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FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS ONE OF ONLY THREE RECORDED COVERS BEARING THE 10-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL FROM ARIZONA TERRITORY TO MEXICO VIA OVERLAND MAIL.
The Wilbur correspondence was the subject of an article by John Birkinbine in the 1869 Pictorial Research Associates 1978 Register. It is also discussed in Michael Laurence’s 10-Cent 1869 Covers: A Postal Historical Survey. Five 10¢ 1869 covers to Dr. Wilbur in Altar, Mexico were included in the find, each with the stamps torn off. Three have been restored with the original stamps and two remain stampless.
The postmaster at Tucson, Charles H. Lord, may have believed the published 10¢ rate by steamship applied in this case, but the overland rate to Mexico consisted only of U.S. postage to the border (3 cents) and Mexican postage to the destination (2 reales). Thus, the 10¢ 1869 stamp overpaid the correct U.S. postage by 7¢, which accounts for the extreme rarity of this stamp on an overland cover to Mexico from Arizona Territory. (Image)
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