Great Britain 1840 2d Mulready Lettersheet, SGME3,5 Guyana stamps Mark Twain was in attendance

Mark Twain was in attendance as a founding member of the Robert Fulton Monument Association and sailed to the exposition aboard the yacht Kanawha

one for the bottom and the third for the two central characters

Texas before heading overseas

1983 date stamp

Ireland 1922 1d scarlet

Great Britain 1840 2d Mulready Lettersheet, SGME3,5 Guyana stamps Mark Twain was in attendanceGreat Britain 1840 2d Mulready Lettersheet, SGME3,5. A very fine used example uprated to the 6d per 3 ounce rate with two additional four margin 2d blues from plate 1, both cancelled and tied by crisp red Maltese Crosses. Sent from Bradford to Wetherby with a Bradford Yorks dispatch circular date stamp on reverse for 'JU. 4. 1840'. Archive folding and some light soiling but much better condition than normally seen for such covers. A very rare uprated