Lot Details
3070 – ERIVAN X
United States Collections
Fancy cancels postal history collection, with approximately 300 nineteenth century covers, representing an incredible array of attractive and desirable postmarks, with range of geometric patterns, intaglio letters and numbers, circles of wedges, shapes, stars, hearts, flowers, as well as a number of more whimsical or ornate designs, noting, among many others, Rutland & Troy Railroad, Kicking Mule of Forbestown and Klinkner & Co, insects including Moth of Cleveland, Blue Fly of Freeport, “DON’T USM” of Bridgeport CT, Indian Head of Head Tide and Troutville Pennsylvania, Skull & Crossbones, “I AM HN” and “CB” of Ann Arbor, Liberty Bell and Shield of Concord, Masonic designs including Kennebunkport and Denmark, Maine, “V.A. Sprague PM” of Corinna, Maine, Black Mask of Hazelton, Liberty Bell, Jack O Lantern, Anchors of Magnolia Wisconsin, Globe of Zanesville, Ohio, One Cent Coin of Milford, Indiana, “69” in circle of High Point North Carolina on illustrated sewing machine cover, Cross of Bradford, Pennsylvania on Union patriotic cover, Keystone of Chester, Pennsylvania; Carved Faces of Memphis, Tennessee, and Newport, Vermont, the latter on lovely Memphremagog House advertising cover, Man Thumbing Nose, likely of Brattleboro, strong holding of Pennsylvania, Blue Bird of Rockford, Illinois, fancy “OCT” of Putnam, CT double-strike on uprated stationery cover, “Charter Oak” of Thomaston, CT, “CV” of Charlottesville, Virginia, Elk’s Head of Lynchburg, “OK” of Richmond and Old Point Comfort, UV of University of Virginia, “III” in Circle of East Plainfiel NH on Union patriotic cover, and much more, from a number of states including Alabama, California (with 1872 transatlantic usage to France), Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and more, condition varies as expected in such an extensive holding, an overall exceptional collection, with many items having graced renowned collections of the past, almost the entirety of which one graced the famed Boker collection, an astounding opportunity to obtain the basis of a world-class collection of this fascinating field.