Lot Details
June 2023
"Erivan" Collection Part IX and Canal Zone Stamps and Covers
Our June sales include Part IX of the "Erivan" Collection of United and Confederate States Postal History and a catalogue of Canal Zone stamps and covers featuring the collections of James W. Crumpacker and Paul F. Ammons.
1857-60 Issue
blue Running Pony handstamp ties 10c Green (35, also tied by blue grid) to cover to Glasgow, Scotland, second strike at bottom, hand-colored "Overland via Los Angeles" stagecoach directive (with "via Los Angeles" crossed out), black "The Central Overland California & Pikes Peak Express Company, St. Joseph Mo. Nov 7" oval, entered the mails with blue "Saint Joseph Mo Nov 20" double circle datestamp, black "N. York Am. Pkt. Nov 24" debit, carried on NGL's Bremen departing New York November 24 and arriving Southampton December 6, treated fully unpaid and charged "1/-" due, vertical crease, otherwise very fine, a spectacular transatlantic Pony Express use (one of just five) and the only Pony Express cover to Scotland, also the only Pony Express cover with an "Overland via Los Angeles" directive, in our opinion one of the most significant and attractive of all Pony Express covers, 2023 Philatelic Foundation certificate (FKW Census #E38)