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June 2023
"Erivan" Collection Part IX and Canal Zone Stamps and Covers
Our June sales include Part IX of the "Erivan" Collection of United and Confederate States Postal History and a catalogue of Canal Zone stamps and covers featuring the collections of James W. Crumpacker and Paul F. Ammons.
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tied by "U.S. Postal Agency, Shanghai, Dec. 13 4PM 99" duplex to picture postcard to Baxter Springs, Kansas, used alongside China Imperial Post 5c Orange tied by rectangular grid and "Shanghai Local Post De 13 1899" datestamp, San Francisco transit, very fine and rare mixed franking, this postcard was mailed from a tourist in Shanghai on their way to Ceylon and is a non-philatelic mixed franking, the United States stamp was applied after the China stamp was cancelled
Provenance: Drucker Family (R.A. Siegel Sale 855, 2003)
tied by several strikes of "U.S. Postal Agency, Shanghai, Feb. 11 6PM 01" duplex on registered cover addressed to Springfield, Massachusetts, Foochow 6c Red also tied by duplex, "Foochow 23 Jan 01" datestamp alongside, Shanghai registry label and "R" handstamp, backstamped San Francisco February 26, accompanied by original registered receipt from Chinese Imperial Post, very fine and rare despite its philatelic origin
Provenance: Drucker Family (R.A. Siegel Sale 855, 2003)
tied by "U.S. Postal Agency Shanghai Jan. 4 1PM 01" duplex to cover used from Tientsin to San Francisco, Chinese Imperial Post 10c Green tied by "Tientsin 30 Dec. 1901" datestamp, January 2 Shanghai and January 27 San Francisco backstamps, tiny cover tear at top, very fine and scarce combination, the United States Postal Agency forgot to change the year date slug from 1901 to 1902 in the duplex
Provenance: Drucker Family (R.A. Siegel Sale 855, 2003)
black oval handstamp on cover to Wilmington, Ohio, franked with 10c Green (35), black "Pony Express St. Joseph Jun 1" Running Pony handstamp, entered the mails with blue "Saint Joseph Mo. Jun 2 1860" datestamp, very fine and attractive, this cover was carried as part of the last eastbound Pony Express trip before depredations by the Paiute Indians in present day Nevada caused a disruption in service lasting from late May through late June, a rare combination of the San Francisco oval and St. Joseph Running Pony (FKW Census #E7)
blue Running Pony handstamp ties 10c Green (35, also tied by blue grid) to cover to Glasgow, Scotland, second strike at bottom, hand-colored "Overland via Los Angeles" stagecoach directive (with "via Los Angeles" crossed out), black "The Central Overland California & Pikes Peak Express Company, St. Joseph Mo. Nov 7" oval, entered the mails with blue "Saint Joseph Mo Nov 20" double circle datestamp, black "N. York Am. Pkt. Nov 24" debit, carried on NGL's Bremen departing New York November 24 and arriving Southampton December 6, treated fully unpaid and charged "1/-" due, vertical crease, otherwise very fine, a spectacular transatlantic Pony Express use (one of just five) and the only Pony Express cover to Scotland, also the only Pony Express cover with an "Overland via Los Angeles" directive, in our opinion one of the most significant and attractive of all Pony Express covers, 2023 Philatelic Foundation certificate (FKW Census #E38)
double circle datestamp with crossroads cancel tying 3c Rose (65) to cover to J. Graham Gardiner in New York City, original enclosure from Samuel Augustus Duncan datelined "Hd. Qrs. 2nd Brig. Hinks' Div., June 20th 1864" which is reproduced in large part below, envelope slightly reduced at left, which does not detract from this historically significant and remarkable letter, very fine and well-worth reading:
The day before we started for our attack on Petersburg, Lt. Col. Rogers, Amo 94th U.S.C.T. at my suggestion wrote to Dept. Hd.Qr's calling attention to the fact of your appointment and requesting a pass for you to join the regt. We find upon our return to this place—Point of Rocks—that the pass is here—Co. Rogers will forward it at once. You will see that it is a pass for you to proceed to Fort Monroe. There you will have to report to Genl. Butler's A.A.G. who will of course attune at once for you to join your regt. wherever it may be. You will find it on the way to Richmond—via Fort Darling—perhaps.
You need have no fear that we enter the Rebel Capital immediately. There will be a chance for you yet, I trust. There will needs be considerable delay in capturing Richmond; but Grand has finally struck the true base, and will push the thing with a will. The whole army is full of confidence.
The negro troops did much to open the way for him on the 15th.
The question is now settled. The negro will fight.
They did nobly. You have learned the whole story from the papers ere this. And the papers will not overstate the case.
Privately—I am glad to state that my Brigade of four regts. did the chief work. In the last assault there was but one colored regt. beside. I would pit my command against any equal command in the army.
The Army of the Potomac, seeing the works we carried, have yielded al their prejudices against colored troops. This was our greatest triumph of the day.
patriotic design in black on 1863 cover to Dr. Henry C. Angell in Florence, Italy, franked with 1c Blue, 3c Rose, and 24c Red lilac (63, 65, 70), tied by large "Paid" in grid handstamps, red "N. York Brem. Pkt. Apr 11 Paid" credit and blue three-line "America Uber Bremen Franco", seven different backstamps, 1c tiny tear at right and 3c lightly oxidized, otherwise very fine and attractive cover
Provenance: Katharine Matthies (R.A. Siegel Sale 353, 1969)
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