India to Washington, D.C., 1834, Philadelphia Full-Rigged Ship Handstamp. Exceptionally clear strike of this wonderful pictorial handstamp in red with matching “PHILA/8/DEC.” octagonal double-line datestamp on 1834 folded cover with part of contents from India to Walter Lowrie, Secretary of the U.S. Senate in Washington D.C., manuscript “52” rate (2 x 25c plus 2c ship fee) crossed out and marked “F” for “Free”, sender’s ship-name directive “Per the Edward”, fresh and Very Fine, Lowrie was a U.S. senator from Pennsylvania, at this time he served as secretary to the Senate, the intact portion of the letter notes “since I came to India” -- arrived on the same ship as lot 508 -- from the Magnolia collection

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