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red first day of issue datestamp on cover with 1851 3c Orange brown, Type I (10, position 1R1E), margins clear to grazing at left, tied by black grid, addressed to Uxbridge, Massachusetts, small corner stain lightly cleaned, very fine and choice, a gem first day cover of the 1851 3c issue, Wilson Hulme recorded 43 July 1 covers for this issue, of the four from Hartford this is the only example with the stamp tied, ex-Simpson, Shaughnessy, Baker, and Wagshal, 1978 Philatelic Foundation certificate

30 covers with a wide variety of different markings in magenta and red, we note manuscript "3" over "5" integral rate datestamp, manuscript "6" way letter rate, red straightline "Free" and "Forwarded", "10" handstamp rerated to "5", and more, generally fine to very fine, an interesting and attractive group of covers sent after the postal reform but before the mandated use of adhesives

circular datestamp ties 1851 1c Blue, Type IV (9) to beautiful illustrated printed circular for Phoenix Iron Works, depicting the "Screw Cutting Engine with Patent Rest", very fine, a spectacular piece

black datestamp ties 1851 3c Dull red (11A) to cover to New York City, very fine and scarce, the Hartford, Providence and Fishkill Railroad was formed by a merger in 1849 (Towle 54-B-1)

black datestamp with red arced "Paid 6" handstamp on large folded letter to "Rev. Milton Badger, D.D., Bible House, Astor Place, New York", vertical filefold, otherwise very fine, contains the annual report of the Connecticut Missionary Society from Reverend Horace Hooker (a descendent of Thomas Hooker), one of two recorded examples of this "Paid 6" handstamp