Calvin Coolidge. Autograph signature "Calvin Coolidge" on "The White House, Official Business" legal-size official penalty envelope to Mr. William T. Marshall at the Hotel Willard in Washington D.C., bold "Washington D.C. May 15 11AM 1928" duplex cancel, envelope with some slight buckling

VERY FINE. A RARE CALVIN COOLIDGE FRANKING SIGNATURE AS PRESIDENT, AND POSSIBLY THE FINEST KNOWN.

Free franking privileges were no longer necessary for presidents after Ulysses Grant changed the system. Penalty envelopes took their place, and presidents were given the free franking privilege for life after they left office. On the day this was sent, Coolidge spent the morning at the White House and then went to the Old State House in Annapolis to witness a reenactment of George Washington's resignation of his command of the Continental Armies on the 150th anniversary of the event.

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