UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - Stamp Auctions
 Lot 269 - United States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XConfederate States stamp balance, beautifully mounted and annotated, almost all stamps being four-margin examples, beginning with four used 5c Hoyer & Ludwig, each showing portion of sheet margin, three 10c blue Hoyer & Ludwig, two with jumbo margins, four 10c blue Paterson, showing a range of shades, two 2c Hoyer & Ludwig showing shades of dark and blue green, five 5c blue Hoyer & Ludwig showing range of blue to milky blue shades, eight 10c Hoyer & Ludwig, with range of shades of rose, as well as a scarce four-margin carmine single (repaired), 5c De La Rue with corner blocks of four, each showing one of the corners, five used single in varying shades, with two pairs and a strip of four, 2c brown red Archer & Daly, four mint sheet margin singles showing early shades of milky-rose red and later brown red, with two further mint blocks of four, and four used singles postmarked in Greensborough in red, Richmond, and Raleigh, 5c Archer & Daly used pairs, one the earliest recorded date (Jul 15), another a late usage from 1865, 10c Type I mint blocks of four in dark blue, blue, and milky blue, along with a stunning group of four used multiples including a striking block of nine cancelled in Talladega, range of Type II mint and used singles and multiples, five mint 20c green singles in varying shades, used single with blue c.d.s., range of unissued 1c orange in singles and multiples, attractive four-margin 5c carmine Nashville Postmasters’ Provisional (sealed tear), the odd flaw, but an overall exceptional group of select stamps, an ideal reference or nucleus for a detailed study of these desirable issues. H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XUnited States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS |
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 Lot 280 - United States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XWells, Fargo and Co.& Western Express balance of collection, with fifteen items, noting two 1862 25c blue Pony Express covers, each on 3c pink entire, cancelled respectively in Virginia City NT and Coloma (both faulty) four-margin 25c red on 3c entire piece, cancelled San Francisco, fine strike of oval “Chinese Camp” Express mark, 1882 3c green with printed frank postmarked “Bartlett Springs” 1890 Wells Fargo printed frank entire from Monterey to San Francisco, “Benicia” oval on 3c Nesbitt entire, “Steamer EMILY” straight-line on 2c entire from San Francisco, undated 3c entire with red frank from New York to Benton Wisconsin with “Due 3” in manuscript, unused 3c entire with “VICTORIA / PAID / V.I.” in blue, 1889 Mexico entire from Leon to Mexico City, Canada 1874 6c Small Queen cover from Victoria, British Columbia to Walla Walla via Portland with red PAID ALL, attractive Greenhood & Newbauer Northern Express with Weaverville Cal oval, Langton & Bros Yuba River Express embossed cover, J. Bamber & Co Contra Costa Express, scarce Bannack City Express handstamp on cover from Cleveland, some small faults but a chiefly fine and desirable group. H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XUnited States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS |
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 Lot 275 - United States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XNew York Fancy Cancels postal history collection, with over 150 covers, displaying a wide range of charming strikes, including floral, cogwheels, wedges, letters, diamonds, shields, letters, and rosettes, with more unusual designs including Masonic, Skull & Crossbones, “Head Under Wreath”, note advertising, Civil War patriotic, and other desirable usages, more than a few dozen post offices represented including Brasher Falls, Bush, Candor, Cold Spring, Copake Iron Works, Hemlock Lake, Hornellsville, Lima, Memphis, Stockholm Depot, Oriskany, Horseheads, Macedon, Unadilla, Union Springs, and more, condition varies, but many choice strikes, a lovely collection for expansion. H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XUnited States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS |
