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Posted By: Jay Miller

Bob--To echo what John has said the item from the Robert Edwards auction is not the same as the American Memorabilia lots. Second, a photographic expert already examined the American Memorabilia lots and said they are not period. That should be the end of the story. The RE Auction card could not have been from the Vermont find. It was supposedly mailed to Nebraska. The other material came out of a basement in Vermont.

BTW, I'm not aware of any photographic expert examining the lot in the RE Auction. Would be interested to see what the result was there. I always thought that it was interesting that this lot was associated with a Wendel Photographic Art Studio envelope. N173s were mailed out in Goodwin & Co. envelopes. I have a few that came from a find of N173s about 7 years ago. Also would have liked to see an expert verify that the postmark on the envelope was in fact put on in 1888.