6c GREEN EXTERIOR NEWSPAPER WRAPPER

Issued for foreign use for periodicals up to 150 grams in weight.

Printed on buff paper, measuring 128 mm x 300 mm
with corners cut 25 mm diagonally at gummed end. 
Quantity: 4,580 Wrappers for postal use and 94,420 sold as remainders.

Valid for use on year of issue only.


Red “SPECIMEN” overprint by the American Bank Note Company.

ONLY THREE EXIST


EL PORVENIR CIRCULATING                             DECEMBER 6
Improper use of 6c Green wrapper as used locally. 


GUATEMALA CITY to HAMBURG                                   MAY 20
6c Exposition wrapper with CORREOS / EXPOSICION CENTERO - AMERICANA octagonal postmark.


COTZUMALGUAPA to SAN MARCOS                 1897, APRIL 1
RECIBIDA / SANTA LUCIA COTZUMALGUAPA sawtooth postmark used as dispatched postmark on 6c Wrapper pasted-up on cover
to pay for Interior Letter Rate.

SOLALA / 6 ABR transit on wrapper front and SAN MARCOS /
11 ABR swatooth receiving postmark on inside of wrapper.

UNUSUAL ITEM