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
- The Van Koppersmith Collection of Philadelphia Postal History (486) Apply The Van Koppersmith Collection of Philadelphia Postal History filter
- The Leonard Piszkiewicz Collection of Chicago Postal History (192) Apply The Leonard Piszkiewicz Collection of Chicago Postal History filter
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- The Tony Dewey Collection of Hartford Postal History (150) Apply The Tony Dewey Collection of Hartford Postal History filter
- United States Postal History (110) Apply United States Postal History filter
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Wesson time-on-bottom duplex on 2c Brown entire, cornercard "Return to S.L. Clemens, Hartford, Conn., If not delivered within 5 days.", local city address not in Twain's own hand, very fine and rare, a wonderful piece of postal history from Hartford's most notable resident
This cover is addressed to Linus T. Fenn, a furniture dealer in Hartford who went by "Fenn the Furniture Man" in his advertisements. Given the lavish nature of Twain's Hartford home, one can only image what he might have been ordering.
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duplex ties 1887 2c Green (213) to locally-addressed cover with matching green "Horsfall & Rothschild Gentlemen's Fine Furnishers, Fashionable Hatters" advertising collar, very fine and scarce
15 coves including "Advertised", "Unclaimed", "Forwarded", "Returned to Writer", several different registry markings, mute circular rate cancels, "Due 3" with postage due stamp, and "Transit" backstamp, generally fine to very fine, an interesting group of uncommon and unusual markings
small group of five covers including 1873 cover to Italy, 1884 cover to Turkey, 1885 cover to India, 1888 cover to England with internal forwarding, and 1890 cover to Germany, generally fine to very fine, an interesting group with most accompanied by exhibit writeup
24 covers with cancellations including stars in circles, leaves, geometrics, targets, circles of wedges, negative "K", "B", and more, generally fine to very fine, attractive group
15 items including Post Office Department official envelopes, Wesson time-on-bottom cancels, advertising cover for the Hartford Printing Company, and more, generally fine to very fine
11 wrappers with destinations including Argentina, Germany, Saint Pierre and Miquelon, Denmark, Sumatra, Romania, and Canada, generally fine to very fine, an interesting assortment
approximately 93 postal cards ranging from the 1870s through 1890s, better items including 1883 2c card to Germany, 1884 1c treaty rate to Canada, and 1890 1c card uprated to Sweden, also machine cancellations including several Leavitt and Wesson time-on-bottom, fancy cancellations including leaves, stars, geometrics, "G" in circle, negative "H", and more, generally fine to very fine, a wonderful assortment well-worth a close inspection
eight cards selected for freshness, includes four geometrics and four negative letters (two different "H", "V", and "X"), all very fine and choice, an attractive group
approximately 80 covers, better throughout including 1892 2c wrapper to Hungary, 1892 cover to Jerusalem, 1893 5c Columbian to Brazil, 1893 "No Such Office" handstamp on 2c Columbian entire, 1897 wrapper to Portugal, 1897 cover to Germany forwarded to Jerusalem, 1897 registered to Sweden, 1898 registered to Austria, 1898 Spanish American War advertising cover, 1898 cover to Haiti, 1898 "Sta. A." cancel on cover from Charles Dudley Warner (Mark Twain's co-author on The Guilded Age), and much more, generally fine to very fine, a wonderful variety of material which will prove very interesting to the dedicated student
small group of 16 covers and cards including "Boston, Hart. & Erie R.R.", "Hart. & Millerton Agt" (with both "W" and "E" killers), "Hartford & M. Agt.", "Hart & Saybrook R.P.O.", "Hartford & State Line R.P.O.", "P.H. & Fishkill R.R.", and "Spring. & Hartford R.P.O.", some light duplication, generally fine to very fine, an interesting group
approximately 45 covers, including many insurance insurance companies such Orient Insurance Company, Hartford Fire Insurance Company, Connecticut Fire Insurance Company, Charter Oak Fire & Marine Insurance Company, Mutual Benefit Life Company, Aetna Life Insurance Company, additional better items include Case, Lockwood, & Co. Publishers and Printers on 1861 3c and 1869 3c covers, Hartford Evening Post, B.O. Hall Dealer in Carriages, Sleighs, and Horses (with illustrated carriage), Case, Tiffany & Co. Publishers cameos on 1851 3c covers, United States Hotel, American Tract Society, William P. Barber Ink Extracts, Worthington's Illustrated Magazine, Poultry World, and Columbia Bicycles third class envelope, generally very fine, a wonderful assortment worth a close inspection