Carrier Stamps balance, with 1c blue U.S.P.O. Despatch, on cover with Sc. #26, cancelled with red star, Baltimore City Carrier’s Dispatch, three covers additionally franked with 3c brown red, one on 3c embossed postal stationery cover (U10), in each case adhesive tied by c.d.s., Government City Dispatch, 1c black reconstructed pane of ten, used, six examples on cover, one and one large piece on 3c stationery (U10), others with either #11 or 26, 1c red single showing the “short rays” variety, six covers franked with #26, another on U10, two Boston “Penny Post Paid” on cover with #11, Honours City Express of Charleston, South Carolina, one on cover with #11 showing partial straddle-pane guideline at left, on cameo advertising cover, showing the “CENS” variety (signed Jakubek), the other on folded cover to New York,  United States City Despatch Post, 3c black on blue on folded cover (signed Jakubek), another on front, some with typical wrinkling and small faults as expected, several ex-Kuphal and remaining on his pages, a pleasing group with many fine and desirable covers.

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Civil War Union Patriotic cover collection, with over two hundred unused examples, neatly-mounted and annotated in two Rapkin albums, most have been hinged to pages while others are affixed with corner mounts, range of themes including various flags and depictions of Liberty, George Washington, Eagles, etc.  “Remember Ellsworth”, Union leaders, anti-Confederate sentiment including caricatures of Davis and Beauregard, “Fate of Traitors,”“One of the Ends of Secession,” “The End of King Cotton”, and other similar depicting hanging scenes, some showing slight variations in similar designs, varied condition with small faults in places, but an overall fresh and desirable group with tremendous diversity.

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Confederate States Postal History, balance of consignment, including over 30     items, with Marietta, Georgia 5c black, Atlanta Georgia PAID 5, and Lexington, Virginia 5c blue Postmasters’ Provisionals, desirable group of 5c Hoyer & Ludwig, including single cancelled in manuscript on seven-star flag patriotic cover from Ninety Six, South Carolina, two singles on cover from Richmond to Nashville, horizontal pair on cover to Alabama, a lovely sheet-margin single from Charleston to Columbia, two very early usages from October 1861, 5c usage from Pensacola, Florida,  10c blue Davis cover to Little River, lovely 10c rose Jefferson lower sheet margin single on cover from Columbus to “Black Stocks”, SC, two single franking 10c blue Jefferson covers, three 5c blue Hoyer & Ludwig single frankings including a four-margin example from Eutaw, Alabama, 5c De La Rue solo frankings from South and North Carolina, further example on eight star flag patriotic design medical advertising cover, used on the last day of the 5c letter rate, attractive 5c Archer & Daly four-margin pair on cover from Scottsdale to Staunton, Virginia, “10 CENTS” without frameline single frankings from Jackson to Attalaville, Mississippi,  and Dalton to Clarksville, Georgia, plus single on piece cancelled in Savannah, large-margin pair on cover from a Confederate officer in Albany, Georgia, to Jackson, Mississippi, 10c rose on 1862 patriotic turned cover from Richmond to St. Tammany Virginia and returned, some faults as usual for such Confederate mail, two covers affixed to black card, but many fine and desirable frankings.

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Confederate States stamp balance, beautifully mounted and annotated, almost all stamps being four-margin examples, beginning with four used 5c Hoyer & Ludwig, each showing portion of sheet margin, three 10c blue Hoyer & Ludwig, two with jumbo margins, four 10c blue Paterson, showing a range of shades, two 2c Hoyer & Ludwig showing shades of dark and blue green,  five 5c blue Hoyer & Ludwig showing range of blue to milky blue shades, eight 10c Hoyer & Ludwig, with range of shades of rose, as well as a scarce four-margin carmine single (repaired), 5c De La Rue with corner blocks of four, each showing one of the corners, five used single in varying shades, with two pairs and a strip of four, 2c brown red Archer & Daly, four mint sheet margin singles showing early shades of milky-rose red and later brown red, with two further mint blocks of four, and four used singles postmarked in Greensborough in red, Richmond, and Raleigh, 5c Archer & Daly used pairs, one the earliest recorded date (Jul 15), another a late usage from 1865, 10c Type I mint blocks of four in dark blue, blue, and milky blue, along with a stunning group of four used multiples including a striking block of nine cancelled in Talladega, range of Type II mint and used singles and multiples, five mint 20c green singles in varying shades, used single with blue c.d.s., range of unissued 1c orange in singles and multiples, attractive four-margin 5c carmine Nashville Postmasters’ Provisional (sealed tear), the odd flaw, but an overall exceptional group of select stamps, an ideal reference or nucleus for a detailed study of these desirable issues.

