Lot
1130 
Chicago Ill. Precancel, on 1¢ Washington or Franklin issues on 28 advertising post cards with testimonials for whole grain wheat, from correspondence; some flaws, generally Very Fine.Estimate $200 - 300.
Current Opening Bid: $100
Lot
1131
Cumberland, Me., Horace I. Gray, Card & Job Printer corner card on unsealed cover to Greenville, Maine, with 1866 Maine Board of Selectman preprinted address panel, franked with 1863, 2¢ black (73) canceled by manuscript "1866" date, with original unused printed order form for various stationery items and order form, Very Fine and choice.Estimate $400 - 600.
Horace I. Gray is the postmaster responsible for the Cumberland Me. town precancel postmark. The cover here is a later usage of a Gray ad cover without the town postmark precancel.
Current Opening Bid: $200
Lot
1132
Cumberland, Me., Horace I. Gray, Card & Job Printer corner card on unsealed cover to Wales, Maine, with 1866 Maine Board of Selectman preprinted address panel, franked with 1863, 2¢ black (73) canceled by manuscript "1866" date; cover reduced at left, Very Fine.Estimate $150 - 200.
Current Opening Bid: $80
Lot
1133
Cumberland, Me., Nov. 4, manuscript precancel on 1861, 3¢ rose (65) cover with Horace I. Gray, Card & Job Printer corner card to Maine, with 1866 Maine Board of Selectman preprinted address panel, small tear at top & corner worn at bottom right, Fine and scarce, Horace I. Gray is the postmaster responsible for the Cumberland Me. town precancel postmark.Estimate $300 - 400.
Current Opening Bid: $150
Lot
1134
Cumberland, Me., Nov. 6., two-line precancel ties 1857, 3¢ rose, type I (25) on orange cover with part-printed address to the Postmaster of Acton, Me.; cover & adhesive defective, which affects the "e" in "Me" of the precancel, Fine, despite the faults, this is a very nice example of the precancel.Estimate $300 - 400.
There are only four total strikes of the type 3 cancel known, two off-cover and two on-cover. The two recorded 3¢ 1857 Cumberland precancel covers are:
1) Nov. 6, precancel ties #25 on faulty cover to Postmaster at Acton Me. The cover offered here. (Illustrated by Milgram in Chronicle 206, p. 93, fig. 5)
2) Nov. 6, updated to Nov. 10, precancel ties #25 on cover to Postmaster at Summer Me. (Sold in Rumsey Sale #76, Lot 59, HP $17,000)
Horace I. Gray was a "Card and Job Printer" located in Cumberland, Maine offering a variety of stationery merchandise. All of the known Cumberland precancels are on cover from only two firms, that of Gray himself and the Portland firm of Sanborn & Carter. It is suggested that Gray did the printing for Sanborn & Carter, together with the mailing, thus accounting for the Cumberland precancel on the Portland firm's mail. Five distinct types of the Cumberland precancel are known and are detailed in an article by Dr. James W. Milgram in Chronicle 206, May 2005, pages 90-96.
Current Opening Bid: $150
Lot
1135
Decatur, Ills. Oval Precancel (H.W. Hill & Co.), on 1870 1¢ entire to Mt. Cobb, Pa. with illustrated "A--Head." pig caricature (hardware) corner card; tears and tape stain at top right corner affecting indicia and cancel, Fine, ex-Barkhausen.Estimate $300 - 400.
Current Opening Bid: $150
Lot
1136
Delanco, N.Y., Pen Crossed Lines (John Walker, Assistant Postmaster), on 1857, 1¢ blue, type V (24) s.e. at right, on unsealed cover to the postmaster of East Gaines, N.Y., with original circular enclosure for "The National Political Chart and Map of the United States" with additional ad for watches; enclosure with internal tear and hole, Very Fine.Estimate $300 - 400.
Current Opening Bid: $150
Lot
1137
Floral Park, N.Y., Vertical Lines Precancel (John Lewis Childs Nursery), on 1898, 1¢ deep green (279) on legal size cover to Norwood, Mass., with allover illustrated flower bouquet ad design; cover folds and a couple small tears at top, otherwise Very Fine.Estimate $150 - 200.
Current Opening Bid: $130
Lot
1138 o/
Jackson, Mich, oval precancel on 1894, 3¢ purple (253) on cover to Akron, O., with illustrated Magic Foot Draft Co. ad corner card at left, 1903 receiving backstamps; cover wear and tears, accompanied by pair and four single with one with inverted precancel off cover, Fine.Estimate $200 - 300.
Current Opening Bid: $110
Lot
1139
Lowell, Mass., Double Row Squares (I.C. Hood), rows of three squares on 1893, 1¢ Columbian (230) on unsealed circular cover to Armstrong's Mills, O. with Hood's Sarsaparilla ad corner card in red and blue, Very Fine and choice.Estimate $200 - 300.
Current Opening Bid: $100