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WEBSTER MASSACHUSETTS1846 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO MERCHANTS BANK NORWICH CONNECTICUT Short note regarding non-receipt of funds. Good condition. Full postmark. |
$15.00 | |
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WELLESLEY MASSACHUSETTS 1800s COVER WITH 3ct BANKNOTE STAMP Nice, clean cover with violet ink cancel. |
$10.00 | |
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WEST KILLINGLY CONNECTICUT 1845 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER FROM DANIELSONVILLE TO NORWICH CONNECTICUT Placing an order for American Glass. Carroll & Crosby were paint merchants in Norwich. |
$15.00 | |
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WEST MERIDEN CONNECTICUT DEAD POST OFFICE COVER TO HARTFORD Good postmark. Multiple circle killer on Scott #65 stamp. |
$10.00 | |
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WEST WINSTED CONNECTICUT MID-1800S COVER. SCOTT #26A. RARE DEAD POST OFFICE Perfs on stamp are into at the top and right. Good clearance at the bottom. Left side indicates that this may have been left margin because there is considerable white with no stamp image on the left side. Angle starts close at top and widens considerably by the time it gets to the bottom. West Winsted Connecticut is a rare dead post office. The letter was sent to Cornwall Bridge, a desirable Connecticut address. |
$75.00 | |
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WHEELING VIRGINIA 1843 STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO MT. VERNON OHIO Created when Wheeling was part of Virginia (now West Virginia). Letter is from David McConaughey (a prominent surname in Wheeling area at the time) regarding settlement of a claim. His right to the settlement is affirmed by a second note signed D. T. Tallant. Letter is addressed to Delano & Israel attorney at law. Condition is very good with no separations. Only tear is in the usual spot where seal was broken and does not affect content. Postmark is full but light. 12.5-cent rate. |
$40.00 | |
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WILKES-BARRE PENNSYLVANIA 1929 SPECIAL DELIVERY COVER. HOTEL CASEY, SCRANTON, ADVERTISING . Early hotel stationery posted from Wilkes-Barre to Newburyport Massachusetts. 2- and 10-cent regular issues used. NY and Pittsburg RPO mark along with Newburyport receivers on back. |
$15.00 | |
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WINCHESTER NEW HAMPSHIRE 1832 BLACK POSTMARK STAMPLESS FOLDED LETTER TO ASHBURNHAM MASSACHUSETTS LIGHT BUT FULL AND EASY TO READ WINCHESTER POSTMARK. HARD TO FIND FOR THIS YEAR. |
$45.00 | |
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WINDHAM DEPOT NEW HAMPSHIRE DEAD POST OFFICE 1800S COVER TO NEW MARLBORO MASSACHUSETTS Good DPO cover. 3-cent green Washington banknote stamp. |
$5.00 | |
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WISCASSETT MAINE 1853 STAMPLESS FOLDED PRINTED NOTICE TO THE CONSABLES OF THE TOWN OF BOOTHBAY MAINE. NOTE POSTMARK ERROR...TWO "Ts" IN WISCASSETT Extremely clean printed notice from the Wiscasset clerk (E. B. Bowman) to the constables of the Town of Warren directing them to notify "freeholders and other inhabitants to vote in the choice of Representatives, and particularly the Selectmen and Town Clerk, to assemble, six days, at least, and not more than twenty days before the time for holding the Court hereafter mentioned, at a certain place, there by you made known, to appoint as the law directs, by drawng out of the box one good and lawful man of the said Town of Warren of like qualification and good moral character to serve as Traverse Juror at the Supreme Judicial Court of this state..." See scans for entire document. Signatures include Bowman; George Reed, Traverse Juror; and C. B Fisher, constable of Boothbay. The postmark is an error postmark listed in ASCC. Strong blue Wiscassett postmark along with lighter large numeral 5 rate mark. |
$50.00 |
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