Lot 1042
Special Delivery, 1888, 10¢ Blue, cancelled by cork cancel duplexed with bold "Oroville Cal. Sep 10, 1891" cds on cover from Oroville Cal. to San Francisco, originally mailed bearing 10¢ Special Delivery (E1) cancelled by manuscript and 2¢ carmine (220), tied by target cancel, forwarded to the Palace Hotel in San Francisco with the #E2, pink "Special Delivery, Post Office, San Francisco Cal., Sep 11, 1891" time clock backstamp, pencil "No forwarding address", "San Francisco, Cal. Sep 14 '91" duplex and sent back to Oroville; E1 surface scuffs, Very Fine.Scott No. E2 + E1 Estimate $500 - 750.
THE ONLY RECORDED COMBINATION USE OF THE 1885 AND 1888 10¢ SPECIAL DELIVERY ISSUES.
Realized: $450