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Eastern Express Companies, balance of collection, just over twenty items, written-up on pages, noting Adams Express Company, New York, two stampless covers with different embossed corner cards; Bryant & Spear’s / Penobscot Express, Boston, green label on cover to Maine; rare “Forwarded by / Prince’s / Boston & Portland / Express” label in red on folded cover (untied, vertical crease); Wells & Co’s Express, with 1848 entire from Albany to Buffalo, 1849 cover from Buffalo to New York with yellow “Wells & Co’s” label, 1850 entire from Albany to New York with pink label, small group of receipts for payment showing the partners, offices, agencies, etc; Livingston, Wells & Co Express group with 1854 entire from Paris to Massachusetts forwarded with blue cachet, c. 1855 envelope with cachet of Paris agency forwarded to New York; Wells, American Express Co. covers with yellow “Buffalo, Albany & New York” label, “St. Johnsville” in red, “Albany” in green, varying condition, some covers and labels with faults, crease, etc, but a fascinating group to continue further study of this popular field.

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Fancy cancels postal history collection, with approximately 300 nineteenth century covers, representing an incredible array of attractive and desirable postmarks, with range of geometric patterns, intaglio letters and numbers, circles of wedges, shapes, stars, hearts, flowers, as well as a number of more whimsical or ornate designs, noting, among many others, Rutland & Troy Railroad, Kicking Mule of Forbestown and Klinkner & Co, insects including Moth of Cleveland, Blue Fly of Freeport, “DON’T USM” of Bridgeport CT, Indian Head of Head Tide and Troutville Pennsylvania, Skull & Crossbones, “I AM HN” and “CB” of Ann Arbor, Liberty Bell and Shield of Concord, Masonic designs including Kennebunkport and Denmark, Maine, “V.A. Sprague PM” of Corinna, Maine, Black Mask of Hazelton, Liberty Bell, Jack O Lantern, Anchors of Magnolia Wisconsin, Globe of Zanesville, Ohio, One Cent Coin of Milford, Indiana, “69” in circle of High Point North Carolina on illustrated sewing machine cover, Cross of Bradford, Pennsylvania on Union patriotic cover, Keystone of Chester, Pennsylvania; Carved Faces of Memphis, Tennessee, and Newport, Vermont, the latter on lovely Memphremagog House advertising cover, Man Thumbing Nose, likely of Brattleboro, strong holding of Pennsylvania, Blue Bird of Rockford, Illinois, fancy “OCT” of Putnam, CT double-strike on uprated stationery cover, “Charter Oak” of Thomaston, CT, “CV” of Charlottesville, Virginia, Elk’s Head of Lynchburg, “OK” of Richmond and Old Point Comfort, UV of University of Virginia, “III” in Circle of East Plainfiel NH on Union patriotic cover, and much more, from a number of states including Alabama, California (with 1872 transatlantic usage to France), Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and more, condition varies as expected in such an extensive holding, an overall exceptional collection, with many items having graced renowned collections of the past,  almost the entirety of which one graced the famed Boker collection, an astounding opportunity to obtain the basis of a world-class collection of this fascinating field.
 
