Lot
1726 
Dead Letter Office Mail and Collateral featuring Wegner Collection Pages, album of 85 items including early mail and a wide range of D.L.O. handstamps, note 1814 receipt attached to quarterly return, 1828 "forwarded by request" letter sent to DLO, 1833 Rutland Vt. fancy oval use sent to DLO, 1836 Washington D.C. free frank cover sent to DLO, several early official covers sent to DLO, 1840 preprinted DLO return letter, 1830 to Ireland with money draft; 1850 free franked advertising use, 1850s Sacramento City Cal. 3¢ #26 use "Due 3" sent to DLO, 1879 OX2 use with "Philadelphia, Dead" cds use, 1868 "San Francisco, Dead Letter Office" double-circle handstamp on returned letter receipt, OXB2 and OXB7 uses, etc., some mixed condition, F.-V.F. Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
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Realized: $3,000
Lot
1727
U.S. Dead Letter Office in the 19th Century - Barlow Exhibit Balance, balance of 5-frame exhibit with single and double-pages, starts with early postmaster reports, DLO handstamps including "G.P. Office" and later "P.O. Dept" circular handstamps in red and black, latter "P.O. Department, Dead Letter Office" large double-oval, "Dead Letter Office, G.P.O. Dept, Postage Not Paid" double-oval, smaller cds styles, etc, note 1831 unclaimed ship letter and "refused" letter; Dead Letter return letters and envelopes from 1830s to 1880s showing postage due envelopes transitioning to free, Official stamps and penalty mail; held for postage mail, various DLO divisions including return letter division, property division, minor division, money division, DLO foreign mail, registered foreign mail, pointing finger handstamps, DLO seals, unmailable matter, deficiency in address supplied including labels, blind reading with DLO forwarding label, DLO trace requests, carrier labels, corner cards and postal stationery, National Return association, etc., Very Fine and wonderful exhibit balance tracing the DLO operations from the 1830s to 1890s. Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
Realized: $3,250
Lot
1728
Dead Letter Office - Forms and other Matter, binder with DLO forms and correspondence, note 1840-41 accounting sheet, several DLO return letters to Postmasters from 1845 on, several printed forms describing P.O.D. regulations, noting deficiencies in reporting, disposition of unmailable matter, etc., DLO receipt for picking up a dead letter, 1880s requests for postage on mailed letters, 1859 Washington DC P.O. form letter concerning newspaper at DLO; many ex-Wegner. Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $325
Lot
1729
Dead Letter Mail - Stampless Transatlantics, small group of 8 letters including 1841 (Mar. 9) London to Auburn NY via "British Queen", 1841 to Ireland, 1849 to Ireland, 1852 "Money Letter" printed Abraham Bell, New York envelope to Ireland, 1854 "Money Letter" printed Abraham Bell, New York envelope to Liverpool with bank draft enclosure, etc.; some faults, F.-V.F., several ex-Wegner and Hahn. Estimate $500 - 750.
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Realized: $750
Lot
1730
Dead Letter Mail, 1843-1900, collection of over 190 covers including inbound foreign mail, some postage dues and post office seals, few early stampless and 1860s DLO handstamp mail, note a 8¢ Trans-Miss on 5¢ Columbian entire registered to Germany and returned, 1851 black "P.O. Dept., Dead Letter Office" black handstamp use on Ashtabula Oh. stampless cover, 1857 "P.O. Department, Dead Letter Office" oval on a 3¢ Nesbitt entire, small blue "Dead Letter Office, P.O. Dpt" on 3¢ #U35 entire to Jefferson Barracks, St. Louis Mo., blue "Dead Letter Office, Mar 23, 1864" cds on Hartland Four Corners Vt. 3¢ #65 cover to Virginia City, Nevada Terr.; etc.; some mixed condition as usual for this type of mail, generally F.-V.F. Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
Realized: $3,250
Lot
1731
Dead Letter Office Return Envelopes, 1860s-1900s, collection of over 190 envelopes including Returned Letter Office due envelopes, a few Postal Service envelopes, some Official Stamp uses, a few used abroad including penalty to Russia, two uprated to England and Germany, a few postage due, a couple Official Seals, etc.; mixed condition but interesting group, F.-V.F. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $1,700