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DescriptionCommemorative envelope, Mayflower Ship's Mail Southampton, addressed to H[erman]. M. Wisch of Hoboken, 1957. British postage; cancellation on front: Mayflower II Maiden Voyage Apr-Jly 1957. Cancellation on back of envelope: Plymouth, Mass, June 13, 1957. Arrival of Mayflower II, Plymouth, Massachusetts 1957. 3-1/2" x 6" wide envelope, printed vignette on front; with enclosure. Two copies. Wisch lived at 1111 Washington Street, Hoboken. Enclosure: The Mayflower Compact. Holographic signature at bottom of Alan Villiers, Master of the Mayflower (II). The text of the compact is printed along with the names of the signers. Asterisks indicated those men who had descendants now living and daggers for those who died in the first year.