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

The Post Office
Lot Sym. Lot Description  
171 c Image1854 Letter to Lysander Spooner, Founder of the American Letter Mail Company and Independent Mail Advocate. Blue folded letter datelined Athol [Mass.] Nov. 15, 1854” to Lysander Spooner from his brother Charles, a sad letter informing Lysander that Lucy breathed her last between 12 & 1 Oclock last night... The funeral is to be tomorrow... I send this by express and you will have time to take the last train to Fitchburg this evening...”, address reads Mr. Lysander Spooner, No. 21 Poplar Street, Boston -- This must be delivered in season for him to take the last train to Fitchburg this afternoon in order to attend a funeral tomorrow (By Fiske & Rice express)”, with Fiske & Rice black on green label, Very Fine, despite his role in fighting the Post Office monopoly and creating the Independent Mail system, Spooner is rare as an addressee -- this is even more desirable because of the personal element of the correspondence (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $750.00
Will close during Public Auction
172 c ImageForwarded by the American/Mail Co., from Newport, R.I. Tiny type in two lines between wavy-line rules, clearly struck with same style of COLLECT.” handstamp on folded cover to Philadelphia, sender’s directive Hale & Co. Express”, manuscript Chg Ag/23”, docketing indicates origin at Newport on Aug. 21, 1844, Extremely Fine, one of two recorded examples of this Newport R.I. marking (Bowman census gives date as Aug. 25 in error, Independent Mails book), ex Schwartz and Dr. Puliafito (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $750.00
Will close during Public Auction
173 c ImageForwarded by Hale & Co. from Baltimore. Perfect strike of red oval handstamp with matching PAID.” handstamp to which the words Penny Post” have been added in blue manuscript on May 7, 1845 folded letter to James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald newspaper, red Boyd’s City Express Post May 8 2 O’C” oval datestamp, matching large red FREE” handstamp (applied by Boyd’s), pencil Del Free" (deliver free), the letter is a follow-up pitch” for the Baltimore & Cuba Smelting and Mining Company, which was organized in 1845

EXTREMELY FINE. AN OUTSTANDING INDEPENDENT MAIL COVER AND UNIQUE WITH THIS COMBINATION OF MARKINGS.

Several of the larger private posts and Independent Mail companies delivered letters to newspapers free of charge to earn the good will of the editors and publishers. Examples of free delivery are extremely scarce, and no cover demonstrates the service better than this famous Hale and Boyd conjunctive use to James Gordon Bennett, editor of the New York Herald. The combination of markings is unique to this cover.

A comparison of the Penny Post” writing to the notations by William Edwards (Hale’s Baltimore agent) on another cover leads us to conclude that he wrote the directive. The large Free” handstamp is found on a few other Boyd’s City Express covers.

Sloane notes on back. Illustrated in Henry Abt’s series on Boyd’s City Express, Denwood Kelly’s series on Baltimore posts and Gutman Hale book (page 125). Ex Perry, Schwartz and Dr. Puliafito. (Image)

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 E. $ 2,000-3,000

SOLD for $2,900.00
Will close during Public Auction
174 c ImageForwarded Through/Hale’s/Foreign Letter Office/New-York. Four-line handstamp in red (Gutman Type NY-D) and two strikes of matching Paid” in negative mirrored letters in oval shield” (unlisted in Gutman Hale book) on Feb. 28, 1842 folded letter to London, England, sender’s ship-name directive pr. ‘Patr: Henry”, 1842 MR 27/Liverpool/Ship” framed ship-letter datestamp and red London receiving datestamp on back, manuscript 8” pence due, minor tear at top right barely into marking, Very Fine, scarce handstamp (Gutman lists seven or eight, excluding this cover), the Paid” handstamp is the only reported example thus far, ex Hahn and Dr. Puliafito (Image)

