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 (Monterey) Monterey, Cal., May 6, 1851. Clear sharp strike straight double line postmark (MOT-1630) on cover to Jamestown, with red "Paid" handstamp (for the 12½ rate); cover professional restored
with repaired edges, a Very Fine and choice strike, very rare with only a few examples known, with 2010 Weiss certificate.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500. (Image1)
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Est. $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $3,500.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 502 |
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 (Nevada) Nevada City, Cal., Jul 31, 1861. Cds tying 1860, 10¢ green, type V (35) on cover to Illinois, with original enclosure from sick miner who had to sell off claims due to his illness;
small cover and stamp flaws, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $100 - 150.
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Est. $100-150
SOLD for $210.00
Will close during Public Auction |
Western Express - The Carrington Correspondence
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 (Carrington) Adams & Co. Express Agency, Panama. Red oval handstamp and "Adams & Co. Express New York" red cameo corner card on 1852 cover to Robert Carrington, the Purser on the Steamer New Orleans
at Panama "Care Cova + Co., to be kept until N.O. arrives", Very Fine, ex-Polland.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
The "S.S. New Orleans" ran between San Francisco and Panama 1850-1852. The ship was owned by Howard & Son's Empire
Line originally, sold to private owners in 1851, and then leased by those owners to Vanderbilt's Independent Line in 1852. In 1853, the New Orleans was sold again to the Melbourne Steam Packet Company in Australia. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 (Carrington) Adams & Co. Express Agency, Panama. Red oval handstamp on 1852 cover to Robert Carrington, the Purser on the Steamer New Orleans at Panama, with additional red "Cova & Co.,
Panama" oval agent handstamp and endorsement at lower left, Very Fine.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 505 |
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 (Carrington) Adams & Co. Express, 10 Wall St., New York. Red shield corner card on cover addressed to "Robert R. Carrington, Purser Steamer New Orleans, Care of Geo: Mouton Esq, Adams & Co., Melbourne,
Australia", with manuscript "10" rating, reverse with "J. Hawes, July 15th" arrival docketing in New York from San Francisco, "Ship Letter, Sydney, Oc 3, 1853" transit and oval "Ship Letter, Melbourne, Oc 10, 1855" receiving date stamp, with
original enclosure expressman J. Hawes datelined "San Francisco, May 4, 1853" with fascinating and historical content…By this I send you a few papers etc. Gregory has gone home and i am now agent of his Express. I took it only on
account of getting the earliest news from Australia, he having made arrangements to have exchanges sent to him which I shall now get. i want you to send all the newspapers you can possibly get hold of and you will please stamp them with the stamp I
now send., Very Fine, a wonderful cover and letter sent during the transitions of Adams, Gregory & Hawes Express Companies.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000.
This letter from Joseph Hawes proves that Adams had opened a Melbourne
office by early 1853, Gregory had an Australian Express (no material recorded), Gregory sold out to Hawes, and Hawes had an Australian Express with a handstamp (no material recorded). (Image1)
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Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 (Carrington) Adams & Co. Express, 59 Broadway, New York. Red shield corner card on cover addressed to "Robert R. Carrington, Purser Steamer New Orleans, Care of Geo: Mouton Esq, Adams & Co., Melbourne,
Australia", shipped to Sydney with manuscript "found on the River Hunter" endorsement, reverse with "Sydney, N.S.W., My 23, 1855" and red "Ship Letter, G.P.O. Victoria, Free, My 30, 1855" cds's, Very Fine.
Estimate; $400 - 600.
Although route cannot be positively identified, it was probably carried vis London, Alexandria, Suez and Ceylon on Peninsular & Oriental steamships. (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $270.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 507 |
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 (Carrington) Adams & Co. Express, Sacramento. Red double-lined oval handstamp on stampless cover to Office Empire City Line in San Francisco, "Hanks & Crawley, House, Sign & Ornamental
Painters" Sacramento City blue printed corner card, short tear at upper left, Very Fine, illustrated in Coburn's Letters of Gold (pages 172 & 232).
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $270.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 (Carrington) Adams & Co., American & European Express, Melbourne, N.S.W. Blue embossed corner card on backflap of cover to the steamer New Orleans via Sydney, N.S.W., carried by Adams from New York
probably via England and Suez, with manuscript "8" pence rating and "Melbourne, Victoria, Oct 27, 1853" entry cds, reverse with "Ship Letter, Sydney, No 6, 1853" cds, Very Fine.
Estimate; $500 - 750.
Complete
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Est. $500-750
SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 509 |
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 (Carrington) Adams & Co., American & European Express, Melbourne, N.S.W. Blue embossed corner card on backflap of cover to Sydney, N.S.W., carried by Adams from New York probably via England and Suez, with
manuscript "4" pence rating and "Melbourne, Victoria, Oct 31, 1853" entry cds, reverse with "Ship Letter, Sydney, No 6, 1853" cds; some cover toning, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $400 - 600.
