Lot Details

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

March 28-29, 2023 New York City
LOT# : 2059
Date: 03/28/2023 - 19:00

Pennsylvania Postal History

blue datestamp and matching "Paid" double octagon on folded letter to Halifax, England, manuscript "25" freight money sail rate, carried by Dramatic Line's Siddons departing New York April 27, 1840, red "Waterford Ship Letter" two-line handstamp applied when the Siddons was forced to land in Waterford, Ireland on May 20 rather than Liverpool, transited via Dublin (May 21 backstamp), to England, very fine, the only freight money cover landed at Ireland 

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Starting Price: $400
Hammer Price: $2,100