Lot
4330 E
Unknown, Paid Reply Card Essay (Unstated Value) on Blue Gray, Double sided 89 x 161mm vertically oriented design on 45 g/3 dingy v. faint b-g-blue (blue gray) card, "U.S. Postal Card" on front side and "Suggestion for a Return U.S. Postal Card" on back, both sides with woodcut of three bearded men in a circle with German names Gutenberg, Fust (Faust) and Schoiffher (Schaeffer) around the perimeter, Very Fine and extremely rare. USPCC No. MR1E-W $2,000.
This essay was submitted to the Post Office Department by an unknown designer apparently late in 1889, or early in 1890. The Boston Transcript Company used this same design for their advertising covers in the 1880s.
Realized: $850