 

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Harnden Express postal history collection, 1840s/60s, neatly-written up on pages, over twenty items beginning with a letter from William F. Harnden to the President of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad (ex Burrus), followed by a range of desirable pieces, including a rare 1847 entire to Russia (Wibourg) showing framed “POSTAGE PAID / TO DESTINATION / BY / HARNDEN & CO / OF / LIVERPOOL”, circular “PAID / H. & Co”, and reverse with “FORWARDED BY / HARNDEN & CO / BOSTON”, 1840 folded letter with “FORWARDED FROM / HARNDEN’S / PACKAGE EXPRESS & FOREIGN / LETTER OFFICE” (Boston), 1840 transatlantic to the United Kingdom with circular “FORWARDED BY / HARNDEN’S EXPRESS / FROM / BOSTON”, 1842 Havana to London forwarded via New York and Boston, 1866 Harper’s Ferry receipt, various types of “HARNDEN EXPRESS” and “HARNDEN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN EXPRESS” envelopes, full-rigged ship illustrated “FORWARDED BY / HARNDEN & CO / NO 20 WATER ST / LIVERPOOL” oval on two folded covers, four scarce labels from Cincinnati (white), Wall Street (blue), Savannah (orange) and Baltimore (orange), concluding with embossed Livingston & Co “Late Harnden Express Forwarder” envelope with embossed illustration on flap, transatlantic letters carried via the Acadia, Columbia, Caledonia, Britannia, etc, condition varies, some items with faults, but an important assembly of scarce material recounting the history of this pioneering independent express company.

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Local Stamps, balance of consignment, a broad holding replete with desirable items, noting American Letter Mail Co, with both 5L1 and 5L2 on cover, cancelled in manuscript 5L1 sheet of twenty, with reprint sheets in brown, orange, and violet; extensive range of Blood’s with D.O. Blood & Co. / City Despatch / Paid cut to shape on cover (15L8); eighteen small Blood’s Despatch / Blood’s Penny Post Philad’a on cover, many jointly with 3c Washington, one on attractive cameo machinery advertising cover, another with PHILADA RAILROAD straight-line; two Blood’s Penny Post (1c) black Henry Clay on cover; three Bouton’s City Dispatch Post oval strikes in red on stampless covers, 2c black on cover;
Boyd’s City Express, covers with range of types in green (10), black on red (2), 1c black in blue (1) and lilac (2),and 2c red on white (2), several tied; Boyd’s City Dispatch with multiple Eagle and Mercury types, two covers without adhesives, struck with oval handstamps; G. Carter’s Despatch, Philadelphia, five examples on cover one on ribbed paper; City Despatch, Philadelphia 1c black tied to cover; Crosby City Post 2c carmine sheet of twenty five; Cummings City Post, scarce 2c black on rose on glazed paper on folded cover, with P.F. certificate; Douglas City Despatch, range of adhesives (59L1/59L6a), (1c) pink and 1c blue on cover; Dupuy & Schenck 1c grey single; Glen Haven Daily Mail 1c with links, on cover with 3c; Hale & Co. 6c blue three covers, one stampless with “Forwarded by Hale & Co” and “Collect / Six Cents / for / Hale & Co”; useful representation of Hussey’s Post (19), with four Special Delivery stamps tied to cover, one on embossed Adams Express Co. envelope, others including 87L10, 87L39, 87L40, 87L43, 87L44,  87L49, 87L50, 87L51, 87L59, 87L62, 87L64, 87L65, 87L73, 87L74, etc; Pomeroy’s Letter Express with 5c brown large part sheet of 20, 5c black sheet of 40, 5c black on yellow on front with adjacent “Boyd’s City Express Post” datestaamp, twp scarce 5c blue usages on cover cancelled in manuscript, one tied, and scarce franking of two singles, also cancelled with Boyd’s datestamp; Swarts’ City Despatch, ten covers, all but one with 1c red Taylor or Washington frankings, note one on Hallenbeck’s Hotel cameo advertising cover, one 1c pink on transatlantic cover to Vienna; Dunham’s Union Square Post Office with oval handstamp on stampless letter, 1c black on green on cover with 3c; Westtown 2c gold on cover with 3c; handstamped covers of Baltimore City Despatch, Barker’s City Post, Carter’s Despatch, Towle’s City Post, etc, a wonderful assembly, with over 100 covers included, in addition to the stamps, representing a wide range of this fascinating collecting field, many ex-Kuphal and remaining on his album pages, condition varies, as expected, and not all adhesives may originate on the covers, but an overall desirable assembly with many fine items.
 

