Lot 1063 o
(Cancels) 3¢ 1851-57 Issue - Cancellation Collection, large and important lifetime collection of several hundred stamps with a wide variety of cancellations and postmarks, colors incl. red, blue, brown and many in green, New York "1853" Jul. 21 cds, numerals incl. "2" and "14", various "Paid" and "Free", also "Union" straightline, foreign transits of Hong Kong and Belgium, fancy incl. stars, shields, geometric, radials, plus a few pictorials incl. Shelburne Falls "Running Stag" on #11, town postmarks incl. fancy Shabbona Grove Ill. scroll, Brookline Ms. oval and blue Stony Creek Conn., some "Ship", "Steam" and "Steamship" handstamps, good group of Railroad post offices, some Express mail ovals, Steamboat packets, several "Way" etc., few multiples including #11 block of four and strip of 6, some orange brown #10/10As, also includes #26 town cds calendar with 144 different dates; some faults but collected for cancels, overall F.-V.F., a wonderful basis for further study and expansion for the cancellation collector.Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
A REMARKABLE COLLECTION WITH MANY RARE CANCELLATIONS AND PREMIUM STRIKES.
Realized: $2,500