Lot 104
Envelope, 1876, 3¢ red (U218), UPSS (644-7-39-1), entire cancelled by "Centennial Phila'da Pa. Jun 10" duplex datestamp and addressed to New York City, reverse with partial New York (6.12) arrival; partial flap and small edge tear, Fine, the earliest documented usage of the red entire with a Centennial postmark.
Estimate $400 - 600
Expertization: 2004 A.P.S. Certificate.
The Centennial postmark was used only in 1876 during the Exposition in Philadelphia. There is an example dated June 4, 1876 with Jarrett & Palmer's Special Fast Trans-Continental Train machine postmark that was last offered at a 1970 R.A. Siegel auction that is the earliest documented example of a 2¢ red envelope, but the watermark is not recorded.
Illustrated in Ken Lawrence's, "Commemorating the 1876 United States centennial," Scott Stamp Monthly, March 2005, pp. 24, fig. 5.
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