USA 1897 2c on Rutland Vermont Train Pictorial Advertising Cover

Description

A fine 1897 Rutland. Vermont advertising cover franked with a fine 2c Red George Washington and cancelled with a duplex cancel ‘RUTAND/JAN29/9 PM/97’. The advertisement for M.E WHEELER & Co. HONEST FERTILIZERS. RUTLAND. VT.  features a handsome engraving of railroad train and ship. Backstamped ‘1897/REC’D’.