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Lot
1940
Advertising Covers, 1850s-1900s, collection of over 140 covers with mostly illustrated advertising, noted many better including Silvers' Patent Excelsior Broom with bronze element with #65; Music Yale Seminary and Normal Academy of Music all-over bronze design on reverse of #11A cover; some cameos including New England Screw Co. of Providence R.I. #11A cover; The Masten and Wells Fireworks Mg. Co. of Boston with 2¢ Wash.; 1894 C.A. Hayes & Co. dealers in Lobsters, Soft Crabs, Oysters etc. with #279B; Kentucky Cardinal Cigars; etc.; some mixed condition, F.-V.F. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $2,000