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July 2023
United States Postal History
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- The Van Koppersmith Collection of Ship Mail (729) Apply The Van Koppersmith Collection of Ship Mail filter
- Erivan Collection of Western Postal History (329) 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 Graham Booth Collection of Transatlantic Mail (118) Apply The Graham Booth Collection of Transatlantic Mail filter
- The Mark Schwartz Collection of Essex County, Massachusetts Postal History (104) Apply The Mark Schwartz Collection of Essex County, Massachusetts Postal History filter
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red datestamp with matching italic "Ship" handstamp and manuscript "27" rate on folded letter from Matanzas, Cuba to Portland, Maine, very fine, ex-White
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red datestamp with matching italic "Ship" and circled "12" handstamps on folded letter from New York City to New Orleans, endorsed "Sav. Steam. under ½oz.", very fine, carried into Savannah by the steamship Tennessee on her fourth voyage, treated as a ship letter since the New York and Savannah Steamship Co. had no mail contract, ex-Wierenga (figure 125)
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datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" and "5" handstamps on cover to Charlestown, Massachusetts, docketed "From U.S. Flag S. Constellation, C. Africa", very fine
eight covers from the 1820s/1854, variety of markings including several circled "12" handstamps, nice strike of "Ship" in scroll, and more, mostly Caribbean origins, fine to very fine
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red datestamp with manuscript "Ship 27" rate on folded letter from Key West, Florida to Boston, very fine and scarce, a Star Route from Key West was not contracted until 1850
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datestamp with blue straightline "Ship" on 3c Red Star Die entire to New York City, pencil "Due 9" marking, some wear and missing backflap, still fine
datestamp on cover to Marathon, New York, pair of 2c Brown tied by corks, endorsed "From U.S. Flag Ship Wabash" and contents datelined "U.S. Flag Ship Wabash, At Sea, 300 Miles W.S.W. of Palma", slightly reduced at right, very fine and scarce
datestamp with negative star fancy cancel tying 2c Bureau Issue to cover to Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania, matching straightline "Ship", manuscript "due 2" with pair of 1c Postage dues, sent by Admiral Charles Dwight Sigsbee, illustrated Knights Templar backstamp, very fine, Sigsbee was the captain of the U.S.S. Maine
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manuscript postmark with "Ship 27" rate on folded lettersheet to Peter Hagner in Washington D.C., rate crossed out as Hagner had franking privilege as Third Auditor of the Treasury Department, very fine, sent by former Georgia governor John Clark who became Federal Indian Agent and "Keeper of the Public Forests" in Florida
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manuscript rate on folded letter from New Orleans to the United States Navy Yard in Pensacola, Florida, very fine
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datestamp with manuscript "Sh 6" rate crossed out and corrected to "18¾", endorsed "Mail via Pensacola", toning along filefolds, otherwise fine
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faint manuscript postmark with matching "Ship" and "8" markings on February 26, 1835 folded letter from Key West to Tallahassee, Florida, endorsed "pr Sch. B. Hawk", very fine, the only recorded example of this St. Marks manuscript postmark, ex-Rice, Thompson, and Morris