Sale 266

The Guido Craveri Collection
of U.S. 1847 Postal History


Post-Demonetization
 
 
Lot Photo Description
Lot 1164
 
1847, 5¢ red brown (1), ample to large margins, fine late impression, used with 1851 1¢ blue type II (7), on double 3¢ rate cover to Lexington, Ky., 1¢ with large to huge margins including part of the adjacent stamp at bottom, bright color, tied together by single pen stroke and green "Cannonsburgh Pa. Sep. 15" c.d.s., repeated at left, originally noted "No Go" and rated "10" (due) in pen, the former struck out and the cover most likely treated as paid by the Cannonsburgh postmaster and accepted at Lexington, 1852 docketing at top; some minor ink erosion in answering date, 5¢ with tiny margin tear at bottom, Very Fine appearance, 1¢ 1851 Extremely Fine.
Estimate 30,000 - 40,000

ONE OF THE GREATEST OF ALL POST-DEMONETIZATION USAGES AND ONE OF ONLY TWO USED WITH STAMPS FROM THE 1851 ISSUE.

Expertization: Signed Ashbrook, 1992 P.F. Certificate.

Provenance: Sampson, Pope, Kapiloff

Of the two mixed issue usages of the 1847 issue with the 1851 issue, this one pays the 6¢ rate. Presumably the 5¢ came from the supply of 1847 stamps ordered by the Cannonsburgh postmaster, though it was clearly bought prior to July 1, 1851. The other recorded cover is a single 5¢ 1847 stamp paying the 10¢ rate to California from Exeter, N.Y. with a single 3¢ and two 1¢ 1851s (see next lot). Additionally there are also three 1857-61 mixed frankings known.

As with the mixed franking in the next lot, this cover is important to the 1851 collector as well as to the student of the 1847 issue.

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Lot 1165
 
1847, 5¢ red brown (1), single with margins to cut in, used with 1¢ blue type IV (9, two) and 3¢ dull red (11), each canceled by distinctive matching pen strokes, on small mourning envelope to a Mr. Augustin W. Hale in San Francisco, paying the 1855 10¢ transcontinental rate, red "Exeter N.Y. Jan. 4" c.d.s. ties left 1¢ 5¢ with trace of another red c.d.s. at lower left, evidence of being a twice-used stamp, cover with docketing at upper left, ca. 1856, Fine, a spectacular usage. Illustrated in Letters of Gold, p.42. Accompanied by a 2nd cover from the same correspondence, paid with a single 1¢ and a strip of three of the 3¢ 1851.
Estimate 30,000 - 40,000

A SECOND SPECTACULAR POST-DEMONETIZATION USAGE, THE OTHER OF THE TWO RECORDED 1847 COVERS WITH THE 1851 ISSUE, AND THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF A 3¢ 1851 USED WITH THE 1847 ISSUE.

Expertization: 1990 P.F. Certificate.

Provenance: Gibson, Hart

Of the approximately twenty 1847 covers either mailed to or from the West coast, only three show the 10¢ over 3,000 miles rate, which came into effect April 1, 1855. These consist of a pair of the 5¢ from Tehama California to Washington (1856), a single 10¢ tied by a black New York Ocean Mail postmark forwarded with the addition of a single 1¢ 1857 and strip of three of the 3¢ and the present cover. A fourth cover, from Eel River, Cal. in 1859 to the Washington Pension Office, is franked with three 3¢ 1857 plus 1¢ and 10¢ 1857's in addition to a single 5¢ 1847; unseen for many years, it needs to be examined.

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