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charles-lindbergh-lot-of-five-covers-including-1929-cachet-miami-to-paramaribo-first-flight-cover CHARLES LINDBERGH: LOT OF FIVE COVERS INCLUDING 1929 MIAMI TO PARAMARIBO FIRST FLIGHT COVER

Lot includes a Lindbergh piloted first flight cover from San Juan to aramaribo, first flight cover from St. Thomas to San Juan, cover commemorating Lindbergh's visit to Bettis Field, PA, and two Fitchburg, MA, covers celebrating the second anniversary of Lindbergh's New York to Paris non-stop flight. Note good stamps including Beacon plate number single.

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SCOTT 96 WAY OFF CENTER 10-CENT GREEN (USED)

F Grill. So far off center, this stamp probably qualifies as a freak.  Large portion of adjacent stamp showing at left.  Stamp is sound.

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POSTAL HISTORY - PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA TO NEW YORK TO PIACENZA ITALY. U.S. SCOTT 163 ON 1876 COVER PHILADELPHIA PENNSYLVANIA TO NEW YORK TO PIACENZA ITALY. U.S. SCOTT 163 ON 1876 COVER

LAWYER D. R. PATTERSON 1876 COVER FROM PHILADELPHIA TO PIACENZA ITALY VIA NEW YORK. EXCELLENT MARKINGS. STAMP HAS TINY FAULT. CATALOG VALUE ON COVER IS $340.

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colon-panama-1929-pan-american-airways-first-flight-cover-to-nyc-with-scott-c1-and-236-stamps PANAMA: COLON 1929 PAN AMERICAN AIRWAYS FIRST FLIGHT COVER TO NEW YORK CITY WITH SCOTT #C-1 AND #236 STAMPS

Colon postal agency auxiliary mark along with Pan American Airways first flight mark.  

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CHICAGO ILLINOIS 1858 COVER WITH SCOTT 26A. LARGE, STRONG FULL DATE POSTMARK. - POSTAL-HISTORY ILLINOIS: CHICAGO 1858 COVER WITH SCOTT #26A. LARGE STRONG FULL-DATE POSTMARK FROM LAND DEPT. ILLINOIS CENTRAL RAILROAD

Nice cover. Full postmark on very good Scott 26A stamp. Corner card is on right side noting letter is from Cashier's Office, Land Department, Ill CRRC(?). There is some aging as is to be expected in covers this old.

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montezuma-illinois-1843-stampless-folded-letter-with-manuscript-postmark MONTEZUMA ILLINOIS 1843 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER WITH MANUSCRIPT POSTMARK

1843 stampless folded letter in superb condition sent to register of land office in Quincy, Illinois, from New Bedford, Illinois, with Montezuma manuscript postmark.  Outstanding in all respects.

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germany-early-cover GERMANY - LOT OF SIX EARLY COVERS

Good lot of six early Germany postal history covers including advertising for Stadt-Sparkasse, Friedrich Bachrach, Wilhelm Kleine Hulsewische, and Proskauer & Pauson.  Nice array of early stamps and stamp combinations. 

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austria-offices-in-turkey-early-overprint-stamps-on-cover AUSTRIA: OFFICES IN TURKEY EARLY OVERPRINTS ON CONSTANTINOPLE REGISTERED COVER

Scott #34 and #35 stamps on this cover.  Note that one stamp is missing. Registered cover to Boston MA from P deAndria & Co. The company motto was "A splendid collection of Turkish carpets, excellent in style and quality”. Note seal on the back.

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NEW YORK 1852 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER WITH PAID1 CT IN RED POSTMARK. SEE LETTER DETAILS - POSTAL-HISTORY NEW YORK 1852 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER WITH PAID 1 CT IN RED POSTMARK. SEE LETTER DETAILS

Letter from L. H. Moore Company, 122 Broadway, New York City, of E&J Harding, Danville, VA regarding how they do business and what their terms are.  The Moore Company was a well-known distributor of dry goods.  See scan for the full text, but here are some excerpts: "The cost of all goods shall be quoted to the buyer in every instance, & no article shall be averaged up from the original cost.  We shall charge a uniform profit of five per cent upon the cost, and no more under any circumstances for large or small bills."  "Our terms are strictly cash. All bills not paid on delivery must positively be paid within 30 days. We will not make out duplicate bills varying from the original in any case, neither will we make a discount to manufacturing, bobbers, & other buyers on any goods; whether imported, bought at auction, or at private sale, either for cash or credit..."  "We chall not deliver goods to houses who usually put us to the expense of sending for paymehnt at the expiration of 30ds..." "We shall be buying from $1,000 to $5,000 per cay at auction during the business season..."

The letter continues with a list of the varioius products they carry. Quite easy to read. No rips or tears No wax seal to cause a rip of any kind.  Full but slightly smudged  New-York Paid 1 Ct postmark.

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41-piece-early-correspondence-to-dudley-tibbits-troy-ny-with-covers NH/NY/MN/FR: 41 PIECE CORRESPONDENCE LOT TO DUDLEY TIBBITS, TROY NY. SEE TEXT

This is a large lot of correspondence with envelopes and two postcards (one from France) primarily from John Tibbits to his father, C. E. Dudley Tibbits.  John became a minister in New Hampshire.  Lots of interesting reading.  Postmarks from New Hampshire, New York, Minnesota and France.  See image. Charles Edward Dudley Tibbits, was born at Hoosac, New York, August 18, 1834. He was educated under private tuition at Troy and Hoosac, and later took a course at the Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute in Troy. In 1851 he made his first visit to Europe, crossing the ocean in a sailing vessel. He saw at that time the first International Exhibition at the Crystal Palace in London. This was the first of many voyages. He was largely occupied with the care of his own and of family property. He was president of the Walter A. Wood Mowing & Reaping Machine Company, of Hoosick Falls, from 1892 to 1895, when he resigned, and for a number of years was a director of the company; he is also a director of the United National Bank of Troy. He is a trustee of the Troy Orphan Asylum, and was chairman of the committee which selected the plans for the asylum building on Spring avenue. He was president in 1879 of the Young Men's Association, and is a trustee of the Troy Public Library, which now carries on the work formerly done by that association. As trustee of the library, he chose the design from which the Memorial Library Building on Second street was erected. Mr. Tibbits was chairman of the committee of one hundred citizens who were charged with making arrangements for the public celebration of the one hundredth anniversary of the naming of the city of Troy, in January, 1889. Mr. Tibbits married, June 8, 1865, Mary Elizabeth, daughter of John Le Grand and Elizabeth (Sigourney) Knox. She died July 16, 1875. Children: Sarah Bleecker, born November 15, 1866. George, born February 22, 1868, died April 29, 1875. John Knox, born January 13, 1870; educated at St. Paul's School, Concord, New Hampshire; Yale College, B.A., class of 1892; Exeter College, Oxford, England; he is an Episcopal clergyman at Concord, New Hampshire. He married, April 12, 1910, at Montreal, Canada, Marguerite Vinton Harris, daughter of Arthur H. and Saidee (Lambe) Harris, of that city. Dudley, born October 4, 1874, died May 24, 1875.

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