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Navajo Blanket (39 by 58 inches) with original tag used to ship it from Hubbell in 1905. Unusual reverse "4" and symbol and whirling logs.
United States 5c Blue, ten copies tied to parcel tag by Ganado, Arizona January 1905 territorial postmark, tag of J.L. Hubbell, Dealer in Navajo Blankets
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beautiful rug....wow....cool that the tag is intact....
Wonderful blanket. And it shipped for 50 cents!
GREAT to have the original shipping tag with it!
Scott