Auction 40
Collector Series
Advertising/Illustrated Covers
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Lot 14 |
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 [Agricultural] Nurseryman / T.G. Yeomans, Walworth, N.Y., unusual cameo corner card with an illustrated tree above, on a neat and clean cover to upstate New York, Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $425 |
Lot 15 |
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[Attorney] L. French, Cincinnati, Ohio, embossed cameo corner card on a cover to Logansport, Indiana, Fine to Very Fine. Scott 25. Estimate $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 16 |
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[College] Bordentown Female College, Bordentown, N.J., beautiful black & white illustration on a neat cover to Iowa, with a green town cancel tying the 3¢, Fine to Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 17 |
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[College] Wesleyan Female College, Murfreesboro, N.C., embossed cameo corner card on a beautiful cover to a college in Virginia, Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 18 |
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[Commission Merchants] Draper & Clark, Worcester, Mass., fancy illustrated cameo corner card on a neat and clean cover to New York, Fine to Very Fine. Scott 65. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 19 |
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[Commission Merchants] Landrum & Bro., Hickman, N.Y., cameo ad on a very neat and clean cover to Philadelphia, Very Fine. Scott 11. Estimate $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 20 |
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[Flowers] Unusual Floral Design, front and back on an 1872 cover from Jersey City, N.J. to Rochester, N.Y., with a sticker on back reading "Dolly Varden envelope", and with a letter with the same overall floral design, Very Fine. Scott 147. Estimate $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 21 |
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[Food & Drink] C.H. Benedict & Co. / Produce & Provisions, embossed cameo corner card on a neat cover from New York to Connecticut, Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $60 |
Lot 22 |
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[Food & Drink] Grocer / Baker & Caswell, Augusta, Ga., embossed cameo corner card on an attractive cover to Athens, Tenn., Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 23 |
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[Food & Drink] Henry Cobia & Co. / Wholesale Grocers, Commission & Provision Dealers, embossed cameo corner card on an attractive cover from Charleston, S.C. to a lady in Maine. Small cover stain at top right, Fine. Scott 11A. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 24 |
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[Government] House of Representatives, attractive all-over design in grey on a cover from Washington, D.C., Very Fine. Scott 158. Estimate $120 - 150. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 25 |
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[Gun] a remarkable 1914 Railway Mail Service illustrated ad cover from Puerto Rico to Paris, France, with San Juan Dec. 4 ("DEC" is backwards) R.M.S. cancel tying a 5¢ Washington-Franklin to make the correct UPU rate, with censor's tape and censor's handstamps (this was World War I), Very Fine. Scott 428. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500 An incredible usage from such a small Caribbean island - who knew that there even was a Railway Mail Service on the island! . View details and enlarged photos | Unsold |
Lot 26 |
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[Hand Painted] Lady and Letter, a most unusual design on a cover, with Newark, N.J. c.d.s. tying a 3¢ imperf (position 81L3), Very Fine. Scott 11A. Estimate $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 27 |
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[Hand Painted] Rider and Mule, a most unusual and very attractive design on an 1880 cover from Providence, R.I. to Davenport, Iowa (backstamped). A bit roughly opened at left, Fine to Very Fine overall. Scott 184. Estimate $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 28 |
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[Home Products] Sewing Machine / White Sewing Machine Co., Cleveland, O., overall design on an 1884 drop-rate cover, Fine to Very Fine. Scott 206. Estimate $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 29 |
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[Horse] Wholesale Sadlery Warehouse / Sterling Stansbery, St. Louis, handsome overall design on an attractive cover to Illinois, Very Fine. Scott 65. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 30 |
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[Hotel] Ebbitt House, Army & Navy, Washington, D.C., lovely illustration on a cover franked with 2¢ tied by a Collection & Distribution Wagon cancel; the "White Wagon" mail program was set in motion on October 1, 1896 and its purposed was to keep the mail moving in New York city and Washington D.C. as both cities were exploding with new development to accommodate the ever expanding influx of people to these cities; the wagons were designed to pick u and deliver mail as they moved the streets; however, due to several reasons the service ended in 1900 just fours years later; this is a lovely example of mail which was processed on a white wagon! tears on the left side not affecting the cancels, Fine to Very Fine. Scott 279B. Estimate $40 - 60. View details and enlarged photos | Unsold |