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 Lot 270 - United States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XEastern Express Companies, balance of collection, just over twenty items, written-up on pages, noting Adams Express Company, New York, two stampless covers with different embossed corner cards; Bryant & Spear’s / Penobscot Express, Boston, green label on cover to Maine; rare “Forwarded by / Prince’s / Boston & Portland / Express” label in red on folded cover (untied, vertical crease); Wells & Co’s Express, with 1848 entire from Albany to Buffalo, 1849 cover from Buffalo to New York with yellow “Wells & Co’s” label, 1850 entire from Albany to New York with pink label, small group of receipts for payment showing the partners, offices, agencies, etc; Livingston, Wells & Co Express group with 1854 entire from Paris to Massachusetts forwarded with blue cachet, c. 1855 envelope with cachet of Paris agency forwarded to New York; Wells, American Express Co. covers with yellow “Buffalo, Albany & New York” label, “St. Johnsville” in red, “Albany” in green, varying condition, some covers and labels with faults, crease, etc, but a fascinating group to continue further study of this popular field. H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XUnited States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS |
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 Lot 276 - United States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XStampless postal history collection, neatly-organized on pages, with over 45 items, most with a particularly interesting attribute, noting several ship letters including transatlantic, with 1840s/50s usages to the Switzerland, Italy, and France, as well as steamship markings of the “Steamer Dallas,” “Steamer Cora” and “Steam Boat Belle Creole”, 1845 “Forwarded by Hale & Co” with boxed “Collect / Six Cents / for / Hale & Co”, pretty ornately-bordered Valentine from Lockport to Boston, illustrated “Maps of the Routes of the American Express Co.”, 1812 cancelled free frank from Albany to Philadelphia with notation “Missent to Washington City”, etc, typical filing folds and other small faults to be expected in places, but a chiefly fine group with fascinating potential for further study. H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XUnited States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS |
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 Lot 271 - United States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XFancy cancels postal history collection, with approximately 300 nineteenth century covers, representing an incredible array of attractive and desirable postmarks, with range of geometric patterns, intaglio letters and numbers, circles of wedges, shapes, stars, hearts, flowers, as well as a number of more whimsical or ornate designs, noting, among many others, Rutland & Troy Railroad, Kicking Mule of Forbestown and Klinkner & Co, insects including Moth of Cleveland, Blue Fly of Freeport, “DON’T USM” of Bridgeport CT, Indian Head of Head Tide and Troutville Pennsylvania, Skull & Crossbones, “I AM HN” and “CB” of Ann Arbor, Liberty Bell and Shield of Concord, Masonic designs including Kennebunkport and Denmark, Maine, “V.A. Sprague PM” of Corinna, Maine, Black Mask of Hazelton, Liberty Bell, Jack O Lantern, Anchors of Magnolia Wisconsin, Globe of Zanesville, Ohio, One Cent Coin of Milford, Indiana, “69” in circle of High Point North Carolina on illustrated sewing machine cover, Cross of Bradford, Pennsylvania on Union patriotic cover, Keystone of Chester, Pennsylvania; Carved Faces of Memphis, Tennessee, and Newport, Vermont, the latter on lovely Memphremagog House advertising cover, Man Thumbing Nose, likely of Brattleboro, strong holding of Pennsylvania, Blue Bird of Rockford, Illinois, fancy “OCT” of Putnam, CT double-strike on uprated stationery cover, “Charter Oak” of Thomaston, CT, “CV” of Charlottesville, Virginia, Elk’s Head of Lynchburg, “OK” of Richmond and Old Point Comfort, UV of University of Virginia, “III” in Circle of East Plainfiel NH on Union patriotic cover, and much more, from a number of states including Alabama, California (with 1872 transatlantic usage to France), Colorado, Connecticut, Georgia, Indiana, Maine, Michigan, Minnesota, Missouri, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Ohio, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, South Carolina, Tennessee, Vermont, Wisconsin, West Virginia, and more, condition varies as expected in such an extensive holding, an overall exceptional collection, with many items having graced renowned collections of the past, almost the entirety of which one graced the famed Boker collection, an astounding opportunity to obtain the basis of a world-class collection of this fascinating field. H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XUnited States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS |
