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SANFORD MAINE 1893 COVER WITH WELL-CENTERED 2-CT COLUMBIAN SERIES STAMP - POSTAL-HISTORY SANFORD MAINE 1893 COVER WITH WELL-CENTERED 2-CT COLUMBIAN SERIES STAMP

Very clean cover with good postmark. Hard to find well centered copies of this stamp.  See additional scan of entire cover.

 $10.00
WASHINGTON DC POST OFFICE 1902 REGISTRY RETURN RECEIPT - POSTAL-HISTORY WASHINGTON DC POST OFFICE 1902 REGISTRY RETURN RECEIPT

Sent to US Civil Service Commission in Washington with a return to New Jersey.

 $5.00
NEW YORK 1896 REGISTERED COVERWITH SCOTT 273 STAMP. ADDRESSED TO THE CHRISTIAN HERALD - POSTAL-HISTORY NEW YORK 1896 REGISTERED COVER WITH SCOTT 273 STAMP. ADDRESSED TO THE CHRISTIAN HERALD

Couple small tears at top where cover was opened. See additional scan for registration marks on back.

 $15.00
SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA POSTMARK ON WELLS FARGO & CO'S EXPRESS COVER - POSTAL-HISTORY SAN FRANCISCO CALIFORNIA POSTMARK ON WELLS FARGO & CO'S EXPRESS COVER

Wells Fargo San Francisco postmark is light. We have enhanced a closeup of the postmark. Click on the headline of this item to see the additional scans.

 $30.00
U.S. FRIGATE CONSTITUTION CACHET 1934 SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA POSTMARK COVER COMMEMORATING WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY - MARITIME-POSTAL-HISTORY U.S. FRIGATE CONSTITUTION CACHET 1934 SAN DIEGO CALIFORNIA POSTMARK COVER COMMEMORATING WASHINGTON'S BIRTHDAY

Clean cover with Arbor Day commemorative stamps and well placed handstamp postmark.

 $5.00
PONCA CITY OKLAHOMA - CHICAGO-DALLAS ROUTE 1927 FIRST FLIGHT COVER WITH C-4 STAMP - AIRMAIL-POSTAL-HISTORY PONCA CITY OKLAHOMA - CHICAGO-DALLAS ROUTE 1927 FIRST FLIGHT COVER WITH C-4 STAMP

Clean first flight cover with double circle postmarks. Unusual for this cover as roller postmarks were used for most covers.

 $25.00
BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1868 FANCY CANCEL COVER + 2 LETTERS HENRY HILL (AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY) AND LOVETT MORSE (TAUNTON NATIONAL BANK) - POSTAL-HISTORY BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1868 FANCY CANCEL COVER + 2 LETTERS HENRY HILL (AMERICAN TRACT SOCIETY) AND LOVETT MORSE (TAUNTON NATIONAL BANK)

This lot contains three items. First, a pink American Tract Society business envelope with a cachet and Boston postmark with pie wedge cancel on a Scott #65 stamp. It is opened roughly at the top and has no back flap. Second is a letter on ATS stationery from Henry Hill, ATS treasurer offering to pay Taunton Bank director Lovett Morse interest due on a building loan to his son if Morse will forego foreclosure proceedings. Third is the reply from Morse, explaining his position in the matter and setting down reasons for his decision whether or not to accept Hill’s “proposition”. The winner of the lot gets all the details. Very interesting reading.

Lovett Morse was a director of the Taunton National Bank as well as a director of the Taunton Gas-Light Company. Born in Taunton, on February 25, 1810, he married Sally Morse and they had five children.

Henry Hill – 1795-1892 – Born in Newburgh, NY. In 1809 he became clerk for Hill & Smith, 100 Wall Street, New York City. In 1817 he went on business to Chili acting as U. S. Counsel for Valparaiso and Santiago. He was treasurer of the American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions from 1822 to 1854 for 11 years was a member of its Prudential Committee. He was treasurer of the American Tract Society, Boston, for nine years.

The American Tract Society (ATS) is a nonprofit, nonsectarian but evangelical organization founded on May 11, 1825 in New York City for the purpose of publishing and disseminating Christian literature. ATS traces its lineage back through the New York Tract Society (1812) and the New England Tract Society (1814) to the Religious Tract Society of London, begun in 1799. Over the years, ATS has produced and distributed many millions of pieces of literature.

 $25.00
WATERLOO NEW YORK 1896 COVER TO SHORTSVILLE NY WITH "MISSENT" MARK - POSTAL-HISTORY WATERLOO NEW YORK TO SHORTSVILLE NY 1896 COVER WITH MISSENT MARK

Interesting cover. Has September 28 Waterloo postmark next to stamp. Arrived at Shortsville the same day and was marked missent and returned. At center top of cover is a Waterloo receiver postmark for September 29.  Nice fast turnaround. Stamp is damaged. Missent mark and postmarks constitute the value.

 $10.00
SANBORNTON BRIDGE NEW HAMPSHIRE COVER WITH SCOTT #11 AND RED POSTMARK - POSTAL-HISTORY SANBORNTON BRIDGE NEW HAMPSHIRE COVER WITH SCOTT #11 AND RED POSTMARK

Cover in excellent condition. Light red Sanbornton Bridge postmark. Three good margins and almost good at bottom as well.

 $10.00
LEE MASSACHUSETTS 1846 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO HARTFORD CONNECTICUT - POSTAL-HISTORY LEE MASSACHUSETTS 1846 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO HARTFORD CONNECTICUT RE: AETNA INSURANCE LOSSES IN FIRE

Dear Brother,

I drop you this line to have you inform me the exact amount of your mortgages on Brodums place with the date of the notes, in order that I may make my return to the Judge of Probate Had I have known the trouble of settling the estate by law I should not have consented to have gone into it.

The weather here is very fine. I am cutting my hay now. Why wont you come up with your family & we will spend a little time at Lebanon Springs – or if you say Saratoga. Let me hear from you immediately.

Please write me how much the Aetna lost at St John’s fire. I should have thought that eastern Offices would have refused to insure where they are known to burn up periodically. Your brother in haste, Leonard Church

Along the side, he also mentions he supposes a bill by Senator McBay (?) will pass in the Senate “a prominent secy from Tory said yesterday that it will destroy their party, but what shall we say when we see the Ohio results—chewing their own words.

Interesting letter between brothers.  Very light postmark.  The content provides the value.

 

 $5.00

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