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UNITED STATES STAMPS continued...

CARRIERS' AND LOCALS continued...
Lot Symbol CatNo. Lot Description CV or Estimate
421 ogbl 143L7 image#143L7, Wells, Fargo & Co., 10c Brown, partial sheet of 25 consisting of two panes of ten and a right half pane of five, unused without gum as always, margins just clear at left to huge with full sheet selvages at top and bottom, light vertical folds affect the second vertical row and the last right vertical row, toning in the top right stamp, very fine appearance; full sheets of 40 are not listed in Scott for this value and we were unable to determine the existence of any, the multiples that we were able to find were blocks of eight or less, not even being full panes of ten, this block of 25 has to be one of the largest multiples extant and a lovely exhibition piece; catalog value is for four blocks of four, four pairs and a single. (Image) $2,550.00

SOLD for $2,400.00
Will close during Public Auction
PONY EXPRESS COVERS
Lot Symbol CatNo. Lot Description CV or Estimate
422 c 143L7 image#143L7, Wells, Fargo & Co., 10c Brown, single with three extra-large margins, just into the frame at right, tied to 3c Pink on white postal entire (#U34) with Wells, Fargo & Co. Paid printed frank, stamp tied by blue "Wells, Fargo & Co./Carson City/Jan 9" oval with an additional strike on the stationery stamp, to Virginia City, the 10c value has a light crease at top right, the postal entire has large sealed tears from rough opening affecting the backflap (small portion missing) and the top of the printed frank, nevertheless a fine appearing example of the Virginia City Pony Express with original enclosure making reference to the sender's "watch dog" snarling when the express man comes; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) $4,500.00

SOLD for $2,400.00
Will close during Public Auction
423 c 143L7 image#143L7, Wells, Fargo & Co., 10c Brown, nice example of this Virginia City Pony value with just clear to mostly large margins all around, tied to 3c Pink on buff postal entire (#U35) with Wells, Fargo & Co. Paid printed frank, stamp tied by blue "Wells, Fargo & Co./Carson City/Jan 30" oval with an additional strike on the stationery stamp, to Virginia City, from the same correspondence as the previous with original enclosure from a loving and worried wife to her ill husband, where she laments not receiving a letter from him and states "It is time to get this to the Office or it will be late for the Pony", apparently this express was a regular means of communication for the pair, envelope opened roughly at left not affecting the stamp and edge wear at bottom, a fine Virginia City Pony cover; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) $4,000.00

SOLD for $1,800.00
Will close during Public Auction
424 c 143L7 image#143L7, Wells, Fargo & Co., 10c Brown, a fresh single tied to cover by blue "Wells, Fargo & Co./Carson City/Jan 23" oval, to Virginia City addressed in the same hand and from the same correspondence as the previous, this being an address paste-up cover, the stamp has three ample to large margins, just along frame at left, small edge tear to top of cover, fine and attractive; paste-up covers were used for addressing and paying the express fees for parcels to which they were pasted, this cover has adherence on the reverse from the parcel including a backflap of another cover indicating that there were several covers pasted together to make the rate; an interesting and rare usage; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) Est. $300-400

SOLD for $525.00
Will close during Public Auction
425 ogbl 143L9 image#143L9, Wells, Fargo & Co., 25c Red, impressive and rare full sheet of 40 consisting of four panes of ten, unused without gum as always, full wide margins all around, some mostly unobtrusive flaws that are typical of sheets including two vertical folds, one between the right two panes and the other affecting the right row of the third pane, light stains in the left pane and at the bottom of the right two panes, still very fine appearance and an important rarity as very few complete sheets are known yet to survive; ex-Knapp. (Image) $4,500.00

