• 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

U.S. and Confederate States Postal History continued...

Local Posts: Beesley thru G. Carter
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
4310 c ImageBeesley's Express Post, Utica N.Y. Three-line handstamp "G. N. BEESLY'S/EXPRESS POST, /UTICA, N.Y." on cover to a Miss Gridly at the City Hotel in Utica, probably a Valentine mailing, faint toning spots, Very Fine and extremely rare, Hahn recorded only two examples of this marking (the other was in our Golden sale), ex Hahn, with 2015 P.F. certificate (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
4311 c ImageBentley's Madison Square/1/P.M./Apr/13. Double-circle datestamp on back of small cover to New Milford Conn., 3c Dull Red (26) tied by "New-York Apr. 13" circular datestamp, Very Fine, ex Golden (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 E. $ 150-200

SOLD for $100.00
Will close during Public Auction
4312 c ImageBentley's Madison Square. Double-circle handstamp with "Paid" straightline (previously used by Swarts) on cover to local street address, slight creasing at right, still Very Fine and scarce, ex Golden (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction
4313   ImageBentley's Dispatch, New York N.Y., (unstated value) Gold (10L2). Clear to ample margins except touched at upper right corner, faint "Paid" cancel and pen stroke, small thin spot

FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTRAORDINARILY RARE STAMP. ONLY FIVE OF THE SIX KNOWN EXAMPLES ARE AVAILABLE TO COLLECTORS.

Ex Kane, Boker, Richardson and Golden. With 1999 P.F. certificate. Scott Retail $7,500.00 (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $2,600.00
Will close during Public Auction
4314 ng ImageBlizzard Mail, New York N.Y., 5c Black (163L1). Original gum as applied to only the four corners, large margins all around on criss-crossed lines watermarked paper, inconsequential diagonal crease

EXTREMELY FINE. A RARE EXAMPLE OF THE 5-CENT STAMP ISSUED BY BLIZZARD MAIL, WHICH CARRIED MAILS FROM NEW JERSEY TO THE NEW YORK POST OFFICE DURING THE GREAT BLIZZARD OF 1888.

An article by Gordon Stimmell in the Penny Post (Jan. 1995) tells the story of W.H. Mitchell's Blizzard Mail issue -- the country's first emergency mail stamp. The stamp was created by Mitchell, a philatelist, for a temporary service to overcome significant mail delivery problems stemming from the Great Blizzard of 1888. The '88 storm was one of the most severe in United States history, with snowdrifts in excess of 50ft in some places. Mitchell posted a notice in front of his Bergen office stating "During the blockade on the railroad, mail, matter, letters only, will be taken direct from Bergen Point to the New York Post Office." The rate charged was 5c and the mode of transportation was by sleigh.

This is only the second example of this rarity we have offered. Illustrated in Scott Catalogue on p. 583 (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 $ 3,750.00

SOLD for $3,750.00
Will close during Public Auction
4315   ImagePhiladelphia Despatch Post, Philadelphia Pa., (3c) Black on Grayish, "R & Co." Initials (15L3). Large even margins all around, affixed to piece, cancelled by neat strike of red "Paid" handstamp, small trace of toning at bottom, Very Fine, lovely example of the world's first pictorial stamp and unusual with the "Paid" cancel (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 $ 750.00

SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
4316   ImagePhiladelphia Despatch Post, Philadelphia Pa., (3c) Black on Grayish, "R & Co." Initials (15L3). Three, each with attractive margins that touch one side, two with red "3" cancels, one with manuscript cancel, some flaws incl. tear on one and thin on another, Fine appearing trio of the first Striding Messenger stamp (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 $ 2,250.00

SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
4317   ImageD. O. Blood & Co., Philadelphia Pa., (3c) Black on Grayish, "D.O.B. & Cos." Initials, (2c) Black (15L4-15L6). One of first, clear initials, margins to touched, uncancelled on blue piece, Fine, four of second, manuscript cancels, two with large margins, some flaws, Fine-Very Fine appearance, one of third, margins to touched at upper right, Fine, an attractive group of Striding Messenger stamps (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 $ 1,800.00

SOLD for $1,200.00
Will close during Public Auction
4318 c ImageD. O. Blood & Co., Philadelphia Pa., (1c) Black, "For the Post Office" (15L9). Huge margins incl. part of adjoining stamp at bottom, some slight wrinkling, untied on Quaker dated Mar. 13, 1848 folded letter from Pleasant Valley Pa. to Alexandria Va., blue "Philad. Pa. 5cts. Mar. 16" integral-rate circular datestamp, Very Fine (Image)

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 $ 500.00

SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction
4319 c ImageBlood's City Despatch, Philadelphia Pa. Collection of 28 stamped covers, range of Blood's adhesives and seven used with U.S. regular issues incl. one with 5c 1847 Issue (1), tied by Philadelphia circular datestamp (faults, Scott Retail $2,000.00), other six are 3c 1851-57 Issues, the Blood's stamps mostly acid tied with a couple handstamp or filing crease tied, mixed condition with some faults to be found, overall a Fine and worthwhile group (Image)

View PDF of contents of this lot

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $1,500.00
Will close during Public Auction
4320   Boyd's City Express, New York N.Y., Study Collection. On stock pages, more than 200 stamps, unused and used, wide range of issues incl. cut squares, nearly all are originals, mixed condition with flaws to be found but overall an interesting and comprehensive group

Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com

 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $700.00
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