1847 Blood & Co City Despatch cover bearing neat PAID circular handstamp and two advertisement labels for the despatch service, cover addressed within Philadelphia
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1849 Blood & Co City Despatch cover to New York, bearing BLOOD POST OFFICE DESPATCH and advertisement label, red straightline PHILADA RAIL ROAD and circular "5" tax marking
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1853 Folded cover with Zevely franchise marking FREE POST OFFICE STAMPS MADE HERE / PLEASANT GROVE MD in red and addressed to Salem NC, also with Zevely signature at top right, fine and scarce
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ZEVELY cover, red fancy printed advertising design on "nov 23" cover to Miss J. Sofia Zeveley, Salem NC (Zevely's sister), manuscript "Free, E. S. Zevely, PM" at upper right, fine and rare
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1856 5c Red-brown (Pos. 91L), left sheet margin single with neat NEW ORLEANS cds, clear to good margins on the other sides, insignificant marginal crease well away from the design, a exceptional item
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1856 5c Red-brown, horizontal pair with large margins all around, tied by blue BETHLEHEM/PA AUG 29 cds on legal-size printed HOWARD'S EXPRESS cover, arched U.STATES pmk in red alongside, a very rare franking in superb condition Provenance: 1946 HR Harmer auction
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1856 5c Red-brown, horizontal pair with sheet margin at left, used with neat PALMYRA JUN 16 N.Y. cds on small ornamental lady's envelope to Sacramento/CA, the pair is very fresh, mostly with good margins, slightly touched in two places, scarce
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1856 5c Red-brown, large margins except just touching at bottom and 1857-61 10c green, both tied by red PAID hs, PROVIDENCE OCT 12 1858 cds alongside as well as NEW YORK / PAID / 12 cds, French entry cds, fine and scarce
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1862 Confederacy, 7-Star Confederate Flag patriotic design (Dietz F7-12) with printed advertising corner card used as postmark on cover to Savannah, Georgia, boxed corner card of "Catoosa Springs, Catoosa County, GA, Harman & Nichols, Proprietors" below Flag design used as postmark with manuscript "Paid 5" and ms date "Aug. 25", reduced at right, very fine, a lovely cover and unique usage
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1864 CARNES & CO CITY LETTER & PACKAGE EXPRESS: Unused stamp in red, business card in red and mint stamp in blue, a fine and rare trio, the business card has certificate PF
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1866 California City Express 10c blue label, pen-cancelled, corner added at top left and part of design drawn in, nevertheless an extremely rare stamp, cert. Philatelic Foundation
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1909 "Shermack" test-stamps, type III, strip of four, small tear at top right, a scarce unit
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