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Stamps
“PAID” mark was applied in New York, clearly paid the entire 6-pence rate for postage to
indicating that the letter had been accepted. Canada from the United States. With the new
There are only three letters with the first-issue stamp issue in the United States in July 1851,
stamps of the United States and Canada. the regulations were changed. They clear-
Each took a different route. The second letter ly forbid the use of United States stamps as
left the United States for Canada and the third postage for mail coming from Canada to the
was sent from Canada to the United Kingdom United States The two stamps were printed
via the United States. by Rawdon, Wright, Hatch & Edson. They also
There are letters with United States’ stamps supplied the curved “CANADA” seal framed in
which paid the entire postage from Canada red.
and, inversely, stamps from Canada which
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