SOLD for $3,750.00
Will close during Public Auction
426 c 143L9 image#143L9, Wells, Fargo & Co., 25c Red, single with three clear to ample margins, just along the frame at left, tied to 3c Pink on white postal entire (#U34) with Wells, Fargo & Co. Paid printed frank by blue "Wells, Fargo & Co./Virginia City/May 30" oval, manuscript in bottom left corner "Care Bamber's Express". and red "Bamber's Express Co/Jun 1" circular handstamp, this cover is posted to the writer of the three previous Wells, Fargo covers who is now in Warm Springs, Cal. and written by her Brother in Virginia City requiring the conjunctive use of both express companies, with original enclosure, cover opened irregularly at right not affecting stamps or markings, very fine usage; the 25c Red is the scarcest value on cover of the three Virginia City Pony Express values but is incredibly rare used in conjunction with another express company with only a few examples known; 2013 PF certificate (Image) Est. $4,000-5,000+

SOLD for $5,250.00
Will close during Public Auction
427 c 143LP9 image#143LP9, Wells, Fargo & Co., Blue Newspaper stamp, attractive single with full even perforations, possessing central black cork cancel, on small purple wrapper for a Chinese newspaper with printed bilingual address label to "Coult Valles" Cal. corrected in pencil to "Coulterville, very fine and interesting genuine usage; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) $2,400.00

SOLD for $1,600.00
Will close during Public Auction
428 og/nhbl 143LP10 image#143LP10, Wells, Fargo & Co., Black Publishers' Newspaper stamp, two complete sheets of 50 showing the two different settings "A" and "B", these stamps were printed with each stamp being a stereotyped cliche identifiable by various type flaws, they were clamped into a form to make up the sheet, at some point the original setting was disassembled and the cliches moved around to make setting "B", both sheets have been folded horizontally and vertically which catches the edges of a few stamps due to the close spacing, setting "A" has original gum with a light interleaving adhering, small thin in top left stamp, setting "B" has original gum with h.r.'s in the four corner stamps, the rest are never hinged, both are attractive with very fine appearance; an excellent documentation of the printing of this issue; sheets are listed but unpriced in Scott, catalog is figured for ten blocks of four and five pairs for each sheet. (Image) $1,075.00+

SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction
429 c 143LP10 image#143LP10, Wells, Fargo & Co., Black Publishers' Newspaper stamp, attractive wrapper to Poway, Cal. with left margin single tied by blue oval Wells, Fargo and Co. handstamp of probably San Francisco, very fine and proper use of this newspaper stamp; wrappers are actually quite scarce as most of these were immediately thrown away much the same way we handle "junk mail" today; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) $1,750.00

SOLD for $725.00
Will close during Public Auction
430 c 143LP10 image#143LP10, Wells, Fargo & Co., Black Publishers' Newspaper stamp, unusual usage of a four-margin single tied to 1c Black on buff postal card (#UX12) by light purple Well's, Fargo and Co. handstamp, undoubtedly of San Francisco, to Asylum, Cal., the reverse of the card has a printed advertisement for the San Francisco Chronicle 1894, card uncancelled by the post office as this was used as an advertising card carried by Wells, Fargo, a very legitimate but unusual publisher's usage, light wrinkles to card, fine and rare; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) Est. $400-500

SOLD for $170.00
Will close during Public Auction
431 c 143LP10 image#143LP10, Wells, Fargo & Co., Black Publishers' Newspaper stamp, horizontal pair, left stamp showing the variety missing the outer frame line at left, mostly clear to large margins, just in at a couple of points at top, tied to paste-up cover to a dealer in hardwood lumber in San Francisco by two strikes of blue straight line "Wells, Fargo & Co." handstamp, marked "pr Express" in manuscript ; very fine and unusual usage; this cover was used as an address and franking cover attached to what undoubtedly was a package of printed advertising, not only is this highly unusual but the use of a multiple of this Publishers' Newspaper Stamp is extremely rare with very few known; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) Est. $750-1,000

