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 One of three recorded covers with the Cumberland, Maine,
printed precancellation--an outstanding classic cover and one of the most desirable of all precancellations from this early period of stamp useDESCRIPTION 1¢ Blue, Type V (24), perfectly centered, tied by printed CUMBERLAND,
ME./OCTOBER, 15” two-line precancel on yellow cover to Superintending School Committee” in Pennsylvania with part-printed address and lines for town and county, Paradise” and Monroe” county completed in
manuscript PROVENANCE * George B. Sloane, sold to Hollowbush in Summer 1932” (note on back) * Frank A. Hollowbush, John A. Fox sale, 10/13-14/1965, to Haas * Marc Haas, Siegel Auction Galleries, 3/15/1983, Sale 615, lot 424, to
Grunin * Louis Grunin, Christie’s Robson Lowe sale, Part Two, 10/7/1987, lot 98, to Boker * John R. Boker, Jr., Siegel Auction Galleries, 4/27/2004, Sale 875, lot 924, to William H. Gross CENSUS, LITERATURE AND EXHIBITION
REFERENCES * Stanley B. Ashbrook, The United States One Cent Stamp of 1851-1857, 1938 edition, Vol. 2, fig. 42-E and 42-F, p. 94 CONDITION NOTES * Extremely Fine cover with usual faint gum toning around perfs * Signed
George B. Sloane, March 1932” with lengthy note about another example that was known before this was discovered VIEW PDF OF HISTORY AND COMMENTARY at https://siegelauctions.com/2018/1188/45.pdf (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com |
E. $ 20,000-30,000
SOLD for $17,000.00
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 This Valentine cover and matching original enclosure may
justifiably be called the most beautiful example of 19th century Valentine postal usage extantDESCRIPTION 3¢ Dull Red, Type III (26), bright shade, tied by Geneva N.Y. Feb. 13, 1858” circular datestamp on small cover to Miss
Edith Holley in Niagara Falls, New York, gold-leaf and hand-colored Romeo and Juliet Valentine design with matching enclosure, a love poem in the same hand as address, immaculate condition PROVENANCE * Robert G. Kaufmann,
6/6/1985, Sale 40, lot 51, to Grunin * Louis Grunin, Christie’s Robson Lowe sale, Part One, 3/25/1987, lot 83, to Jarrett * David L. Jarrett, Siegel Auction Galleries, 3/25/2009, Sale 970, lot 55, to William H. Gross CONDITION
NOTES * Extremely Fine--perfection VIEW PDF OF HISTORY AND COMMENTARY at https://siegelauctions.com/2018/1188/46.pdf (Image) Search for comparables at
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E. $ 7,500-10,000
SOLD for $19,500.00
Will close during Public Auction |
