Lot
4061 
19th Century Fancy Cancellations on Cover, important collection comprising approximately 200 covers and postal cards with full better range of fancy pictorials, geometrics, letters, stars, leaves, crosses, New York Foreign Mail cancels, N.Y. City domestics, etc.; highlights includes such noteworthy cancellations as the Lynchburg Va. "Man with Top Hat"; Bloomington Ill. "Negative Six-Point Star of David" on 1¢ #112 strip of three; "Woodsville Pa." fancy oval postmark cancel; Monticello, Florida blue "Top Hat"; Hartford Conn. "Eagle on Shield"; Tunkahannock Pa. "Mask"; Mitchell, Dakota Terr. "Three-Leaf Clover"; South Columbia Cal. "Indian Head"; Philadelphia "Heart"; New York City "U" in Star of David; New York "Devils Mask", Magnolia Wisc. Large "Anchor", several different version of the of the Pittsburgh "Skull and Crossbones in Coffin"; Pittsburgh Pa. Negative "Pointing Hand"; Richfield Springs N.Y. Negative "EAH"; Pittsburg Pa. Negative "HR"; City of Sherman Texas purple "OK"; Princeton Ill. Negative "79"; Fredericksburg "Arrowhead"; Thorntown Ind. "Skull & Crossbones"; Oswego N.Y. "Face with Eyebrows; Bloomington Iowa. Negative "Face"; Syracuse N.Y. negative "US" in grid; NYFM Circular Geometric; NYFM Star Geometric; West Berkeley "Shoe" on 3¢ War Dept. piece; Berlin Wisc. Bottle Stopper "4" in Negative Star of David; Providence R.I. "Jack-o-Lantern"; St. Louis Mo. "Eagle; Greenfield Mass. negative "Skull & Crossbones" in Circle; Belfast N.Y. "Japanese Fan"; Chicago Ill. Blue "Fouled Anchor" in Diamond; University of Va. "UV" in Circle and Oval; Savannah Ga. "Pinwheel"; New York City "Propeller"; and many many more; mostly clear strikes, minor faults in stamps or covers but selected for attractiveness, F.-V.F. collection with many superior strikes and tremendous value. Estimate $10,000 - 15,000.
AN OUTSTANDING COLLECTION OF THIS CLASSIC AMERICAN ART FORM THAT WOULD TAKE YEARS TO ASSEMBLE A COMPARABLE HOLDING.
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