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VINTAGE FIRST DAY COVER 1933 GENERAL OGLETHORPE STAMP browse these categories for related items... Directory: Traditional Collectibles:Philately:First Day Covers:Pre 1940: item # 666042 Please refer to our stock # 070636 when inquiring.
RetroRoz New York, NY 10028 Please email or call with questions. 212-861-7360 Guest Book $37 |
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ADDRESSED TO founder, then PRESIDENT, INTERNATIONAL TELEPHONE & TELEGRAPH CO. Superintendent Dowd, Washington, had 12 envelopes mailed to Mr. Hernand Behn, each with a 3 cent General Oglethorpe stamp which commemorated Georgia's Bi-Centennial Celebration. An immigrant to the U.S.A., Hernand Behn, with his bother Sosthenes, organized International Telephone and Telegraph in 1920. They worked jointly with AT&T to lay the telephone cables from Key West, Florida, to Havana, Cuba. As president during the 1920s, Hernand grew the company's assets from $38 million to $535 million, creating a worldwide network of cable and local telephone systems in more than thirty countries. FYI: Not visible in photos: Envelope pencil marked: first Day - #766 - '20. Envelope and postal telegraph in good to excellent condition. INTERESTING HISTORICAL PAPERS.... |
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