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Massachusetts Fancy Cancel postal history collection, with over sixty covers, displaying, in addition to a range of geometrics, letters, shields, and other designs, a range of whimsical postmarks from a number of towns, noting Amherst Thistle, fancy “PAID” star of Bonds Village, Cambridge Skulls (2) and Bird, the rare Elephant of Campello, ornate Dedham “Paid”, Northampton Star & Crescent (2), Masonic Square & Compass of Boston, Brookline, Quincy, and South Wilbraham, Turkey of East Boston Station, negative Anchor of Gloucester, Pointing Hand of Mittineague, ornate Springfield floral design in blue, “1885” in Cross and “Stylized S” markings of Stoneham, UNION in Star of West Hampton, the Weston “W”, Shield in Circle of Whitinsville, scarce Coin design of Wilkinsonville, the rare North-South Handshake of Worcester, some flaws noted, but many quality strikes, with most items having graced important collections of the past including Robertson and Boker, a wonderful holding.

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New York Fancy Cancels postal history collection, with over 150 covers, displaying a wide range of charming strikes, including floral, cogwheels, wedges, letters, diamonds, shields, letters, and rosettes, with more unusual designs including Masonic, Skull & Crossbones, “Head Under Wreath”, note advertising, Civil War patriotic, and other desirable usages, more than a few dozen post offices represented including Brasher Falls, Bush, Candor, Cold Spring, Copake Iron Works, Hemlock Lake, Hornellsville, Lima, Memphis, Stockholm Depot, Oriskany, Horseheads, Macedon, Unadilla, Union Springs, and more, condition varies, but many choice strikes, a lovely collection for expansion.

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Stampless postal history collection, neatly-organized on pages, with over 45 items, most with a particularly interesting attribute, noting several ship letters including transatlantic, with 1840s/50s usages to the Switzerland, Italy, and France, as well as steamship markings of the “Steamer Dallas,” “Steamer Cora” and “Steam Boat Belle Creole”,  1845 “Forwarded by Hale & Co” with boxed “Collect / Six Cents / for / Hale & Co”, pretty ornately-bordered Valentine from Lockport to Boston, illustrated “Maps of the Routes of the American Express Co.”, 1812 cancelled free frank from Albany to Philadelphia with notation “Missent to Washington City”, etc, typical filing folds and other small faults to be expected in places, but a chiefly fine group with fascinating potential for further study.

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Transatlantic Mail via Forwaring Agents, a neatly-mounted collection of twenty one items, 1830s through 1850s, all to London and carried via a range of ships including the Acadia, Ashburton, Asia, Britannia, Cambria, Columbus, Europa, Garrick, Hibernia, Independence, Niagara, Royal William, Sheridan, and Silas Richards, originating from Baltimore, Havana, Mobile, Matanzas, New Orleans, or New York, and all via forwarding agents, with all but a few showing agent handstamps, including Hudson’s News Room, De Rham, Iselin, & Moore, I.W. Ward, Meyer & Hupeden, Heckschers, Coster & Matfeld, Castello, Meyer & Stucken, F & J Brockelmann, Schmidt & Vogel, H. Bleidorn, and Judson, Andrews & Co, some small faults to covers, but most with fine strikes of agent markings, an attractive and useful group.

