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Numeral town cancel collection part II: This remarkable mounted collection covers numbers #51 to #100, all part of the initial assignment to Post Offices in 1869, which was done alphabetically. Post offices from Heerenveen to Steenbergen are covered in this volume. For each post office/cancel, there is the post office number, the town name, a map of the Netherlands with a marking of the approximate location of the place, and some have a brief history of the town and the populations of the town during this time period as well as "present" (date unknown). Sometimes there are cancelled stamps, a number of attractive covers (almost all domestic, but there is a fabulous item used from office #53 Den Helder to Paramaribo with "Suriname over Southhampton" transit marking). There is a page for the three post offices for which there are no markings (#71, 77, 79). A total of 53 covers and 128 stamps. Makes for a terrific study as these cancels became obsolete in 1893. Estimate =
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