Description
Cover to Pennsylvania, with straight – line ‘SWAINS ISLAND’ handstamp in purple and signed ‘A.E. Jennings’ bearing U.S.A. 2c cancelled by PAGO PAGO double ring cds of May 15th listed by A.N. Burgess a the second earliest recorded cover of the eight known of this handstamp. A.E. Jenning was a descendant of Eli Jennings, an American who married the daughter of a Samoan chief and settled on the island in 1870.