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1907-new-years-postcard-embossed-ballet-dancers-leg-plus-full-calendar-pages 1907 NEW YEAR'S POSTCARD EMBOSSED BALLET DANCER LEG + 1908 FULL CALENDAR PAGES.

Outstanding item.  The postcard was mailed from New York City on December 27, 1907.  The front contains the embossed image of a ballet dancer's leg. The text below says: Avoid the gay kick between Christmas and New Years.  A full 1908 calendar is affixed with tear off pages for every month.  A hole at top was punched by the manufacturer to serve as a way to hang the card on a nail.  Card is in extremely clean condition. 

 

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carrollton-michigan-1882-cover -and-long-letter-to-sand-lake-michigan MICHIGAN: CARROLLTON 1882 COVER AND EXCELLENT LETTER TO SAND LAKE MICHIGAN.

Nice early oval postmark on this cover from a small Michigan township to a desirable destination.  Long four-page letter is from Wesley Kilborn to Charles Reston telling him that he has applied for and won the position of principal of Carrolton High School and is excited that the job pays $15 a month more than he was previously making.  The only problem, he states, is that: "is it a very rough school as this place is nearly all French Canadians and Irish. In fact, there is more French spoken than English. This place is then you see what I call a devilish hard hole and the scholars and their teachers have regular fights in the school room."  Much more to read and enjoy.

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wurttemberg-germany-government-centennial-anniversary-cachet-postal-stationery GERMANY - WURTTEMBERG 1906 GOVERNMENT ANNIVERSARY OF THE KINGDOM CACHET POSTAL STATIONERY

Cachet cover includes vignettes of early Wurttemberg stamps Unused with minor toning.

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hinsdale-new-hampshire-1841-manuscript-cancel-stampless-folded-letter-to-plympton-massachusetts NEW HAMPSHIRE: HINSDALE 1841 MANUSCRIPT CANCEL STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO PLYMPTON MASSACHUSETTS

Clean stampless folded letter with sharp and full Hinsdale, New Hampshire, manuscript postmark.  Ivory Soule writes to William Soule about family matters, especially his wife's illness.  Additional information about family history was added, in pencil, in 1957 by a relative.  Interesting that letter was sent FREE.  Could not find any reference to Soule being a postmaster. 

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oslo-norway-1940-censored-first-day-cover-to-sweden-scott-269-271-stamps NORWAY: OSLO 1940 CENSORED FIRST DAY COVER TO SWEDEN. SCOTT #269-271

Clean, attractive cover for stamps issued at start of WWII.

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SOUTH WILBRAHAM MASSACHUSETTS RARE DPO COVER WITH SCOTT #26 STAMP - POSTAL HISTORY SOUTH WILBRAHAM MASSACHUSETTS RARE DPO COVER WITH SCOTT #26

DPO rarity 7 $25-50 value.  White paper stuck to top of envelope. Does not affect postmark or stamp.

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BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1854 STAMPLESS COVER WITH INTERESTING CONTENTS - POSTAL HISTORY BOSTON MASSACHUSETTS 1854 STAMPLESS COVER WITH INTERESTING CONTENTS

Big, full Boston 3cts postmark along with red PAID. But the real story here is the contents of the envelope...a letter from John F. Eliot, Boston pharmacist, affiliated with prominent Boston pharmacy Brewers, Stevens and Cushing (Samuel N. Brewers, James F. Stevens, H. W. Cushing) requesting the recipient, who may have been his son or father, to go to Bruno and Cargill at Maiden Lane to get the product mentioned on a slip of paper which was pinned to the note. The product, N.W. Seat's Electric Negative Fluid, was for the "suppression of fever in every form and stage." We could not find any online reference to this product. According to the note, Eliot wants the fluid for a sea captain who "says it is the very best thing in the world for the purposes named--he is sure of it--for 'somebody told him so.'"

Back of envelope contains an embossed seal of Brewers, Stevens and Cushing. Envelope is fragile, but content is outstanding.

