329 Broadway, NYC (Extinct): Lovely 1893 1 Cent Cover preacher box Wonderful carving

Wonderful carving

roughly period frame--grain painted with silver interior edge

N Soule (or similar)

with the red printed label of an old fruit crate visible on the back of one

329 Broadway, NYC (Extinct): Lovely 1893 1 Cent Cover preacher box Wonderful carvingI spent a number of years working on Broadway in downtown New York just a handful of blocks from where 329 once was an address I've learned that no longer exists (just 325, then 341.) This envelope appealed for making me imagine that stretch of lower Broadway in 1893, as well as just for the beauty of the boldly inked cursive, perfectly punctuated with pale blue 1 cent indicia and diagonally striped cancellation over top. A nice little piece of NYC