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LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
2341 cover   image1866 (January 8), transatlantic cover from Richmond, Virginia, to Sheffield, England, via New York, franked with a single 24c gray Washington, tied by a target cancellation and Richmond, Va. c.d.s. (8 Jan), correctly paying the single-rate postage to Great Britain, with red circular New York Am. Pkt. transit (13 Jan) and red circular London Paid arrival (24 Jan), reverse with Sheffield arrival backstamp (24 Jan) and some tears to back flap, else fresh and very fine, despatched from the former Confederate capital nine months after the fall of Richmond and the end of the Civil War. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
2342 cover   image1870 (December 15), Franco-Prussian War medical supply circular from Landsberg an der Warthe to Freiburg, single 1/3gr green tied by LANDSBERG A.D.W. (15 Dec 70) c.d.s., addressed to Herrn Apotheker Curuel in Freiburg (Baden), the 1/3 groschen rate covering the standard printed matter rate, fine-very fine.

The printed circular from Apotheker H. Röstel, dated December 1870 at the peak of the Franco-Prussian War, notes that the "many wounds struck by the current war" have created a desperate need for his Heftpflaster (adhesive medical plaster) in military hospitals, informing colleagues that his plaster has been officially introduced by the Medical Department of the Ministry of War into all Prussian Army Lazarethes and distributed by the "Central Committee for the Care of Wounded Warriors." (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
2343 cover   image1873 (May 31), New York Foreign Mail fancy cancel on cover to Paris, France, franked with a 1870-71 10c brown, tied by crisp New York Foreign Mail geometric cancel (Weiss type ST-8P11), manuscript "Per Steamer 'Maine'" at upper left, with red New York / Paid / 6 exchange office c.d.s. (31 May), red circular London / Paid transit (11 Jun), black circular Etats-Unis / V. Ang. Amb. Calais entry mark (10 Jun), and red P.D. handstamp, reverse with Paris arrival (12 Jun), attractive and very fine; with 2003 Philatelic Foundation certificate (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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Currently...C$80.00
Will close during Public Auction
2344 cover   image1873/1879 (circa), Department of the Interior legal-sized cover from the United States Land Office, Marysville, California, to Oroville, California, franked with 1c and 3c Department of the Interior official issues, tied by two segmented cork cancels with indistinct circular datestamp, reduced at right edge, else fine-very fine. (Scott #O15, O17) (Image 1)



Currently...C$40.00
Will close during Public Auction
2345 cover   image1874, Beverly, Massachusetts, Fancy Cards advertising 1c printed circular cover to Parsonfield, Maine, 1c blue Bank Note on unsealed printed circular (3rd class), bold cork killer cancellation,lovely full-front advertising for G.P. Brown, Publisher and Dealer in Fancy Cards, light wrinkles, a fine example of this rate. (Image 1)



Currently...C$40.00
Will close during Public Auction
2346 cover   image1875, U.S. Mail Messenger printed circular cover to Forest City, Dakota Territory, 1c blue Bank Note on unsealed printed circular (3rd class), printed "FROM U.S. MAIL MESSENGER, POST OFFICE AT BEVERLY, MASS." corner card, posted aboard a Boston-bound train and struck with black BOSTON (1 Oct) oval transit, faint black DIP RWY / DAK. (2 Dec) Dakota and Pacific Railway receiver on reverse, fine-very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$40.00
Will close during Public Auction
2347 cover   image1881 (July 22), Munro & Co. forwarding agent transatlantic cover from Syracuse, New York, to Paris, France, forwarded to London, 5c blue Taylor, tied by Syracuse / N.Y. (22 Jul) duplex c.d.s., blue circular PARIS / ETANGER (3 Aug 81) entry mark on front with violet "AU DOS" handstamp, original address crossed out and redirected by banking and forwarding firm Munro & Co. with large black oval backstamp dated 3 August, reverse with red circular London / W. (4 Aug 81) arrival and circular Pl. de la Madeleine (7 Aug) Paris transit, slight soiling and tiny tear at bottom, else fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction
2348 cover   image1881 (March 8), Smith's Ranch, California, to Cevio, Canton Ticino, Switzerland, transatlantic cover from this discontinued post office (1854–1901), 2c vermilion and 3c green Bank Note issues, tied by black target cancellations, paying the 5-cent UPU rate, clear black Smith's Ranch / Cal. (8 Mar) c.d.s., Locarno transit and Cevio (2 Apr 81) arrival on reverse, addressed to Mr. Giacomo Antonio Moretti, minor corner wear, fine.

