Lot
1033 
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1870s-80s Lettersheet Forerunner Collection Balance, group comprising E860a unfolded A.B.N.C. essay, E860a ABNC essay used with 2¢ Bureau issue (no side tabs), E861 National Letter Sheet essay (cat. $400), E862 letter card essay exploded on exhibit page (Undersander cat. illust., $250), three L.H. Rogers' "Postal Note" uses comprising front only with blue background and preprinted return address bearing 3¢ green (184) from Port Huron Mich., blue background and no pre-printed return address bearing 2¢ #210 from Spencer Mass., and the late light gray background printing with "Ernst Besser & Bro., Stationers, Buffalo" preprinted return address bearing #210 to Eire Pa., 1880s "Lockwood Brooks & Co., Boston" lettersheet used Springfield Mass. with 3¢ #184 (left and bottom tabs intact), and 1878 "The Mutual Life Insurance Company of New York" lettersheet use without tabs uprated with 3c #158, etc., F.-V.F. and interesting group. Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $475