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2013 Rarities of the World continued...

Stampless Covers continued...
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
203 c ImageSB Nashville, Nashville and New Orleans Packet. Elaborate handstamp in red with delicate lettering and designs in oval, on buff cover to Lafayette Ky., endorsed "Nashville" at upper left and "care Brannon & Weeks, Tobacco Port" at lower left, with original part-printed Prices Current with manuscript dateline "New Orleans Jany 4th 1850", some slight wear

VERY FINE. THIS NEWLY DISCOVERED STEAMBOAT MARKING IS UNIQUE. A MARVELOUS WATERWAY COVER.

The Nashville & New Orleans Packet steamers navigated the waters of the Mississippi and Cumberland Rivers, leaving New Orleans every Tuesday at 4 p.m. and returning from Nashville every Saturday at 4 p.m. One of the vessels was the Nashville, a 497-ton sidewheel steamboat captained by Thomas Bellanyder. She was launched in 1849 at New Albany, Indiana. At the outbreak of the Civil War she was converted to a hospital ship of the same name. Her two decks accommodated 1,000 casualties.

Unlisted in any reference book (Image)

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 E. $ 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $4,250.00
Will close during Public Auction
204 c ImageMerchants Exchange, San Francisco. Remarkably bold red oval handstamp with matching "PAID" below in small italic caps, magenta manuscript "40" transcontinental rate on Oct. 1, 1850 folded letter to Waterbury Conn., black "PAID" in arc applied at New York City, the Merchants Exchange at San Francisco provided local residents and transients with mail-forwarding service -- in this case, we have clear evidence that the private "Paid" marking and 40-cent rate were satisfactory proof of prepayment when the letter arrived at the New York City post office, despite the fact that no government postal markings were applied in San Francisco -- a superb example of this extremely rare marking and use from the early period of San Francisco's postal history, illustrated in Letters of Gold (Image)

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $2,000.00
Will close during Public Auction
205 c ImageMerchants Exchange, San Francisco. Perfectly clear three-line handstamp with "PAID" on third line in small italic caps (as in handstamp in previous lot), magenta manuscript "40" transcontinental rate on folded cover to New York City, another example of mail forwarded by the Merchants Exchange at San Francisco -- in this case, too, the absence of San Francisco postal markings and postage due in New York City indicates that the private "Paid" marking and 40-cent rate, although entirely private in origin, were satisfactory evidence of prepayment, an outstanding cover demonstrating the link between an independent mail operation in early San Francisco and the official government post office, illustrated in Letters of Gold, with 1992 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $3,250.00
Will close during Public Auction

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