Smith's Ranch, near Bodega in Sonoma County, served a growing community of Italian-Swiss immigrants during the late 19th century, many drawn to California by the promise of the gold fields. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
2349 cover   image1881 (August 31), D.E. RAHM & Co. forwarding agents, folded cover to France, franked with 5c Taylor, tied by New York duplex (Aug 31), endorsed "pr City of Montreal", to Guebwiller, Alsace, blue oval "FORWARDED BY DE RHAM & CO NEW YORK" hanstamp, partial c.d.s. backstamp, light filing folds, fresh and attractive. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$40.00
Will close during Public Auction
2350 cover   image1889 (April 27), coded transatlantic postal card from Lawrence, Massachusetts, to Plauen, Saxony, Germany, 1c black on buff Jefferson postal card, cancelled by Lawrence / Mass. (27 Apr) duplex, black circular Boston / Paid All (30 Apr) transit and Plauen (Vogtl.) (11 May) receiver on front, fine.

The reverse bears a dense numerical commercial code completely obscuring the message, an unusual private cipher of the type used by industrial firms to transmit sensitive pricing or trade secrets securely on open postal cards, where any postal clerk or competitor could read the contents; an interesting example of cryptographic history. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction
2351 cover   image1890 (April 11), double-weight transatlantic commercial cover from New York to Berlin, Germany, franked with 5c blue Garfield and 15c orange Webster tied by two New York (11 Apr) duplex, the 20-cent total paying the double-weight (1 oz) UPU rate, carried by the North German Lloyd steamer Eider departing New York (12 Apr) and arriving Southampton (20 Apr), red wax seal of banking firm Speyer & Co. and Berlin (22 Apr) arrival on reverse, very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction
2352 cover   image1893 (November 13), registered transatlantic Columbian cover to Giessen, Germany, 2c green Washington postal stationery envelope uprated with 2c and 10c Columbians and two 2c carmine Washington, all cancelled by black manuscript "X", overpaying the 5-cent UPU rate plus 10-cent registration fee, purple Grand Island, Nebraska registration mark, red NEW YORK / REGISTRY etiquette, and black A.R. (Avis de Réception) handstamp on front, red manuscript "Return Receipt Demanded" vertically in red ink, NEW YORK / REGY. (15 Nov) transit and Giessen (1 Dec) arrival on reverse, fine-fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction
2353 cover   image1894 (May 14), S.S. La Champagne shipwreck eyewitness account postal card from Chicago, Illinois, to Strassburg, Alsace, Germany, 2c blue on buff Liberty international postal card, cancelled by Chicago (14 May) machine cancel, two circular STRASSBURG (ELS.) (25 May) arrival datestamps on front, addressed to the Straßburger Turn-Verein (Gymnastics Club), minor edge wear, else very fine.

The message informs the recipients of a safe arrival following a "small shipwreck" involving the SS La Champagne, which ran aground near New York requiring passengers and mail to be rescued and transported to the city, a firsthand record of the May 1894 grounding of this French Line steamer. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
2354 cover   image1898 (September 6), registered A/R postal stationery cover, Boston to Paris, France, 1c light blue Columbian Exposition envelope, uprated with strip of three and two singles of the 3c purple Jackson and pair of 1c green Franklin Bureau issue, correctly paying the 5c international letter rate, 8c registration fee, and 5c Avis de Réception fee, tied by Boston, Mass. c.d.s. (6 Sep), with distinctive magenta "Registered Return Receipt - Demanded" handstamp, violet "AR" (Avis de Réception) handstamp at lower right partially obscured by boxed registration marking, and red Boston, Mass. registration label affixed below the Columbus stamp, reverse with large serrated gold seal and Paris arrival backstamp (17 Sep), very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
2355 cover   image1899 (November 14), registered postal stationery cover, Cleveland, Ohio, to St. Eustatius, Netherlands Antilles, 1c light blue Columbian Exposition envelope uprated with a 2c purple Columbian, 6c lake Garfield Bureau, and 4c orange Trans-Mississippi, correctly paying the 5c international letter rate and 8c registration fee, tied by multiple Cleveland, Ohio oval cancellations, with Cleveland, Ohio Reg. Div. c.d.s. (14 Nov) and red New York, N.Y. registration label, reverse with New York, N.Y. transit (15 Nov), St. Kitts transit (29 Nov), and St. Eustatius arrival backstamp (1 Dec), vertical fold and light edge wear, else fine-very fine; a scarce destination. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
2356 cover   image1900 (July 9), Hoboken Docks Fire disaster card, sent nine days after the catastrophe, from Hoboken, New Jersey, to Hamburg, Germany, franked with 2c red Washington tied by Hoboken, N.J. machine cancel (9 Jul), Hamburg (20 Jul) arrival datestamp on front, contemporary illustration by Arthur Strauss titled "The German Lloyd's Hoboken Piers and Steamships Destroyed by Fire. June 30, 1900," minor corner wear, fine.

