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July 2023
United States Postal History
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- (-) Remove The Mark Schwartz Collection of Essex County, Massachusetts Postal History filter The Mark Schwartz Collection of Essex County, Massachusetts Postal History
red datestamp with straightline “Paid”, matching grid ties 1847 5c Red brown (1, full margins) to cover to West Newton, Massachusetts, very fine and attractive, one of just seven examples of this stamp used from Lawrence, ex-Craveri (USPCS Census #4177)
five items including 1847 red datestamp with matching regular "5" (earliest known Lawrence postmark), red datestamps with italic "5" and "10", and blue datestamps with regular "2" and italic "5", mostly from the 1849/50 period, generally very fine an interesting group, Lawrence was the nation's first planned industrial city
red two-line datestamp with matching straightline "Paid" and manuscript "18¾" rate on folded letter to Bangor, Maine, very fine strike and cover (ASCC $150)
red two-line datestamp with matching straightline "Free" and postmaster's frank on folded letter to Salem, very fine strike and cover (ASCC $150)
black two-line datestamp with manuscript "6" rate on folded letter to Salem, very fine and scarce (ASCC $150)
red datestamp with matching straightline "Free" on cover to Winchester, Connecticut, free frank from postmaster J.C. Stickney, very fine strike and cover, Lynn is one of just two Massachusetts towns with an integral county postmark (ASCC $75)
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blue datestamp on folded lettersheet to Rockville, Connecticut, franked with 1847 5c Dark brown (1a, three large margins and just in at top), stamp with blue "5" rate handstamp and two pen strokes, manuscript "Paid" at top right, cover light wrinkles and few natural bleach spots, fine appearance, the only recorded 1847 Issue cover from Lynn which did not receive either denomination, accompanied by February 18, 1849 stampless cover with the same blue datestamp and "Paid" and "10" markings, 5c cover ex-Craveri (USPCS Census #4196)
seven items including Lynn 1815 manuscript postmark on war rate letter to Vermont, 1840 red and blue datestamps with "Ms." abbreviation, 1841 red datestamp with unreported "Free." handstamp, and 1847 blue datestamp with postmaster's free frank, also Lynnfield ca. 1849 manuscript postmark and 1845 blue datestamp, generally fine to very fine
15 covers from about 1886 to 1901, wonderful advertisements for the White Sewing Machine Company, Nichols Press, A.F. Bird Sewing Machines, Brockway-Smith Corporation with watering can, Lynn Evening News, Good Will Soap, and Socialist Labor Party, generally very fine, an eye-catching and appealing group
red three-line circular datestamp on folded letter to Boston, manuscript "6" rate, light aging, fine, the circle of this postmark is indistinct so it is incorrectly listed as a 22mm straightline postmark in the catalogue (ASCC $150)
bold strike of three-line circled handstamp with matching "Paid" and manuscript "6" rate on folded letter to Boston, very fine and choice (ASCC $50)
dateline on folded letter to "Mrs. Christian Riddell, At the Lady Dowager of Dean's Lodgings in the Lawn Market, Edinburgh", "14/No" Bishop's mark and manuscript due marking applied upon arrival, several file folds, fine and very rare early transatlantic letter from Marblehead