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Auction 25

Stamps and Postal History

Advertising/Illustrated Covers

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Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 149		[Building] Peter A. Frasse & Co., hardware, machinists tools etc on a lovely cover from New York; slightly reduced at right, otherwise Very Fine, Ex-Brouillette. Estimate $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 150		[Exposition] 1901 Pan American Exposition, two lovely and very colorful official souvenir covers unmailed but addressed to Turin, NY, Very Fine. Estimate $30 - 40. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 151		[Furniture] Salisbury & Dunn, large chair on a 2¢ entire, used locally in Cleveland in 1888, Very Fine, very neat and attractive. Scott U312. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 152		[Home Products] Carpet Cleaners, two entires with printed ads: 1884 1¢ circular arate to France and 1884 2¢ to Wilmington, Del., Fine to Very Fine, attractive. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 153		[Home Products] Wrought Iron Range Company, St. Louis, an exceptionally attractive multicolor design on an 1898 Trans-Miss. cover, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $60 - 80. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 154		[Indian] Ga-wan-ka Indian, with sound Fine-Very Fine #496 line pair and 492 (x2 singles, originally forming a line pair but separated prior to adhesion), tied to oversized illustrated advertising cover (9.5 x 6.25 in.); neat illustration of "indian warrior" inside of arrowhead; some staining and edge faults, Fine, a #496 line pair on cover usage is VERY SCARCE! . Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 155		[Insurance] Charter Oak Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn., attractive overall design on a neat cover to Massachusetts; slightly reduced at right, Very Fine, Ex-Gabriel. Scott 114. Estimate $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 156		[Jewelry] Irons & Russell, lovely cover with intricate drawings of fraternal pins, Masonic, Knights of Pythias etc. on front and 4 larger pins on back illustrated all over, Very Fine. Estimate $35 - 50. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 157		[Map] Norwalk, Ohio, design showing all railroads into Norwalk on a neat 1893 cover, Very Fine. Scott 219. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 158		[Patent Medicine] Merchant's Gargling Oil Liniment, overall design on the reverse of an 1893 cover with merchant's corner card. Scott 231. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 159		[Photography] A pair of photographer advertising covers, the first with a pair of #145's paying first class rate, H.A. Brown from Kalamazoo; the second with a 2¢ triangle variety, Horgan, Robey & Co. from Boston, Very Fine. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 160		[Printing & Publishing] Harper & Brothers, Publishers, a lovely all-over design on a neat cover from New York, Very Fine, Ex-Brouillette. Scott 213. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 161		[Printing & Publishing] The Literary Revolution, private post card with "Postage Stamp" box for place of the 1¢ blue, used from New York to Vermont; horizontal file fold, Fine to Very Fine, interesting and very scarce. Scott 206. Estimate $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 162		[Printing & Publishing] Murphy Patent Lettersheet, overall design for "Murray & Co. Brushes" on an early private lettersheet, with printed "Open Here" on the reverse, and printed letterhead with 1874 dateline, Very Fine. Scott 158. Estimate $350 - 500 This is the first we have seen in the Bank Note period . View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 163		[Railroad] Nashua Acton & Boston Rail Road, colorless embossed corner card showing a locomotive, on an 1872 cover from Nashua N.H. to Providence, R.I., Very Fine, quite attractive. Scott 145, U54. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 164		[Telegraph] Western Union Telegraph, Cleveland office cover with original 1864 telegram message "send immediately 10 bushels strawberries by United States Express daily", Fine to Very Fine, ex-Tom Allen. Scott 65. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 165		[Tobacco] Louis Hirschhorn, Importer of Segars, nice shield design on a New York cover, Fine to Very Fine. Scott 11. Estimate $50 - 75. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 166		[Tourism] Vorenberg Mercantile Co, New Mexico State, c.d.s. from Wagonmound, N.M. (1914 - just 2 years after statehood) advertising all over front and back about land available, Commercial Club Advertising "abundance of purer water, cheap coal, wood for hauling". Estimate $35 - 50. View details and enlarged photos	Unsold
Lot 167		Late 1800's - early 1900's group of advertising covers, featuring over 100 unique covers many with colorful designs spanning topics such as agriculture, manufacturing, hotels, publishers, merchants, machines, furniture etc., a wonderful group that should give hours of enjoyment to the buyer, all items are imaged on the website, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo	Realized $425
Lot 168		1893 Columbian Exposition, a scarce and seldom seen 1892 Goldsmith postal card wrapper (UPSS EX24Wa, rarity "c" - not the more common 1893 design), an important and very scarce item for the Columbian postal card specialist; front and back halves completely separated, significant chipping at the edge and other edge faults including tears, etc, Very Good to Fine, most of the handful that still exist are generally in very poor condition. Estimate $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 169		1893 Columbian Exposition, postal card (UPSS EX53), Goldsmith set 6 (12 deigns), Agricultural Building, with address incorrectly written on the message side and message on the address side. Straight line auxiliary marking "UNMAILABLE" in violet on reverse along with a fair-related message…"and at night the illuminations completely turn my head", Fine to Very Fine, a nice example of this auxiliary marking. Estimate $40 - 60. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold
Lot 170		1895 Cotton States Exposition, Hotel Aragon, Atlanta, GA to Hamilton (Ontario) Canada, address side with a #231 tied by Atlanta, GA May 28, 1894 duplex marking and due 2 handstamp; reverse all over "Cotton States and International Exposition with Hamilton ONT receiving postmark, an attractive and displayable example, quite unusual to a foreign destination; edge faults and reduced at right, Fine overall. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo	Unsold

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