90c Orange (229). Used with horizontal pair of 30c Black (228) and 2c Carmine (220), 2c and 30c straight edge, cork cancels tie 90c between perfs on registered package front from William E. Loy in San Francisco to W. C. Stone in Springfield Mass., light file folds well away from stamps, 2c with faults

FINE. A RARE AND HIGHLY EXHIBITABLE WRAPPER WITH THE 90-CENT 1890 ISSUE AND A PAIR OF THE 30-CENT.

Our census of 90c 1890 uses includes 7 envelopes, 5 wrappers, 4 tags and 2 qualifying pieces, for a total of 18 items. The sender, William E. Loy (1841-1906), was an expert in type fonts and a noted philatelist. W. C. Stone, the addressee, was also a noted philatelist and librarian.

Discovery of this cover reported in Chronicle 119 (Aug. 1983). Accompanied by 1985 analysis from Calvet M. Hahn, who notes postage would pay rate for an 8-1/2 pound package via fourth class mail (anything over three pounds was excluded from first class). With 1986 P.F. certificate noting "postage missing" which is probably an incorrect opinion

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