This one is on the east side of South Pennsylvania Avenue just north of Prospect. I started to bypass it as I took it to be yet another very worn old V.D. Minnis stamp (I like those but don’t necessarily stop for all of them, plus they’re mostly undated), then I stopped and took another look and realized that it was something a lot rarer. Had this been the only one I had seen, it would have been illegible, but instead I recognized it as the second F.N. Rounsville stamp in my collection. The date is certainly in the aughts. In person I thought it looked like 09, but in the photo it looks like 08, which is the date on the other Rounsville stamp I found in the same neighborhood. I can’t make out a month this time.

The stamp is strangely off center. It makes me wonder if the sidewalk used to be wider here.

I’m glad I happened to see this one, because of the condition it’s in. It surely can’t last too much longer.

Looking north up Pennsylvania Avenue, from just north of the corner of Prospect Street.

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