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The Benjamon Franklin Bailar Collection: A Postal Historical Study of America's First Postmaster Gen continued...

1861-68 Issues
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
2585 c Image1c Blue, 3c Rose (63, 65). 3c regular postage plus 1c carrier fee to the mails, both stamps tied by clear strike of New-York (month?) 7, 1862” double-circle datestamp and duplex target cancel on multicolored chromolithographed advertising cover for Smith & Brother Brewers N.Y. depicting men toasting with India Pale Ale, beautifully addressed to J. W. Powell in Rutland Vt., printer’s imprint below design from Sarony, Major & Knapp at 449 Broadway in New York, immaculate condition

EXTREMELY FINE. THIS UNIQUE EXAMPLE OF A SKILLFULLY CHROMOLITHOGRAPHED DESIGN FOR SMITH & BROTHER BREWERS IS WIDELY REGARDED AS THE MOST BEAUTIFUL CLASSIC AMERICAN ADVERTISING COVER IN EXISTENCE.

This 1862 advertising cover, depicting three men toasting with Smith & Brother India Pale Ale, is one of the earliest examples of a chromolithographed American advertising envelope. It was printed by the well-known firm of Sarony, Major & Knapp, located at 449 Broadway in New York. This firm produced a wide variety of high-quality lithographic prints, sheet music covers and product labels during the mid-nineteenth century.

Napoleon Sarony worked as an apprentice for several lithographers, including Nathaniel Currier of Currier & Ives. Sarony left the lithography business in 1864 to become a photographer and earned fame as a pioneer in this field. Sarony succeeded Matthew Brady as America’s best-known portrait photographer and was especially renowned for photographing stars of the New York stage. His portrait of William T. Sherman was used for the first postage stamp to depict Sherman (the 8c 1893 Issue).

Chromolithography was a successful but expensive method for creating multicolored prints. The earliest American chromolithographs appeared around 1840. Other multicolor printing methods typically employed woodblocks or other forms of relief-printing material (one for each color). In lithography an image is applied to a smooth surface--in this period, usually a highly-polished limestone. After the image is drawn or transferred to the surface, the stone is treated to create areas that will hold ink and blank areas that will reject ink. The impression on a sheet of paper is left by the areas of the printing stone that retain ink. In chromolithography each color in the image is from by a separate stone, inked in the desired color. Simple and inexpensive color lithography uses two or just a few colors. High-quality chromolithographers, such as Sarony, Major & Knapp, used a greater number of stones to achieve subtle shade variations and tonal qualities. The envelope offered here is a prime example of chromothography, and it is unlike anything seen in advertising envelopes until decades later.

Ex Felder and Gabriel. With 2002 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 E. $ 20,000-30,000

SOLD for $35,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
2586 c Image1c Blue (63). Rich color, tied by boldly struck "Paid" in oval cancel, red "Boston Mass. Feb. 24" double-circle datestamp on multicolored Romeo & Juliet Valentine cover addressed locally, with original embossed multicolored enclosure depicting lovebirds kissing and with "You are all my heart's treasure/My joy and my pleasure" label affixed, cover has small tear at right from opening

EXTREMELY FINE. A BEAUTIFUL MULTICOLORED ROMEO AND JULIET VALENTINE DESIGN, WITH A BEAUTIFUL STAMP AND MARKINGS.

Ex "Sevenoaks". (Image)

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $6,750.00
Will close during Public Auction
2587 c Image1c Blue (63). Three, affixed along top of Leeds and Franklin Patent envelope, right stamp properly affixed over latticework, each tied by "Stratford Vt. Jun. 29" circular datestamp, addressed to South Harwick Vt., the stamp affixed over latticework lifted and placed on blue card (latticework still adheres to back of stamp), slightly reduced at right, Very Fine, the patent envelope was a means of confirming the date of use (important for commercial and legal correspondence), the latticework allowed the stamp with its dated cancel to be affixed to the contents, this is the only recorded example of a Leeds & Franklin patent envelope used with three 1c stamps, illustrated in the Evans 1c book on p. 393, ex Christian (Image)

