3070 – ERIVAN X

Local Stamps, balance of consignment, a broad holding replete with desirable items, noting American Letter Mail Co, with both 5L1 and 5L2 on cover, cancelled in manuscript 5L1 sheet of twenty, with reprint sheets in brown, orange, and violet; extensive range of Blood’s with D.O. Blood & Co. / City Despatch / Paid cut to shape on cover (15L8); eighteen small Blood’s Despatch / Blood’s Penny Post Philad’a on cover, many jointly with 3c Washington, one on attractive cameo machinery advertising cover, another with PHILADA RAILROAD straight-line; two Blood’s Penny Post (1c) black Henry Clay on cover; three Bouton’s City Dispatch Post oval strikes in red on stampless covers, 2c black on cover;Boyd’s City Express, covers with range of types in green (10), black on red (2), 1c black in blue (1) and lilac (2),and 2c red on white (2), several tied; Boyd’s City Dispatch with multiple Eagle and Mercury types, two covers without adhesives, struck with oval handstamps; G. Carter’s Despatch, Philadelphia, five examples on cover one on ribbed paper; City Despatch, Philadelphia 1c black tied to cover; Crosby City Post 2c carmine sheet of twenty five; Cummings City Post, scarce 2c black on rose on glazed paper on folded cover, with P.F. certificate; Douglas City Despatch, range of adhesives (59L1/59L6a), (1c) pink and 1c blue on cover; Dupuy & Schenck 1c grey single; Glen Haven Daily Mail 1c with links, on cover with 3c; Hale & Co. 6c blue three covers, one stampless with “Forwarded by Hale & Co” and “Collect / Six Cents / for / Hale & Co”; useful representation of Hussey’s Post (19), with four Special Delivery stamps tied to cover, one on embossed Adams Express Co. envelope, others including 87L10, 87L39, 87L40, 87L43, 87L44,  87L49, 87L50, 87L51, 87L59, 87L62, 87L64, 87L65, 87L73, 87L74, etc; Pomeroy’s Letter Express with 5c brown large part sheet of 20, 5c black sheet of 40, 5c black on yellow on front with adjacent “Boyd’s City Express Post” datestaamp, twp scarce 5c blue usages on cover cancelled in manuscript, one tied, and scarce franking of two singles, also cancelled with Boyd’s datestamp; Swarts’ City Despatch, ten covers, all but one with 1c red Taylor or Washington frankings, note one on Hallenbeck’s Hotel cameo advertising cover, one 1c pink on transatlantic cover to Vienna; Dunham’s Union Square Post Office with oval handstamp on stampless letter, 1c black on green on cover with 3c; Westtown 2c gold on cover with 3c; handstamped covers of Baltimore City Despatch, Barker’s City Post, Carter’s Despatch, Towle’s City Post, etc, a wonderful assembly, with over 100 covers included, in addition to the stamps, representing a wide range of this fascinating collecting field, many ex-Kuphal and remaining on his album pages, condition varies, as expected, and not all adhesives may originate on the covers, but an overall desirable assembly with many fine items.