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 (Carrington) Cova & Co., Panama. Oval agent handstamp in black on 1851 folded letter to Carrington in San Francisco, docketed "Augt 3/51, pr California (Adams & Co.)" at left, Very Fine, this
being one of two known examples of the Cova & Co. oval handstamp in black, normally struck in red.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 511 |
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 (Carrington) Cova & Co., Panama. Red oval agent handstamp on cover to Robert Carrington, the Purser on the Steamer New Orleans at Panama, with red "Adams & Co. Express, New York" shield corner card
and endorsed "Care Cora & Co. "post restante"" at lower left, with original enclosure from brother with interesting content…Wells Fargo have established an opposition California Express and come out strong in their advertisements,
Very Fine.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 512 |
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 (Carrington) Cova & Co., Panama. Red oval agent handstamp on cover to Robert Carrington, the Purser on the Steamer New Orleans at Panama, with red "Adams & Co. Express, New York" shield corner card,
Carrington had departed for Australia with cover sent by private ship to Sydney with pencil "Rec'd at Sydney, June 26, 1853" docketing, Very Fine.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
The "New Orleans" sailed from San Francisco on
March 11, 1853 with 110 passengers, Captain Wakeman at the helm and Robert Carrington as purser. She docked at Sydney 64 days later after a stop at Tahiti for coal. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $210.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 513 |
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 (Carrington) Evers Express. Manuscript endorsement on cover to Robert Carrington, the Purser on the Steamer New Orleans at Panama, with additional "Care Cova & Co.", with original enclosure
mentioning express…"I send out papers by each steamer for Herman Evers semi-weekly Isthmus Express", Very Fine, ex-Jessup.
Estimate; $400 - 600.
The Herman Evers' Isthmus Express is unrecorded
and apparently used no handstamps or printed franks. (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 (Carrington) G.H. Wines & Co's, California Express, No 3 Bowling Green, New York. Boxes corner card on hand delivered cover to Carrington in New York, with original 1856 printed letterhead enclosure
thanking Carrington for the "kindness in sending our bag", also includes a Carrington & Co. token for their N.Y. to Cuba "Havana Express", Very Fine and choice.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 515 |
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 (Carrington) Gilpin's Exchange Reading Room and Foreign Letter Office N - York. Red oval handstamp on reverse of cover to San Francisco, Cal., dropped in the mails in San Francisco with red "San Francisco,
Cal., Apr 26" cds with matching "2" and "Paid" rate handstamps, 1851 docketing at left, with original enclosure from brother Daniel Carrington on "Office of the United States Mail Steam Ship Company" letterhead with interesting content
including…Gold dust as it comes now won't net over $17 - it is most all very dirty and some counterfeit mixed in., Very Fine.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction |
| 516 |
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 (Carrington) Gregory's Atlantic and Pacific Express, Forwarded by Thompson & Hitchcock. Four-line handstamp (GRE-124) with matching oval "Paid" handstamps on folded letter to San Francisco per "Illinois",
Nov 4/51 docketing at left, accompanied by second matching duplicate letter sent from New York post office franked with 1851, 3¢ orange brown, two singles (10A) tied by grid handstamps, matching "New York, Sep 26" foreign mail cds
alongside, with "pr Cherokee" ship endorsement and "Nov 5/51" receiving docketing, letters from partner James Orme terminating their business relationship due to "unpromising state of affairs you have meet with in California", otherwise
Very Fine, a wonderful pair of duplicated letters, one sent by express and other by the Post Office.
Estimate; $400 - 600.
Complete images:
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $525.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 517 |
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 (Carrington) Gregory's Atlantic and Pacific Express, Forwarded by Thompson & Hitchcock. Four-line handstamp (GRE-123) and matching crude oval "Paid" handstamp on folded letter (Via Panama) 1851 (Aug. 14)
New York N.Y. to San Francisco Cal., probably carried by Vanderbilt Line Prometheus from New York Aug. 14th to Chagres, then Independent Line Independence arriving in San Francisco on Sep. 16th, docketing at left "James Owen recd. Sept 17/51, pr.
"Independence", came by Gregory's Express", Very Fine.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $230.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 (Carrington) Gregory's California Express, Received and Forwarded By, Thompson & Hitchcock, 149 Pearl Street, New York. Red four-line handstamp (GRE-121) on folded letter to San Francisco from partner in
Carrington & Co., matching "Paid." and "T. & H." handstamps, Very Fine, ex-Clifford.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000.
ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THIS GREGORY'S CALIFORNIA EXPRESS FORWARDER HANDSTAMP. (Image1)
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Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $625.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 (Carrington) Hawes & Co's. Two covers; cover to Portland, Me. with circular "J. Hawes & Co. Express, S.F. & N.Y." handstamp (HAE-100)on reverse with two strikes of red oval "Forwarded By, J.W.
Carrington Agent, 78 Broadway, New-York" handstamp, entered the mails with red "New York, Paid 3cts, Apr 16" cds in front, and cover to Wilmington, Del. with red Carrington handstamp struck on reverse with additional straight line "Hawes &
Co's Cal. Express" handstamp inserted in (HAE-600), mailed at N.Y.; first cover with sideflap missing affecting handstamps and latter cover missing stamp on front, F.-V.F. appearance.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
Complete images:
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(402KB). (Image1)
(Image2)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 520 |
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 (Carrington) Isthmus of Panama…Transit Express. Imprint above illustrated Panama Isthmus map with imprint "A.M. Hinckley & Co., Aspinwall, Panama" at left and "J.W. Carrington, Agent, New
York" at right, on cover to Westford, Mass. with "New York, 5cts, Jan 10" cds; minor cover wear, Very Fine, ex-Knapp & DeVoss.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.
AN WONDERFUL AND EXTREMELY RARE HINCKLEY - CARRINGTON EXPRESS
ADVERTISING DESIGN, THIS BEING ONE OF ONLY TWO KNOWN.
Abraham M. Hinckley worked together with Robert Carrington in Panama. in 1854, Hinckley bean a Panama transit express and used Carrington & Co as his New York agent. Joseph Hawes was
agent in San Francisco. Hinckley became involved in construction of a railroad across the Isthmus and produced an illustrated advertising advertising envelope showing the new route. (Image1)
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Est. $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,800.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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