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 Lot 266 - United States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XCarrier Stamps balance, with 1c blue U.S.P.O. Despatch, on cover with Sc. #26, cancelled with red star, Baltimore City Carrier’s Dispatch, three covers additionally franked with 3c brown red, one on 3c embossed postal stationery cover (U10), in each case adhesive tied by c.d.s., Government City Dispatch, 1c black reconstructed pane of ten, used, six examples on cover, one and one large piece on 3c stationery (U10), others with either #11 or 26, 1c red single showing the “short rays” variety, six covers franked with #26, another on U10, two Boston “Penny Post Paid” on cover with #11, Honours City Express of Charleston, South Carolina, one on cover with #11 showing partial straddle-pane guideline at left, on cameo advertising cover, showing the “CENS” variety (signed Jakubek), the other on folded cover to New York, United States City Despatch Post, 3c black on blue on folded cover (signed Jakubek), another on front, some with typical wrinkling and small faults as expected, several ex-Kuphal and remaining on his pages, a pleasing group with many fine and desirable covers. H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XUnited States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS |
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 Lot 277 - United States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XTransatlantic Mail via Forwaring Agents, a neatly-mounted collection of twenty one items, 1830s through 1850s, all to London and carried via a range of ships including the Acadia, Ashburton, Asia, Britannia, Cambria, Columbus, Europa, Garrick, Hibernia, Independence, Niagara, Royal William, Sheridan, and Silas Richards, originating from Baltimore, Havana, Mobile, Matanzas, New Orleans, or New York, and all via forwarding agents, with all but a few showing agent handstamps, including Hudson’s News Room, De Rham, Iselin, & Moore, I.W. Ward, Meyer & Hupeden, Heckschers, Coster & Matfeld, Castello, Meyer & Stucken, F & J Brockelmann, Schmidt & Vogel, H. Bleidorn, and Judson, Andrews & Co, some small faults to covers, but most with fine strikes of agent markings, an attractive and useful group. H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XUnited States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS |
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 Lot 272 - United States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XHarnden Express postal history collection, 1840s/60s, neatly-written up on pages, over twenty items beginning with a letter from William F. Harnden to the President of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad (ex Burrus), followed by a range of desirable pieces, including a rare 1847 entire to Russia (Wibourg) showing framed “POSTAGE PAID / TO DESTINATION / BY / HARNDEN & CO / OF / LIVERPOOL”, circular “PAID / H. & Co”, and reverse with “FORWARDED BY / HARNDEN & CO / BOSTON”, 1840 folded letter with “FORWARDED FROM / HARNDEN’S / PACKAGE EXPRESS & FOREIGN / LETTER OFFICE” (Boston), 1840 transatlantic to the United Kingdom with circular “FORWARDED BY / HARNDEN’S EXPRESS / FROM / BOSTON”, 1842 Havana to London forwarded via New York and Boston, 1866 Harper’s Ferry receipt, various types of “HARNDEN EXPRESS” and “HARNDEN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN EXPRESS” envelopes, full-rigged ship illustrated “FORWARDED BY / HARNDEN & CO / NO 20 WATER ST / LIVERPOOL” oval on two folded covers, four scarce labels from Cincinnati (white), Wall Street (blue), Savannah (orange) and Baltimore (orange), concluding with embossed Livingston & Co “Late Harnden Express Forwarder” envelope with embossed illustration on flap, transatlantic letters carried via the Acadia, Columbia, Caledonia, Britannia, etc, condition varies, some items with faults, but an important assembly of scarce material recounting the history of this pioneering independent express company. H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XUnited States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS |
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 Lot 267 - United States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS - H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XCivil War Union Patriotic cover collection, with over two hundred unused examples, neatly-mounted and annotated in two Rapkin albums, most have been hinged to pages while others are affixed with corner mounts, range of themes including various flags and depictions of Liberty, George Washington, Eagles, etc. “Remember Ellsworth”, Union leaders, anti-Confederate sentiment including caricatures of Davis and Beauregard, “Fate of Traitors,”“One of the Ends of Secession,” “The End of King Cotton”, and other similar depicting hanging scenes, some showing slight variations in similar designs, varied condition with small faults in places, but an overall fresh and desirable group with tremendous diversity. H. R. Harmer Inc 3070 – ERIVAN XUnited States of America UNITED STATES COLLECTIONS |
