Black on buff card stock the design similar to postage stamps. Ornaments in diffierent colors.
Lithographed in black by the American Bank Note Cpmpany.

Valid for use only in 1897.

1c ROSE LILAC LOCAL CARD

Card size: 138 mm x 88 mm.
Quantity: 32,311 Cards for postal use and 66,689 sold as remainders.

1 Centavo rose-lilac on buff  Exposition postal card
with red “SPECIMEN” overprint by the American Bank Note Company.

Handstamped with boxed-in
RETURN TO E.5. / To be held for Reference / Order No. _____ 18 __. Dated OCT 1896.

GUATEMALA CITY to VALPARAISO, CHILE               MAY 22
1c Exposition postal card with added 2c adhesive for 3c foreign card rate. Backstamped Valparaiso, July 19.
Redirected to SANTIAGO, July 20 cds on the side.

SENAHU to COBAN
1c Exposition postal card with added 2c adhesive tied with partial
dispatch octagonal postmark. Received on the side 12 APR 1897.
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GUATEMALA CITY   to GERMANY                                       MAY 1
1c Rose-lilac Exposition domestic postal card uprated with 1c x 2 
Exposition stamps for 3c foreign card rate.
Received on front OPPELN / 30.5.97 (May 30).
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GUATEMALA CITY to BELGIUM                                   MARCH 19
1c Rose-lilac Exposition domestic postal card with added 
2c adhesive for 3c foreign card rate. Received on front 
VERVIERS (STATION) / 12 AVRIL 1897.
LEGATION DE BELGIQUE / CENTRE - AMERIQUE seal at left.