3c BLUE EXTERIOR CARD

Card size: 140 mm x 88 mm.
Quantity: 10,077 Cards for postal use and 88,923 sold as remainders.

3 Centavos blue on buff  Exposition postal card
with red “SPECIMEN” overprint by the American Bank Note Company.

Handstamped with boxed-in “Return to / RECORDS & SPECIMEN DEPT.”

GUATEMALA to MANILA, PHILIPPINES         NOVEMBER 20
3c Blue Exposition postal card endorsed “Via Puerto Barrios y 
San Francisco”. Backstamped “SAN FRANCISCO, CAL / DEC 7 97”.

UNCOMMON DESTINATION FOR GUATEMALAN MAIL

GUATEMALA CITY to NEW YORK                                  APRIL 2
Received on front NEW ORLEANS L.A. REC’D. / MAY 4
and N.Y.P.O. / MAIL  DETENTION / 5/-6/97.
With addressee private mark of RECEIVED / I.N.CO. / MAY 7 1897.
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ESCUINTLA to GUATEMALA CITY                      OCTOBER 28
3c Blue Exposition postal card issued for foreign mail used locally.
Received on front on the same day with saw tooth cds.

GUATEMALA CITY to VICTORIA, COLUMBIA           MAY 25
Backstamped BATRANQUILLA / 23 JUN 1897 and 
CORREOS NACIONALES / HONDA / JUL 6 1897.