SOLD for $1,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
LOCAL COLLECTION BALANCE
Lot Symbol CatNo. Lot Description CV or Estimate
432 ngOc   United States locals substantial collection balance, this is quite an advanced collection of these difficult issues housed in two quality albums and formed by a collector that was knowledgeable of this area with the vast majority being genuine originals or properly identified where reprints are included, the collection is broad in its scope with over 300 unused and used singles, nine sheets of various issues and another seven reprint sheets in different colors of the American Letter Mail Co. (#5L1), plus over 20 multiples in various size blocks, there are over 35 covers of proper usages and 23 mint and used postal envelopes of various companies and even a few proofs, there is much too much to list everything that is found here but we note numerous better items as D.O. Blood (3c) Black with “R & Co” initials (#15L3), Brady & Co. 1c Red on yellow (#22L1), Brown’s City Post cplt. (#31L1-5), unused Humboldt Express 25c Brown (#86L1), Pips Daily Mail 1c Black on yellow and 1c Black on blue (#116L3, 4), plus a great many more, the larger local delivery services such as Boyd’s City Express Post and Hussey’s Post are extensive with many varieties, covers and stationery, condition varies with faults present as is quite the norm with these issues but generally fine-very fine appearing if not in actuality; this collection deserves careful examination to appreciate both the many desirable items and the substantial value that is present. Est. $5,000-7,500

SOLD for $9,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
REVENUES
Lot Symbol CatNo. Lot Description CV or Estimate
433 O R65b image#R65b, 70c Foreign Exchange, part perforate, imperforate horizontally, unusually choice used single, featuring near perfect centering within large margins, prooflike color and impression, lightly cancelled with a central "Phillip Speyer & Co./Jun 30 1963" black c.d.s. handstamp with the appropriate early date for the part perforate variety, extremely fine; seldom seen this nice; 2013 PF certificate.. (Image) $200.00

SOLD for $100.00
Will close during Public Auction
434 O R94a image#R94a, $10.00 Conveyance, imperforate, premium quality used single, unusually large margins all around, intense rich color, light and unobtrusive ms. cancel, an extremely fine example of this scarce imperforate; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) $175.00

SOLD for $140.00
Will close during Public Auction
435 O R98a image#R98a, $20.00 Conveyance, imperforate, wonderfully bright and fresh used example, with lovely vibrant color and a crisp impression, large to huge margins all around, neat ms. cancel dated 1863, extremely fine; a difficult stamp in this choice quality; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) $175.00

SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction
436 O R98a image#R98a, $20.00 Conveyance, imperforate, beautiful horizontal pair, exceptionally bright and fresh color and detailed impression, large to huge margins all around, attractive full ms. cancel across both stamps dated 1864, insignificant tiny corner margin crease at top left, extremely fine and an impressive pair; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) $450.00

SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction
437 O R100c image#R100c, $25.00 Mortgage, a lovely used example of this scarce stamp, being wonderfully well centered amid exceptionally large margins, deep rich color and impression, neat ms. cancel, extremely fine and exceedingly choice; 2013 PF certificate. (Image) $250.00

SOLD for $260.00
Will close during Public Auction
438 O R116 var. image#R116 var., 60c Blue and black, foreign entry of the 70c design, pos. 18, an exceedingly fresh example of this unusual variety, showing an entry of the 70c stamp, apparent in the top of the stamp, rich colors on bright paper, blue handstamp cancel, very fine; 2013 PF certificate.. (Image) $400.00

SOLD for $130.00
Will close during Public Auction
439 O R128 image#R128, $10.00 Blue and black, attractive used example, being remarkably well centered within large margins, rich bright colors, light 1874 ms. cancel, choice very fine 2013 PF certificate.. (Image) $230.00

SOLD for $120.00
Will close during Public Auction
HUNTING PERMIT STAMPS
Lot Symbol CatNo. Lot Description CV or Estimate
440 nhgraded RW1 image#RW1, 1934 $1.00 Blue, bottom plate no. 129201 single, well centered within large margins, strong color, o.g., n.h., very fine; 1999 PF certificate and 2011 PSE certificate (VF 80; SMQ $690.00). (Image)

SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction

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