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OSBOURNE BRIDGE NEW YORK DEAD POST OFFICE CIVIL WAR ERA COVER & LETTER. FATHER ILL Four-page letter from Maud Shutt to her children asking them to come home due to their father's severe illness. It also addresses a problem her son is having with his thumb. Osbourne Bridge is located in the middle of Great Sacandaga Lake in New York State. Doubt there is a lot of correspondence from this location. The letter reads in part: "Your father is worse than he has ever been since I knew him. His leg is so helpless that he cant get off nor on the bed nor off his chair without help. So you may tell Dick and Phebe that you have made up your minds to come home and help take care of him." "I am sorry Miles that you have got a sore thumb. If it is bellon I am afraid you will have a bard time. Dont let it be to long before you have it cut open. If you dont (it) will affect the bone to much. Have it cut open as soon as it will worsen. Now if you are coming home you had better get ready and come as soon as you can. If you have any good tools, you had better fetch them along. Perhaps you may get some work here this winter if you want." The letter continues telling the children to sell their store and most of their possessions, but pack up a set of dishes if they have them. The letter concludes: "I dont want to schare you but your father is growing worse all the time. He is very weak and feels bad. Our love to you..." Excellent view into lifestyle and vernacular of the time.
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$25.00 | |
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SANDY BRIDGE TENNESSEE MANUSCRIPT POSTMARK ON 1850S COVER + INSPIRATIONAL MOTTOS Bold manuscript postmark carries into the stamp. Addressed to South Carolina. Written on the cover is the date July 11, 1859. Three of the four quadrants of the flap side carry a religious message. The are: When in this veile of sorrows I travail on in pain. we owe to God above Duty, fear & love. A man can gain nothing in the company of the vicious. Seal is intact. Letter was opened neatly at left.
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$20.00 | |
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NEW YORK CITY 1894 COVER WITH 1-CENT COLUMBIAN EXPO STAMP. BERNARD MEYER PAPER BOXES Nice, well-centered stamp on commercial cover. |
$5.00 | |
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CHARLOTTESVILLE VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA 1907 FLAG CANCEL COVER. ECONOMICS SCHOOL Nice cover to Washington DC. Washington receiver on back. |
$5.00 | |
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DAYTONA BEACH FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL SPEED TRIALS 1933 CACHET COVER -- NASCAR Nice early souvenir cover. Great for racing and NASCAR memorabilia collectors.
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$10.00 | |
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CHARLESTON SOUTH CAROLINA 1800S COVER AND LETTER- RELIGIOUS CONTENT- TWO 1-CT BANKNOTES FANCY CANCEL Cover roughly opened. However, nice pair of Franklin banknotes with fancy target postmarks are undamaged. Although letter is postmarked Charleston, it was written in Savannah. Letter is from Anna Young to Mrs. Guardeau thanking her for presiding in her place at a prayer meeting. "...you are so competent in the business line and still more in prayer for GOD's presence with us and blessings upon us. My absence from the board is a trial, but it is also a Providence and I cling to the holy Cowper's definition of this word which has been a special help to me.." "Providence is but the name of an effect whose case is "GOD". Interesting reading.
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$5.00 | |
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CHEPACHET NEW YORK (DPO) 1887 COVER AND LETTER WITH PAIR OF SCOTT #145 FRANKLIN STAMPS Small 1887 cover with nice clean pair of Scott#145 Franklin banknote stamps. Light but readable Chepachet New York postmark. This is a dead post office. Short note from Sarah (writing from Cedarville NY) to her cousin W. C. Prescott in Herkimer to say "You have done me a very great favor which I shall remember always." |
$10.00 | |
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NEW YORK CITY -- 3 POSTAL STATIONERY COVERS (1895, 6, 7) WITH BARRY POSTMARKS Full postmarks, the 1895 and 1896 covers are particularly desirable. Note that each of the embossed rate vignettes is a different shade. |
$6.00 | |
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MINDEN NEBRASKA 1901 POSTAL STATIONERY COVER TO NEW YORK CITY Early covers in condition this good are very hard to find. Full postmark. New York City receiver on the reverse. |
$5.00 | |
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MAQUOKETA IOWA 1897POSTAL STATIONERY COVER TO WESTFIELD, NEW YORK Clean cover. Has full Westfield receiver on the reverse. |
$5.00 |
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