Black on gray card stock Special Delivery Letter Card, the design similar to postage stamps. 
Ornaments in maroon. Lithographed in black by the American Bank Note Cpmpany.

Valid for use only in 1897.

12c MAROON SPECIAL DELIVERY LETTER CARD

Card size: 148 mm x 186 mm. 
Quantity: 4,257 Letter Cards for postal use and 95,743 sold as remainders.


With red “SPECIMEN” overprint by the American Bank Note Company.

COBAN CIRCULATING                                         FEBRUARY 15
12c Letter sheet with partial  purple octagonal postmark.


GUATEMALA CITY to HAMBURG                                  JUNE 10
12c Exposition letter sheet with purple  postmark.
Received on front HAMBURG / 5.7.97 (July 5).

GUATEMALA CITY to BRAZIL              SEPTEMBER 17
12c Exposition letter sheet for local special delivery
used to foreign destination.
Routed via MONTEVIDEO / 7 NOVIE / 97. 
Received Brazil with RIO DE JANIERO / 16 NOV
and S. PAOLO / 17 NOV backstamps.