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United States continued...

1847 Issue
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
3449 og 1 image1847, 5¢ red brown (Scott 1), part o.g., bright and clean with four clear (close at top) to full margins; sound and attractive, Fine to Very Fine, with 2014 P.S.A.G. certificate.
Scott $6,000. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $3,000-4,000
SOLD for $1,600.00
Will close during Public Auction
3450 ng 1 image1847, 5¢ red brown (Scott 1), unused without gum, beautiful example with four full, even margins; strong color and crisp detail, Extremely Fine, with 1971 P.F. certificate.
Scott $2,100. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $2,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
3451 ng 1 image1847, 5¢ red brown (Scott 1), unused without gum, fresh and sound with full, well-balanced margins, plus clean color and definition, Very Fine, with 2015 P.F. certificate.
Scott $2,100. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $1,400.00
Will close during Public Auction
3452 cover 1 image1847, 5¢ red brown (Scott 1), three large margins, just clear at top, canceled by a light red grid and tied by a matching Feb 28 Pittsburgh c.d.s. on an 1850 folded letter with a printed letterhead for Taaffe & O'Connor, Forwarding & Commission Agents for the Pittsburgh Portable Boat Line; to Blairsville Pa., Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
CLOSED
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3453 cover 1 image1847, 5¢ red brown (Scott 1), three huge margins including adjacent stamp at top, just clear at right, tied by red grid cancel alongside a matching Dec 7 Pittsburgh c.d.s. on an 1849 folded letter with a printed letterhead for Taaffe & O'Connor, Forwarding & Commission Agents for the Pittsburgh Portable Boat Line; to Blairsville Pa., Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
CLOSED
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3454 cover 1 image1847, 5¢ red brown (Scott 1), three full margins, just clear at top, tied by a light red grid alongside a Mar 9 Pittsburgh c.d.s. on an two-page 1850 folded to Blairsville Pa., the second page being a printed promotional letter for the "Pittsburgh Portable Boat Line, for the Transportation of Freight to and from Philadelphia, Baltimore, New-York, Boston, &c."; Very Fine.


In the early 1800s, Conestoga wagons were the best method of transportation for travel and commerce. Under optimal conditions, 23 days were required to travel from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. But, by the mid-1820s, the success of New York’s Erie Canal system and its negative impact on Pennsylvania’s trade business inspired the Pennsylvania legislature to authorize the construction of canals from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh. Unfortunately, the Allegheny Mountains lay between the two cities and the technology to build a canal system, either through or over the mountains, was lacking. The original plan involved building a four mile tunnel through the bottom of the mountains, but tunnel building was new and there were serious concerns about successfully maintaining an adequate amount of water in the tunnel. Thus, based upon a system being used in England, it was decided to build a railroad series of ten inclined planes, five on each side of the mountain. At the head of each inclined plane was a stationary engine, which moved endless ropes to pull the railroad cars up the mountain. This incline system had to be used because the locomotives of this time lacked the power to pull fully loaded cars up the steep mountains. Locomotives could only be used on the more level areas of the mountain.

The Allegheny Portage Railroad was 36 miles in length connecting the Hollidaysburg Canal Basin with the basin at Johnstown where canals finished the Public Works system into Pittsburgh. The Portage Railroad officially opened March 18, 1834, and reduced the travel time from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh to four days. The railroad and canal system successfully spurred trade in Pennsylvania. The system carried raw materials to the east and manufactured goods to the west. The Allegheny Portage Railroad and the Public Works system operated from 1834-1854 when it was replaced by the Pennsylvania Railroad Company's newly-completed all-rail line from Philadelphia to Pittsburgh.

The Pittsburgh Portable Boat Line was a private shipping line that carried freight along the Pennsylvania Canal system from Pittsburgh east to Philadelphia, and then on to New York, Baltimore, Boston, etc., and west to Cincinnati. The 82 feet long "portable boats" were built in three or four sections with each section watertight. The sections locked together to form a cplt boat, but were hauled separately - while still holding their freight - for overland transport, either by train or or teams of horses or oxen, to the next water route on the canal. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $1,500-2,500
SOLD for $900.00
Will close during Public Auction
3455 O 1 image1847, 5¢ red brown (Scott 1), fresh with four nicely balanced margins, light impression with complimentary red cancel, Extremely Fine, with 2023 P.S.A.G. certificate graded XF 90.
SMQ XF 90; $875.
Scott $425. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
3456 O 1 image1847, 5¢ red brown (Scott 1), attractive example with bright color, four clear margins, and clean paper; sound with manuscript cancel plus black and red postmarks, nearly Very Fine.
Scott $425. (Image)

