1c Green, Attleboro Stamp Co. Private Perforations (343). Perf teeth show at top and bottom, characteristic notch at bottom and cut slant to lower right, tied by "Attleboro Mass. Aug. 12 8-AM 1909" duplex on Attleboro Stamp Co. corner card cover to local address

VERY FINE AND CHOICE. AN EXTREMELY RARE COVER BEARING THE ONE-CENT ATTLEBORO PRIVATE VENDING MACHINE COIL. THIS IS EASILY ONE OF THE FINEST IN EXISTENCE.

In 1909 the Attleboro Stamp Company employed a stamp-affixing machine to apply postage to bulk mailings of its price lists and editions of the Attleboro Philatelist. Although the company served stamp collectors, the Attleboro coil appears to have been a purely utilitarian product, limited in its scope to the basic 1c and 2c stamps necessary for mailing and not intended to create new varieties for collectors. Examples of these coils are scarce to rare, especially on cover or wrapper.

With 2003 P.F. certificate.

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