Lot 1102
American Letter Mail Co., Red Oval Handstamp, Conjunctive Use with Boyd's Brooklyn City Express on 1844 Folded Letter, Philadelphia to Brooklyn
One of Only Four American Letter Mail and Boyd Conjunctive Usages
Openingsbod: $500
schatting: $800 - $1,200
Folded letter datelined Philadelphia, September 26, 1844, with a partly clear red oval American Letter Mail Company, Office 56 Wall St., N.Y. handstamp (ALM-NYC-FO9) with matching sans-serif "PAID" as a conjunctive use with a red "Boyd's Brooklyn City Express Post, Sep. 26 9 O'C" oval handstamp addressed to Brooklyn. The letter was carried by American Letter Mail in Philadelphia to Boyd's in Brooklyn, which delivered to the recipient. Only three or four American Letter Mail Co./Boyd's conjunctive covers are known, this one being a very early Boyd's usage in Brooklyn.
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The Philatelic Icons Sale 2026 | June 26-28
Sale 27: Carriers and Independent Mails — Friday, June 26, 2026 | 12pm EST, 9am PST
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America's history lives in the letters that crossed goldfields and battle lines, in express covers that linked frontier towns to the outside world, and in the stamps that mark how a young country built its postal system from scratch. This sale brings together more than 1,500 lots that trace that story, including philatelic icons seldom offered to the public.
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