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First Piece of Mail Sent Using Penny Black Stamp Comes to Auction with $2.5m Estimate
January 11, 2024
Sotheby’s will offer a one-of-a-kind item linked to the history of modern mass communication: the earliest posted envelope using a prepaid stamp.
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Carmen D. Valentino Rare Books and Manuscripts
2956 Richmond Street
Philadelphia, PA 19134
(215) 739-6056
Archival collections of older manuscript correspondences, diaries,ledgers, account
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DreamHaven Books
2301 East 38th Street
Minneapolis, MN 55406
(612) 823-6161
Now beginning our 50th year. The largest selection of SIGNED Science Fiction,
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Bluemango Books and Manuscripts
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Elizabeth Kelly-Griswold. Early American primary source manuscripts and rare books.
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