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U.S. Cover 1960 “Report Obscene Mail” Slogan Cancel, Bethlehem PA

U.S. Cover 1960 “Report Obscene Mail” Slogan Cancel, Bethlehem PA Archived listing photo
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A 1960 domestic cover bearing a 4¢ Thomas Jefferson “Credo” stamp (Scott #1140) with a crisp “Report Obscene Mail to Your Postmaster” machine slogan cancel, postmarked New York NY, June 7, 1960. Addressed to Gilbert E. Doan, Borthaugh Farm, R.D. 2, Nazareth, Pennsylvania, home of Prof. Gilbert E. Doan Sr., head of the metallurgical engineering department at Lehigh University. From the Doan family philatelic archive, Bethlehem/Nazareth PA.

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