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The Bernard Faust Collection of U.S. 1863-68 Black Jack Issues continued...

Precancels
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
1149 c Image2c Black (73). Several strikes of Rochester double-circle precancel handstamp, affixed to unsealed red James Vick Flower and Vegetable Seeds illustrated corner card cover to Grand Rapids Mich., slight edgewear, Very Fine, a rare precancel on the Black Jack, the stamps in Rochester were cancelled in full panes by the Rochester double-circle postmark (dateless), then separated, very few are known and this is the discovery copy, accompanied by typed note describing its past history and description in publications, it was first reported in the June 1902 issue of The New York Philatelist, illustrated in Allen book on p. 33 (Image)

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 E. $ 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
1150 c Image2c Black (73). Three strikes of clear Rochester double-circle precancel handstamp, affixed to unsealed red James Vick Flower and Vegetable Seeds illustrated corner card cover to Prospect O., slight edgewear, Very Fine, a rare precancel on the Black Jack, the stamps in Rochester were cancelled in full panes by the Rochester double-circle postmark (dateless), then separated, very few are known (Image)

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 E. $ 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
1151 c Image2c Black (73). Centered to right, manuscript "1864" cancel entirely within the stamp, press-printed "Cumberland Me. Mar. 28" circular datestamp with "28" in manuscript on "Horace I. Gray Card & Job Printer" corner card cover to the Chairman of the Board of Selectmen of Carmel Me.

VERY FINE. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE CUMBERLAND, MAINE, PRESS-PRINTED DATESTAMP ON A COVER WITH THE 1863 2-CENT BLACK JACK.

The Cumberland press-printed postmarks are discussed by Sterling T. Dow in Maine Postal History and Postmarks and by James W. Milgram in an article in the Chronicle (May 2005, pp. 90-95). There are five types. This type (Dow Ty. 5), and perhaps all of the others, were printed by Horace I. Gray. Examples of this type are also known with 1c and 3c 1861 Issues on cover where the stamp is not tied and is separately cancelled by manuscript, as well as one tied (offered in our 2011 Rarities sale). Milgram states that the Ty. 5 datestamp was printed prior to the stamps being applied, which may or may not have been the case here, though the 1864 date written entirely within the margins of the stamp could also indicate a precancel that was applied to each stamp in the sheet before application to the covers.

Illustrated in the Allen book on p. 33 (Image)

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $1,600.00
Will close during Public Auction
1152 c Image2c Black on Light Manila wrapper, Die 4 (W57). Printed "WADE'S/P.O. BOOK./SOUTH BEND,/IND./Dec. 25, 1869" precancellation and postmark in five lines with part-printed "Postmaster" address to Clarion Pa.

EXTREMELY FINE. A REMARKABLE PRINTED PRECANCEL ON A WRAPPER -- ONE EXAMPLE EACH OF TWO DIFFERENT VERSIONS ARE RECORDED, THIS BEING THE FINER OF THE TWO. ONE OF THE MOST IMPORTANT POSTAL STATIONERY AND CANCELLATION-RELATED ITEMS IN THE FAUST COLLECTION.

The precancelled wrappers were produced by A. B. Wade, postmaster of South Bend, Indiana. Wade was a publisher of account books for keeping post office records. Two differently worded versions are known, each represented by one recorded example. The other, which is slightly toned, is shown in an exhibit of Black Jack postal stationery available at http://www.upss.org/assets/images/pdf/blackjack%20exhibit.pdf ).

Ex Dr. Rorke (not part of the 1988 Christie's auction -- from a group sold later by Dr. Rorke through Siegel) (Image)

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 E. $ 4,000-5,000

SOLD for $3,250.00
Will close during Public Auction

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