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July 2023
United States Postal History
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- The Van Koppersmith Collection of Ship Mail (728) Apply The Van Koppersmith Collection of Ship Mail filter
- Erivan Collection of Western Postal History (229) Apply Erivan Collection of Western Postal History filter
- The Nancy Clark Collection of Maine Postal History (127) Apply The Nancy Clark Collection of Maine Postal History filter
- The Mark Schwartz Collection of Essex County, Massachusetts Postal History (104) Apply The Mark Schwartz Collection of Essex County, Massachusetts Postal History filter
- The Graham Booth Collection of Transatlantic Mail (103) Apply The Graham Booth Collection of Transatlantic Mail filter
approximately 156 covers on variety of different exhibit pages and dealer cards, incredible variety of material with highlights including (in no particular order): 1864 Jersey to Philadelphia by Cunard's Africa, 1864 folded letter Torquay to Wisconsin with contents about possible conscription of a British national to serve in the Union army, US 1869 6c on cover to Ireland, various 1p printed circular rates, 1857 folded letter to London with "Phila. Am. Pkt. 21", 1843 folded letter to London via Hibernia with "Boston" straightline, two 1896 covers Dorking to Fiji, 1874 and 1894 covers England to Honolulu, 1852 Glasgow to San Francisco and 1857 Paris to San Francisco, 1852 San Jose, California to France, 1886 Oregon wreck cover with post office label, better Cunard Line material, and much more, this is a fascinating array of material that didn't make it into Mr. Booth's main exhibit collections but is still largely written up and ideal for continuation or breakdown for resale, viewing a necessity as there's much more than meets the eye
21 covers ranging from the 1880s/1920s, includes cancellation types F and G, better frankings including, 3c and 5c Bureau Issues on 2c Columbian entire, 10c Columbian adhesive, 10c Columbian entire, 15c Bureau Issue on 5c entire, 5c Trans-Mississippi on 5c entire, 5c Pan-American on 5c entire, and more, generally fine to very fine, a wonderful group of these scarce covers on Graham Booth's exhibit pages
10 items on exhibit pages including 1842 prices current from New Orleans to Paris via New York forwarding agent and British Queen, 1854 prices current from Liverpool to Boston with two 1sh Green paying letter rate and late fee, 1868 printed circular from Baltimore to England with United States 2c Black, 1868 tobacco circular to Kentucky with Great Britain 2p Blue, and more (latest dated 1896), generally fine to very fine, an interesting group
group of five items including three prices current from Boston to New Brunswick franked with 2c Black Jacks, wrapper from Buffalo to Scotland with 2c Black Jack, and printed circular from New York to Scotland with 2c Pictorial, generally very fine, a scarce group
binder with approximately 88 items mostly written up on exhibit pages, we note 1864 England to New York with "New York Post Office Advertised" and "Cannot be Found" handstamps (ex-Cropp), 1866 Westminster to New York marked "Not Called For" (ex-White), 1875 Dublin to Wisconsin via Boston and New York (ex-Bedell), 1897 England to Philadelphia with five 1p Inland Revenue (accepted for postage), several philatelically-inspired stationery entires, non-British frankings include US two 15c Columbians on cover to Austria, 1872 Toronto to England with 2c and five 6c Small Queens (ex-Montgomery), several Canada 5c Green registry stamps, also Newfoundland and Mexico, generally fine to very fine, an interesting and attractive group that wonderfully illustrates the evolution of transatlantic registered mail over the course of the late 19th Century
16 covers from the 1880s/1900s, mostly with New York registry exchange labels, wide variety of Banknote frankings with values to the 15c, also note 1893 cover to Netherlands with pair of 3c Columbians, 1901 cover to Germany with 5c and 8c Pan-Americans, and 1908 cover to Ireland with 10c Special delivery, generally fine to very fine, an interesting and scarce group, several ex-Brown
approximately 80 covers mostly on exhibit pages, majority between the United States and England but also covers from Canada and Mexico, we note 1866 Ireland to Ohio marked "N.Y. Am. Pkt. 48 or 59 U.S. Notes", 1871 cover from Soda Bar, Iowa to Switzerland with "Insufficiently Paid" handstamp of New York, 1874 cover England to Rhode Island marked "Insufficiently Prepaid" and "New Urk Due 11 U.S. Currency", 1876 Ireland to Ohio marked "New-York Due 15 Cts.", 1887 North Carolina to London and forwarded to Paris with 120c postage due, 1893 Massachusetts to England envelope containing coinage which had to be registered and was charged accordingly, 1894 short paid wrapper from Philadelphia to Munich, and much more, generally fine to very fine, a close inspection is recommended as there is a considerable amount of interesting material in this lot
13 covers with stamps mostly paying forwarding fees, including US 1c and 2c stamps on GB postal cards, US 2c Banknote on incoming cover with strip of three GB 1p, Canada 3c Small Queen on incoming cover from Edinburgh, and more, generally fine to very fine
binder with 48 covers on exhibit pages including a wide variety of late fee markings, handstamps including "Too Late", "Unclaimed", "Sent to Quarantine", and "Sent Back to England Without a Reason for Non-Delivery", as well as five covers with United States special delivery stamps and one with 10c registry stamp (F1), fine to very fine, an interesting group
32 items mounted on exhibit pages, many better throughout including 1840 London to Bermuda by Skylark and Velocity, 1842 London to Bermuda by Britannia and Margaret re-rated to "1/3" to include inland (the last time such a charge was made on British packet mail), Barbados to Bermuda by RMSP Clyde and Curlew, 1856 Turks Islands to Bermuda by Merlin, and 1866 London to Bermuda sent unpaid by Cuba and Alpha, generally very fine, a rare and interesting group sure to please the specialist
approximately 200 covers, many still on their original dealer cards or fragments of exhibit pages (with others not written up at all), a huge variety of material ranging from throughout the 19th Century (and early 20th), we note (in no particular order): 1829 London to Boston printed circular carried on Jewel Line's Amethyst, 1864 England to Canada with block of three 2p Blue with "Insufficiently Prepaid" handstamp, 1873 London to San Francisco with 6p Gray, 1822 Paris to Vermont carried by Black Ball's Amity, 1896 New York to Switzerland with type F supplementary mail cancel, 1827 Paris to New York by Second Line's Queen Mab, 1893 postal card to Germany with type F supplementary mail cancel, 1827 Liverpool to Boston circular by Jewel Line's Topaz, 1838 London to Philadelphia by Red Swallowtail's Ontario (departure delayed due to frozen Thames), 1837 Vera Cruz to London via New Orleans and New York, 1847 Mexico City to London via New Orleans and Boston, 1848 "Forwarded by Harnden & Co. Boston" oval on folded letter to Rome, 1838 Liverpool to Boston on maiden voyage of Black Ball's Cambridge, 1855 London to San Francisco, 1845 New York to London with superb "New-York 5 Paid Aug 15" datestamp, 1847 New York to Edinburgh with manuscript "Found open when received at P.O. L'pool and resealed", and several Gold Rush-era covers from San Francisco to London and France, generally fine to very fine, certainly many more interesting items to be uncovered by a close inspection
red datestamp with manuscript "Ship 27" rate on folded letter to Morrisville, Pennsylvania, datelined "U.S. Ship Brandywine, Port Mahon [Minorca], Apr 15 1832", very fine, Port Mahon was the base of the United States Navy in the Mediterranean for over 20 years, in 1825 the USS Brandywine was tasked with conveying the Marquis de Lafayette back to France