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lot # 2526 - the charles f. meroni jr. collection of panama registered mail (part ii) panama city - columbia registration covers
Panama, Colombia 1881, Registration, 10c red on orange. With blue "3097" handstamp, used on cover with Colombia 1883, 10c orange, 20c violet, tied by "Panama, 1 May 1 1886" duplex on cover with preprinted address to New York City, endorsed "Per S.S. 'Newport' ", blue crayon "45", New York (5.10) backstamps; top edge tears, vertical at center, F.-V.F., ex-Helme.
Scott No. Colombia F8 + 119, 120; Estimate $500 - 750.
Beginning in 1886, a numbering machine was used to enter registration numbers in Panama. Colon began using using a numbering machine in 1889. No other town in Panama used a numbering machine until after Panama became Independent.
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