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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
black 32mm straightline handstamp with manuscript month and day on folded letter to Augusta, Maine, manuscript "12½" rate, light aging, very fine strike (ASCC $150)
red 32mm straightline handstamp with manuscript month and day on folded letter to Augusta, Maine, manuscript "12½" rate, light aging, fine (ASCC $150)
10 covers from 1829 to 1835, begins with three 1827/29 red rimless circular datestamps, followed by seven manuscript postmarks from the early-to-mid 1830s when the town abandoned handstamps, all fine to very fine, an interesting and attractive group
blue double circle datestamp alongside two 1847 5c Red brown (1, margins to in) tied by multiple penstrokes to folded lettersheet to Philadelphia, fine and rare, the only recorded cover from Swampscott with the 1847 issue, Swampscott received no supplies of either stamp, ex-Craveri (USPCS census #4348)
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brown straightline postmark with manuscript date and matching "18¾" rate on folded letter to Cahoes, New York, very fine, the only known example of this straightline handstamp, a wonderful rarity
black straightline handstamp with manuscript date on folded letter to Lebanon, New Hampshire, manuscript "12½" rate, light edge wear, fine and rare marking (ASCC $150)
14 covers ranging from 1834 to 1876, begins with 1834 manuscript postmark (earliest recorded), 1844 manuscript postmaster free frank, "West-Newbury Mas" datestamps in black (1846, 1847) and blue (ca. 1850), "Paid 3" in circle marking, 1866 circle of wedges cancel, and more, generally fine to very fine, an interesting group
wonderful collection of 55 covers including several 1850s Annisquam, 1881 Artichoke, several Bay View, 1842 and 1845 Belleville Port manuscripts, 1836 Boxford manuscript (earliest known) and 1842 double circle datestamp (earliest known), 1910 and 1914 Clifton, 1838 East Salisbury manuscript (earliest known), 1833 Essex manuscript (earliest known), 1814 Hamilton manuscript, 1850 Groveland mansuscript and 1851 integral rate datestamp, 1885 Magnolia with star duplex, 1811 Manchester manuscript (earliest known), 1849 Middleton manuscript (earliest known), 1885 Nanepashemet with negative star, 1830 New Rowley manuscript (earliest known), 1866 and 1869 Pigeon Cove, 1810 Rowley manuscript (earliest known) plus couple 1830s handstamps, 1811 Salisbury manuscript (earliest known), 1847 Swampscott double circle datestamp, 1810 Topsfield postmaster's free frank and 1815 war rate, 1838 Wenham manuscript,
generally fine to very fine, an interesting and attractive group