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This 1887 postal card was mailed by Hunter, Walton & Co., commission merchants in butter and cheese with offices at 164 & 166 Chambers Street, New York City. The company specialized in wholesale dairy distribution, supplying grocers and regional merchants during a period when New York was a hub for agricultural products shipped in from surrounding states.
The card advertises their “Small White Full Cream Cheese” as a seasonal specialty, emphasizing both size and quality.
The recipient, L. Gallup of Norwich, Connecticut, reflects the regional reach of New York commission merchants in the dairy trade. Norwich, in New London County, was a thriving manufacturing and commercial center with a strong market for dairy and agricultural products.
The cancel is a New York duplex with barred oval “11”, a desirable marking for collectors of 19th-century New York postal history.
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