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Estimate $250-350
SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction
3457 O 1 image1847, 5¢ red brown (Scott 1), Post Office fresh with strong color, large lateral margins, and two blue circular grid cancels, Very Fine to Extremely Fine, with 2022 P.F. certificate graded VF-XF 85.
SMQ VF-XF 85; $650.
Scott $465. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $400-600
SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction
3458 O 1 image1847, 5¢ red brown (Scott 1), a whopper of a stamp with red cancel and large to massive margins, Extremely Fine to Superb, with 2020 P.S.E. certificate graded XF-SUP 95.
SMQ XF-SUP 95; $1,500.
Scott $425. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
CLOSED
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3459 cover 1a image1847, 5¢ dark brown (Scott 1a), four nice margins, tied by a red square grid alongside a matching "New-York, Oct 1" c.d.s. on an 1847 folded letter to Albany, N.Y., Very Fine, signed J.A. Fox.
Scott $625. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
3460 cover 1a image1847, 5¢ dark brown (Scott 1a), four nice margins, tied by a red square grid alongside a matching "New-York, Jun 9" c.d.s. on an 1848 folded letter to Albany, N.Y., Very Fine, signed J.A. Fox.
Scott $625. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction
3461 O 1a image1847, 5¢ dark brown (Scott 1a), the picture of perfection, with rich, deep color, immaculate paper sporting perfectly balanced margins, and an unobtrusive red cancel, Superb, a Top of the Pop, one of just four stamps to attain this lofty grade in PSE's Population Report, with 2012 P.S.E. certificate graded SUP 98.
SMQ SUP 98; $4,500.
Scott $525. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $3,500-5,000
CLOSED
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3462 cover 1b image1847, 5¢ orange brown, unique use from Assumption LA (Scott 1b), large margins all around except close at bottom left, black 7-bar grid cancel, matching "Assumption LA Oct. 3" circular datestamp at top left, on cover front with right side panel written in French, addressed to New Orleans, Very Fine, stamp. According to Alexander's 1847 Cover Census book: 1) there are no other known 1847 covers from Assumption; 2) Assumption did not receive any 1847 stamps; 3) this cover is from 1850 but we cannot find any evidence to support the claim, ex-Lippman. (Image)

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Estimate $350-500
SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
3463 cover 1b image1847, 5¢ orange brown (Scott 1b), horizontal pair, each in at top, tied to folded address sheet datelined "Feby 8/51" to New York, N.Y., by four blue grid cancels, matching "Milwaukie/Feb/9/Wis." postmark at right; vertical file folds of no consequence, Fine to Very Fine, with 2023 P.F. certificate.
Scott $1,840 off-cover. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction
3464 O 1b image1847, 5¢ orange brown (Scott 1b), rich color, large balanced margins and light grid cancel, Very Fine, with a 2022 P.S.E. certificate mistakenly noting a blue grid cancel.
Scott $750. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $400-600
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction
3465 cover 1c image1847, 5¢ red orange (Scott 1c), a lovely, four full-margined example, tied to folded letter sheet datelined Apl 22, 1851 by red grid cancel with matching New-York postmark of Apr 22 alongside; addressed to Catskill, N.Y.; wonderfully clean for its age, and a simply gorgeous stamp, Very Fine, with 2023 P.S.A.G. certificate.
Scott $10,000. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $3,500-5,000
SOLD for $3,250.00
Will close during Public Auction
3466 O 2 image1847, 10¢ black (Scott 2), sound, four-margined example, cleanly printed with good color and a light blue postmark, Very Fine.
Scott $950. (Image)

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Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
3467 O 2 image1847, 10¢ black (Scott 2), fresh with strong color, nicely centered with lightened manuscript "X" and blue cancels; faint hint of corner crease at upper right, otherwise Very Fine.
Scott $675. (Image)

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Estimate $350-500
SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction
3468 O 2 image1847, 10¢ black (Scott 2), an attractive, completely sound horizontal strip of 3, clear to large margins almost all around, the left stamp being barely shaved at the top and just into the frame line at the lower left, Fine to Very Fine. An exceedingly rare sound strip of three.
Scott $10,000. (Image)

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Estimate $4,000-6,000
SOLD for $4,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
3469 O 2 image1847, 10¢ black (Scott 2), with lovely centering amid four full, balanced margins, fresh-faced with extremely light red cancel; small thin in chin, otherwise Very Fine.
Scott $900. (Image)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction
3470 O 2 image1847, 10¢ black (Scott 2), four-margined and sound with strong color and a nearly face-free red New York square grid cancel; lightened pen stroke cancel, Very Fine to Extremely Fine, with 1980 and 2022 P.F. certificates.
Scott $575. (Image) (Image2) (Image3)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction
3471 O 2 image1847, 10¢ black (Scott 2), lovely and sound four-margined example with light red grid cancel, Very Fine to Extremely Fine, with 2004 P.F. certificate.
Scott $900. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $800-1,200
SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction

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