City Despatch. Red circle with two bars inside, no visible AM or PM designation and clogged letters indicating lengthy use, with matching "3" rate handstamp on Very Fine folded letter carried outside the mails to Philadelphia street address, datelined "Fort Brooke U.S.A. Dec. 29, 1845" -- Fort Brooke is listed in Military Forts of the United States as a Florida garrison -- the writer made an error in dating the letter 1845, because he refers to "next July 1845", and the docketing copies the incorrect dateline -- assuming this was mailed in Dec. 1844 and arrived in Jan. 1845, the City Despatch marking falls into sequence with the five other recorded examples -- a great use, ex Golden

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