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Source: NPR "All Things Considered"

Roundup

February 9, 2006

Philatelists Rejoice over Recovered Envelope [4min]

Robert Siegel talks with Charles Snee, senior editor at Linn's Stamp News, about the recently rediscovered"Ice House" envelope (addressed to"Ice House Calcutta E. Indies"), believed to be lost for 38 years and recently rediscovered in Chicago. It has the only known cover of an 1869 Abraham Lincoln 90¢ stamp.

Read entire article at NPR "All Things Considered"