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United States stamps and postal history collection balance, the vast majority being nineteenth century, with stampless transatlantic usages including 1854 San Francisco to Paris, 1859 via New York to Germany, 1845 5c black Postmasters’ Provisional on folded letter to Providence RI,  1847 1c brown single on piece tied by neat town cancel, three examples on cover including from Chicago, Brockville CT, and New Haven CT, 1847 10c on front from Detroit to Pittsburg, lovely silk and lace Valentine, many 3c Washington on cover with a range of cancellations, including manuscript, forwarded, one adhesive showing portion of straddle-pane guideline margin, select singles and multiples including a lovely 1851 12c horizontal pair, as well as a perforated 12c horizontal pair showing portion of straddle-pane guideline, two 1855 10c green showing straddle-pane guideline margin, Civil War usages including 1862 Magnus patriotic from Washington, D.C. (stains), Union patriotic with Keene, Ohio manuscript cancel, beautiful “Dearest Spot on Earth to Me is Home, Sweet Home” Magnus illustrated advertising letter sheet, “Secessionist” hand-colored Mule design from Steubenville, and 1862 Washington DC illustrated patriotic letterhead, 1869 1c buff single franking from Hudson, New York, 10c Eagle & Shield solo franking to Switzerland, steamboat covers including handstamps of the Red River Packet “Countess”, the New Orleans & Grand Encore “Frolic”, and  “Swamp Fox” cover from Louisiana, 30c  Franklin single franking to Germany, over twenty 1860s Bank Note Issues, some grilled, noting range of shades, frankings, and postmarks including manuscript and fancy cancels, foreign destinations including 1864 12c+3c franking to Paris, charming 27c franking mourning cover from Tarrytown to Belgium via British packet with manuscript town cancel, Territorial markings, Cory PA Eagle fancy cancel on piece, multiple desirable dollar-value Columbian used singles, advertising with full-front Lampe & Co Importers stampless transatlantic to Germany, 1c Black Jack on Great American Tea Co. and Lewis & Clark Centennial full-front illustrations,scarce 1899 $1 black Guam overprint on registered cover from Agana, 1853 3c dark red pair on folded letter from Lahaina, Hawaii (repairs),  interesting 1885 Division of Dead Letters envelope with yellow and 1900 Portland Street Fair & Carnival, and selection of twelve charming twentieth century fancy cancel covers including Fly Ohio, Lakewood Illinois Flower, “Beetle” of Bug Kentucky, Statue of Liberty of Liberty, Arizona, etc, a lovely collection, with over 100 covers and several dozen stamps, with some faults to be expected but of overall better quality than often seen, worthy of detailed inspection.
 
 
 
 
 
 

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Waterbury, Connecticut Fancy Cancel collection, with roughly 100 covers, with a wide range of times, including Arrowheads (Rohloff) B-2, B-3, B-4, B-7, B-8, B-13, B-14, B-16, Crossroads C-4, C-6, C-7, C-10, Circle of Wedges D-12, D-15, the latter on lovely Bank Note cover to Austria, D-22, Shamrock F-11, scarce Pumpkin G-2, grid cancels H-5/5a, H-6, H-8A  H10, H13, H19, H25, Heart & Arrows J-4, J-5 (in red, on 3c Bank Note,) J-7, Letters with “Negative D” K-6, the rare “Initial G” K-8, three strikes on cover to Washington, “Negative H” K-11, Leaves with L-8, L-9, L-10, L-11, L-12, L-17, L-21, L-27, L-29, L-31, L-32, L-40, L-41, L-44, L-48, L-50, L-51, Rosettes P-2, P-4, P-4a, P-5, P-8, P-9, P-10, P11-12, P-13, P-15, P-17, P-18, P-19, P-20, P-21, P-22 P-23, P-25, P-26, P-27, P-28, P-29, P-30, Shields with Q-2, Q-3, Q-6,Q-7, Q-8, Q-10, Stars with S-1, S-2, S-3, S-6, S-7, and S-8, condition varies, with some faults, chiefly selected for choice strikes, overall superior quality to what is often encountered, and a lovely accumulation of these charming and ever-popular postmarks.
 

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Wells, Fargo and Co.& Western Express balance of collection, with fifteen items, noting two 1862 25c blue Pony Express covers, each on 3c pink entire, cancelled respectively in Virginia City NT and Coloma (both faulty) four-margin 25c red on 3c entire piece, cancelled San Francisco, fine strike of oval “Chinese Camp” Express mark, 1882 3c green with printed frank postmarked “Bartlett Springs” 1890 Wells Fargo printed frank entire from Monterey to San Francisco, “Benicia” oval on 3c Nesbitt entire, “Steamer EMILY” straight-line on 2c entire from San Francisco, undated 3c entire with red frank from New York to Benton Wisconsin with “Due 3” in manuscript, unused 3c entire with “VICTORIA / PAID / V.I.” in blue, 1889 Mexico entire from Leon to Mexico City, Canada 1874 6c Small Queen cover from Victoria, British Columbia to Walla Walla via Portland with red PAID ALL, attractive Greenhood & Newbauer Northern Express with Weaverville Cal oval, Langton & Bros Yuba River Express embossed cover, J. Bamber & Co Contra Costa Express, scarce Bannack City Express handstamp on cover from Cleveland, some small faults but a chiefly fine and desirable group.
 

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