Lot 323
(Wells) Letter Express, 1844, 10¢ black on pink (96L3), large margins including sheet at bottom, uncancelled on 1843 folded letter datelined "Cleveland July 23" to New York, N.Y., also bearing Pomeroy 5¢ black on yellow (117L1), four margins, pencil precancel and manuscript "W&C" (Wells & Co.) cancellation, couple stamp faults, Very Fine.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
ONE OF ONLY FOUR RECORDED LETTER EXPRESS/POMEROY COMBINATION FRANKINGS.
Provenance: Caspary, Middendorf
The letter was carried by Letter Express from Cleveland to Buffalo, and from there by Pomeroy's to New York City. The rate advertised was 12½¢ to New York City and 6¼¢ to Buffalo. The Pomeroy stamp represents its share of the 12½¢ rate to New York. Pomeroy in the Cleveland Herald on July 3, 1844 announced the sale of ten 12½¢ or twenty 6¼¢ stamps for $1.00 effectively making the rates 10¢ and 5¢. The postal rate to New York City was 25¢ at this time.
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