U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
March 9-10, 2005

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #95
1861-66 Issue
1861 1c blue, fine unused single, also plate proof on card
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Catalog #63,63P4
Catalog Value 175
Price Realized
$80.00

Lot #96
1861-66 Issue
1861 3c pink, two copies on buff cover, paying the 6c rate from Middletown, Conn. to Cincinnati, tied by black grid canc., v.f., with 1981 PFC (photo page 288)
Envelope
Catalog #64
Catalog Value 1,800
Price Realized
$900.00

Lot #97
1861-66 Issue
1861 10c yellow green, regummed, bright color, wide margins, short perf at right as well as slight toning on reverse, otherwise fine
(*)
Catalog #68
Catalog Value 425
Price Realized
$95.00

Lot #98
1861-66 Issue
1868 coverfront with backflap, franked with a pair of 10c green in combination with 2c black, paying 22c rate via Panama to Lima, Peru, v.f. and attractive item (photo page 288)
Catalog #68,73
Price Realized
$500.00

Lot #99
1861-66 Issue
1861 24c steel blue, part Washington cds, beautiful color, fine, with 1982 PFC
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Catalog #70b
Catalog Value 900
Price Realized
$475.00

Lot #100
1861-66 Issue
1861 24c pale gray violet, black grid cancel, fine example of this rare shade, with 2003 PSE cert.
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Catalog #70d
Catalog Value 1,600
Price Realized
$1,100.00

Lot #101
1861-66 Issue
1861 90c blue, block of four, original gum, beautiful color, clean perforations all around, with cert. stating "faint internal creases" which we believe to be natural paper wrinkles, a fine example of this rare multiple, with 1984 PFC
Box *
Catalog #72
Catalog Value 27,500
Price Realized
$7,000.00

Lot #102
1861-66 Issue
1861 90c blue, nearly face free cancel, well centered with wide margins, v.f.
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Catalog #72
Catalog Value 450
Price Realized
$400.00

Lot #103
1861-66 Issue
1866 2c black, two used with 24c gray, on 1866 cover to Germany, endorsed per "Java", blue framed Aachen transit, an attractive 28c Prussian Closed Mail rate cover
Envelope
Catalog #73,78
Unsold
Lot #104
1861-66 Issue
1861 5c brown, unused without gum, well centered and fine example, with PFC
(*)
Catalog #75
Catalog Value 2,100
Price Realized
$1,300.00

Lot #105
1861-66 Issue
1861 5c red brown, blue Baltimore town cancel, well centered, beautiful color, fresh and fine, with 1998 PSE cert.
Catalog #75
Catalog Value 510
Price Realized
$400.00

Lot #106
1861-66 Issue
1866 15c black, tiny red and black cork cancel, unusually well centered, fresh and v.f., with 2000 PFC
Catalog #77
Catalog Value 175
Price Realized
$170.00

Lot #107
1861-66 Issue
1862 (ca) Illustrated patriotic envelope featuring the Prof. Thaddeus Lowe's "Union" balloon, v.f. Lowe's September 1861 Military Reconaissance Ascent in the "Union" marked the world's first warfare application of aeronautical balloon
Envelope
Unsold
Lot #108
1861-66 Issue
1866 buff cover to France, franked with strip of 5x3c, pen cancelled, with appropriate markings, cover well worn and aged, still interesting application of 15c the rate
Envelope
Price Realized
$130.00

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