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Lot 779 - Denmark local stamps -  Guillermo Jalil - Philatino Auction # 2419 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: Special May auction

Lot 779 - Denmark local stamps - Guillermo Jalil - Philatino Auction # 2419 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: Special May auction

KIOBENHAVNS ByPost: 4 stamps of 10o. for telegrams affixed to unused cards, excellent quality!

Guillermo Jalil - Philatino Auction # 2419 WORLDWIDE + ARGENTINA: Special May auction

Denmark local stamps
Price: $ 100.00
Lot 59 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps -  H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Lot 59 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

D.O. Blood & Co, Philadelphia Despatch Post, (3c) black on grayish paper, initialled "R & Co" (Robertson & Co, the operators and prececessors of D.O. Blood), showing distinctive double impression, four ample to large margins, tied to undated folded letter by red "3", partial "Philadelphia Despatch Post" c.d.s. at left, wrinkles and vertical fold, a rare local issue showing the doubling of the design, ex-Caspary, offered with folded letter, dated Indianapolis, also with "Philadelphia Despatch Post / 10 A.M." c.d.s., ex-Gibson; with 2023 Philatelic Foundation certificate.

H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps
Price: $ 2,000.00
Lot 75 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps -  H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Lot 75 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Third Avenue Post Office, New York, 2c black on bluish paper, touching oval frameline in places as usual, pleasing dark colour, with 1855 3c dull red affixed beside and partially overtop "Paid" manuscript notation, tied by "New-York / May / 19" c.d.s., to Brunswick, Maine,  an extremely attractive example of this rare local, one of only a handful of any Third Avenue Post Office examples recorded on cover, and the only recorded example of this type on cover, with 1999 Philatelic Foundation certificate; ex-Caspary, Lilly, , and Golden.

H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps
Price: $ 4,000.00
Lot 54 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps -  H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Lot 54 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Broadway Post Office, New York, (1c) black, large to very large margins, affixed to folded letter, internally dated 13 November, 1851, handstamped PAID in red, with neatly-struck oval "BROADWAY CITY EXPRESS / POST OFFICE" at left, to Cedar Street, New York City, light filing folds well clear of adhesive, an otherwise fresh and attractive example, rarely found on cover.

H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps
Price: $ 300.00
Lot 70 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps -  H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Lot 70 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Prince's Letter Despatch, Portland, Maine, undenominated black adhesive, margins ample to large on three sides, tied to cover by indistinct circular cancellation, 3c. rose adjacent tied by "Hallowell ME / Mar / 14" c.d.s., to Boston, Massachusetts, the local with trivial horizontal crease at foot well clear of design, the 3c with natural straight-edge, cover with small nick at right and slightly reduced, yet a most attractive usage of this scarce local, one of only about a dozen covers known, this example being unrecorded in the Lyons census (Penny Post, Vol 10, No. 4); with 2022 Philatelic Foundation certificate.

H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps
Price: $ 1,500.00
Lot 65 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps -  H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Lot 65 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Mason’s New Orleans City Express, 1850-1, 2c black on yellow, imperforate, on folded letter datelined Franklin House (Mrs. Taylor’s), 39 Canal Street, tied by red grid cancel, postmarked "N-ORLEANS CITY EXPRESS POST. LA / FEB / 6" with day in manuscript, to Leads Foundry, horizontal filing fold, some adhesion remnants on reverse from prior mounting, overall exceptionally fresh. A rarity; ex-Burrus.One of only two recorded examples of the 1c over 1/2c Mason’s New Orleans City Express, and the only example on cover.Provenance: Alfred H. Caspary

H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps
Price: $ 10,000.00
Lot 60 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps -  H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Lot 60 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

D.O. Blood & Co., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, (2c) black on pale green, margins ample to large, cancelled in manuscript and with black grid obliterator, docketed upon receipt "rec'd July 14th/48", a few light creases, adhesive with tiny edge tears at top, else fine; with 2023 Philatelic Foundation certificate. 

H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps
Price: $ 300.00
Lot 76 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps -  H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Lot 76 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

United States City Despatch Post, New York, 3c black on grayish paper, large balanced margins showing frameline on three sides, affixed to folded letter, cancelled with red framed "FREE" handstamp indicating usage as a local stamp, corresponding red "City Despatch Post NY" c.d.s. (April 30), some peripheral edge staining, else scarce and fine; with 2023 Philatelic Foundation certificate.

H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps
Price: $ 500.00
Lot 55 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps -  H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Lot 55 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Brooklyn City Post, undated embossed Valentine cover, handstamped with bold black PAID and crisp oval "Brooklyn City Post", to Miss Burnham on Butler Street, the odd spot of staining, else a lovely and rare cover, one of only two recorded examples of this elusive City Post, with 1984 P.F. Certificate ex-Golden.

H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps
Price: $ 500.00
Lot 71 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps -  H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Lot 71 - Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Prince’s Letter Dispatch, Portland, Maine, sheet margin single, large to huge margins all around, tied to cover by red "Boston Mass / Aug / 19" double-circle c.d.s., alongside 3c brown red, tied by crisp strike of black segmented cork, to William F. Brooks of Boston, trivial light soiling to portions of adhesive, cover reduced and partially refolded, an exceptionally attractive and rare on-cover example of this rare local issue; ex Caspary (H.R. Harmer, March, 1957, lot 947).
Prince’s Letter Dispatch of Portland, Maine, carried mail nightly by messenger traveling by steamer to Boston.  The adhesive was engraved by Lowell of the firm of Lowell & Brett of Boston, whose name appears on the stamp below the steamship. While a common stamp unused, covers are rare; Lyons records only eleven such examples in his census. (Penny Post, Volume 10, No. 4, October 2002).

H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN X

Carriers’ and Local Stamps local stamps
Price: $ 1,500.00