Sale 36: The Winter Sale

Lot 512    

Advertising Cover Balance. 7 illustrated 19th century covers; including 1867 Ausable House, Keeseville, N.Y. cover showing Deer and Hunting Dogs, 3¢ Pictorial on cover with Pine Tree bicolored design, Great American Tea Co. building design on 1¢ Banknote cover with "Drop Paid" & "Paid All" handstamps, 1897 allover Eagle design on reverse, 1888 Golding & Co., Boston, Mass. multicolored ad (corner nick), 1880-90's Stear and Steel Picket Fence designs, generally Very Fine.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

Realized: $280

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Lot 513    

(Cameo) Company Cameo Corner Card Covers. 4 covers with embossed cards; including 1857 cover with blue Adams Express Co., New York, large red Metropolitan Mills, New York, green N.M. Martin Bro. & Co. of Petersburg, Va. and a blue Barcroft, Beaver & Co. of Philadelphia, Pa., Very Fine overall.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

Realized: $375

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Lot 514    

(Merchant) C.C. Sadler & Co., Commission Merchants. Blue cameo corner card on cover to Townsend, Mass., franked with well centered 1857, 3¢ dull red tied by "Philadelphia, Pa., May 9" octagonal date stamp, Very Fine and choice.
Scott No. 26    Estimate $100 - 150.

Realized: $160

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Lot 515    

Shaded Advertising Covers. 4 covers; including well centered 2¢ black, F. Grill (#93, tiny perf tear) on gray American Meter Co. drop cover, gray Charter Oak Fire & Insurance Co., Hartford, Ct. ad on #65 cover (pulled perfs), 3¢ Banknote on red illustrated Mutual Assurance Society of Va., Ricmond, Va. and a illustrated bicolored S.A. Woods Machinery manufacturer shaded ad cover, Very Fine overall.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

Realized: $220

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Lot 516    

Waterbury, Conn. Fancy Cancels on Cover. 9 covers (two 1860's cover with target cancels); others including W on half of #63 (defective), 1869, 3¢ usages with 6 & 8 point rosettes, 3¢ Banknote usages with 8 point rosette, two different stylized leaf cancels and a negative "3" in circle cancel; condition mixed, Fine overall.
Estimate    $250 - 350.

Realized: $240

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Lot 517    

Skull & Crossbones of Fruitland, Md. Fancy handstamp centrally struck on 2¢ red brown with 1883 town postmark tying alongside on cover, second town strike at left; stamp with trivial perf toning, Very Fine.
Scott No. 210    Estimate $100 - 150.

Realized: $45

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Lot 518    

Skull & Crossbones of Logan, Iowa. Skull & Crossbones of Logan, Iowa, fancy handstamp and 1883 town duplex postmark tying 1879, 1¢ gray blue on cover (opened circular rate), Very Fine and scarce, the earliest known use of this fancy postmark. Cole No. SK-33.
Scott No. 182    Estimate $150 - 200.

Realized: $140

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Lot 519    

Skull & Crossbones of Sioux Falls, Dak. Full negative fancy cancel with matching town postmark cancelling on 1874, 3¢ green corner card entire; small sealed cover tear at top, Very Fine, a choice strike.
Scott No. U165    Estimate $150 - 200.

Realized: $70

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Lot 520    

Three Leaf Clover in Circle of New York. NYFM cancel (Weiss RE-S6) used domestically tying 1¢ ultramarine (small faults) on unsealed circular rate cover to Fort Wayne, Ind., with Bates Spring Bust Corset handstamp advertising corner card, F.-V.F., a rare postmark, only 3 strikes recorded by Weiss including two used domestically, ex Vlissingen-Waud, Boker, Weiss; with 2003 P.F. certificate.
Scott No. 156    Estimate $300 - 400.

Realized: $250

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Lot 521    

Liberty and Soldiers. Patriotic design in grayish lilac with "The Spirit of '76 and '61" slogan below, on cover franked with 1857, 3¢ dull red tied by blue "Buckeystown, Md., Aug 23" cds, Very Fine and choice, a rare patriotic design considered to be one of two known, ex Bischel.
Scott No. 26    Estimate $400 - 600.

Realized: $1,100

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