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Scott #1, 1847 5c Red Brown Franklin, four margins, VF. Tied to March 1848 folded letter (business letter about monies owed) by very light red Boston grid, sent to Waldsboro, Maine. Additional pen mark applied by Waldsboro clerk who thought the Boston cancel was too light. (Scott 2013 $525.)
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Scott #10A, 1851 3c Deep Orange Brown Washington, Type II. F-VF. Tied to VF March 1852 folded letter (long) by Newton, N.J. cds, sent to New York City. Stamp has three full margins, just touching at bottom. Pretty! (Scott 2013 $240 for cover, stamp is $190.) From the J.A. Farrington collection.
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Scott #10A, 1851 3c Orange Brown Washington, Type II. VF appearance. Used on folded business letter from Philadelphia to Morristown, July 14, 1851. (Second week of use!) File crease affects stamp; still a quite attractive early usage. (Scott 2013 $210 for cover, stamp alone is $160.)
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Scott #U18a [1853 10c pale green, on buff diagonally laid paper, Washington] Used VF entire. Sent from "CRESCENT CITY, Cal." with neat and fully readable circular date stamp cancellation, to a P. G. Weaver Esq of Tyrone, Stueben County, New York. A very nice early statehood period cover in good quality for this type of cross-country (or via Panama) use -- either way not an easy trip! (Scott 2020 $190 for typical use.)
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155.00

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Scott #25, 1857 3c Rose Washington, Type I. VF. Tied by Buffalo, N.Y. cds to VF small printed bank dunning notice addressed to Albany. (Scott 2013 $140.) From the J.A. Farrington collection.
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Scott #25, 1857 3c Claret Washington, Type I. VF. Exceptionally well centered for this stamp. Tied to VF cover by Philadelphia cds, sent to Asbury, N.J. (Scott 2013 $140.) From the J.A. Farrington collection.
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89.00

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Scott #25, 1857 3c Rose Washington, Type I. F-VF tied to small cover by New Haven, Con 1857 cds, sent to New York. (Scott 2014 $150.) From the J.A. Farrington collection.
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Scott #65, 3c Rose Washington, Ave, on F-VF orange cover bearing blue "COPPEROPOLIS CAL." cds with matching target killer, sent to San Francisco.
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Scott #65 [1862 3c rose shades Washington, Perf 12, No Grill] (VF-XF) on very neat and attractive May 16 1864 cover with a grid cancellation and a superb "GALLIPOLIS /O." [Ohio, OH] with year-dated side postmark. Beautiful contrasting orange envelope with very dark-colored stamp. Year-dated cancellations are scarce in this era.
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Scott #63 [1861 1 cent blue Franklin, Perf 12, No Grill] (F-VF) on very neat and attractive June 30 local drop-letter rate cover from "LEBANON /O." [Ohio, OH]. The stamp is has some edge toning caused by the person who licked the stamp. Very sharp and clear cancellation. Virtually all cancels of this period did not include year dates (and even more so on this category of mail), however the earliest recorded use of this stamp is in August 1861, and the 1c drop letter rate started March 3, 1865; this 1c stamp design was not replaced until the 1869 and 1870 new designs. Thus this cover dates from starting in 1865 to probably not later than 1869-1870. (Scott 2022 value on cover is $52.50, hardly more than the $45 for a single stamp.)
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26.00

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Scott #96 [1868 10c F-Grill green (or dark green) Washington] solo use on July 14 1868 bright orange envelope from NEW YORK to VIENNA, AUSTRIA, via HAMBURG. The stamp is VF looking, remarkably well centered for this issue, but has an ironed out crease at the top where it was at the edge of the envelope (a typical situation). The cover had some minor damage on the back (lower flap) which was previously repaired. The cancellation is a brilliant red "circle of six wedges". Mailed at New York and with a circular red "NEW YORK PAID ALL / DIRECT" July 14th date stamp. There is a boxed red HAMBURG handstamp on the front, but the date is unclear. There is a black, octagonal-boxed, "WEIN" (Vienna) receiver. As with almost all U.S. mail of this era, there is no U.S. year dating. However, thank you to our friend and classic maritime mails expert Richard F. Winter, we know that the year of use has to be 1868: "[The] Hamburg marking means it was carried by a steamship of the HAPAG Line from New York to Hamburg. The Hamburg marking should be [it is] a boxed, three-line marking in red with the wording, HAMBURG / (date) / FRANCO. From the New York date, 14 July, the steamship that carried the letter was the HAPAG "Saxonia". The New York date was the New York departure date of the steamer. It arrived in Hamburg on 28 July. The year has to be 1868 because of the two possible years, 1868 and 1869, the only steamer to leave New York on 14 July for Hamburg was the "Saxonia". No other contract steamship lines carried mail between New York and Hamburg at this time." The 2020 Scott value of the used stamp, either yellow green or green is $240 -- but this may be the dark green valued at $320 for a used stamp. The 2020 Scott on-cover value for the most common color is $285 -- a surprisingly low premium for an on-cover grilled stamp issue. A beautiful and colorful cover to brighten up a collection!
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Scott #114 [1869 3c Ultramarine Locomotive] VF centered stamp tied by 4-section (or cross if you prefer) carved cancellation, with a neat "SANDWICH / SEP / 25 / P.M. / MASS" blue double-oval side postmark, on cover to Boston. The stamp is unusually nicely centered. The cancellation leaves most of the locomotive unobscured -- a great item for a railway topical collection. The general style of the Sandwich dated postmark, and the fact that it includes the "P.M." time indicator, is fairly unusual for this era.
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