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Specimen With Return Address Question

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Posted 02/25/2011 09:35 am

Not that kind of specimen! This is a stamp that I found in a lot of cover that someone gave me. If is marked specimen and has Die II in pencil. What baffles me is if this is a specimen, why would it have a return address of South Sea Transportation Line on it. And since envelope stamps are not my specialty, does anyone know precisely what this is? Any help is appreciated - thanks - Jeff

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Posted 02/25/2011 09:47 am

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Edited by rod222 - 02/25/2011 09:48 am

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Posted 02/25/2011 10:19 am

BEP would print these types of corner cards for businesses. This was probably a sample sent to the company for preproduction approval.

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Posted 02/25/2011 10:49 am

. . . . but then it is hard not to agree with the master.

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Posted 02/25/2011 11:07 am

Thank you Russ and smauggie for your help and I am sorry Rod that you have been deleted

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Was the company approving the size of envelope, or the stamp design or both?

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Edited by jhlovell - 02/25/2011 11:09 am

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Posted 02/25/2011 11:39 am

It was probably for final approval of the envelope which bay have been corner card printing only or envelope size if it was a special cut.

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thanks Russ

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