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Auction Lot #102
Carriers
NEW YORK U.S. CITY MAIL CDS on printed notice for meeting to be held on October 4. No year date. Light strike of this scarce NYC carrier department marking on intra-city cover with damaged upper right third. Est. Value $115
MINIMUM BID: $35.00

Auction Lot #103
Carriers
RED "NEW YORK /AUG 13/2" CDS with addressee's street address which suggests sender anticipated carrier delivery. Outer letter sheet without contents. No year date, but circa 1850. Possible example of carrier delivered Drop Letter (cover deposited in New York Post Office for delivery by carrier = 1c Drop Letter postage + 1c carrier delivery fee) under Act of February 1849. Cover sold "As is." See Roth's "Summary of Drop Letter and Carrier Postal Rates / New York City (1794-1885)," CHRONICLE, November 1974, Vol. 26. No.4, page 211. Est. Value $60
MINIMUM BID: $20.00

Auction Lot #104
Carriers
NEW YORK CITY COVER WITH "PENNY POST DELIVERY" INSTRUCTIONS to Boston. SFL dated April 1849 with sender's instruction to post office requesting local delivery to addressee's street address provided by sender. Partial New York CDS strike with integral "5" [due]. Est. Value $125
MINIMUM BID: $35.00

Auction Lot #105
Carriers
NEW YORK CARRIER COVER to Boston with # 63 and #65 tied by New York Aug 14 duplex. Receiving backstamp dated Aug. 15. Docketed 1862. VF cover with ink offset on front. Est. Value $50-75.
CATALOG #:63, 65
MINIMUM BID: $25.00

Auction Lot #106
Carriers
NEW YORK CITY CARRIER COVER WITH FOUR #63 for 3c postage + 1c collection fee to the mails for onward transmission. Each pair tied by concentric circle target and/or double-circle New York March ? CDS. 1862 docketing notation. Unusual combination with some light soiling or grime. Est. Value $225
CATALOG #:63
MINIMUM BID: $75.00

Auction Lot #107
Carriers
NEW ORLEANS FROM-THE-MAILS CARRIER COVER. 1853 cover from Arkadelphia, AL to New Orleans. Partial black Arkadelphia handstamp and numeral "5" for postage. Black handstamp "DROP/1" applied in New Orleans. Red partial strike New Orleans CDS. Given the street address on the cover, the drop letter handstamp might have been applied in error, with the carrier delivering the cover to the addressee. Sold "As is". Est. Value $95
MINIMUM BID: $30.00

Auction Lot #108
Carriers
NEW ORLEANS "N.O.U.S. CITY POST" BLACK CDS partially struck but still unusually nice on #U10 entire. To-the-mails cover is heavily wrinkled along left margin, causing part of carrier marking to be missing. Est. Value $125
MINIMUM BID: $25.00

Auction Lot #109
Carriers
NEW ORLEANS CARRIER SNOW SHOVEL COVER. Blue, partially struck New Orleans carrier snow shovel (date not decipherable). Blue "CAR 2" [due] handstamp. Red Biloxi, Miss CDS and red "5" handstamp [due]. "From the mails" use. ASCC $300
MINIMUM BID: $50.00

Auction Lot #110
Carriers
NEW ORLEANS BLUE SNOW SHOVEL AND BLUE "CAR 2," both partially struck on cover from Shieldsboro MS to New Orleans. September 2 {1853]. Black "PAID 3" in circle handstamp. ASCC $200
MINIMUM BID: $70.00

Auction Lot #111
Carriers
NEW ORLEANS BLUE SNOW SHOVEL on local letter [December 14] and blue "CAR 1" [due] handstamps. December 13 [1853]. Faint red "PAID/1" and indecipherable New Orleans circle date stamps. "CAR 1" due handstamp rarely seen. Less than ten "CAR 1" ovals reported. ASCC $200+
MINIMUM BID: $85.00