Lot 1007
Patriotic cover featuring an original handwritten poem, a six-stanza patriotic poem, "The red, white and blue", with the name of the addressee worked into the poem: S.B. Champion, editor of the The Mirror in Bloomville, N.Y., franked with a 3¢ rose (65) tied by Meredith, N.Y. c.d.s.; minor, small tone spot at right edge of stamp, Very Fine and unique.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
Expertization: 2004 P.F. Certificate.
Provenance: Emerson
The poem begins, "There's a building up in Bloomville, striped with red & white, where Champion prints the Mirror, if I am told aright;…" Postal clerks would have had to take the time to read the poem to figure out where the letter was to be delivered!
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