• Login (enter your user name) and Password
    Please Login. You are NOT Logged in.

    Quick Search:

  • To see new sales and other StampAuctionNetwork news in your Facebook newsfeed then Like us on Facebook!

Login to Use StampAuctionNetwork.
New Member? Click "Register".

StampAuctionNetwork Extended Features

StampAuctionNetwork Channels
 
You are not logged in. Please Login so that we can determine your registration status with this firm. If you have never registered, please register by pressing the [Quick Signup (New to StampAuctionNetwork)] button. Then Login. Listen to Live Audio!


 
logo

United States Postal History and Confederate States continued...

1869 Pictorial Issue continued...
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
2339 c Image12c Green (117). Straight edge at right, used with 2c Black (73), tied by unusual blue "Pinwheel" fancy cancels, matching "Galva Ill. Oct. 26" (1869) circular datestamp on undertakers and furniture dealer's buff corner card cover to Gefle, Sweden, red "4 Cents" credit handstamp (rare type), red boxed "Hamburg Franco" datestamp, receiving backstamp, small cover tear at top, Very Fine and rare use, only one other Black Jack-12c 1869 Pictorial Issue combination is known, this is also one of perhaps four or five examples of the 12c used to Sweden (three are listed in the 1869 PRA Census), with 2019 P.F. certificate (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

Get Market Data for [United States 117]

E. $ 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $1,900.00
Will close during Public Auction
2340 c Image12c Green (117). Tied by red split cork foreign mail cancel with matching "Baltimore Md. Nov. 16" (1869) circular datestamp on cover to Oxford, England, red "New York Nov. 17" circular datestamp, docketed across the entire back with the subject of the letter, Very Fine, a rare example of this Baltimore foreign mail cancel on the 12c Adriatic on cover (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

Get Market Data for [United States 117]

E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction
2341 c Image12c Green (117). Choice centering with wide and balanced margins, tied by well-struck Rosette cancel and red "New York Dec. ?" (1869) circular datestamp on cover to London, England, red receiving datestamp, docketed at top left including "From Mr. Grinnell 18.12.69", carried aboard the Inman Line's City of Brooklyn, fresh and Extremely Fine, wonderful quality, ex Haas and Eubanks, with 2002 and 2011 P.F. certificates (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

Get Market Data for [United States 117]

E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $1,100.00
Will close during Public Auction
2342 c Image12c Green (117). Rich color, natural s.e. at right, tied by deep red quartered cork cancel and matching "Trenton N.J. Jul. 12" (1869) circular datestamp on small cover with printed address to "First Assistant Engineer, Clark Fisher, U.S. Navy, U.S.S. Franklin. Care of B.F. Stevens, Esq. No. 17 Henrietta Street, Covent Garden, London", red London Paid transit and red B.F. Stevens double-oval datestamps (both dated Jul. 23), Very Fine and striking with the four separate red markings, with 2013 P.F. certificate (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

Get Market Data for [United States 117]

E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction
2343 c Image12c Green (117). Tied by cork cancel on cover to Keswick, England with green "Patent Arion Piano, Covell & Co." illustrated design, depicts Greek Arion playing the lyre and riding a dolphin with a ship in the distance (Arion was mythically kidnapped by pirates and rescued by dolphins), red "New York Paid All Jun. 23" circular datestamp, 1869 docketing, Keswick backstamp, cover with some edge tears and some toning around stamp, still an attractive and most unusual pictorial design with the 12c 1869 Issue, probably unique (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

Get Market Data for [United States 117]

E. $ 750-1,000

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
2344 c Image15c Brown & Blue, Ty. II (119). Used with 3c Green (147), each tied by clear strike of Barrel fancy cancel, matching "Bloomsburg Pa. Oct. 10" circular datestamp on buff cover to McAlistersville Pa., unusual label at top left with phrases such as "better late than never" and "absent but not forgotten" may or may not be contemporary, Very Fine, rare with the fancy cancel, with 1991 P.F. certificate (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

Get Market Data for [United States 119]

E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $275.00
Will close during Public Auction
2345 c Image15c Brown & Blue, Ty. II (119). Intense shades, few toned spots, target cancel and "Saint Joseph Mo. Jul. 10" (1870) circular datestamp on cover to Odangla, Sweden, New York transit and receiving datestamps on back, red "Wfr. 1-1/2" rate handstamp, vertical fold, lightly toned, Fine, 1c overpayment of 14c North German Union Closed Mail rate, ex Mack, signed Ashbrook, illustrated in 1869 PRA Census book (p. 160) (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

Get Market Data for [United States 119]

E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction
2346 c Image15c Brown & Blue, Ty. II (119). Intense shades, tied by large oval grid cancel, "Otsego Wis. Aug. 10" (1870) circular datestamp on yellow cover to Bergenstift, Norway, red "New York 5 Aug. 17" 5c credit datestamp (scarce type), red "Wfco 2" rate handstamp, Christiana (Sep. 5) transit and Sanussund receiving backstamp, opening slit at top left, Very Fine, one of the finest and most attractive of the few 1869 Pictorial uses to Norway, the 1869 PRA Census lists only two covers to Norway for the 10c value and up, this cover is not the 15c Type II in the census (that cover, ex Rose, was sold in our Sale 794, lot 608), illustrated in the Hargest book (p. 161), ex Coulter (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

Get Market Data for [United States 119]

E. $ 1,000-1,500

SOLD for $1,400.00
Will close during Public Auction
2347 c Image15c Brown & Blue, Ty. II (119). Used with 3c Ultramarine (114), tied by quartered cork cancels, "Washn. D.C. Registered Mar. 21" circular datestamp on small cover to Tata, Hungary, red New York registry datestamp, red "Recomandirt" framed handstamp and red Hamburg transit, receiving backstamps, backflap removed, opening tear at lower left

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THIS IS THE ONLY RECORDED COVER TO HUNGARY BEARING THE 15-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE.

The stamps on this rare cover pay the 10c Direct Mail rate to Germany and 8c registry fee. According to the 1869 Census book, this is the only 15c 1869 (either type) used to Hungary.

Illustrated in 1869 PRA Census book (p. 160). Signed Ashbrook. Ex Mack. (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

Get Market Data for [United States 119]

E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $2,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
2348 c Image30c Ultramarine & Carmine (121). Bright colors, tied by circle of wedges cancel, "New Orleans La. May 5" circular datestamp on oversize cover to Jackson Miss., 1870 docketing at left indicates courthouse contents, reduced at sides, expertly cleaned and repaired, stamp with central toned spot

FINE APPEARANCE. A RARE DOMESTIC COVER WITH THE 30-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ISSUE PAYING TEN TIMES THE 3-CENT RATE.

Our records contain only eight covers with the 30c 1869 Pictorial on domestic covers sent between U.S. post offices (the 1869 PRA Census contains five). Ex "Lake Shore". Scott Retail $17,500.00 on cover to a domestic destination is half the value of a foreign use, despite the far greater availability of the foreign uses (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

Get Market Data for [United States 121]

E. $ 5,000-7,500

SOLD for $4,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

Previous Page, Next Page or Return to Table of Contents

StampAuctionCentral and StampAuctionNetwork are
Copyright © 1994-2022 Droege Computing Services, Inc.
All Rights Reserved.
Mailing Address: 20 West Colony Place
Suite 120, Durham NC 27705
Back to Top of Page