1872 USPS GREEN REGISTRY STAMP SEAL 2 Envelopes Conneautville, PA OXF1 New York

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Pictured above is a NICE ORIGINAL 1872 Registered Package Envelope with the Green Registry Seal (OXF1) in Good Condition from my collection.  This was the first Official Seal issued in 1872 and only used for 3 years making it very rare*.  W.H.H. Terrell is listed as the Third Assistant Postmaster General.  It has a Conneautville, Pennsylvania postmark.  Please view the close-up pictures for actual condition.  I am also including another Registered Package envelope that succeeded the original and lists Kerr Craige ( Craige served as a Captain in the Confederate Calvary during the Civil War and died in 1894)
as the Third Assistant Postmaster General with an 1894 postmark from New York.  You are buying both for one price and they are about 10" long.  Offered at Auction with NO RESERVE and a Low Starting Bid.  Thanks for looking.
*United States - Registry Seals The first "official seal" of the United States was the green Registry Seal, issued in 1872. It was intended to be used as a security device to seal the back flaps of special "Registered Package Envelopes" to prevent tampering with the enclosed registered letters, which often contained cash. The need for the use of Registry Seals ended after only three years, when a new envelope design was introduced that did not require that a label be used to secure the flap.