Auction Detail
March United States Postal History
Featuring The Leonard Piszkiewicz Collection of Chicago Postal History, The Van Koppersmith Collection of Philadelphia Postal History and The Tony Dewey Collection of Hartford Postal History
- (-) Remove The Van Koppersmith Collection of Philadelphia Postal History filter The Van Koppersmith Collection of Philadelphia Postal History
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red rate handstamp on folded letter from Paris, France dated June 19, 1844, "Lawson's Hotel Bedford" backstamp, June 21 British transit datestamps, very fine downstreamed cover
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red rate handstamp (Clarke 571) on incoming folded letter from Leeds, England postmarked September 3, 1844, corrected with manuscript "39½" for double rate letter, very fine downstreamed letter
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blue rate handstamp (Clarke 571) on incoming folded letter dated October 17, 1844 from Taibach, Wales, October 18 Liverpool backstamp, carried on Cunard's Hibernia arriving Boston November 2, downstreamed to Philadelphia, very fine
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blue double oval handstamp (Clarke 555) on incoming folded letter datelined "Monrovia, Liberia, West Africa, Jan 25th 1845", written by Francis A. Harris, who emigrated to Liberia around 1840, and addressed to Benjamin Coates, a Quaker businessman who worked to help black Americans relocate to Africa, letter originally enclosed a power of attorney, very fine and historically significant
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blue rate handstamp (Clarke 571) on incoming folded letter from Birmingham, England originating March 3, 1845, endorsed "pr Cambria Steamer" departing Liverpool March 4 and arriving Boston March 14, downstreamed to Philadelphia, very fine, ex-Gibson
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manuscript rate on incoming folded letter from Liverpool, red "Paid at Liverpool 1845 Ju 19", scarce red "1/-" handstamp, carried aboard Cunard's Acadia departing that day and arriving Boston July 30, then by closed bag to Philadelphia arriving July 2, very fine, the 12c rating represents the 2c ship letter fee plus 10c inland postage from Boston which had gone into effect just two days prior, the Acadia was the first ship to arrive in America under the new standardized postage rates of 1845, a "12" handstamp would be introduced shortly thereafter
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blue datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" and "12" in double circle (Clarke 536, 566) on incoming folded lettersheet to Portland, Maine, very fine
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blue datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" and "7" (Clarke 537, 559) on incoming printed circular from Pernambuco, Brazil, endorsed "p Brandywine", very fine and attractive
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double octagon handstamp (Clarke 555) on incoming folded letter from Liverpool with "Ship Letter Liverpool Ju 26" datestamp, endorsed "Per Packet Ship Patrick Henry from Liverpool" (Blue Swallowtail Line), very fine and attractive
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blue datestamp with matching straightline "Ship" and double circle "12" (Clarke 537, 566) on incoming folded letter from Montevideo, Uruguay to Baltimore, Maryland, endorsed "p Navarre" through Rio de Janeiro, fine, contents regarding war in the area and Baron Caxias
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blue double circle handstamp (Clarke 566) on incoming cover from Derry, (Northern) Ireland, postmarked January 2, 1847, red boxed "Paid at Derry" and two-line "Paid at Derry 1d", carried by Cunard's Hibernia departing Liverpool January 5 and arriving Boston January 25, light wear, still fine
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blue datestamp with matching straightline "Paid" and "6" in double octagon (Clarke 537, 555) on incoming folded letter to New York City from Liverpool, endorsed "p Garrick", manuscript "17" rate, very fine and scarce triple rate cover