Manchester, N.H. blue double circle "1" (Simpson's #20) Drop Letter handstamp, rarity 7. Only 7-10 recorded. With matching blue "PAID"

U.S.P.O Dispatch Mar 21 octogonal datestamp with "Drop 1c" handstamp on 1861 cover to Philadelphia.

The octagonal postmark was used between May 1860 and January 1862,

U.S. Penny Mail Phila.
Philadelphia carrier

1857 3c tied by large "Paid" grid with red "Boston Mass. Jul. 6" double-circle datestamp on 1860 cover to Brooklyn, New York

1857 3c, tied by large "Paid" grid with black straight line “Due 1 Cent” on cover from Boston to New York, with letter enclosed. Red Reading, Mass Feb 28 1860 cds.

1c Blue and 3c Rose on mourning cover to Bucks County, Pennsylvania. Rated for 1c internal+ 3c drop letter.

Horizontal pair tied by "Boston, Mass. Dec 7, 62" target duplex cancel on embossed advertising corner card cover to Groten Centre, Mass. with "62" inverted.

Fancy star cancel used as a carrier's cancellation in Lowell, Mass, on cover to Lowell, Mass. Edgartown, M.S. Jul 31 cds.

3c Rose on U19 cover to Reading, MA with Boston June 8, 1863 “PAID” and manuscript "Care of A Baldwin."

1868 2c F Grill, cancelled by cork, matching blue "Carrier Feb 5" cds on advertising corner card.

Manuscript 6 due, Undated

ALMNYC-F07 and ALM-BOS-1 American Letter Mail handstamps on stampless folded Bill of Landing, datelined "PHILAD JUNE 5 1844."

It was carried to New York where it received the straightline "No. 56 Wall St - N.Y." and from there to Boston, where the "Collect 6 1/4 cents' was applied.

The illustrated Bill of Landing documents 200 bags of coffee to be ship by "DELAWARE" to Boston.

Datelined N.Y. May 6 1845

New York City to Boston folded letter. Datelined 15 March 1845, only 12 days after Congress enacted the Postal Act of March 3 1845, which put the independent mail companies out of business.

With PF Cert which states, "SINGLE, GEOMETRIC PEN SQUIGGLE, ON 1845 FOLDED LETTER FROM NEW YORK TO BOSTON, RED COMPANY OVAL AT LEFT. AND WE ARE OF THE OPINION THAT IT IS A GENUINE USAGE."

Ample margins to barely in at top, manuscript "#" cancel with a PF Certificate which reads "USED, PEN CANCEL. AND WE ARE OF THE OPINON THAT: IT IS GENUINE WITH A SMALL THIN SPOT AT THE BOTTOM LEFT AND A SMALL CORNER CREASE AT THE BOTTOM RIGHT."

Red "FORWARDED BY BRAINARD & COMPANY/ALBANY" and red "6" handstamps on folded letter. Datelined November 5, 1844. Addressed to Rev. Daniel Wells in New York.

Brainard & Company carried mail from Albany and Troy south to New York City using steamboats since there was no railraod connection available at the time. The Hudson River was open to steamboat traffic from March 14, 1844 to December 11, 1844.

Black, unused

Illustrated in Gutman's exhibit and as Figure 7-235 in Gutman's book.

New York City, New York to Boston, Massachusetts, dated January 10, 1844.

This letter bears the only known strike of the F-31 forwarding handstamp. It is similar to the NY-D foreign letter office Hale handstamp without the word "Foreign". It is different from F-30 as the first and third line of print are slanted to the right. The letter also bears a manuscript "12 ½" indicating that the letter was double weight. This letter is also the earliest known Hale letter originating in New York City.