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The Louis Grunin Collection of Illustrated Covers continued...

Ocean Penny Postage continued...
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
1577 c Ocean Penny Postage.> Myers & Co. design, State 1 without any imprint on back, <mailed by famed 19th century social activist Elihu Burritt in the United States to prominent theologian and social reformer the Reverend Thomas Dick in Dindee, Scotland,>Ocean Penny Postage. Myers & Co. design, State 1 without any imprint on back, mailed by famed 19th century social activist Elihu Burritt in the United States to prominent theologian and social reformer the Reverend Thomas Dick in Dindee, Scotland, with ms. receipt docketing "Mr. Elihu Burritt, Worcester U.S., Feb. 5th 1850", red "Paid" handstamps and pencil "24" rate, red "America Liverpool Paid FE 17, 1850" transit datestamp, red "19" credit handstamps, indistinct blue receiving backstamp, few age spots, Very Fine, an excellent companion to the example shown on p. 237 of British Pictorial Envelopes of the 19th Century which is sent to the U.S. (Image)

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 E. 1,000-1,500

SOLD for $3,250.00
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1578 c Ocean Penny Postage.> Myers & Co. design, the rare State 3 with additional imprints of Hudson, Scott and Theobald, bearing Great Britain 1p Red on Bluish tied by 74 in barred oval handstamp, <addressed in the hand of Elihu Burritt> to Hampstead, reOcean Penny Postage. Myers & Co. design, the rare State 3 with additional imprints of Hudson, Scott and Theobald, bearing Great Britain 1p Red on Bluish tied by "74" in barred oval handstamp, addressed in the hand of Elihu Burritt to Hampstead, red London JY 11, 1853" backstamp, few sealed tears and overall wear, otherwise Very Fine, rare (Image)

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 E. 750-1,000

SOLD for $2,100.00
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1579 c Barnabas Bates Illustrated Cheap Inland and Ocean Postage.> Wonderful depiction of steamship and railroad train, imprint on back of cover to Cleveland O., 3c Dull Red, Ty. II (11A), large margins to slightly in, tied by well-struck dark blue TroyBarnabas Bates Illustrated "Cheap Inland and Ocean Postage". Wonderful depiction of steamship and railroad train, imprint on back of cover to Cleveland O., 3c Dull Red, Ty. II (11A), large margins to slightly in, tied by well-struck dark blue "Troy N.Y. Jun. 27" circular datestamp

VERY FINE. A RARE AND SPECTACULAR BARNABAS BATES "CHEAP INLAND AND OCEAN POSTAGE" PROPAGANDA COVER.

Barnabas Bates (1785-1853) was born in England and came to the United States as a child. He became a Baptist preacher in Rhode Island, where he was also for some time collector of the port of Bristol under President Adams. He became a Unitarian and established in New York in 1825 a weekly paper called the Christian Inquirer. During the Jackson administration he received an appointment in the New York post office and was for some time acting postmaster. He became an advocate for cheap land and ocean postage and lived to see the 3c domestic rate introduced in 1851. (Image)

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 E. 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $13,500.00
Will close during Public Auction

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