Description Price
PRUSSIA #15 PAIR ON COVER FRONT. VALUE ON COVER $200

Attractive item. Fact that this is a cover front only is reflected in low price. Stamps are the color as shown on cover front...the close up appears darker.

$40.00
GREENWICH CONNECTICUT 1851 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO STAFFORD NEW HAMPSHIRE WITH UNLISTED PAID IN A BOX

Stampless folded letter from Harriett Bacon to Jedediah Harris in Stafford,  New Hampshire, inquiring about funds due her from the estate of her father.  She notes that the person she retained in Stafford to collect her funds...Samuel McMaster...has left the area and will no longer be able to assist her.  There is a pencil notation on the side...possibly by Harris with her name and $300 next to it. Nice postal history item. Significant is the use of a boxed PAID. This postmark is only listed with a PAID 5 in a circle. Condition is very nice; well above similar items from this era.

$25.00
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1840 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO ROCHESTER NEW YORK - ZION HERALD NEWSPAPER SUBSCRIPTION

1840 stampless folded letter to L. Hanson in Rochester New York from Brother Charles Peirce, Boston stating that he received a letter from Hanson containing $2 for a subscription to the Zion Herald, in the name of Nathaniel Harrick, but Peirce has no such name in his subscriber list. Aging on edges of the pages, otherwise in very good condition. No break where seal was opened.

$7.00
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1850S COVER WITH BROWNISH CARMINE SCOTT #25 STAMP BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1850S COVER WITH BROWNISH CARMINE SCOTT #25 STAMP

Superior condition for this cover with Scott #25 brownish carmine stamp. Scan does not do the deep color of this stamp justice.  Red Boston postmark and black PAID circle grill killer tie stamp to cover.  Addressed to E. B. Mason in Beverly.

$325.00
LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS 1857 COVER WITH SCOTT 25A. LOWELL MASSACHUSETTS 1857 COVER WITH SCOTT 25A. OUTSTANDING IN ALL RESPECTS

A rare find. Cover is in excellent condition and has full Lowell Massachusetts date postmark cancel of rare Scott 25A stamp. Full backflap. Cover was opened cleanly at right. No contents.

$200.00
WARREN PENNSYLVANIA DEED TRANSFER STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO MADDENVILLE PENNSYLVANIA

Full light blue Warren Pennsylvania postmark and PAID mark with manuscript 5.  Note that this item is folded at both sides to create the SFL. There are not top or bottom folds. Portion of note regarding a transfer deed is inside. Someone wrote 1846, but we do not know that this is the correct date. Also, the postmark may be blue-green, but because the stock is blue, we will not guarantee this is the case.

$10.00
PROVIDENCE RHODE ISLAND 1846 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO REV. BADGER, NEW YORK

The letter is addressed to the Rev. Milton Badger, secretary of A.H.M.S., New York. The initials stand for the American Home Missionary Society.  Rev. Badger was Associate Secretary of the Society and received field reports from missionaries on a regular basis. There is no content to this SFL. However a note on the side indicates it came from Miss E. A. Alwood, Providence on behalf of Rev. H. Foote.

$10.00
ANDOVER MASSACHUSETTS STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER G. P. OSGOOD TO SETH THOMAS

The Honorable G. P. Osgood was an Andover politician who was known to take a stand in matters regarding slavery. Seth Thomas was a government lawyer who argued the case noted below. Because there is no content to the SFL, we do not know if this is the what Osgood is communicating to Thomas about. However, the time period is about right.

Colonel Suttle of Virginia claims that Anthony Burns is his slave, that Burns escaped to Massachusetts and that Burns owes him service and labor. Under the terms of the Fugitive Slave Law of 1850, he is petitioning the court for a certificate to reclaim Burns and transport him back to Virginia. Burns' lawyers argue that the Bill of 1850 is too recent to hold unqualified authority, that it has elicited conflicted decisions and dicta in other cases, and that it is unconstitutional because it gives records of the Virginia Court effects not permitted by the Constitution. What is more, it prevents the possibility of trial by jury, violates article four of the Constitution by which persons are protected against unreasonable seizures and article five, which states that no one shall be deprived of liberty without due process of the law. They also claim that there is no evidence to prove that the defendant is the Anthony Burns in question.

$15.00
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1832 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER FROM SUFFOLK BANK TO AUGUSTA MAINE BANK

Note from L. Parker of Suffolk Bank, Boston to G Crosby of the Augusta Bank, Augusta Maine, noting that he forgot to leave the "former" when he left the package of bills. He applied a credit of 82$.

$8.00
POSTAL HISTORY - ROCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE 1852 STAMPLESS COVER WITH NOTE ROCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE 1852 STAMPLESS COVER WITH NOTE ENCLOSURE

Nice full black postmark with printed PAID 3 (Paid 3 also appears in manuscript at lower left of cover). Sent by J. D. Sturtevant, agent, to A. D. Lockwood in Danielsville Connecticut. Note comments that they received 11 bags of waste and no bill and asks Lockwood to send a bill.

$45.00

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