Summer 2025 | July 18-20, 2025

Envelope with strikingly ornate large oval corner card, featuring a globe flanked by cherubs, eagle, and 8-pointed star design. Light bump at top, no contents. Delivered locally, to “J. S. Mason” with no city indicated. Not post office delivered. Listed as #203 in the ASCC.

Embossed design on envelope featuring an eagle in clouds with 13 stars overhead and lightning bolt design. Enclosure from the American Telegraph Company announcing "Having Lines EXTENDING FROM HALIFAX TO NEW-ORLEANS, And connecting with other Lines to all parts of the United States and British Provinces." Not posted.

Blue embossed seal of the American Telegraph Company featuring an eagle in clouds with 13 stars overhead and lightning bolt design, inscribed "PRINTING AND MORSE LINES, TRAVELLER BUILDING, 31 STATE ST. BOSTON." Addressed to W.C. Gregg, not post office delivered. The cover with a horizontal crease through the cameo.

The stamp with some toned perfs and the cover with most of the backflap missing.

Baltimore Office: Sun Iron Building, Cor. Baltimore & South Sts

This envelope carried a message across town in 1857 and an answer was inserted in if necessary. New office in Baltimore changed from Lombard & Gay Streets to a more public location of the Sun/New Iron Building.

Reverse "S" and "N" in "LEWISTON"

Washington D.C. 1864 double circle datestamp, with Bellvue, Ohio Double circle datestamp. Forwarded and readdressed to Medina, Ohio.

Stamp tied by "FEB 6" St. Louis datestamp, addressed to Jefferson City, MO. Docketing extends to stamp and cover with small flaws.

Cover with some wear and toning.

"BEAUMONT, TEX MAR. 1." datestamp, addressed to Nashua, NH. The bottom left corner of the cover repaired.

"QUINCY, ILL. NOV 13" datestamp, addressed to Canton, Ill.

"LISBON, CT. JAN 15" postmark with manuscript "Will the PM please forward." The cover reduced at right.

"PHILA. & READING RY CO, JUN 20 1907" blue company datestamp.

Jan 31, 1873 registered cover from Bellows Falls, VT. to Chesterfield, N.H. Double 3 cents per half oz, domestic mail rate, plus 15 cents registry fee. Note the absence of any other registered mail postal markings except for the manuscript "Reg. No. 14" accountability notation. The 1c stamp and cover with stains.

The pair tied by "PORTCHESTER, N.Y. MAY 14" grid duplex cancel, with red "NEW YORK MAY 16 12" integral transit mark, and "JUNE 7, 1872" docketing. The cover with sealed tears at top and pieces of the back missing.

Stamp tied by "NEW YORK NOV. 22 (1870)" postmark on inbound folded letter from St. Thomas, Danish West Indies, to New York, aboard the U.S. and Brazil Mail Steamship Company packet North America, The stamp with a vertical crease ending in a piece missing at top.

"West Meriden, DE. Mar. 21 1873" " segmented duplex cancel, via packet "Henry Chauncey", and black "N. YORK STEAMSHIP MAR. 22" handstamp.

The letter is part of an extensive correspondence addressed to Lieutenant Frederick G. Hyde, then assigned aboard the U.S.S. Kansas, a steam and sail gunboat cruiser then on a survey expedition of the eastern Central American coast.

Matching "SAN FRANCISCO, CAL. APR. 28 (1871)" postmark on cover to Veray, Switzerland, with red "NEW YORK PAID ALL" transit mark. Single rate 10 cents per half oz, Swiss closed mail via England. The stamp with a diagonal crease at bottom right.

July 13, 1872 double rate cover from New York to Zurich, Switzerland, via England and Belgium.

This 10-segment circular grid cancel is one of only two recorded examples of Weiss type TR-G28 and is illustrated in his book on page 342. About 25mm in diameter, it may have begun as a 12-segment circular grid cancel and deteriorated through use to this state.

"CHICAGO, ILL. MAR. 20, 1871" circular datestamp with red Bremen transit mark. The stamp with soiling.

Black cork cancel and red "PHILAD. PAID ALL JUN 24 (1873)" on cover to Paris, France, with red London and black French transit marks, and red "PD" in oval. The stamp with small perf faults at right.

The printed address and blue double oval handstamp of Drexel, Harjes & Co. is that of a well-known forwarding agent that travelers and businessmen used for recipient services for letters from the U.S.

Stamps tied by quartered cork cancels with matching "RUTLAND, VT. OCT. 9" postmark, via steamer "Silesia". The 10c stamp with perf erosion due to placement over the cover edge.

The cover is part of the well-known correspondence to Rev. George Washburn.