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BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS -- 4 WESTERN UNION TELEGRAMS FROM OVERSEAS SOLDIER. PERFIN STAMPS + CONTENT - WORLD-WAR-II-POSTAL-HISTORY BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS -- 4 WESTERN UNION TELEGRAMS FROM OVERSEAS SOLDIER. PERFIN STAMPS + CONTENT

Super World War II collectible item. Francis E Fitzpatrick sends brief Western Union telegrams home to assure his mother Emma that he is OK and is receiving parcels. Three telegrams are from 1943, and one from 1944. Fitzpatrick participated in landings in Africa, Italy and D-Day at Normandy. One telegram back is blank, two have the gift orders information and one has the Money in a Hurry legend. All stamps with the exception of th 1-cent Freedom have WU perfins. 

$50.00
great-britain-scott-49-stamp-plate-10-,r-burr-forwarded-1873-cover-london-to-boston GREAT BRITAIN: SCOTT #49 PLATE 10. MR. BURR FORWARDED 1873 COVER LONDON-USA. CAT $225

Attractive 1873 cover with good markings.  Scarce Plate 10 stamp on cover. Cat: $225.  Tear top center does not affect stamp

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reuben-eaton-fenton-new-york-senator-free-franked-washington-dc-1862-cover DISTRICT OF COLUMBIA - WASHINGTON 1862 COVER FREE FRANKED BY REUBEN EATON FENTON, NEW YORK SENATOR

Full WAshington DC Free double circle postmark on free franked cover signed R E Fenton mc.  Reuben Eaton Fenton (July 4, 1819 – August 25, 1885) was an American merchant and politician from New York. In 1840, he was named commander of the New York Militia's 162nd Infantry Regiment with the rank of colonel. He was elected as a Democrat to the 33rd United States Congress, and served from March 4, 1853, to March 3, 1855. He left the Democratic Party to help organize the Republican Party, and was later elected, as a Republican, to the 35th, 36th, 37th and 38th United States Congresses, and served from 1857 to 1865. He was Governor of New York from 1865 to 1868. In 1868, he was among the candidates to be Vice President. In January 1869, he was elected a Senator from New York and served from 1869 to 1875. He was known as "The Soldiers' Friend" for his efforts to help returning Civil War veterans. He worked to remove tuition charges for public education, helped to establish six schools for training teachers, and signed the charter for Cornell University. The town of Fenton, NY, is named for him. His former home in Jamestown is the site of the Fenton History Center. It was listed on the National Register of Historic Places in 1972.  After his death, a building at The State University of New York at Fredonia, Fenton Hall, was named in his honor because he had attended the previous incarnation of the school, the Fredonia Academy. Fenton Avenue in the Bronx, is named for him.

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NEW LONDON CONNECTICUT 1847 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER - POSTAL HISTORY NEW LONDON CONNECTICUT 1847 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER WITH FANCY FIVE RATE

Clean stampless folded letter in excellent condition. New London postmark with the fancy FIVE rate mark. Interesting lawyer letter regarding collection of a debt in the amount of $49. Letter was handed to Captain Beal of the Steamer Mayflower to deliver to the addressee since Beal's son was of the assignees in the matter. Letter is signed by A. C. Lippitt, attorney.

The steamer Mayflower; Captain Beal; travelling on the South Shore—Hingham, Cohasset, Weymouth, Plymouth; the places passed by the Mayflower, on her trips to Hingham—South Boston, the Houses of Correction, Industry, and Reformation for Juvenile Offenders; the Hospital and Lunatic Asylum; the Farm School; Deacon Grant; the old race course at Neponset; Squantum, Quincy— the manufacturing establishments in that region; hotels, and private boarding-houses. A. C. Lippitt is Andrew C. Lippitt, of A. C. Lippitt & Sons, admitted to the Connecticut bar in 1839.

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andong-korea-1939-japanese-occupation-stamp-on-postal-history-cover-to-caney-kansas KOREA - ANDONG - 1939 JAPANESE OCCUPATION STAMP ON POSTAL HISTORY COVER TO CANEY, KANSAS

Clean cover with Andong, Korea, postmark on Japanese stamp used during the occupation of Korea in 1939.  Cover is from H. T. Baugh, possibly a missionary, to Bertie Burns, Caney, Kansas.  Cover has small tear upper left side and small portion of lower right corner is missing.

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SOUTH PLAINS MAINE SCOTT #11A COVER T0 ROCKLAND MAINE SOUTH PLAINS (?) MAINE SCOTT #11A COVER T0 ROCKLAND MAINE

If you look at the manuscript mark on this letter, it is easily read as S Plains, Maine.  The tough part is finding if a South Plains Maine ever existed.  That explains the question mark in the headline.  If anyone can provide more information, please send it along.  Cover is in poor condition with tears around the stamp and through the manuscript mark. Plenty of age wrinkles, too. However, the stamp is fantastic. Right margin copy with all good margins; tending to a little close at top left.  Strong color. Addressed to G. B. Macomber in Rockland Maine.

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41-piece-early-correspondence-to-dudley-tibbits-troy-ny-with-covers NH/NY/MN/FR: 41 PIECE CORRESPONDENCE LOT TO DUDLEY TIBBITS, TROY NY. SEE TEXT

This is a large lot of correspondence with envelopes and two postcards (one from France) primarily from John Tibbits to his father, C. E. Dudley Tibbits.  John became a minister in New Hampshire.  Lots of interesting reading.  Postmarks from New Hampshire, New York, Minnesota and France.  See image. Charles Edward Dudley Tibbits, was born at Hoosac, New York, August 18, 1834. He was educated under private tuition at Troy and Hoosac, and later took a course at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. In 1851 he made his first visit to Europe, crossing the ocean in a sailing vessel. He saw at that time the first International Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London. This was the first of many voyages. He was largely occupied with the care of his own and of family property. He was president of the Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Company, of Hoosick Falls, from 1892 to 1895, when he resigned, and for a number of years was a director of the company; he is also a director of the United National Bank of Troy. He is a trustee of the Troy Orphan Asylum, and was chairman of the committee which selected the plans for the asylum building on Spring avenue. He was president in 1879 of the Young Men's Association, and is a trustee of the Troy Public Library, which now carries on the work formerly done by that association. As trustee of the library, he chose the design from which the Memorial Library Building on Second street was erected. Mr. Tibbits was chairman of the committee of one hundred citizens who were charged with making arrangements for the public celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the naming of the city of Troy, in January, 1889. Mr. Tibbits married, June 8, 1865, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John Le Grand and Elizabeth (Sigourney) Knox. She died July 16, 1875. Children: Sarah Bleecker, born November 15, 1866. George, born February 22, 1868, died April 29, 1875. John Knox, born January 13, 1870; educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire; Yale College, B.A., class of 1892; Exeter College, Oxford, England; he is an Episcopal clergyman at Concord, New Hampshire. He married, April 12, 1910, at Montreal, Canada, Marguerite Vinton Harris, daughter of Arthur H. and Saidee (Lambe) Harris, of that city. Dudley, born October 4, 1874, died May 24, 1875.

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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.

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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. 

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POSTAL HISTORY - PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA TO NEW YORK TO PIACENZA ITALY. U.S. SCOTT 163 ON 1876 COVER PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA TO NEW YORK TO PIACENZA ITALY. U.S. SCOTT 163 ON 1876 COVER

LAWYER D. R. PATTERSON 1876 COVER FROM PHILADELPHIA TO PIACENZA ITALY VIA NEW YORK. EXCELLENT MARKINGS. STAMP HAS TINY FAULT. CATALOG VALUE ON COVER IS $340.

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