Searching for creator of an icon

system 9.2
have a file that I cannot open and not sure what application created the file
the icon is a white envelope with a stamp and return address and the address field is YOU; implies it is a letter
BBedit opens the file but all is gibberish no matter what encoding I choose
suspect it is ?email file or ?archive
how might I identify the creator of the file?
thank you

Get file typer.
http://dazuma.freeshell.org/filetyper/
http://www.mac.org/utilities/filetyper/

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