Lot 125
FACES: Man Smoking Pipe" type I; Rohloff E-1 virtually complete strike, cancelling an 1864, 3¢ pink on buff entire bearing a large double-circle Waterbury, Dec 20 67 c.d.s. to Naugatuck, CT, Only 10 recorded examples on cover., Ex Gross, Foundation Cert. (1992) "reduced at right" and Crowe Cert. (2020) equally picayune. A very nice strike of this popular cencel (U59).
Est. Cash Val. $1,000 - 1,500
Smith & Griggs Company in Waterbury (return address) is the subject of an interesting 1954 Harvard case study "A Study of Small Business Failure: Smith & Griggs of Waterbury" by Theodore F. Marburg.
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