Hale & Co., 5c Light Blue, Street Address Omitted (75L5). Positions 17-19, horizontal strip of three, left stamp "Wail" instead of "Wall" variety, used with fourth stamp, Position 9, strip shows mechanical die-cutting but the stamps are unsevered, tied by multiple strikes of red "Forwarded by Hale & Co. from Courier & Enquirer Building, New York" oval handstamp (Ty. F29) on folded cover to Boston street address with sender's notation "4 Sheets" (proof that Hale rated letters per sheet at least some of the time), docketed with Jul. 18, 1844 origin date, vertical file fold thru one stamp, a few small sealed tears in strip at joining points, still Fine, a remarkable quadruple-rate cover, the characteristics of this strip and the manner in which it was created are suggestive of private vending machine coils that were created nearly 70 years later, illustrated in Gutman Hale book (page 281), ex Schwartz and Dr. Puliafito

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