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Numeral town cancel collection part IV: The last section of this remarkable mounted collection covering numbers #151 to #259. For each post office/cancel, there is the post office number, the town name, a map of the Netherlands many with a marking of the approximate location of the place, and some have a brief history of the town and the populations of the town during this time period as well as "present" (date unknown). Sometimes there are cancelled stamps, a few attractive covers (almost all domestic). There is a page for the post offices in this section for which there are no markings. Higher numbers can be harder to obtain as the post office was open soon before this numbering system became obsolete in 1893. Total of 7 covers and 82 stamps. Bonus reference material: three c.1990 booklets by Bijleveld with post office rarity factors from Noord, Groningen and Overijssel provinces and a photocopy of "The Postmarks of the Netherlands" 1676-1915 by Vellinga. Estimate =
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