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 E. $ 500-750

SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction
175 c ImageHale & Co.’s Mail/Paid at Boston. Red wavy-line frame handstamp on Feb. 3, 1845 folded letter from Boston to Paris, France, sender’s directive Pr Havre Packet, Duchess d’Orleans, Feb 8 from N York”, red Outre-Mer Le Havre 25 Fevr 45” arrival datestamp, black 6” decimes due handstamp, Paris receiving backstamp, receipt docketing, Fine, very unusual outbound transatlantic cover handled by Hale’s Independent Mail, ex Dr. Puliafito (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $110.00
Will close during Public Auction
176 c ImageCollectSix Cents/for/Hale & Co. Red framed handstamp with manuscript rate change to 18-3/4” on Nov. 5, 1844 folded letter from Liverpool, England, to Hartford Conn. via New York City, manuscript 6”, sender’s directive Queen of the West” on inside letter, file fold, faint toning, Very Fine, extremely rare use of Hale & Co. service to forward transatlantic mail, the 6c and 18-3/4c rates and absence of postal markings indicate that this was enclosed in another cover or carried into the U.S. outside the regular mails, illustrated in Gutman Hale book (page 330), ex Hall and Dr. Puliafito (Image)

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 E. $ 200-300

SOLD for $110.00
Will close during Public Auction
177 c ImageForwarded by Hale & Co. from Courier & Enquirer Building, New York. Red oval handstamp and two strikes of matching P.P.P.” (Penny Post Paid) straightline handstamp, manuscript Paid 8 cts" (6c plus 2c delivery fee) on May 23, 1845 folded letter to Boston, Very Fine and rare, Gutman records only four examples of this New York City P.P.P.” marking, illustrated in his Hale book (page 277), ex Schwartz and Dr. Puliafito (Image)

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 E. $ 400-500

SOLD for $425.00
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178 c ImageForwarded by Hale & Co. from New Haven. Red oval handstamp, mostly clear strike with red PAID” straightline (probably applied in New York City, manuscript Paid Plant” endorsement of Hale’s agent on Apr. 21, 1845 folded letter from New Haven to New York City street address, pencil Paid” and 87” street correction, faint toning, file fold, still Fine and very scarce New Haven marking, the manuscript marking is extremely rare, Henry B. Plant was an agent for Hale & Co., he went on to become a significant player in Adams Express and the railroad transportation industry, as well as a Florida real estate developer, Plant was put in charge of the Southern Express Co. during the Civil War, illustrated in Gutman Hale book (page 81), ex Hall and Dr. Puliafito (Image)

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 E. $ 400-500

SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
179 c ImageForwarded by Hale & Co. Nantucket” in Manuscript. Red oval handstamp, modified by removing lower portion and inserting Nantucket” by hand, matching red Collect 6 Cents for N. Bedford Office” framed handstamp on Jan. 10, 1845 folded letter from Nantucket to Providence R.I., Extremely Fine, possibly the finest of the four recorded examples of the Hale & Company oval handstamp with Nantucket” manuscript name, Elliott Perry reported that Tuesdays, Thursdays and Saturdays, the steamer Massachusetts connected at New Bedford with the train from Boston in the morning and to Boston in the evening.” -- Gutman records four covers with the Nantucket” office oval marking, the manuscript Wareham” office name was also inserted into this blank oval handstamp, which has the same break in the right side, it is possible that the Hale agent in New Bedford used a utility oval and inserted the originating office name in manuscript -- ex Hall and Dr. Puliafito (Image)

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 E. $ 1,000-1,500

SOLD for $1,800.00
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180 c ImageFORWARDED BY/OVERTON & COS EXPRESS. Two-line handstamp in an unusually small type, clearly struck with manuscript 6" rate on folded letter to the comptroller’s office in Albany, the writer (Elisha Crawford, president of the White Plains Bank) is returning a letter received from W. W. Van Zandt, a bank auditor in Albany, original letter datelined Aug. 9, 1844, docketing indicates Aug. 15 mailing date (Overton & Co.), file folds, Very Fine, this is the only recorded example of the two-line Overton handstamp, ex Schwartz and Dr. Puliafito (Image)

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 E. $ 400-500

SOLD for $375.00
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181 c ImagePomeroy & Co. Express, Paid. Rimless red circular handstamp and manuscript pr. Pomeroy & Co. Express” on Jan. 13, 1844 folded letter from New York City to attorney general’s office in Albany N.Y., two ink strokes below Paid” probably indicates double rate, file fold thru handstamp, Very Fine, very scarce marking, ex Schwartz and Dr. Puliafito (Image)

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 E. $ 300-400

SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction

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