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NEW YORK TO LONDON TRANSATLANTIC COVER WITH JANUARY 1, 1858 5 RATE POSTMARK NUMERAL 1 IS INVERTED - MARITIME-POSTAL-HISTORY NEW YORK TO LONDON TRANSATLANTIC COVER WITH JANUARY 1, 1858 5 RATE POSTMARK NUMERAL 1 IS INVERTED

Cover (no contents) New York to London, England January 1, 1856 at unpaid 24 cents treaty rate & carried on Cunard's "Asia" from Boston. Very strong "5 N York Br Pkt" postmark with inverted "1" date plug and manuscript 1 shilling due of Liverpool and London backstamp. Ex-Pullin.

$45.00
DEMOCRATIC PARTY 1894 REGISTERED LETTER RIVERTON RHODE ISLAND SCOTTE2 STAMP. Riverton Virginia 1894 cover with E2 Special Delivery stamp & Riverton Democratic Club letterhead + RPO mark

Fresh copy of this early Special Delivery stamp from Riverton Virginia to Winchester. There is a nice Balt. & Roanoke RPO postmark on the back. Postal stationery is clipped at right. Stamp is straight edge and missing a perf lower right corner. Catalog: $135.

$45.00
WINCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE 1832 BLACK POSTMARK STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO ASHBURNHAM MASSACHUSETTS - POSTAL HISTORY WINCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE 1832 BLACK POSTMARK STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO ASHBURNHAM MASSACHUSETTS

LIGHT BUT FULL AND EASY TO READ WINCHESTER POSTMARK. HARD TO FIND FOR THIS YEAR.

$45.00
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
NORTHAMPTON MASSACHUSETTS COVER TO SOUTH READING MASSACHUSETTS WITH SCOTT 26A

Attractive cover with sock on the nose Northampton postmark.  Addressed to Mrs Susan Richardson.  Nibbled perfs top right and right side.

$50.00
jamaica-plain-trust-company-1916-stock-certificate MASSACHUSETTS: 1916 JAMAICA PLAIN TRUST COMPANY STOCK CERTIFICATE WITH TAX STAMPS

Clean stock certificate.  Has two vertical folds. Tax stamps on back have June 2, 1916 unusual cancellations. See copy of incorporation document below --

An Act to incorporate the Jamaica plain trust company, Be it enacted, etc., as follows: Section 1. Joseph Stedman,. George Faulkner, Mark R. Wendell, John R. Alley, Henry R. Reed, Thomas P Proctor, Thomas L. Livermore, Charles B. Cummings, .John M. Call and E. Peabody Gerry, their associates and successors, are hereby made a corporation by the name of the Jamaica Plain Trust Company, with authority to establish and maintain a safe deposit, loan and trust company, in that part of the city of Boston called Jamaica Plain ; with all the powers and privileges and subject to 874 Acts, 1893. — Chaps. 230, 231, 232. all the duties, liabilities and restrictions set forth in all general laws which now are or may hereafter be in force relating to such corporations. Section 2. This act shall take effect upon its passage. Approved April 20, 1893.

$50.00
wisconsin-portage-city-and-watertown-missent-stampless-postal-history-cover PORTAGE CITY AND WATERTOWN WISCONSIN POSTMARKS ON MISSENT 1850s STAMPLESS COVER

Two postmarks on one missent 1850s cover.  Cover was addressed to Watertown New York and mailed from Portage City.  Manuscript "missent" along with Watertown, Wis, postmark. 

$50.00
KINGSTON RHODE ISLAND 1852 COVER AND LETTER FROM AMOS WELLS TO JOHN VERNON, PROVIDENCE RI REGARDING HUNTING WITH MUSKETS - POSTAL-HISTORY KINGSTON RHODE ISLAND 1852 COVER AND LETTER FROM AMOS WELLS TO JOHN VERNON, PROVIDENCE RI REGARDING HUNTING WITH MUSKETS

Neat cover and letter from Amos Wells to his hunting friend John Vernon. Excerpts from his missive are below. Stamp is Scott 11A.

Dear John,

I shouldered my musket yesterday for the first time since I returned home for a sally among the quail and found them contrary to my expectations after what I had heard in Prov quite plenty. If our old friend Sport had been with me, I should have brought home quite a bunch of birds. As it was, with the assistance of old “buck” I bagged three quail and one woodcock in about two hours and knocked down two more quail which I could not find for want of a decent dog. Besides missing a very respectable number of fair shots and had also marked down a fine bevy of quail before me when on accidently shoving my hand into my pocket I discovered the bank keys which I had by mistake carried with me and was in consequence obliged to hasten home with all due speed.

You may wonder what my long prelude is driving at. It is simply that I am very anxious for your company next week and hope to see you here armed and equipped for a renewal of your acquaintance with our No. Kingston quail on Monday next…bring Sport or his substitute if possible and I think I can promise you a good time…

Yours Truly, Amos Wells

There is more content in the letter regarding the usual welfare of family and friends.

Records show that Amos Wells was cashier at the Landholders’ Bank, Kingston.

$50.00
northern-railroad-stampless-cover-to-heartland-vermont NORTHERN RAILROAD STAMPLESS COVER TO HARTLAND VERMONT

Full postmark along with numeral 5 rate mark.  Cover a tad dirty. Old ASCC catalogs price is $75.

$50.00
BROOKLYN NEW YORK 1940 MISSIONARY POSTAL HISTORY COVER TO PALLIKONDA INDIA - MORENWEISER TYPE 8 CENSOR MARK BROOKLYN NEW YORK 1940 MISSIONARY POSTAL HISTORY COVER TO PALLIKONDA INDIA - MORENWEISER TYPE 8 CENSOR MARK

Nifty cover from the outbreak of World War II. Cover was sent to Rev. Francis Felip, a Salesian missionary priest serving in India.  New York World's Fair postmark.  Most significant is the Not Opened By Censor mark. It is a Morenweiser Type 8 NOT OPENED BY CENSOR oblong censor steel stamp from the Mumbai Censor Station with station code D, struck by the examiner having chop number 2.  The mark when used in Mimbai CS from May 1940 to February 1941, has been recorded with censor numbers ranging 1–17 but all but 10% were marked by censor No. 3, making this mark particularly rare.  The mark, which was applied to mail deemed innocent...bank mail, missionary mail, etc., was in use less than a year. 
 

$50.00

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