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Auction: 173 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 155

Stampless ship mail postal history collection, written-up on album pages, with a detailed examination of rates and routes of the period, highlights including an early 1772 folded ship cover from Manchester to Philadelphia via New York, sent per "the Hope" with 9 FE Bishop mark and NEW/YORK straight-line (small repair at right), 1789 and 1791 folded letters with Baltimore straight-lines to New York, 1796 free frank from Albany to Philadelphia, a superb 1797 folded ship letter from Bordeaux to Philadelphia via Boston, unusual 1798 folded letter from Alexandria, Virginia to the Vice-Consul of France in Baltimore, datelined "27 Floreal" using the French revolutionary calendar, 1816 Hudson N. York ornamental c.d.s. on folded letter to New Haven, lovely 1834 steam boat letter from Savannah to Portsmouth N.H., 1838 New York to Buenos Aires, Argentina, forwarded by Gilpin's Exchange, 1840 Bristol Ship Letter from Philadelphia to Yorkshire per the Great Western, 1840 ship letter Hamburg, Germany to New York via Philadelphia, clear strike of "Tallahassee Flo" oval territorial datestamp on folded letter to New York, 1842 packet letter from New Orleans to Bordeaux, circa 1840s Keeseville to Moriah, New York, endorsed "stage driver will leave this at the store," nice group of 1840s railroad covers, 1849 New Orleans to Paris via England, over thirty items in all, many better examples, with an array of ship mail handstamps, postmarks, and rate markings, a wonderful and select collection of mostly very fine covers.

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