Sender Fritz Bartels explicitly references the event, noting the "great fire at night where many people so terribly met their deaths." During the blaze the North German Lloyd liners Saale and Main burned through their moorings to drift as "floating furnaces" into the Hudson, where the majority of the 326 fatalities occurred, victims trapped behind portholes too narrow for escape. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
2357 cover   image1900 (August 23), group of three postcards depicting the aftermath of the Great Hoboken Docks Fire, Hoboken, New Jersey, to Lowell, Massachusetts, each franked with 1c green Franklin tied by Hoboken, N.J. (23 Aug) c.d.s. with Lowell, Mass. (24 Aug) arrival backstamp, showing the ruins of the North German Lloyd piers and the burning S.S. Saale, all three with messages from the same sender, fine, with vivid contemporary accounts of the disaster and its aftermath on each.

Sent by Jim S. McNabb to his brother John nearly eight weeks after the June 30 disaster that claimed 326 lives, the sender notes "The fire is still smoking" and "This boat is still here, they are repainting her." One card specifically honours Captain August Mirow of the S.S. Saale, who died attempting to rescue those unable to pass through the ship's small portholes as the liner drifted from the blazing piers to become a "floating furnace." (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
2358 cover   image1901 (May 31), Pan-American Exposition 10c registered cover from Spencer, New York, to New York City, single 10c brown orange and black, tied by Spencer / N.Y. (31 May) duplex, the 10-cent franking paying the 2-cent first-class rate plus 8-cent registration fee, purple REGISTERED NO. handstamp and purple SPENCER, N.Y. (31 May 1901) straight-line registration mark on front, reverse with purple RECEIVED / BRANCH P.O. / STATION D / NEW YORK (1 Jun) arrival and circular 6/11/1901 transit, addressed to The Christian Herald at the Bible House, New York City, a very fine usage of this top value. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction
2359 cover   image1901 (December 25), 1c Jefferson Statue of Liberty private postal stationery card, from New York to Altenwerder, Hamburg, Germany, uprated with a 2c red Washington to meet the 3c international postcard rate, with two exceptionally clear Christmas Day duplex cancellations (New York, 25 Dec) and Altenwerder arrival (3 Jan 1902), reverse with private printed view of the Statue of Liberty, very fine.

The card was written on 24 Dec 1901, the day the U.S. government officially authorised the use of the term "Post Card" by private printers, and processed through New York on Christmas Day. The Undivided Back rule then in force required the sender to script his German New Year's message around the Statue of Liberty view on the picture side, the address side being reserved strictly for the address. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction
2360 cover   image1904 (October 22–24), SS Kronprinz Wilhelm "Lloyd-Brief" pictorial lettercard sent via sea post to Meissen, Germany, franked with two 1c green Franklins and 3c violet Jackson, tied by clear NDL S.S. KRONPRINZ WILHELM (24 Oct) c.d.s., blue Meissen (26 Oct) arrival on front, very fine and most attractive.

Writing during the final leg of a long journey from West Africa via Plymouth to Bremen, the passenger describes a "stormy night" where the ship "lay completely on its side" with seawater flooding the decks and fellow passengers "lying in their chairs like ghosts" from severe seasickness. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction

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