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**War Department Issues (Covers: Stampless and 1c-15c Values) continued...**
Lot	Sym.	Lot Description
5515		10c War (O88). Nicely balanced margins and rich color, tied by "Washington D.C." double-oval handstamp, ms. "Register" at top and three-line "Registered/Apr. 5 1882/Washington, D.C." handstamp on large yellow cover front only to Nashville Tenn., blue "12433" handstamp and "War Department,/Office of the Chief of Engineers./Official Business" penalty label at upper right, vertical cover wrinkles do not affect the stamp, Very Fine, the 10c stamp paid the registration fee while the penalty label covered the domestic postage, ex Markovits, with 1986 P.F. certificate (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 750-1,000 SOLD for $650.00 Will close during Public Auction
5516		10c War (O88). Scissors-trimmed perfs, tied by lightly struck oval cancel on large registered front only to Hudson N.Y. with red and black imprints of "War Department, Office of the Chief of Engineers", "Printed Matter" and penalty clause, purple "Registered/Jan. 7, 1882/Washington D.C." three-line datestamp, large tear and soiled, still an unusual wrapper usage, ex Starnes, Scott Retail as full cover $2,000.00 (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 500-750 SOLD for $475.00 Will close during Public Auction
5517		12c War (O89). Horizontal strip of six, multiple strikes of smudgy cork cancel, one ties the strip at bottom right, blue "San Andreas Cal. Oct. 27" circular datestamp on large-size buff cover to Angels Camp Cal., some edge tears and barely reduced at left, light staining at bottom of two stamps, otherwise Very Fine, a rare strip of six on cover (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 750-1,000 SOLD for $600.00 Will close during Public Auction
5518		12c War (O89). Centered to top right, tied by smudge cancel on "Office of the Chief Signal Officer, Official Business" imprint cover pre-addressed to the Chief Signal Officer in Washington, slightly reduced at left, minor edge wear, appears Fine (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	450.00 SOLD for $200.00 Will close during Public Auction
5519		12c War (O89). Horizontal pair, tied by "Knoxville Mar. 10 5 PM '84" duplex cancel on large-size cover to Congressman Leonidas Campbell Houk in Washington, ms. "Personal" at bottom, Washington receiving datestamp, some wear and right stamp with perf faults at right, cover slightly reduced at right, Fine appearing and scarce 12c War Dept. pair on cover, Houk was a Union Army colonel and a prominent representative from Tennessee, serving from 1879-91, he accidentally drank a bottle of arsenic on May 21, 1891 and died the next day (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 300-400 SOLD for $200.00 Will close during Public Auction

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