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n u m b e r 5 5 • 9 9Figure 5. Detroit Provisional. “Due 1” overprinted on a pair of regular one- cent blue stamps(Scott No., 264). Cover is dated June 26, 1895. From the collection of Clarke Yarbrough. Reprintedwith permission.Figure 6. Detroit Provisional. “DUE 2” overprinted on four two- cent carmine regular issuestamps (Scott No. 267). <strong>The</strong> legal size envelope was also mailed in 1895 with the same two- centcarmine stamp. <strong>The</strong> four “Due 2” stamps made up the eight- cent- due penalty. Image suppliedcourtesy of HR Harmer Nutmeg.Scott No. 267 is tied with an 1895 Gainesville TX duplexcancel, while the “postage dues” are not tied. “Due 8¢”is written in blue crayon on the envelope. This cover is illustratedin Figure 6. <strong>The</strong> image of this cover was kindlyprovided by the auction house HR Harmer Nutmeg. It appearedin the Nutmeg Mail auction 184 of June 9, 2009(Lot No. 3172). 10 Additional details of this and other provisionalusages are given in Table 4.J23 BisectsAs described above, bisects or bisected stamps typicallyresulted when a postmaster had a shortage of a particularstamp value and the value was small enough thathe could not make the needed value up from lower valuestamps. <strong>The</strong> classic case is, of course, a shortage in onecentstamps which comprise the lowest value in the stamp

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