Lot 31 |
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[Insurance] American Mutual Life Insurance Co., Boston, Mass., an intricate almost all-over ad on a neat cover, Very Fine. Scott 11A. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 32 |
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[Insurance] Charter Oak Life Insurance Co., Hartford, Conn., a magnificent embossed cameo corner card on an attractive cover to Gloucester, Mass., Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 33 |
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[Machinery] Agricultural Implements and Machinery / E. Whitman & Co., Baltimore, Md., illustrated ad featuring their "electro-magnetic lightning rod", at top of a cover to Alexandria, Va., Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $300 |
Lot 34 |
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[Machinery] American Turbine & Mill Work / L.N. Fairbanks, Winchendon, Mass., fancy illustration on a cover to North Webster, Mass. Contents include a letter plus a printed illustrated ad, Fine to Very Fine. Scott 65. Estimate $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photos | Unsold |
Lot 35 |
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[Machinery] Bird's Patent Coal Elevator, interesting design on a 1¢ Bank Note drop rate cover from New Jersey, Fine to Very Fine, anyone need their coal elevated? Estimate $40 - 60. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 36 |
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[Machinery] New England Press Brick Co., Boston, Mass., lovely illustration of machinery and the medals it won it at the Paris 1878 Expo, on an 1881 cover from Danversport, Mass. to England, with Salem, New York and two English backstamps, Fine to Very Fine. Scott 183, 184. Estimate $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 37 |
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[Machinery] Portable Steam Engines / Lawrence Machine Shop, Lawrence, Mass., intricate illustration on a cover to West Townsend, Mass., Fine to Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 38 |
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[Machinery] Sloat's Planing Mill, Kensington, Philadelphia, illustrated cameo corner card showing machinery, on a very neat and clean cover to Boston, Extremely Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 39 |
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[Manufacturer] American Shearer Manufacturing Company, interesting all-over design on an 1893 cover from Nashua, N.H. to Cleveland, Ohio (backstamped), Very Fine. Scott 231. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $80 |
Lot 40 |
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[Manufacturer] Boots & Brogans / S.F. Harvey & Co., Boston, Mass., attractive cameo ad on a trans-continental cover from Boston to Columbia, Cal. (in the gold mining area), Fine to Very Fine. Scott 11A. Estimate $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 41 |
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[Manufacturer] Boots, Shoes, Leather etc. / George E. Graves & Co., Rutland, Vt., lovely cameo ad on a neat and attractive Vermont cover, Very Fine. Scott 11. Estimate $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 42 |
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[Manufacturer] Boots, Shoes, Leather etc. / George E. Graves & Co., Rutland, Vt., intricate design on a cover to upstate New York, Fine to Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 43 |
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[Manufacturer] Mineral Ridge Mf'g. Co., fancy illustrated design with lengthy text describing their work as "manufacturers of mine supplies, mine cars" etc., on a neat and clean cover to Lisbon, Ohio, Very Fine. Scott 267. Estimate $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 44 |
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[Manufacturer] Oils & Candles / De Forest & Francis, New York, a nice embossed cameo corner card on a cover to Bristol, R.I. Some minor cover soiling, Fine to Very Fine. Scott 65. Estimate $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 45 |
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[Manufacturer] Wagon Works / Wilson, Childs & Co., Philadelphia, overall illustration on front with additional wagon designs on the reverse, on cover to Trenton, N.J., Fine to Very Fine. Scott 184. Estimate $250 - 350. View details and enlarged photos | Unsold |
Lot 46 |
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[Medical] Anidrosis Sanitarium / The Compound Vapor Bath, elaborate black & white illustration on a 1¢ Plimpton wrapper, addressed to Cincinnati. Scott W301. Estimate $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 47 |
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[Medical] B.B. & J. Haggerty, Druggists Glassware, superb green advertising cameo on a lovely 1862 cover, with New York duplex cancel tying a 3¢ rose, Very Fine, great eye appeal. Scott 65. Estimate $40 - 60. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $34 |
