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U.S. MARINE CORPS AND
OTHER UNIT HANDSTAMPS .
Fosier - M-USMU 2.

T-his handsta.mp is of the American Clock Face" type, tbe
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outer :face of' the clock being 26 mm in miameter, -the clock

having a movable pointer to indicate the time of receipt.
Above the clock is the daie line, in a mixture of type and

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below -the word RECE!VED" in sans serif -type, 40 mm x 6 tnm.
This handstamp has only been :recorded struck in pur.Ple .
It is believed iha~ this handstamp was used at the

Marine's base as a receiving dater ., as a cover _has been seen
posted at Kingston on the 2-3rd April, 1942, and bearing

t-1-USMU receiver o:f the 30th April, 1942. t.rhis would be
an unusua~ly long __J2_eriod ft)r a local delivery, hut probably
not for ~ransmi~sion to the base, and tn any event the
Kingsion Office of the_Frederick Snare Corporation, ~hrough

wnich the Marine's mail is believed to nave been -transmitted,
had its own -hype o:f receiver, M-USPS ~-

EKD: 27 /All-942 LKD~ 30/4/1942