The One-dollar Prexie

Four times airmail to Asia

Airmail postage was twenty-five cents per half ounce to most of Asia from November 1, 1946 to July 1, 1961.

This cover, originally weighing between one-and-one-half ounces and two ounces, was mailed to India in 1949.

A cover weighing between one-and-one-half ounces and two ounces, mailed to Burma in March of 1957. The Liberty series dollar stamp had been out for almost a year-and-a-half by that time.

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