Lot Details
January 2023
Our January 2023 sales include the "Erivan" Collection of United and Confederate States Postal History Part VIII, as well as a general sale of United States and worldwide stamps, covers, and collections.
1861-66 Issue
approximately 2,100 stamps primarily arranged by cancellation type, mostly ungrilled but a few grilled stamps interspersed, note multiplies including strips and blocks up to eight, pre-printing folds, double perforation varieties, colored cancellations (including green, orange, ultramarine, violet, etc), fancy cancellations such as anchors, stars, shields, and letters/numbers, "Paid" handstamps, and much more, the vast majority of cancellations fall into the target and grid families but a close inspection will undoubtedly find many Skinner-Eno listed designs, some mixed condition but most cancellations fine to very fine or better, simply an extraordinary collection which would take ages to duplicate, for the student of 1860s cancellations this lot is an ideal research project in the making, view scans to appreciate