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Fall Postal History 2022
Our Fall 2022 Postal History sale includes the John D. Bowman Collection of Boyd's City Express Post, the William B. Robinson Collection of Wisconsin Postal History, material from the collections of Steven M. Roth and Graham Booth, FRPSL, and much more.
- Postal History from the Steven M. Roth Collection (111) Apply Postal History from the Steven M. Roth Collection filter
- Selections from the Graham Booth Collection of Transatlantic Mail (76) Apply Selections from the Graham Booth Collection of Transatlantic Mail filter
- Main catalogue (23) Apply Main catalogue filter
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- local Issues (3) Apply local Issues filter
- Expositions (2) Apply Expositions filter
- First Day Covery (do not use) (11) Apply First Day Covery (do not use) filter
- Patriotics (1) Apply Patriotics filter
- Stampless Covers - General (108) Apply Stampless Covers - General filter
- Transoceanic Mails (86) Apply Transoceanic Mails filter
tied to 1c Green stamped envelope by January 15, 1923 Washington, DC first day machine cancel to New York City, very fine (Scott $190)
three covers each with complete set, tied by May 1 first day Philadelphia, Pennsylvania; Mayport, Florida; and Albany, New York handstamps respectively, very fine trio of items (Scott $450)
May 29, 1948 Madison machine cancel, hand-painted Dorothy Knapp cachet, barest trace of toning along top, very fine and attractive
tied alongside 2c Vermont by Washington, DC November 29 1927 first day duplex, second strike alongside, addressed to New York, very fine and scarce ($130)
impressive holding of cards identified by Bomar number, including 8 1898 Trans-Mississippi expo cards (including EX90, 91, 93, 94, 95, and 98, UPSS $70 each), 1901 Pan-American (11), 1904 St. Louis (155), 1905 Lewis and Clark (140), 1907 Jamestown (261), 1909 Alaska-Yukon-Pacific (37), 1915 Panama-California (22), and 1915 Panama-Pacific (79), better including 1904 hold-to-light cards, Fortress Monroe April 26 first day of 1907 Jamestown Expo, etc., all priced at approximately $3-15 retail with some higher, some light wear but mostly fine to very fine, a wonderful holding ripe for further research or breakdown for individual sale
several hundred envelopes and cards, we note better including UPSS 2158-33 mint, 585-8 mint, 3425-46 used, 3704-23 unused, S4-TCe, S4-TCi, S4-TCza, S4-TCzd, S5-TCa, S14b2 used, S75a mint, MR1E-GBb, MR17 mint (faults) and unused, several multi-ad cards including Corn Flakes and Blue Label Chili Sauce, several stamped envelope ad collar cut squares, numerous postal card plate varieties all neatly identified, and much more, words cannot adequately capture what is in this lot so we encourage you to view photos on our website, Dr. Larry C. Parks was an extraordinary collector and this lot benefits from his many decades of research
12 covers incoming from Wishaw or Edinburgh, mix of stampless and adhesives, all with original contents, variety of different markings, generally fine and interesting