U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
September 20-21, 2016

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #892
PHILIPPINES Postal Stationery
1879 50m first issue stationery card (Printed in Error), with full message, sent from Manila, April 11,1880 to Berlin, cancelled by oval of crosses. Front shows private company cachet and German receiver handstamp alongside to Manila dispatch cds, little card toning and abrasions at left, with arrival markings. An extremely rare commercial usage of this very rare stationery card (only 4 used cards recorded by Peterson & Lewis and A. Laiz), this one being the fifth & previously unrecorded. One the world's rarest stationery cards used and one of the crown jewels of Spanish Philippines
Envelope
Price Realized
$6,250.00

Lot #893
PHILIPPINES Postal Stationery
1880 UPU surcharge 3c/50c postal card to Breslau, canceled by oval cancel of crosses in association with Manila dispatch handstamp alongside, with German arrival cds below, rounded lower right corner, fine and extremely rare commercial usage of this stationery card
Envelope
Unsold
Lot #894
PHILIPPINES Postal Stationery
1881 UPU surcharge 3c/50m postal card sent from Manila to Anvers, cancelled by cds, alongside French paquebot octagonal "COL.ESPAG./ FR.LIGNE N no10" (Salles 1937) and "Modane a Paris" transit cds, both in red, along with Anvers arrival pmk, all on front, small card tear at right, fine and extremely rare commercial usage of this postal stationery card
Envelope
Price Realized
$2,200.00

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