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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
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red datestamp with matching "Steam Boat." straightline and "7" rate handstamps on 1846 folded letter from St. Albans to New York City, very fine strikes and cover, 7c rate paid 5c postage plus 2c steamboat fee, ex-Paige and Hahn
red datestamp with matching "Paid" and "XX" (20c) handstamps on 1849 folded letter to Kosciusko County, Indiana, vertical filefolds, otherwise very fine and scarce
blue ornamental datestamp with matching "Paid C III" coin handstamp on cover to Bradford, Vermont, very fine strikes and cover, ex-Sharrer
manuscript postmark and "18½" rate on 1819 folded letter to Albany, New York, black "Quebec Paid" handstamp with manuscript "1/-" rate, March 30 Quebec origin datestamp on reverse, file fold, fine use showing winter routing of mail, ex-Johnstone and Fitzgerald, illustrated in Postal History of Vermont
manuscript marking on 1833 folded letter from Canton, New York, applied in St. Albans, Vermont (where the letter was addressed), vertical filefolds, very fine, the only recorded steamboat marking from St. Albans, carried across Lake Champlain by the steamer MacDonough