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envelope; postage stamp
Canal Zone Post Office
Central America: Canal Zone
1955-11-18
paper
overall (envelope): 92 mm x 165 mm
First day cover marking the issue of a regular postage series, depicting former US President Theodore Roosevelt. Includes red 6 cent postage stamp, bearing a portrait of Theodore Roosevelt wearing pince-nez, cancelled with first day of issue mark, authorised by the American Stamp Dealers Association. Unaddressed. Includes also a black and white printed graphic of the President, shown head and shoulders, wearing pince-nez, overlaid on a scene depcting the Rough Riders in the Spanish-American War.
2023.237
College purchase, 2023