dull red with guideline s.e. at left, tied by grid cancel with red "Boston, Mass., Jul 11" cds, addressed to patriotic design publisher J. Magee in Philadelphia, Extremely Fine, a very scarce design, ex Bischel.
Scott No. 26    Estimate $300 - 400.

Realized: $900

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