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NJ PRIVATE EXPRESSES: OFFICES IN NEWARK, PART 6B ~ Bruce Mosher(Courtesy NJPHS)Figure 6-19. 1880’s Mustang Express labeled cover.Another Feary-adhesive hosted cover is shown in Figure 6-20. This cover appears to havebeen locally posted by the Mustang Express with no Post Office involvement. The adhesive is tied tothe cover with an indiscernible manuscript marking. Once again, the use of a single, 5¢ adhesivestamp is somewhat befuddling. One conceivable explanation within Feary’s published rate structureis for this cover to be an Answer letter from a prior Mustang Express delivery. Subsequent todelivery (of perhaps a different letter), the messenger applied the 5¢ adhesive stamp after receipt ofthe five-cent Answer fee. This cover bears a manuscript “Ch/p” marking at upper left which mightrepresent a payment, delivery route, or Answer letter (is the “p” an “A”?) indication. Thehandwriting in this marking is similar to what can be discerned written over the adhesive stamp.(Courtesy NJPHS)Figure 6-20. Mustang Express labeled cover.NJPH 84Vol. 33/No. 2May 2005 Whole No. 158