FORWARDED/BY/HALE & CO/STONINGTON CT. Framed four-line handstamp (Ty. F39) more clearly struck than usual, clear strike of "PAID" handstamp which Gutman thinks was applied in New York City but we think is a Stonington marking, blue manuscript "6" rate next to sender's "Paid" notation on bluish Apr. 23, 1845 folded letter from Westerly R.I. to Hartford Conn. street address, Very Fine, carried by Hale from Westerly to Stonington and handstamped at that office, two Hale covers from Westerly recorded by Gutman -- if we are correct that the "PAID" was struck in Stonington, then this is the only recorded example

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