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U.S. Carriers and Locals, Featuring the Gordon Stimmell Collection continued...

Local Posts: City Dispatch (Phila.) thru Dupuy & Schenck
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
711 c ImageCity Dispatch, Philadelphia Pa., 1c Black (41L1). Ample margins to touched, tied by grid in circle handstamp on buff cover to local street address, reduced at left, original letter without dateline (letter toned), Very Fine cover (Image)

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 $ 500.00

SOLD for $150.00
Will close during Public Auction
712 c ImageCity Dispatch, Philadelphia Pa., 1c Black (41L1). Four covers, one tied with 3c Dull Red, Ty. III (26) to New York City, both cover and stamps faulty, other three solo uses, two tied by handstamps, one on an insurance corner card cover, small flaws, appear Fine (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $275.00
Will close during Public Auction
713 c Image"City Despatch" (Baltimore Md.) Red rectangular dotted-border handstamp on folded letter to a lady at local address, a love poem signed "A. Friend", some wear and faint bleaching, Fine and scarce handstamp, ex Hahn who notes this is known from 1846-47 (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $500.00
Will close during Public Auction
714 c Image"City Despatch/PM" (Philadelphia Pa.). Red handstamp with two bars across circle, bold blood-red strike on folded cover, stain at top, Very Fine strike and rare, fewer than ten are recorded, ex Dr. Morris (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $250.00
Will close during Public Auction
715 c ImageCumming's Express, 2 Cts. Red oval pictorial handstamp with locomotive, much better strike than usual on Dec. 8, 1846 folded letter to local street address, small tear at top, Very Fine and desirable, only a few examples of this illustrated local-post marking are known, ex Hollowbush and Hahn (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction
716 c ImageCummings Express Post. Clear strike of red oval handstamp on edge embossed small Valentine cover to local address, corner with colored embossed flower, Very Fine, a beautiful cover with a nice example of this handstamp, ex Golden and Hahn, with 2008 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
717 c ImageCummings Express Post. Red oval handstamp on gold colored ca. 1847 Valentine envelope to local address, elaborate two-sided design with cherub and peacock on front, two hearts connected by Cupid's arrow on backflap, Very Fine, a beautiful design with the Cummings handstamp (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction
718 c ImageCummings' City Post, New York N.Y., 2c Black on Rose Glazed (55L1). Framelines show on all four sides, manuscript cancel with splashes of ink tying stamp, red oval "Cumming's Express 2 Ct." locomotive handstamp and red "New-York 5 cts. 14 Nov." integral-rate circular datestamp on 1846 folded letter to Catskill N.Y.

VERY FINE. THE CUMMINGS' "LETTER & HEART" STAMP ON ROSE PAPER IS FAR RARER THAN THE GREEN OR YELLOW -- PROBABLY NO MORE THAN FOUR OR FIVE GENUINE COVERS EXIST.

Alfred H. Cummings operated Cummings' City Post as early as December 1845 (earliest reported cover) through 1847. Alfred H. Cummings and Robert Wright joined to take over the City Despatch Post Office from Abraham Mead by March 1847. The distinctive stamps picturing Cupid (55L4-55L5) and a letter sealed by a heart (55L1-55L3) tie the post's activities to the Valentine season. All are very scarce, but the Rose 55L1 is the rarest of the Cummings "Letter & Heart" series -- Caspary had only one; Middendorf the same. The Rose covers we have located have November 1846 dates. At a later date, the "Cummings" name was erased from the plate, as evidenced by the one recorded 55L8 stamp (ex Ferrary, Caspary and Boker).

Ex Chapman, Hollowbush, Golden, Kuphal and Geisler. With 1999 P.F. certificate. Scott Retail $5,000.00 (Image)

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
719 c ImageCummings' City Post, New York N.Y., 2c Black on Green Glazed (55L2). Two large margins, others sides clear to ample, manuscript "#" cancel, just tied along margin by orange-red "New-York May 6" circular datestamp, faint part strike of red "Cumming's Express Post" oval handstamp, magenta manuscript "5" rate on 1846 folded letter to Boston, the stamp has a barely noticeable small sealed tear thru the "i" of "Cummings"

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. ONE OF THE FEW TIED EXAMPLES OF THE RARE CUMMINGS' CITY POST STAMP ON GREEN PAPER, WHICH IS EXTREMELY RARE ON COVER.

Ex German Sale, Mason, Ackerman and Hall. With 2001 P.F. certificate (Image)

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $2,300.00
Will close during Public Auction
720 c ImageCummings' City Post, New York N.Y., 2c Black on Yellow Glazed (55L3). Margins slightly in all around, cancelled by black dotted grid on back of blue and gold illustrated Valentine cover to "Miss Caroline M. Crane" with street address in pencil, faint red Cummings oval and "Paid/A.H.C." handstamps

FINE STAMP AND BEAUTIFUL COVER. AN EXTREMELY RARE VALENTINE USE OF CUMMINGS' "LETTER & HEART" STAMP ON YELLOW PAPER.

Illustrated in Perry's 100 Years Ago. Ex Ferrary. With 2000 P.F. certificate. (Image)

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $3,250.00
Will close during Public Auction
721 c ImageCummings' City Post, New York N.Y., 2c Black on Yellow Glazed (55L3). Clear margins to just in, cancelled by black dotted grid and tied by red "New-York 10cts. Jan. 7" integral-rate circular datestamp on folded cover to Detroit Mich., manuscript "Private", file folds do not affect the stamp

VERY FINE. A VERY RARE TIED EXAMPLE OF THE CUMMINGS' "LETTER & HEART" STAMP ON YELLOW PAPER.

The Cummings' "Letter & Heart" stamp was printed on three different papers -- Rose, Green and Yellow -- any examples tied by a New York datestamp are very rare (Image)

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 E. $ 1,500-2,000

SOLD for $750.00
Will close during Public Auction

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