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Sale 81: The Sescal Sale

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United States Cover Collections

Lot 1606    

Texas Postal History Collection Balance, an extensive mostly 19th century collection of approximately 1,100 covers and cards most of which are written-up in great detail on stock pages in 39 binders; with highlights including 1847 Clarkville (Red River) manuscript and 1882 Bennett T&P cds on registered cover (discovery example), 1850 Shelbyville (Shelby) straight line stampless, 1850's Meritts (Jasper) rare one year DPO, 1869 Prairie Home (Montgomery) manuscript, nice showing of Houston stampless 1846-50 with some interesting later, Austin including CSA & Wells, Fargo Express usages, 1881 San Angela (Tom Green) manuscript with fancy star handstamp canceling stamp and later usages including to Russia, nice run of Fort Concho postmarks, choice 1880 Oak Valley (Hill) T&C octagon date stamp with star duplex, early 1850 China Grove (Gonzales) manuscript, 1886 Swiss Alp (Fayette) oval and star killer on uprated entire to Germany and 1886 Zapp unrecorded straight line postmark on registered cover, 1880's Macy & Elkhart T&P oval date stamps, 1880's Columbia (Brazoria) with fancy "Vilas" killer, 1860 Camp Hudson (Val Verde) manuscript and 1888 Langtry registered accompanied by carte-de-viste of Lille Langtry, 1859 Sherman (Grayson) endorsed "Via Overland" to New Orleans, 1878 Fort Elliott (Wheeler) with enclosure datelined "Cow Camp" and 1881 Mobeetie in violet, 1869 Fort Griffin (Shackelford) manuscript, 1860's Camp Stockton (Pecos), Galveston including "Steam" boat mail, 1846 P't Isabel (Cameron) straight line and 1847 Brazos straight line, 1886 Midland (Midland) octagon on town advertising cover, 1887 Odessa (Ector) registered, 1885 Utopia (Uvalde) fancy T&C cds, San Antonio with early stampless and later better including 1857 12¢ usage, etc.; also includes many enclosures, letters and other related ephemera, F.-V.F. overall, a wonderful collection with many better items throughout.
Estimate    $10,000 - 15,000.

Realized: $13,000

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