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NEW YORK CITY: UNUSED HOBBLE SKIRT STREETCARS ON BROADWAY POSTCARD. PRISTINE Brilliant color. Fresh as the day it was printed. |
$15.00 | |
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CALIFORNIA: SAN FRANCISCO 1913 WORLD'S FAIR NIGHT SCENE POSTCARD. PAN-PACIFIC STAMP Good stamp. Scene from the Expo at night. Minor wear. |
$5.00 | |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE: WHITE MOUNTAINS 1901 DIFFERENT VIEWS POSTCARD. PAN-AMERICAN EXPO STAMP Good stamp. Card shows minor wear. |
$5.00 | |
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NEW HAMPSHIRE: BEST WISHES EMBOSSED POSTCARD. PAN-PACIFIC EXPO STAMP Used |
$2.00 | |
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UNUSED EARLY POSTCARD FEATURING FULL-COLOR PORTRAIT OF "ENID" Very attractive. Slight edge wear. |
$3.00 | |
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MASSACHUSETTS: EAST BOSTON 1851 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO GREAT FALLS NEW HAMPSHIRE Correspondence from two different people in this stampless folded letter. Plenty of news in both including child's whooping cough illness, church events, sleigh rides and more. |
$15.00 | |
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VERMONT: JACKSONVILLE STAMPLESS COVER TO TOWNSEND HARBOR MASSACHUSETTS FORWARDED TO WINCHENDON MA Double Jacksonville Vermont postmark along with rate 5 numeral in black. Cover has manuscript Townsend Harbor forwarding mark and postmark along with assessment of additional five cents for forwarding. |
$25.00 | |
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ENGLAND: LONDON CHANCERY LANE 1844 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO PARIS Excellent postmarks. Note Great Britain paid mark upper right corner along with Chancery Lane handstamp. Paris receiver. |
$15.00 | |
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FRANCE: RENNES 1811 STAMPLESS FOLDED BUSINESS LETTER TO LILLE Clean business letter with good postal markings. |
$10.00 | |
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SWITZERLAND: GENEVA 1846 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER FROM US BANKER GERARD HOLSMAN COSTER Gerard Holsman Coster was the son of John Gerard Coster. Apparently he carried on the family banking tradition for the letter discusses major financial transactions in the planning. Coster lived in Europe, principally in Paris. Historic item. John Gerard Coster (August 1762 – August 8, 1844) was a Dutch-American merchant who served as president of the Bank of the Manhattan Company. Coster was born in August 1762 in Haarlem, Holland. Coster came to the United States from Haarlem in the Netherlands shortly after the Revolutionary War and founded the family fortune with his brother through the mercantile firm, "Henry A. & John G. Coster". They became owners of numerous vessels and traded with the East and West Indies, and exported American commodities to Europe. In 1813, he was made a director of Bank of the Manhattan Company, which had been founded by Aaron Burr in 1799. In 1825, Coster was made president of the Manhattan Company, succeeding Henry Remsen upon his death. Coster was also a director of the Phoenix Insurance Company for many years. |
$500.00 |
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We are offering for sale a wide variety of covers—from stampless covers to First Day Covers, from the very old, to contemporary. While we primarily sell covers, you will also find stamps, other postal items and interesting ephemera for sale. We hope you enjoy the site and visit often. We welcome your comments.
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