Willow from Napoleon's Grave

Original Vintage Card
  
 Price: $9.95

Stock #:706859
Type: Postcard
Era: Undivided Back
City: Provincetown
State: Massachusetts (MA)
County: Barnstable
Publisher: The Provincetown Advocate
Postmark: 1907 Mas
Postmark City: South
Postmark State: Wellfleet
Stamp: 1c
Philatelic Notes: 2nd postmark Springfield, Mass.
Size: 3.5" x 5.5" (9 x 14 cm)
Additional Details:
The Weeping willows in Provincetown were traditionally thought to have been propagated from slips pilfered from Napoleon Bonaparte's grave on St. Helena and brought back by a local mariner.

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