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Sale 28: The Winter Sale

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U.S. Postal History: Eastern Express Covers, Free Franks & Misc. Ephemera

Lot 480

James A. Garfield Assassination & Mourning Group, 3 items relating to Garfields death; ticker tape strip reading "Garfield was shot at…", a silk mourning ribbon "To the Memory of our Deceased President" and an all-over advertisement cover bearing 10¢ brown (188) to England showing the front page of the Boston Sunday Budget for July 3, 1881 with the headline "The President Resting Easily at Midnight. Mrs. Garfield With Him."; strip with small faults, F.-V.F.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $160

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