Lot
1591 
Postal Stationery Wrapper Usage Collection, balance of exhibit collection written up on pages, with well over 200 items starting with Pre-Stationery Wrappers including postmaster free frank and a Blood's local usage, 1861-63 Nesbitt issues including 1¢ issue with free franking and Confederate use outside of mail usages, 2¢ with the 1863 rate increase including the later "Post" issues, Reay issues with 2¢ items including pre-printed, foreign usages including to Nova Scotia, 1874-88 Plimpton issues including 1¢ use S.F. to Chile, due usages including "Short Paid", couple scarce illustrated ad usages, etc., the 2¢ issues with various brown Jackson dies and a usage to London, similar 2¢ vermilion issue including foreign usages to Denmark Finland, England, France and Russia, also a usage Montana territory, the 2¢ Washington issue again with good foreign destinations including Belgium, Sweden, Turkey, Argentina and Peru, territorial use from Fort Wingate A.T., nice section of 1886-98 Plimpton & Morgan issues with 1¢ entires including domestic usages including territorial and printed ads including illustrated, foreign use including India, Egypt and South Africa, postal usages with railway, auxiliary, forwarding including domestic Postage Due usages and uprated foreign, Finland censorship, scarce special delivery use, etc., similar 2¢ entires including illustrated fair ad, better foreign usage including Russia with Odessa censor, ad wrapper to Fiji, Japan and Austria with "Too Late" marking, foreign and domestic forwarding usages, postage due, the 1899-1903 Plimpton & Morgan issue with nice 1¢ wrappers including Honolulu usages, foreign destination including Africa, Brazil, Scotland, China with Shanghai Local Post backstamp, Agana Island of Guam, Philippines, auxiliary including uprated to England with boxed "Found in Inland Station without contents", 2¢ foreign usages including Turks Islands and domestic with nice illustrated travel trunk ad, scarce 4¢ wrapper usages including domestic and a uprated registered usage to Ireland, 1903-07 Hartford issue with 1¢ wrappers including interesting attempted illegal use (1942) with "Contains Writing" and "Do not use this envelope or wrapper again" handstamps, foreign with usages to Australia, Africa, Azores, illustrated ad to Austria, etc., 2¢ with uprated registered and foreign to Chile, Turkey, uprated 7x rate to Germany, etc., 1917-15 Mercantile & 1915-34 M.W.S. Co. issues includes various printing, forwarding, censor, dues, ads, rate increase, airmail and precancel; a wonderful extensive collection of these scarcer stationery items. Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
Realized: $2,100