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Stampless Stories: A Postal History of America continued...

Colonial America continued...
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
12 c ImageSt. Eustatius, Dutch West Indies, to Marblehead Mass., 1772, Sh 2 dwt”. Folded letter datelined St. Eustatia June 22, 1772”, addressed to Marblehead Mass., manuscript per favor” notation at bottom, manuscript Sh 2dwt” and 5/” (local currency) rates, letter includes detailed discussion of trade in sugar and rum and discusses doing business in places such as Gibraltar and Barcelona, Very Fine incoming ship letter (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
13 c ImageBarbados to New York, 1772, NEW/YORK”. Two-line handstamp and 7/OC” (Oct. 7) Franklin mark on back of folded cover from Barbados to James Pemberton in Philadelphia, red manuscript Sh 2.16” ship-letter postmark (2dwt plus 16gr ship fee), red 1/4” due in local currency (2dwt16gr=8p x 1.67 inflation factor=14p plus 2p carrier fee, or 1sh4p), sender’s directive p Cap. Montgomery Via New York”, receipt docketing Barbados Sept. 3d 1772 from Cap. Jno. Harr”, minor repaired spots around edges where paper has eroded, accompanied by 1771 folded cover from Barbados to Philadelphia carried by ship captain and rated 1/6” due, toned, scarce Colonial covers from Barbados (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $900.00
Will close during Public Auction
14 c ImageThe Piscataqua Puzzle (New Hampshire-Maine). Eleven folded covers addressed to John Reynell in Philadelphia, receipt docketing dated from 1741 to 1760, ten have different forms of the enigmatic Piscataqua manuscript postmarks, includes Piscad. 8dwt” (three, all 1741), Pest. 8dwt” (1743), Piscaty. 8dwt” (1744), Piscata. 8dwt” (1744), Piscata. 16dwt” (1745), Paid 16dwt” (1759), and Paid 8dwt” (two, both 1760), the eleventh cover is a 1760 Free E. Russell Jr.” postmaster’s free frank (Eleazar Russell was the first postmaster of Portsmouth N.H.), file folds and some with minor toning or faults, overall a very clean and presentable group.

The enigmatic Piscataqua postmarks were the subject of an article by Nancy B. Clark in the 77th Congress Book (The puzzle of the Piscataqua postmarks”). The Reynell correspondence, including the covers offered here, provided a substantial group for study, and Ms. Clark reached the following conclusion about the markings’ origins (boldface added for emphasis): It is not possible to form a definitive conclusion as to where the origination markings were applied. However, the ferry service, which ran from Kittery upriver to Sturgeon Creek (Eliot), Dover, Salmon Falls and also from Kittery to Portsmouth, seems to be the only viable connection for all the postmarks’ occurrences. It can be hypothesized that the Piscataqua pstmarks were applied by the Naval Officer in Kittery to indicate the mail came from the Maine plantations by way of the ferry. Of course, the Naval Officer was [Colonel William] Pepperrell who was off fighting battles for his royal sponsors, so it was doubtless his deputy much of the time.” (Image)

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 E. $ 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $3,750.00
Will close during Public Auction
15 c ImagePhiladelphia to Elizabethtown N.J., 1765, Phi 2”. Red manuscript postmark and 2dwt rate on folded cover to Charles Norris in Elizabethtown N.J., Oct. 4, 1765 receipt docketing, small edge tear at top, Very Fine, Benjamin Franklin’s brother Peter was postmaster of Philadelphia from about the middle of October 1764 until his death on July 1, 1766 (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
16 c ImagePhiladelphia to Salem Mass., 1771, PHILA/DELPHIA”. Two-line handstamp in red with 16/NO” (Nov. 16) Franklin mark struck on back of Nov. 16, 1771 folded letter to Salem, New England”, red 4” (dwt) manuscript rate, faint vertical file fold, Very Fine Colonial handstamped straightline (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction
17 c ImagePotomack (?), Maryland, 1751, p: 1/”. Tiny manuscript postmark and 1sh rate on folded cover to John Reynell in Philadelphia, the only clue to this previously unreported postmark’s origin is the receipt docketing From Berkett & Booth, Rece’d 4 mon 26th 1751 p. Post Via Maryland”, Berkett & Booth was a merchant firm in Antigua, lightly toned, Very Fine, presumably the 1/” rate is 1sh (or 4dwt), if the postmark is indeed the initial p”, then perhaps this is a Potomack River marking, Calvet M. Hahn reported a July 6, 1732, advertisement for Port Tobacco Md. post office as Potomack River” (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction
18 c ImageShrewsbury Md, 1774, 7d Postage Due to Yr. Humb. Servt. to Command, Alexr. Anderson”. Unusual postage due notation on folded cover to John Cadwalader in Shrewsbury Md., receipt docketing Joseph Peddle, 17 July 1774”, one file fold toned, otherwise Fine, 7p postage is 3dwt8gr without inflation factor, Alexander Anderson is listed in military records as a lieutenant-colonel, First Battalion, Colonel Joseph Kirkbride, Bucks County, Pennsylvania Associators, 1775, and same rank in Bucks County, Pennsylvania Militia, April 19, 1776; he apparently paid the postage on this cover to Lieutenant-Colonel John Cadwalader; the sender was Joseph Peddle, a Quaker farmer in Burlington County whose property was seized by New Jersey Whigs, because he had refused to bear arms for either side due to his religious beliefs. (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction
19 c ImageOn His Majesty’s Service, R N. Colden”. Manuscript free frank and address in Colden’s hand to postmaster at Newport R.I., printed notice from R. N. Colden, Secretary of the Colonial General Post Office, dated November 10, 1774, requesting copies of official correspondence, pay vouchers and postal receipts, copies of this notice were sent to all Colonial post offices at the time questions of loyalty to the Crown arose — although the notices and responses are discussed in official minutes of Deputy Postmaster General meetings, actual examples are extremely rare — Very Fine (Image)

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 E. $ 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $2,200.00
Will close during Public Auction

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