Some notes on the telegraph companies of the United States; their stamps and franks (1900)
Rich, Joseph S · New York, Priv. print · leaf 19
sgorge. My copy cost me $20, and I know a man who paid $50for one not much better. There is an old Spanish proverb which applies tothis case, If fools went not to market, bad wares would not be sold. Wemust therefore, conclude that the long-listed first issue U. S. Telegraph stampis not a telegraph… … The City and Suburban, as it is known to collectorsof stamps, but properly, The New York City & Suburb-an Printing Telegraph Co., was the first telegraphcompany to do a purely local business. It wasorganized in 1855. It grew from the practice,originated in 1849 DY Col. R. M Hoe, of having…
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