FDC with a cachet honoring 100 years of peace and cooperation between U.S.A and Canada, postmarked at Niagara Falls on August 2, 1948, signed in fountain pen by Harry S. Truman and William Lyon Mackenzie King. In fine condition.
Provenance: from the estate of Senator Carl Levin. A lifelong Democrat, ardent advocate for civil rights, and staple of the United States Senate from 1979 to 2015, Senator Levin was also a longtime client of RR Auction. As a collector, he favored his political heroes—Harry S. Truman, Franklin and Eleanor Roosevelt, and Martin Luther King, Jr.—as well as those figures emblematic of the American spirit, like Robert Frost, Joe Louis, and Helen Keller.
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