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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.
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- 19th Century General Issues (23) Apply 19th Century General Issues filter
- 20th Century General Issues (1) Apply 20th Century General Issues filter
- United States Back of the Book (1) Apply United States Back of the Book filter
- Postal Stationery (4) Apply Postal Stationery filter
- Carriers’ and Local Stamps (13) Apply Carriers’ and Local Stamps filter
- Confederate States of America (1) Apply Confederate States of America filter
- United States Postal History (81) Apply United States Postal History filter
- United States Covers by Topic (4) Apply United States Covers by Topic filter
approximately 800 envelopes, postal cards, and reply cards to about the mid-20th Century, majority mint with some FDCs and commercial uses, all fine to very fine
large carton filled with binders of covers, including but not limited to RFDs, machine cancels, RPOs, illegal postal stationery cutouts, aerograms, auxiliary markings, advertising, fancy cancels including Boston numerals, and more, even note a few Confederate covers/letters, mixed condition to be anticipated but many fine to very fine or better, an extremely useful group which essentially serves as a ready-made dealer stock (or could provide many hours of entertainment for an intrepid collector)
three cover, including Scott 26 pair tied to 1860 folded legal deposition by green West Point, Kentucky datestamp, 68 on cover to the US Consul in Panama, and 70 on cover to Reading, England, all fine to very fine
approximately 18 items, better include Scott 35 on cover from Portland, Maine to Montreal with "U.States." in arc; 65 and 69 on cover from New Brunswick, NJ to Frankfurt; 87 on cover to New York City; and 96 on cover from Chicago to Berlin; also a few first issue postage due covers and other miscellany, mixed condition throughout, better covers generally fine to very fine
13 covers including cornercards/perfins from Pennsylvania Railroad Company, Credit Clearing House of New York, Fairbanks-Morse, etc., some small faults, generally fine
approximately 60 covers and postcards, stampless covers including 1835 Philadelphia to New York, 1840 York PA, 1841 Lancaster PA, 1840, 1851 New Orleans, and Mobile AL "Way 11"; a few postcards and stationery entires including some 1990s used official stationery, a varied and interesting group with most items fine to very fine
approximately 44 items, mostly modern, we note (in no particular order): officials including O139 on cover, 1906 mailer's permit, 1888 Smithsonian penalty envelope, "Return to sender, Delivery forbidden by judicial sentence" auxiliary marking, and several modern APO covers, mostly very fine, an eclectic mix worth a look
two binders of US V-Mail and one binder of British WWII aerograms, several hundred items total, many marked at retail $5-15, generally very fine and interesting