• 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

The Frelinghuysen Collection, Part One: United States Postmasters' Provisionals continued...

Providence, Rhode Island (Scott 10X1-10X2)
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
90 c ImageProvidence, Rhode Island, 5c Gray Black (10X1). Position 9 (the only position with just two pearls above the oval), full to large margins, cancelled by usual manuscript check mark, tied by red "Paid" handstamp, matching "Providence R.I. Sep. 4" circular datestamp and "5" rate handstamp on folded letter datelined September 3, 1846, from H. L. Kendall, agent for the New England Iron Company, to Thomas J. Coggeshall in Wareham Mass., light file folds clear of stamp

EXTREMELY FINE. A MAGNIFICENT EXAMPLE OF THE PROVIDENCE, RHODE ISLAND, POSTMASTER'S 5-CENT PROVISIONAL TIED BY A HANDSTAMPED MARKING ON COVER. VERY FEW ARE KNOWN TIED IN THIS MANNER. THIS IS THE FIRST TIME THIS COVER HAS BEEN OFFERED AT AUCTION SINCE ITS DISCOVERY IN 1926.

Ex Slater (No. 6 in his book) and Lapham. With 2011 P.F. certificate. Scott value for 10X1 tied by handstamp on cover is $21,500.00.

History of the Providence provisional and this cover: http://siegelauctions.com/enc/pdf/Providence.pdf (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 E. 15,000-20,000

CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction
91 ngbl ImageProvidence, Rhode Island, 5c & 10c Gray Black, Se-Tenant (10X1, 10X2). Complete sheet of twelve with 10c Position 3, unused (no gum), vertical and horizontal creases mostly between stamps, three 5c stamps slightly affected by wrinkles, otherwise Very Fine, complete sheets of the Providence provisional are scarce, small "W.H.C." (Warren H. Colson) backstamp, Scott value for sheet without gum (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 3,500.00

SOLD for $2,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
92 ng ImageProvidence, Rhode Island, 5c, 10c Gray Black (10X1, 10X2). Unused (no gum), 5c ample to large margins, 10c corner margins at top and right, clear at bottom, 5c horizontal crease, otherwise Very Fine (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 950.00

SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction
93 ng ImageProvidence, Rhode Island, 5c & 10c Gray Black, Se-Tenant, Bogert & Durbin Reprint (10X1R-10X2R). Two complete sheets of twelve with 10c Position 3, one with "BOGERTDURBIN" letters on back, other without, some surface scuffs in latter, otherwise Very Fine, Scott value for two Reprint sheets without premium for blank back (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 2,000.00

SOLD for $850.00
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