30¢ Columbian (239), tied by "World's Fair Station, Chicago Oct. 21 4-PM 1893" machine cancel on 3¢ Green on Amber entire (U164) with "Bates & Coates, 209 Church St. Philadelphia" advertising collar and "World's Columbian Exposition" printed design, to a street address in Chicago, fresh and Very Fine, a remarkable use of the 30¢ Columbian on an illustrated exposition entire with an advertising collar and cancelled at the exposition--Bates & Coates were cotton merchants; according to Thorpe, in 1864 Nesbitt submitted to the government specimens of envelopes with advertising collars printed around the stamps for the suggested use by the U. S. Senate and the House of Representatives; they were rejected and by law were declared illegal; however, these essays inspired others to use advertising collars on their government stamped envelopes (fourteen firms are known to have used advertising collars)

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