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Lot 2134 |
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Cleveland, Ohio, Bishop's City Post, 1854, 2¢ black on bluish (10LB2), large margins to barely touching at the upper left corner, neat manuscript (pencil) cancel. Fresh and Very Fine.
Scott $3,750
THE FINEST RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THIS RARE CLEVELAND CARRIER.
Expertization: 2002 P.F. Certificate.
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Lot 2135 |
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Bouton's Franklin City Despatch Post, 1847 (2¢) black on green (16L1), bright color and reasonable margins. Faulty upper right corner, small surface crack at upper left, otherwise a fresh, attractive example of this rare local.
Scott $7,500
ONE OF ONLY FOUR RECORDED, THREE OF WHICH ARE "VERY FAULTY".
Expertization: 2004 P.F. Certificate describing faults as above.
Provenance: Lyons
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Lot 2136 |
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Boyd's City Express, 1845, 2¢ black on bluish green (20L3), red cancellation on folded local letter that opens to a multicolor mechanical valentine, bold strike of red "Boyd's City Express Post Feb 14" oval datestamp, Feb 14, 1845 dateline, Very Fine and choice.
Estimate 3,000 - 4,000
Expertization: 1990 P.F. Certificate.
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Lot 2137 |
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City Dispatch, New York, N.Y., 1846, 2¢ red (160L1), ample margins all around, blue manuscript cancel. Small corner crease at upper left. Otherwise fresh and Very Fine.
Scott $2,750
SURELY THE FINEST OF THE FEW KNOWN EXAMPLES AS MOST OF THE OTHERS ARE CUT IN AND/OR DEFECTIVE.
Expertization: 2004 P.F. Certificate.
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Lot 2138 |
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Floyd's Penny Post, 1860 (1¢) green (68L3), large to oversized margins, tied by "Floyd's Penny Post Chicago" circular handstamp on 3¢ entire (U35) to Atlanta, Ga., entire postmarked Chicago target duplex, Nov 3, 1862, manuscript docketing "Corey & Dwight, Nov 4th 1862" at left; opened a bit roughly at right, vertical file fold at center, fresh and Very Fine. Unpriced by Scott.
Estimate 25,000 - 30,000
ONLY TWO EXAMPLES OF THE FLOYD'S 1¢ GREEN ON COVER ARE RECORDED; THIS IS THE FINER OF THE TWO.
Provenance: Brown
Floyd's Penny Post was a local post operating in Chicago, Ill. from July 1860 to at least November of 1862. The post issued stamps in brown, blue, and green. The brown and blue stamps were the first to be issued in 1860, the blue being used until the end of the post. The green stamp was most likely the last printing with the known usages being Oct 21 and Nov 2 of 1862.
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Lot 2139 |
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Glen Haven Daily Mail, 1854, 1¢ black on dark green (71L1), tied on small piece along with 3¢ dull red, type II (26) by fine strike of "Scott, N.Y. Dec 1" c.d.s., Fine.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
THE ONLY RECORDED EXAMPLE OF THIS GLEN HAVEN LOCAL TIED ON PIECE OR COVER.
Glen Haven Daily Mail was a local post operating out of the town of Glen Haven, N.Y. The post served as supplementary carrier service on mail eminating from the local sanitarium due to the lack of a local post office. The post moved mail to the nearest U.S. Post Office in either Scott (about 3 miles away) or Homer (about ten miles away).
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Hussey's Post, 1859, 1¢ black (87L12), stone B print, wide, beautifully balanced margins. Remarkably fresh and Extremely Fine. Listed but not priced. .
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
ONE OF SEVEN RECORDED EXAMPLES.
Expertization: 2004 P.F. Certificate.
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Prince's Letter Dispatch, 1861, black (122L1), clear to ample margins, tied on cover by six-line "Princes / Boston & Portland / Express. / 11 State Street Boston / 34 Exchange Street / Portland" framed company handstamp to Boston, Mass., handstamp repeated at right, manuscript "Order" at upper left, stamp lifted and replaced, Very Fine and rare.
Estimate 4,000 - 5,000
BELIEVED A UNIQUE USAGE WITH THE SIX-LINE COMPANY HANDSTAMP USED AS A CANCELLATION.
Expertization: 2001 P.F. Certificate.
Provenance: Hazelton
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Telegraph Despatch P.O., 1848, 1¢ black on yellowish (138L1), pen cancelled on small folded letter datelined Wilmington (Delaware), April 25, 1848, to Philadelphia; small insignificant closed spindle hole in center, Very Fine.
Scott $5,500
THE EARLIEST OF FOUR RECORDED EXAMPLES ON COVER, ONLY ONE OF WHICH HAS THE STAMP TIED.
Expertization: 1999 P.F. Certificate.
Provenance: Worthington, Gibson, Lyons
The cover was carried outside the mails to Philadelphia where it was dropped at the Telegraph Despatch office for delivery. Contents comprises an order for zinc, tin, and brass from the Philadelphia metal supplier, Nathan Trotter & Co., a firm that was eastablished in 1792 and is still in the same business today.
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Wells Fargo & Co., 1862-64, 25¢ blue (143L8), four margins, tied on 3¢ pink buff entire (U35) by blue "Wells, Fargo, & Co. Virginia City, N.T. Sep 20" oval handstamp, printed address to Sol. Wangenheim in San Francisco, Cal., printed Wells, Fargo, & Co. express frank, additional strike of handstamp; edge faults, Fine, rare Pony Express usage.
Scott $4,000
Provenance: Moody
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Wyman, 1844, 5¢ black (149L1), enormous margins tied by manuscript "X" cancel on Nov 20, 1844 bluish cover from Boston to New York City, red four-line Wyman's handstamp and matching small "PAID" straightline, single horizontal file fold, Very Fine.
Scott $3,850
A CHOICE COVER AND ONE OF ONLY FIFTEEN RECORDED IN THE FRAJOLA CENSUS.
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