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Posted 03/18/2025   7:25 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Al E. Gator to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
The Cancel is February 2, 1910
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Posted 03/18/2025   7:32 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Al E. Gator to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Here is my other 339s
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Posted 03/19/2025   11:54 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add solomons_prayer to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you, Al E Gator! That is a magnificent presentation page. And your cover is in wonderful condition. I also like how it says both 'WASHINGTON' and 'FRANKLIN' on the front
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Posted 03/19/2025   6:55 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Al E. Gator to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
your most welcome. Thanks!
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Posted 03/19/2025   7:18 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add John Becker to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Al, I would rate your cover at 2 cents letter rate + 10 cents registry fee, return receipt is free at this time. Thus a 1 cent overpayment. Do you have a better explanation?

More broadly, one of the challenges of a proper "solo" use of any of the 13 cent stamps from 1900 to the advent of the 3 cent letter rate in 1932 (and the brief war rate of 1917-1919), is finding an actual combination of postage/fees to come exactly to 13 cents. The registry and special delivery fees start at 10 cents.

As a tangent, Scott 308 with a registered foreign letter naturally adds to a solo use (5+8=13) prior to the increase of the registry fee from 8 to 10 cents on November 1, 1909, but it gets hard after that as 339 has only an 8 month window for a similar use.
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Edited by John Becker - 03/19/2025 10:44 pm
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Posted 03/20/2025   11:24 am  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Al E. Gator to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
John, I do not have a differing explanation beyond the 1c over-payment. I've thought this to be a philatelic cover, as its addressed to August Dietz. Dietz, as I remember, was more of a classic collector, specializing in the Confederate States/Civil War issues and postal history, although he may had other postal history interests as well. Gerald Nylander was also thinking it to be philatelic. I posted this cover sometime back in another thread (I tried to find it) and there were some thinking it may not be philatelic. I'm still inclined toward philatelic.
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