Sale 28: The Winter Sale

Lot 689    

(Nursery) Thomas Meehan, decorative corner card in green & black showing Evergreen Tree & Advertising Text on an 1874 cover from Germantown, Pa. to France, franked with 2¢ (pair) + 6¢ Bank Notes, with numerous transit and backstamps plus additional full ad for "The Gardener's Monthly" on reverse, small part of flap missing, Very Fine.
Scott No. 157+159    Estimate $300 - 400.

Realized: $525

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Lot 690    

(Oil) Clouston, Diehl & Co., Real Estate Agents, illustrated design showing Early Oil Derrick with Paddle Steamer on River on 1865 buff cover franked with 1861 3¢ rose tied by target cancel with Parkersburg, W.V. double circle postmark alongside, Very Fine, a rare early Oil cover.
Estimate    $100 - 150.

Realized: $220

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Lot 691    

(Photography) W.R. Reid, Dealer in Photographic Stock and Apparatus, illustrated advertising design showing Frog & Mushrooms on cover franked with 3¢ Bank Note tied by target cancel with Cleveland cds alongside, Very Fine.
Estimate    $100 - 150.

Realized: $95

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Lot 692    

(Phrenology) "The Proper Study of Mankind is Man", all over illustrated advertising in bronze showing Skull with the partitioned "Brain Organs" on cover franked with 1851 3¢ dull red (touched at top) tied by "New York" cds, cover with imprint of "Fowler and Wells" with advertising text for their Illustrated Journals, reverse with all over text advertising, Extremely Fine, a wonderful cover & a very rare design.
Scott No. 11    Estimate $400 - 600.

Phrenology is the study of the structure of the skull to determine a person's character and mental capacity. This pseudoscience is based upon the false assumption that mental faculties are located in brain "organs" on the surface of the brain and can be detected by visible inspection of the skull. The Viennese physician Franz-Joseph Gall (1758-1828) claimed there are some 26 "organs" on the surface of the brain which affect the contour of the skull, including a "murder organ" present in murderers. Gall was an advocate of the "use it or lose it" school of thought. Brain organs which were used got bigger and those which were not used shrunk, causing the skull to rise and fall with organ development. These bumps and indentations on the skull, according to Gall, reflect specific areas of the brain that determine a person's emotional and intellectual functions. In 1815, Thomas Foster called the work of Gall and Spurzheim "phrenology" (phrenos is Greek for Mindelheim & Kirchheim) and the name stuck.

The foremost American phrenologists, were the Fowler brothers, Lorenzo and Orson, who began reading heads in New York in the 1840s. Joined by Samuel R. Wells (1820-75) in 1844 their publishing industry churned out vast quantities of phrenological periodicals, pamphlets and books.

Realized: $400

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Lot 693    

(Printing & Publishing) Agents Wanted in every Town for the Engravings:, solicitation heading on cover from Philadelphia, for Death Bed of Rev. John Wesley, Full-length Portrait of A. Lincoln and the Lincoln Family, franked with 1861, 3¢ rose (nibbed perf at bottom) tied by target, F.-V.F.
Scott No. 65    Estimate $150 - 200.

Realized: $70

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Lot 694    

(Printing & Publishing) George Stinson & Co., all over orange advertising design on cover franked with 1¢ Bank Note tied by negative Portland, Maine cancel, used locally, Very Fine.
Scott No. 156    Estimate $100 - 150.

Realized: $425

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Lot 695    

(Printing & Publishing) H.N. White, Music Publisher - New and Second Hand Band Instruments, illustrated design in red & black showing Sheet Music for The Plump Knight on 1903 cover franked with 2¢ Bureau Issue tied by Cleveland machine cancel, Extremely Fine.
Estimate    $100 - 150.

Realized: $60

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Lot 696    

(Printing & Publishing) Headley's Portraits, Public Men of Today, portrait illustration on cover, cork cancel tying 1¢ blue gray, with matching printed enclosure, Very Fine.
Scott No. 206    Estimate $100 - 150.

Realized: $45

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Lot 697    

(Propaganda) Intemperance is the Curse of the World, over all design on buff cover with red "Cleveland, O./ 3 Paid" integral rate cds, minor flap tear, Extremely Fine, a wonderful design.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $110

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Lot 698    

(School) Freeland Institute For Young Men & Boys, illustrated banner and globe corner card cover to New Haven, Ct., franked with 1861, 3¢ rose tied by "Perkiomen, Pa., Aug 6" cds, forwarded to Bethlehem with "Forwarded 3" handstamp and "New Haven, Ct., Aug 11" cds's; cover with partial backflap, Very Fine.
Scott No. 65    Estimate $250 - 350.

Realized: $290

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