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JAPAN: YOKOHAMA 1908 TINTED POSTCARD OF STONE STEPS. GOOD POSTMARK Sharp corners. Excellent condition. |
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SACRAMENTO CALIFORNIA 1860 POSTMARK ON U2 POSTAL STATIONERY Outstanding postmark on this cover, delivered to Elk Grove PO in Scaramento County. Nice early buff U2 postal stationery cover. In opening letter, recipient tore top just into the top of the embossed image. Backflap has been reinforced with stamp hinges that can be removed. |
$25.00 | |
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KEENE NEW HAMPSHIRE STAMPLESS COVER RED POSTMARK AND 5 RATE Cover features full Keene postmark and 5 rate. Wax seal on back has letter P in a shield. |
$25.00 | |
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CUBA: LOT OF 29 1940S COVERS TO HARTFORD CONNECTICUT. CENSOR TAPE Clean lot with a variety of stamps; regular issues and airmails. |
$25.00 | |
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NUENBERG GERMANY 1936 POSTCARD TO U.S. SENDER SAW HITLER GOEBBELS AND GOERING Very interesting pre-World War II postcard. Marc and Ed, visiting Germany casually mention at the end of a postcard to Brookline Massachusetts that "We say Hitle, Goebbels & Goering yesteday at Bayreuth. According to historic records: Each summer, from 1933 to 1939, Hitler attended the Bayreuth Festival, and he made the Wagner estate, Wahnfried, his second home. Because she had been one of his earliest supporters, Hitler had great affection for Winifred. Hitler repaid the Wagner family gratitude by pledging his undying friendship and his deepest devotion to Richard Wagner and Bayreuth. With the assistance of Dr. Josef Goebbels, Hitler's propaganda minister, Richard Wagner became the legendary and ideological voice of the new party, and the musical standard by which all classical composers would, from now on, be judged. This is how Richard Wagner and Bayreuth fell under the weight of the swastika during the years before the beginning of World War II. "At the age of twelve, I saw ... the first opera of my life, Lohengrin. In one instant I was addicted. My youthful enthusiasm for the Bayreuth Master knew no bounds. " -- Mein Kampf, Volume 1, Adolf Hitler
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KENTUCKY: LEXINGTON 1900 NATIONAL TROTTING ASSO. SPECIAL DELIVERY COVER. Major Philip Preston Johnston, CSA. He served under J.E.B. Stuart in Major John Pelham’s Horse Artillery. Born in Shiloh, Va. in 1840. After the war, he moved to Fayette County and read law under Colonel W.C.P. Breckinridge. In 1868, Johnston graduated from Transylvania University with a law degree. He served in both houses of Ky. legislature and was appointed adj. gen. during the Tobacco Wars. He bred fine trotters & Thoroughbred horses and was president of the National Trotting Association from 1888-1916. Major Johnston died in 1925. |
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DOVER NEW HAMPSHIRE 1844 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO BRIDGEWATER MASSACHUSETTS Very clean item with full Dover postmark. William Hale writes to a supplier asking for balance of order and lists the missing items. No tears. Excellent condition. |
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BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1841 POSTAL HISTORY STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER FROM PROMINENT MERCHANT ABRAHAM LOWE TO FOXCROFT MAINE Interesting note from Abraham Lowe. Charles Chandler, of Foxcroft has collected $60 for Lowe and is unable to send a check because of surcharges. Lowe suggests he send cash...$50 and $10 bills...and to enclose them in front of the local postmaster. He also encourages him to "collect the balance as soon as you can". Foxcroft is now a dead post office. Clean cover in good condition. Abraham Thompson Lowe was born on 15 August 1796 in Ashburnham, Worcester County, Massachusetts. He graduated in 1816 from Dartmouth College, with his M.D. degree. He early abandoned the active practice of his profession and entered the wholesale drug business in Boston, which he followed for many years under the firm of Lowe & Reed. |
$25.00 | |
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MONTCLAIR NEW JERSEY WIDE MARGIN E8 SPECIAL DELIVERY STAMP ON 1911 COVER TO MT. VERNON, NEW YORK Very nice covfer with tied E8 special delivery stamp. Stamp has wide margins on three sides and is clear at top. Note Hudson Terminal and Mt. Vernon receiver markings on reverse. Upper right corner of reverse is torn away, not affecting front of cover. |
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CHARLESTOWN MASSACHUSETTS 1848 STAMPLESS FOLDED POSTAL HISTORY LETTER TO TERIFFVILLE CONNECTICUT Letter writer H. Bemus badly misspells town letter is addressed to as Tarriffvill. Letter is to William B. Cowles, whose family had a store in Worthington, Connecticut and whose relatives operated the Cowles Manufacturing Company, East Granby, CT., manufacturer of spoons, and it is claimed was the first to make a practical success of electric plating. Bemus laments losing his business partner and that a potential investor has no experience in his retail business. He wants Cowles to become his partner. Good content. Letter easy to read and in excellent condition. |
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