Some notes on the telegraph companies of the United States; their stamps and franks (1900)
Rich, Joseph S · New York, Priv. print · leaf 26
upon, and incidentally hementioned that somewhere in his collections he had some stamps that hecould find no mention of in the published catalogues. With a collectors keen instinct of something new in sight, it wassuggested they be hunted up, which was done, and some three or four sheetsof the… … 17 With a sample in hand the next attempt was to authenticate the stamp,find its progenitors and dig up its history. Mr. Finn of the Western Union Telegraph Company, who has been a con-structor of telegraph lines in all parts of this coast for 30 years past, wassought, as being most likely to be…
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