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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
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red datestamp with matching "29" rate handstamp on cover from Paris to Keene, New Hampshire, French boxed "PD" and London transit, very fine and attractive, the latest recorded use of this "29" rate handstamp
three items, first November 16, 1848 folded letter from Liverpool to Andover, Massachusetts, franked with Great Britain 1sh Green, endorsed "per Britannia", red "Boston Ms. Ship Dec 6" datestamp and matching "29" rate; second December 1, 1848 folded lettersheet from London to Philadelphia, franked with Great Britain 1sh Green, endorsed "pr. Niagara", red "Boston Ms. Ship Dec 18" datestamp and matching large "34" rate; third August 26, 1848 folded lettersheet from Liverpool to Baltimore, franked with Great Britain 1sh Green, endorsed "p Hibernia", red "Boston Ms. Ship Sep 8" datestamp and matching small "34" rate, very fine group showing three different retaliatory rate handstamps
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red datestamp with matching "Ship" and "7" markings on folded letter to West Bloomfield, New Jersey, datelined "Barque Ionia" by a missionary sailing to Smyrna, Turkey, written on board in Boston Harbor and carried back to port by pilot, very fine, interesting contents
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red datestamp with matching "22" rate handstamp on folded letter from Paris to Washington, DC, endorsed "via Southampton", French transit and boxed "PD", London and Liverpool transits, carried on Cunard's Niagara on her third of four restored rate period voyages, very fine, 22c pays double inland postage plus 2c ship fee, ex-Van der Linden and Walske
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black datestamp with matching "24" rate handstamp on folded letter from Liverpool to Petersburg, Virginia, Liverpool backstamps and "19 cents" rocking horse debit, endorsed "P Cambria", very fine, the earliest recorded use of this "24" handstamp
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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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integral rate datestamp on folded letter to Sag Harbor, New York, datelined "Zefanos [Syria], near Trebizond, Sept. 9th 1851", endorsed "Ship" and carried outside the mails, internal splitting and overall aging, fine, scarce origin
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integral rate datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" on cover to Middletown, Connecticut, very fine, a rare datestamp
datestamp with arced "Ship 4" handstamp on cover incoming cover endorsed "Per Hortense", original enclosure, very fine, the earliest recorded use of this "Ship 4"
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datestamp with matching "Ship" and manuscript "2" on cover to Springfield, Massachusetts, 3c Dull red (11A) cancelled with bold "2" handstamp, stamp tied by filefold, very fine
integral rate datestamp with matching "Ship" and "5" handstamps on cover from Faial, Azores to Chelsea, Massachusetts, original enclosure, barely reduced at right, very fine and choice, the only recorded example of this datestamp
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red datestamp with black "2" rate and straightline "Ship" tying 3c Dull Red (26) to cover to Bradford, Vermont, very fine, ex-Wierenga, figure 39 in his United States Incoming Steamship Mail, 1847-1975