1c Brown on Buff, Postal Card, Large "USPOD" in Monogram Watermark (UX1, USPCC S1). Cancelled by "New York May 13, 1:30 PM" First Day circular datestamp and negative "3" cork, addressed to Jersey City N.J., with message datelined May 13, 1873, "My Dear -- accept compliments and sample of postal card from C.E.M.", small corner crease at top right

VERY FINE. A RARE NEW YORK FIRST DAY USE OF THE FIRST POSTAL CARD ISSUE.

According to the United States Postal Card Catalogue, for at least the first 50 years of postal card use, little attention was paid to observance of "first-day use" as we now know it. Even if an official first day of issue was announced, few cards, if any, were actually made available to the public on that day. In the case of the UX1, this was issued in Springfield Mass. on May 12, 1873 (one is known used on that day). Supplies reached Boston, Hartford, New York and Washington on the following day, which is the earliest known use from those cities. Fewer than ten are known to exist cancelled on May 13.

With 2014 P.F. certificate as genuine First Day use but declining opinion on the origin of the notation at bottom left "1873. May 13th"

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