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U.S. Stamps, U.S. and C.S.A. Postal History, Foreign Stamps and Covers continued...

Free Franks & Autographs continued...
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
1246 c Free Franks and Signatures. 13 items, incl. free franks of Samuel Meredith (Treasurer of the U.S. from 1789-1801), Worcester Webster (postmaster responsible for the unique Boscawen provisional), Daniel Webster, John C. Breckinridge, Hannibal Hamlin, John G. Nicolay (private secretary to Abraham Lincoln), William A. Browning and Edmund Cooper (1st and 2nd private secretaries to President Andrew Johnson), Horace Porter (private secretary to Ulysses S. Grant) Herbert Hoover (2, one on postcard), also incl. cut out signature of Mrs. James K. Polk and cover front to "President of the United States" with 1sh Green (5: SG 54), few faults to be expected, overall a most fascinating group

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 E. 400-500

SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction
1247   Presidential Widows Balance. Twelve items, incl. cover with enclosure signed by Jacqueline Kennedy Onassis (who relinquished her free franking privilege when she remarried), two mourning covers sent from the Harding household each with 2c stamp, one sent from Mrs. Taft with 2c stamp after her husband's death and before privileges were granted, two Edith Bolling Wilson free franks on mourning covers, ALS from Frances Cleveland, also three engravings of Mrs. Grant, Garfield and Cleveland, overall Fine-Very Fine

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 E. 300-400

SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction
1248   Autographs and Ephemera Accumulation. Group of items, incl. some sent to various U.S. presidents such as F.D.R., Grant, few older documents incl. 1761 bill of lading, other signatures incl. various British statesmen, few cuts incl. Upton Sinclair, best item is oversize document signed by F.D.R. as Governor of New York in 1931 requesting extradition from Ohio for a criminal, also incl. some oversize Korean War photographs, some documents from state of Louisiana incl. official imprints, nice group of covers from England to Trinidad in 1870's, printed pamphlet "Report of a Protestant Refugee in Boston 1687" translated from French and published in 1868 (faulty), copy of The New York Herald from Jan. 5, 1863 with headline and map of Battle of Vicksburg, few other publications incl. broadside from Feb. 25, 1847 soliciting for Dragoons for Mexico, also a correspondence of the Duc de Richel, a fantastic and diverse group

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 E. 1,000-1,500

SOLD for $850.00
Will close during Public Auction

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