Auction Detail

approximately 59 covers mounted on exhibit pages covering a wide variety of lines and vessels, including Red Swallowtail, Red Star, Black Ball, Dramatic, Blue Swallowtail, and more, a number of freight money letters including several quadruple-rate, several covers from Enoch Train's White Diamond Line, New Line's Rochester and Queen of the West, Black Star's Jacob A. Westervelt, and more, generally very fine and accompanied by incredibly useful write-ups, a fantastic group of material detailing the rise of transatlantic mail across the 1820s to 1840s

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

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

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

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