DPO cover from Maurer, New Jersey

A December 4, 1905 cover from Maurer, NJ, which is also shown below with the inside invitation to a Metzelsuppe visible.

A pretty little letter sheet invitation from a local hotel in Maurer (now part of Perth Amboy, Middlesex County), NJ turned up at the Garfield-Perry Show in Cleveland, in JWF (Jim Faber’s) stock. Used in 1905, it is from a community that literally does not exist anymore. The location is now the site of a large “tank farm” belonging to Chevron.

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