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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

Auction Lot #112
Carriers
PHILADELPHIA CARRIER STAMP gold on black U.S.P.O. PAID 1 Cent cancelled with black "X" on September 1851 locally delivered printed notice. Three margins. Close at top. F-VF. SCV $325
CATALOG #:7LB11
MINIMUM BID: $150.00

Auction Lot #113
Carriers
PHILADELPHIA CARRIER STAMP gold on black U.S.P.O. PAID 1 Cent cancelled by red star but not tied. Advertisement on cover flap for brush manufacturer. Front of cover clean. Back flap and ad have some staining. One of two tears invades ad. SCV $325
CATALOG #:7LB11
MINIMUM BID: $100.00

Auction Lot #114
Carriers
PHILADELPHIA CARRIER STAMP. Ex Golden. Gold on black U.S.P.O. PAID 1 Cent not tied to folded letter. With Phila blue 5cts CDS to Pottsville PA. Datelined Mar. 15, 1851. SCV $325
CATALOG #:7LB11
MINIMUM BID: $50.00

Auction Lot #115
Carriers
PHILADELPHIA "1" FROM-THE-MAILS cover with 10c postage [due]. Outer letter sheet from Macon, AL to Philadelphia has a pencil "1" or a checkmark (possibly) applied in Philadelphia as a carrier rate marking [due] for delivery from the mails. Street address suggests that the sender expected the cover to be delivered to the addressee. No year date. Calvet Hahn postulated that this cover, which is part of the Philadelphia Campbell trove, was carrier-delivered as were other Campbell covers that had carrier rates. If this is correct, then the date of this cover would be sometime between February 19, 1849 – June 30, 1851, when postage for over 300 miles was 10c and the Philadelphia carrier fee for delivery from the mails was 1c. Rough opening at bottom. ex-Hahn. Offered "As is." Est. Value $115
MINIMUM BID: $35.00

Auction Lot #116
Carriers
PHILADELPHIA BLACK DOUBLE-CIRCLE HANDSTAMP indicating 1c pre-paid for the carrier fee for this local delivery cover. Staining on right-one-third of cover front and back. Est. Value $75
MINIMUM BID: $25.00

Auction Lot #117
Carriers
PHILADELPHIA CARRIER COVER with tied #11 to Wisconsin by dark blue Phila Mar 16 CDS and bold red star signifying prepaid carrier fee in Philadelphia. Note on back states cover was "illustrated in ‘National Philatelic Museum', Vol 5, No 4, page 486." Docketed Mar. 16, 1852. Oxidized #11 is from Plate 1 Late. Cover is Very Fine with slight edge wear. Est. Value $75-100
CATALOG #:11
MINIMUM BID: $40.00

Auction Lot #118
Carriers
PHILADELPHIA CARRIER COVER with #24 one cent stamp paying the collection fee to the post office for transmission to Chillicothe. January 12, 1861. Minor staining at cover top edge. Est. Value $75
CATALOG #:24
MINIMUM BID: $25.00

Auction Lot #119
Carriers
PHILADELPHIA CARRIER COVER with US #24 tied with bold sharp SON strike of USPO Despatch Phila octagon CDS dated Jan 10 (1862). VF and clean cover to local address. #24 is Type V, Plate 6. Ex-Knapp. Est. Value $100-150.
CATALOG #:24
MINIMUM BID: $50.00

Auction Lot #120
Carriers
PHLADELPHIA CARRIER COVER WITH "U.S.P.O. DESPATCH/PRE-PAID/ONE CENT." Red double oval and matching PAID handstamps to local street address. Backflap torn. Cover with toning. Est. Value $75-100.
MINIMUM BID: $25.00

Auction Lot #121
Carriers
PHILADELPHIA "U.S.P.O. DISPATCH PHILA" marking on carrier-delivered drop letter dated May 19, 1861. Cover was given to the clerk at the general delivery window of the post office so the drop letter charge applied. The clerk on May 21 gave the cover to the carrier group for delivery so the carrier fee also applied. Rough opening at top. Edge with tear. Fine example of this use. Est. Value $175
MINIMUM BID: $75.00