Lot 48 |
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[Medical] Dental and Surgical Instruments / Codman & Shurtleff, Boston, a nice cameo ad corner card on a neat cover to St. Louis, Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 49 |
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[Medical] Druggists / Scribner & Devol, New Albany, Ind., attractive cameo ad on a beautifully neat cover to Washington, D.C., with grid cancel tying a 3¢ imperf, Very Fine. Scott 11A. Estimate $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 50 |
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[Merchant] Foreign & Domestic Dry Goods / Garner Williams & Co., Mobile, Ala., embossed cameo corner card on a neat cover from the Carroll-Hoy correspondence to New Orleans, with "WAY" postmark tying the 3¢, Very Fine, uncommonly choice. Scott 26. Estimate $500 - 750. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 51 |
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[Photography] S.W. Truesdell, Photographer, Kenosha, Wis., fancy boxed corner card on a cover to upstate New York, Fine to Very Fine, with 2008 P.F. certificate, which notes a trivial "toned area above the address panel". Scott 64b. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 52 |
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[Political] Anglo-Saxon / One Aim One Goal / Gloria Mundi, lovely design from the period before WWI when US-British co-operation was gaining traction, on a private post card for a business college, Very Fine. Estimate $75 - 100 Winston Churchill would no doubt have approved . View details and enlarged photos | Unsold |
Lot 53 |
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[Printing & Publishing] American Agriculturist, wonderfully intricate illustration on a cover from New York City to upstate N.Y., Very Fine. Scott 65. Estimate $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $180 |
Lot 54 |
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[Printing & Publishing] Boston Journal, cameo corner card ad on a neat cover from Boston, Very Fine. Scott 25A. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 55 |
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[Printing & Publishing] Farmers' Advertiser, fancy illustrated corner card on a lovely 1867 cover from St. Louis to Alton, Ill, with a blue receiving postmark, Very Fine. Scott 65. Estimate $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 56 |
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[Printing & Publishing] The Tuttle Company, Booksellers, Stationers, Printers, Publishers, gorgeous all over advertising cover franked with 2¢ fitted neatly in its "stamp collar" and tied by a perfect machine cancel of the waving flag; frame lines bordering all 4 margins are visible on this; great eye appeal that just doesn't get any better! Very Fine. Scott 279Bg. Estimate $40 - 60. View details and enlarged photos | Realized $20 |
Lot 57 |
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[Propaganda] American Peace Society, intricate almost all-over design on a cover with Boston negative "7" postmarks tying 1¢ and 2¢ Bank Notes. Cover (with contents) has separated from its back (some glue would help), Fine to Very Fine overall. Scott 156, 157. Estimate $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 58 |
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[Publication] Scientific American, lovely all over illustrated advertisement on cover from New York; interesting fact is the "Scientific American" is still publishing magazines today, Very Fine to Extremely Fine. Scott 65. Estimate $50 - 75. View details and enlarged photo | Realized $45 |
Lot 59 |
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[School] Deer Park Female Institute, Port Jervis, N.Y., nice illustration on an 1865 cover to New York City, Very Fine. Scott 65. Estimate $300 - 400. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 60 |
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[School] Phillips Academy, lovely illustrated corner card on an 1860 cover from Stoneham, Mass. to Centre Sandwich, N.Y., Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $350 - 500. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 61 |
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[School] Westfield Academy, Westfield, Mass., a lovely illustrated cameo corner card on a neat 1860 cover to Williamsburgh, N.Y., Very Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 62 |
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[Telegraph] New York & New Orleans Telegraph / Only Direct Southern Line, fancy colorless embossed corner card on a cover from Selma, Ala., with 3¢ franking peeking over the edge, Fine. Scott 26. Estimate $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 63 |
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[Tobacco] Wm. Penn / King of Havana 10¢ Cigars, lovely multicolor design on a 1905 Iowa cover. A slight cover stain at the far left, otherwise Very Fine. Scott 320. Estimate $75 - 100 The really interesting thing about this cover is that it was addressed to a lady. A lady smoking cigars in that era! What a scandal! Possibly an early supporter of women's lib . View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
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