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258064 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
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.) ACTUAL item. |
275.00 |
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258065 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
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. ACTUAL item. |
135.00 |
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258066 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
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.) ACTUAL item. |
39.00 |
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241926 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
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.) ACTUAL item. |
155.00 |
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258069 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
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. ACTUAL item. |
79.00 |
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258073 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
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. ACTUAL item. |
89.00 |
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237899 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
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. ACTUAL item. |
69.00 |
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256367 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
Scott #65, 3c Rose Washington, Ave, on F-VF orange cover bearing blue "COPPEROPOLIS CAL." cds with matching target killer, sent to San Francisco. ACTUAL item. |
39.00 |
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244912 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
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. ACTUAL item. |
20.00 |
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244911 "View EXACT ACTUAL Image"){kind=small} |
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.) ACTUAL item. |
26.00 |
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