B. Post/5. Large dark blue stencil-applied rate handstamp on cover to William Stewart, a Baltimore attorney, with hand-colored comic Valentine entitled "A Lawyer", the poetic assault reads (in part) "As tough as your parchment, as black as your heart, Made up of lies that would fill an ox cart...To wed with all these, I'm not such a dunce, I'd prefer the old Devil, your daddy, at once", almost certainly original to cover, Very Fine, the better of only two recorded examples of this enigmatic local-post handstamp, this post is discussed in Kelly's CCP series (Vol. 50, Bo. 4, p. 220), but virtually nothing is known about its operation, ex Hahn and Dr. Morris, with 2010 P.F. certificate

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