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rosenheim-germany-postal-history-cover-american-zone-1947-stamps-otto-edenharter-wasserburg-inn ROSENHEIM GERMANY 1947 POSTAL HISTORY COVER WITH AMERICAN ZONE OCCUPATION STAMPS, CIVIL CENSOR STAMP & TAPE, OTTO EDENHARTER MARK AND EDENHARTER INN SEALS

Excellent and interesting cover. Post-World-War-II American Occupation of Germany stamps along with Civil Censorship seal 11119. Censor tape. Reverse shows cover's sender was Otto Edenharter, Wasserburg-Inn-Stadt. Otto-Erich Edenharter starred in over 50 film and television productions, including in the GDR crime series blue light , Police 110 , and the prosecutor has the floor . Wasserburg am Inn is a town in Rosenheim district in Upper Bavaria, Germany. The historic centre is a peninsula formed by the meandering Inn River. Many Medieval structures remain intact, giving the city a unique air.

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newport-ri-early-cliffs-hotel and-perry-house-covers RHODE ISLAND: NEWPORT. EARLY CLIFFS HOTEL AND PERRY HOUSE COVE

Cliffs House postmark is dated1892. Perry House, based on the stamp, is around 1888 and has steel engraving of the hotel on the back of the cover.

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FAIR HAVEN Mas. 1845 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER. J.B. MASSE TO LEVI SNOW, HARWICH, MASSACHUSETTS. UNLISTED POSTMARK - POSTAL-HISTORY FAIR HAVEN Mas. 1845 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER. J.B. MASSE TO LEVI SNOW, HARWICH, MASSACHUSETTS. UNLISTED POSTMARK

Snow has requested a new order of merchandise and Masse has agreed to send it "as soon as you can send me the balance of your account." The full, red Fair Haven postmark is not listed in ASCC with the state identification as Mas. Note soiling at lower left. No tears or separations. Snow was a prominent citizen of Wychmere Harbor. See information below.

Wychmere Harbor

Wychmere Harbor used to have no opening to the sea. In the early times it was called Salt Water Pond. The fisherman of Harwich tried to dig by hand a passage for their boats where a trickle of water flowed between the sea and the pond. When this did not work, they plugged the little stream and built a 3/4 mile race track all-around the pond and raced their horses there.

In 1889 the state dredged a proper channel. It measured about 100 feed wide with jetties on each side and fishermen then had a safe anchorage. Fifty years later the big outer harbor was dredged.

Around 1891, Levi Edric Snow paid about $250 for land at the end of the dirt road on the west side of Salt Water Pond. He built an eight room seaside cottage and had so many relatives visiting the following summer that he built a 20 room addition and began charging rent.

In 1913 when Levi’s grandson Biddle was married, the hotel became a year round business. Biddie and his wife had three sons–The Clam Bar’s “Thompson Brothers.” The boys, all over six feet tall, grew up at the Inn and a place was built for them by the dock. They called it Hangover Inn or Spit ‘n Whittle. After World War II, the family began another business. Line Trawlers tied up at the dock and the fish was packed and shipped to Boston and New York. The new wholesale business had begun! Fish, clams and lobsters were unloaded on the dock. This brought many onlookers, whom all wanted to eat and purchase seafood. Thus from the top of a fish box or a barrel head, freshly opened clams were served. People started buying lobster retail, then wanted them cooked and opened. The family responded; away went the Spit ‘n Whittle and up went The Clam Bar. The fish you serve are probably direct descendants of the first ones unloaded here over forty years ago.

Over the years the dirt road was paved, the salt water pond become Wychmere Harbor, a long jetty curved out into the Old Inn and Channelside Restaurant grew yearly and became known far and beyond the small village of Harwich.

Thompson clam bar later was established at the Inn by Levi’s daughter, Clementine. In 1983 a developer purchased the inn, and closed it after 100 seasons in 1991.

Letter is from J. B. Masse. There are several Masse’s listed in Fair Haven (now condensed to Fairhaven) historic records.

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