Auction Detail
July 2023
United States Postal History
Prices Realized Now Online
![Image for Belfast Me June 28 [1830],](https://files.hrharmer.com/files/styles/gallery-small/s3/sale-images/3066-public/Singles/754437-3.jpg?itok=3Cat4835)
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perfect strike of red circular datestamp with matching "Ship" and manuscript "27" rate on folded lettersheet to Philadelphia, black straightline "P. Au Prince." origination handstamp, endorsed "p. Bethsy", very fine, unlisted ship town
![Image for Kennebunk Sept. 4 [1817],](https://files.hrharmer.com/files/styles/gallery-small/s3/sale-images/3066-public/Singles/761503.jpg?itok=-xIAqmgB)
![Image for Kennebunk Sept. 4 [1817],](https://files.hrharmer.com/files/styles/gallery-small/s3/sale-images/3066-public/Singles/761503-2.jpg?itok=SIf0SdW-)
manuscript postmark with "Ship 14½" rate on folded letter from Haiti to Waldoborough, Maine, endorsed "Pr Brig Favorite", very fine, ex-Hazelton
![Image for Portland April 30 [1793],](https://files.hrharmer.com/files/styles/gallery-small/s3/sale-images/3066-public/Singles/761130.jpg?itok=rbpsWtuO)
![Image for Portland April 30 [1793],](https://files.hrharmer.com/files/styles/gallery-small/s3/sale-images/3066-public/Singles/761130-2.jpg?itok=6kpavKEQ)
manuscript postmark with "Sh 16½" rate on folded letter from Cape Francis, Haiti to Boston, endorsed "p Cap Tesley via Portland", very fine, the earliest recorded Portland ship marking, letter from Walter Burling to Samuel Perkins, according to Harvard University the Perkins brothers "entered into a partnership with Walter Burling to form Perkins, Burling & Company; the firm traded in the products of slave labor including sugar, molasses, coffee, and cocoa, as well as enslaved people themselves"
![Image for Ship 6 [Boston, 1850],](https://files.hrharmer.com/files/styles/gallery-small/s3/sale-images/3066-public/Singles/755128.jpg?itok=iqzJVqfv)
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red two-line arced handstamp on incoming folded letter from Aux Cases, Haiti, endorsed "Per Cadmus", very fine
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![Image for Boston Mass Jun 21 [1864],](https://files.hrharmer.com/files/styles/gallery-small/s3/sale-images/3066-public/Singles/755173-2.jpg?itok=qisl6OYq)
datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" and "6" handstamps on folded letter from Cap-Haïtien, Haiti to New York City, blue "Forwarded by Wilson, Laroches Co., Cape Haytien" oval handstamp, very fine
red-brown datestamp with manuscript "Ship" and "5" rate handstamp on folded letter sent from Jacmel, Haiti to Boston, endorsed "Clara", internal separations, fine appearance, unlisted ship town