I finally found one in my price range, at least until I have more experience with covers. I think the post office clerk was still used to cutting stamps with a scissors. This is postmarked about 6 months after this 3 cent perfed stamp was introduced. Not sure when they finally made it to Saint Paul. So some scissors cuts, but at least I know it wasn't from being cut off the envelope! :)
Yes it is, it would be interesting to see what downtown St. Paul looked like way back then. I'm just across the river a little off Lake Street. I've been hoping to find a Minneapolis MT, but no luck yet.
In case anyone wants to identify the "advertising" on the reverse of the cover, it is the Fuller House, later the International Hotel, destroyed by fire in 1869:
Thanks WT, great info as usual. That gives me a snapshot of what it looked like back then, with steamboats running up and down the Mississippi. I was wondering how long the building stood.
Smauggie, I just joined USPCS and thinking I will join the Northern Philatelic Society. I didn't find much information about the MPHS online other than meeting times. Will you email me more information?
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