ADAMS, JOHN, President . Autograph free frank ("J. Adams"), as delegate to Congress(?), on folded address leaf ( front panel only present ) addressed in Adams's hand to "Mrs. [Abigail] Adams Quincy," brown circular "PHI/FE/25" Franklin mark, labelled "Scraps" on the verso, in the shaky hand of the elderly John Adams A frank which almost certainly dates from Adams' service as a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress, 1775-1777. Provenance : John Adams (note on verso) -- Edward Stern ( History of the 'Free Franking' of Mail in the United States, N.Y., 1936, illust. plate 1, no.1; pl. 75, no.1
ADAMS, JOHN, President . Autograph free frank ("J. Adams"), as delegate to Congress(?), on folded address leaf ( front panel only present ) addressed in Adams's hand to "Mrs. [Abigail] Adams Quincy," brown circular "PHI/FE/25" Franklin mark, labelled "Scraps" on the verso, in the shaky hand of the elderly John Adams A frank which almost certainly dates from Adams' service as a Massachusetts delegate to the Continental Congress, 1775-1777. Provenance : John Adams (note on verso) -- Edward Stern ( History of the 'Free Franking' of Mail in the United States, N.Y., 1936, illust. plate 1, no.1; pl. 75, no.1
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