Today in Postal History

Colombia to United States
February 14, 1926

This cover was sent by a department store in Cali.
It was addressed to the Bell & Howell Co. in Chicago, Illinois.

Bell & Howell manufactured, among other items, movie cameras.

The cover was franked with a 4c deep blue CORREOS PROVISIONAL
overprint of a revenue stamp issued in 1926 (Scott 396).

The stamp is cancelled with a single boxed blue foreign mail handstamp.
There is no arrival CDS.

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