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 E. 1,000-1,500

SOLD for $2,300.00
Will close during Public Auction
2588 c Image1c Blue (63). Rich color, tied by strike of Apr. 5, 1863 N.Y. town double-circle datestamp on buff cover to Holley N.Y., clear strike of "SEEDS ONLY" handstamp at center, reduced at left, few vertical file folds well away from stamp, few cover flaws and stamp affected from placement at edge of cover, still Fine and extremely rare, the Postal Act of Feb. 27, 1861, provided for a special rate for mail containing agricultural seeds only, the rate was 1c for one ounce sent under 1,500 miles, this is the first example of this rate (clearly marked) we have offered since keeping computerized records (Image)

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 E. 1,000-1,500

SOLD for $900.00
Will close during Public Auction
2589 c Image1c Blue, 2c Black (63, 73). Intense shade, tied by quartered cork cancels, "Chicago Ill. Jul. ?" circular datestamp on buff cover with Young Men's Christian Association "Good Samaritan" label to Belmont O., 1c affixed over edge of cover, slightly reduced at right, Fine, ex Lake Shore (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $2,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
2590   Image1c Blue, F. Grill (92). Vertical pair, clear grill points, both stamps with piece out, cancelled by March 1869 manuscripts and used on illustrated bank check from Austin Tex., some slight wear, Fine, a scarce and colorful use of the grilled issue as a revenue (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $225.00
Will close during Public Auction
2591 c Image3c + 1c Red & Blue on White Star Die entire (U28). Bold "Havre de Grace Md. Aug. 23, 1861" circular datestamp, to street address in New York City, vertical fold, slight soiling, still Very Fine, extremely rare example of the compound Star Die entire used outside of New York City to prepay carrier delivery to addressee, ex Meyersburg (Image)

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 E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $900.00
Will close during Public Auction
2592   ImageJ. R. Richardson, Two Cent Violet on White Paper, Postage Currency. Franklin vignette flanked by "2" counters, "Redeemable in U.S. Postage Currency" and 21 Liberty Street, Utica N.Y. address, signed by J. R. Richardson and issued, large margins showing Childs & Williams imprint at bottom, a few pinholes, Extremely Fine appearance, ex Ford, Harris No. H217 (New York Scrip and Private Issues), this note is also known with a Washington vignette (Image)

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 E. 300-400

SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction
2593   ImageTake Ayer's Pills, 1c Blue (EP8). Retains most of original silvering on reverse, minor stamp flaws but mica remarkably intact, Very Fine (Image)

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 500.00

SOLD for $450.00
Will close during Public Auction
2594   ImageDougan, Hatter, New York, 1c Blue (EP66). Mica intact with only tiny imperfections, stamp with some slight soiling and a small stain, reverse of case with almost complete original silvering

VERY FINE. THE REED CENSUS ESTIMATES ONLY ELEVEN TO FIFTEEN ONE-CENT DOUGAN THE HATTER ENCASED POSTAGE STAMPS HAVE SURVIVED IN ANY CONDITION.

John A. Dougan sold his hats from a store located at 102 Nassau Street in New York City. The advertising legend on Dougan's encasements depicts a men's top hat, making them among the most distinctive and desirable of encased postage stamps. Dougan's store and $5,000 worth of goods were destroyed in a fire on December 12, 1878 (New York Times archive).

Ex "Summit" (Image)

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 $ 2,500.00

SOLD for $2,300.00
Will close during Public Auction
2595   ImageKirkpatrick & Gault, New York, 30c Orange (EP119). Stamp with rich color, positioned with "Thirty Cents" well-framed by bottom edge of case (this encasement is usually not well-centered), small mica flaws, stamp with some slight wrinkling

VERY FINE. THIS KIRKPATRICK & GAULT ISSUE IS ONE OF THE FEW 30-CENT ENCASEMENTS IN ANY SORT OF COLLECTIBLE QUANTITY.

Joseph Kirkpatrick was a small-time munitions importer and president of the United States Dispatch Company in New York City. He became John Gault’s partner in the summer of 1862. According to research by Fred L. Reed III, Gault and Kirkpatrick probably met through a mutual business associate, William V. Barkalow. The Kirkpatrick & Gault encasements solicited Applications for Advertising on this Currency” and gave the 1 Park Place address.

The Reed census assigns an R-6 rating to the 30c Kirkpatrick & Gault (16-20 known). With clear 1987 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 3,500.00

SOLD for $4,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

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