1900
2c GEORGE WASHINGTON
1902, MARCH
7: CAVITE to MASSACHUSETTS
Selvage missing
on booklet pane, additional Scott # #214, 2c Washington
for 16c Quadruple
Registered Rate.
"REGISTERED
/ MAR 7 1902 / Military Sta No. 2 / Philippine Islands"
4-straight
line cancel on the side matched with segmented cork killers on franking.
Backstamped
with
double circle
"RECEIVED / MANILA, P.I. / MAR 8" transit
and "GREENFIELD,
MASS / APR 2" destination cds.
Partial purple
"SAN FRANCISCO, CAL" 3-straight line marking on the side.
With Philatelic
Foundation Certificate #69 800,
dated August
21, 1978, in the name of A. Harry Sharbaugh.
Note: The vertical
line on the left of "7" on dispatch postmark is not
a "1" but
only a device stain mark.
RARE ON
COVER