Auction 250-253 September 2021
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Benjamin Franklin 1 cent blue type II (2x) and type III in strip of 3 (97-98-99R2) with pen cancel on ladies letter from Millersville, Pennsylvania to Houseville, New York, fine/very fine with 2014 William Weiss certificate stating: It is a genuine issue, sound strip, cover with multiple tears, some sealed, cat.v. $ 15,000. An extremely rare cover. Probably only 3 strips of 3 on cover known!
Benjamin Franklin 1 cent blue type II on advertisement circular (Atlantic Cotton Mills) from Boston 10-11-1857 to Bradford, New Hampshire, fine/very fine (2 vertical file folds)
Benjamin Franklin 1 cent blue plate V (17L5) on printed matter locally in Boston 5-6-1858, very fine
Benjamin Franklin 1 cent blue plate Va in vertical pair (62-72R5) on cover from New Jersey to Salisbury, Connecticut, very fine
Benjamin Franklin 1 cent blue type V in strip of 3 on cover from South Hadley, Massachussets 27-1-18?? to Chester, New Hampshire, very fine
Benjamin Franklin 1 cent blue and George Washington 3 cents dull red with boxed Paid cancel on cover from Boston 8-8-18?? to Belfast, Maine, very fine
Benjamin Franklin 1 cent blue and George Washington 3 cents dull red with Paid cancellation in black circle on cover from Boston, Massachussets 11-10-1860 to Newport, Rhode Island, very fine
Benjamin Franklin 30 cents orange (2x) on cover from New York ?-3-1861 to Paris, fine/very fine with 1988 APS and 2021 William Crowe certificates stating: They are genuine stamps (originally a pair, genuinely used on this cover paying the quadruple rate via British service entering France at Calais. The stamps with black grid cancels and tied to the cover (from which they have been removed and replaced) with a red "New York Paid 48" credit marking. The cover, which has been cleaned and has small tears, with Paris backstamps.
George Washington 3 cents pink with Terryville 19-11-1861(?) circular date stamp on cover to Minersville (?), very fine with 2019 Philatelic Foundation certificate
George Washington 3 cents pink on patriotic cover Traitors to God, to Liberty, and the Constitution, prepare to die, town and date unclear, stamp and cover (severe faults) with 2014 William Weiss certificate
Baldwin Locomotive 3 cents ultramarine, S.S. Adriatic 12 cents green and George Washington 3 cents green, mixed franking on registered cover from Morristown, Tennesee 8-7-18?? to Blountville, Tennesee, fine/very fine (cover slightly shortened at left)
Edwin Stanton 7 cents vermillion without secret mark on cover 3 cents green type U25 from New York ?-8-1875 over Zürich to Meilen (Switzerland), very fresh and very fine