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Stampless Stories: A Postal History of America continued...

Manifest Destiny continued...
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
161 c ImageSan Jose Cal. to Germany, 1855. Blue cover with red San Jose Cal. Apr. 30” circular datestamp, matching PAID” handstamp, to Frankenthal, Germany, red New York transit circular datestamp, manuscript 52” credit, 1855 Mainz and receiving backstamps, small red FRANCO” handstamp, trivial edgewear, Very Fine, scarce, ex Haas (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction
162 c ImageTimbuctoo, Cal., Mar. 27. Circular datestamp with manuscript Paid 10cts.” on cover to Almont Mich, flap tear extends just into front at bottom, Very Fine, the once-thriving mining town of Timbuctoo is said to have been named by an African-American miner who panned in the area, who came from the region of Timbuktu in Mali (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $110.00
Will close during Public Auction
163 c ImageUpper Clear Lake, Napa Cal., Jul. 24 1862”. Manuscript postmark with unusual explanatory rate notation Paid by cash 3 for want of stamps P.M.” on buff cover to street address in San Francisco, slightly reduced at right from opening, Very Fine (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction
164 c ImageForwarded by Reynolds & Co. Express, Stockton & San Francisco, Sonora. Blue double-oval handstamp (Thomas REY-104) and NOT PAID” in oval both boldly struck on back of 1851 narrow cover from Angouleme, France to San Francisco via Royal Mail Steam Packet West Indies, manuscript 28” decimes prepayment on back, Angouleme (Jul. 10) and Paris datestamps front and back, red London transit datestamp, carried from Southampton on Royal Mail Steam Packet steamer Avon, arriving St. Thomas Aug. 4 and Chagres Aug. 12, then by Pacific Mail Steamship Co. Oregon, departing Panama Sep. 1 and arriving San Francisco Sep. 18, red 20” cents due handstamp, delivered to the gold mines by Reynolds & Co. with $1.00 express fee collected, some slight dampstaining, but the markings -- particularly the express handstamps --are clear

VERY FINE APPEARANCE. AN EXTREMELY RARE COVER FROM FRANCE TO SAN FRANCISCO, CARRIED BY THE ROYAL MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY VIA ST. THOMAS AND CHAGRES, PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY TO SAN FRANCISCO, THEN BY REYNOLDS & COMPANY TO THE MINES.

French Circular #51 set a 28 decimes per 7.5 grams fully prepaid rate to California by Royal Mail Steam Packet via Southampton and Chagres. The U.S. erroneously collected 20c due on most letters. Fewer than five RMSP letters are recorded from this period.

Reynolds was a pioneering expressman in the southern mines. Beginning in January 1850, he connected with Todd & Bryan in Stockton and through them to San Francisco, and with Adams & Co. to other parts of the U.S. and to Europe. Reynolds & Co. dissolved in the fall of 1851, not long after this cover was delivered.

Ex Walske. (Image)

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $2,400.00
Will close during Public Auction
165 c ImageForwarded by Bowers Express. Superb strike of oval handstamp, faint red San Francisco Oct. 19” (1850) circular datestamp and matching 40” rate handstamp on folded cover to Richmond Va., carried from San Francisco to Panama on Law’s Columbus (departed Oct. 19, arrived Nov. 7), then by USMSS Georgia from Chagres to New York (departed Nov. 26, arrived Dec. 7) and from there by rail to Richmond, side panels removed, light age toning and wear, still a Very Fine strike of this scarce express marking, this is the earliest of seven reported Bowers Express covers, Bowers operated between Nevada City and San Francisco via Grass Valley and Rough and Ready, they expanded their routes in June 1851 by working with Freeman & Co. for service between Sacramento and San Francisco, ex Dale-Lichtenstein and Walske (Image)

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 E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $900.00
Will close during Public Auction
166 c ImageFreeman & Cos. Express. Red oval handstamp on 1851 blue folded letter to San Francisco, datelined Sac[ramento] Mar. 21 1851”, entered the mails with red San Francisco Cal. 12 Apr.” circular datestamp, matching 2” drop rate handstamp applied over the Freeman marking, pencil addressee box number 649”, file folds thru markings, Very Fine, a rare example of the Freeman handstamp in red and drop-rate usage, ex Dale-Lichtenstein (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $275.00
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167 c ImageGregory’s Atlantic and Pacific Express. Forwarded by Thompson & Hitchcock, 149 Pearl St. N.Y. Four-line handstamp (Thomas GRE-124) clearly struck with red PAID” handstamp (San Francisco office) on brown cover to East 18th Street in New York City, conjunctive use with Boyd’s City Express Post Aug. 15, 9 (O’Clock)” oval datestamp and PAID/J.T.B.” handstamp, part of backflap removed, Very Fine, the enterprising Joseph Gregory started his ambitious express operation in 1850, but gave up in 1853, during its operation, Gregory’s Express agents in New York arranged for local delivery thru Boyd’s, examples of such conjunctive use are scarce (Image)

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 E. $ 750-1,000

SOLD for $750.00
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168 c ImageGregory’s Atlantic & Pacific Express, Central Office, Cor. Montgomery & Mercer Sts., San Francisco, California. Clear strike of five-line handstamp with NOT PAID” in oval on buff cover to Carson’s Creek Cal., manuscript 150” ($1.50) due marking, some slight wear, Very Fine, routed by steamboat to Stockton, probably on an Aspinwall boat running Route 5062, then overland along the Calaveras Valley to Angel Camp and south to Carson’s Creek, ex Feldman (Image)

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 E. $ 400-500

CLOSED
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169 c ImageFORWARDED BY/THE/UNITED STATES & CALIFORNIA/EXPRESS COMPANY. Blurry strike of four-line handstamp in red on circa 1851 blue folded cover to Capt. S. M. Sage of Ship John N. Gosler, care of Messrs. Garwood Forst & Co., San Francisco, Calafornia”, with interesting notation 37 cts. Paid in full Morclay & Ball for A B Miller & Co., P Booz”, receipt docketing Devereaux Ap 24”, right side panels removed, minor edge faults, accompanied by a second cover from the same correspondence which was sent by mail, blue Philada. Pa. Jun. 12” circular datestamp, matching 40” rate handstamp and red PAID” in frame, 1851 receipt docketing (the rate was reduced to only 6c prepaid on July 1, 1851), Very Fine, only a few examples of the express marking are known, so even this strike is a worthy acquisition, especially in this unusual usage (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction
170 c ImageWells, Fargo & Co.’s Express, S.Frco. 14 Aug. (1860). Large blue double-circle datestamp and matching framed COLLECT” handstamp on blue folded cover from Havana, Cuba, to San Francisco, receipt docketing Havana 6 Juillen 1860”, Very Fine, probably sent by mail to a forwarder in New York and then by Wells, Fargo & Co. express to California (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction

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