The Frelinghuysen Collection, Part One: United States Postmasters' Provisionals continued...

**New York, New York - EDU and Se-Tenant w/without Initials**
Lot	Sym.	Lot Description
24		New York, N.Y., 5c Black, Without Signature (9X1e). Position 17, full even margins, tied by red "Paid" arc handstamp, matching second strike at center and light strike of "New-York 5 cts. 15 Jul." (1845) integral-rate circular datestamp on 1845 folded letter and shipping notice to Augsburg, Germany, red framed "COLONIES/&c ART. 12" Anglo-French accountancy handstamp, manuscript debit markings, red British transit and receiving backstamps, manuscript "p. Steamer Acadia" ship-name directive and "via Calais" route notation, cover had a central stain well away from the stamp as well as cross-out of addressee's name in blue pen, both of which have been expertly removed EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. A GORGEOUS AND OUTSTANDING EXAMPLE OF THE NEW YORK POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL USED TO GERMANY AND POSTMARKED ON THE EARLIEST RECORDED DATE OF USE. The first delivery of the New York Provisionals was on Saturday, July 12, 1845. The post office was open for only a short time on Sunday, and so it is believed that the stamps were not placed on sale until Monday, July 14. However, there are no covers recorded from July 14. All of the July 15 covers have stamps without the control initials. The earliest recorded cover with the control initials is postmarked on July 17. The Piller book records ten covers used on Tuesday, July 15, including three to France, two to Germany, three to England (we sold a fourth to England in our Sale 999) and two addressed to other U.S. post offices. The cover offered here increases to three the total known to Germany postmarked on July 15. One of the other July 15 covers to Germany is seriously defective. The third, ex Grunin and Weill, is from the same sender as the cover offered here. It realized $40,000 hammer in our 2002 Rarities of the World sale. Ex Lapham. (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 30,000-40,000 SOLD for $40,000.00 Will close during Public Auction
25		New York, N.Y., 5c Black, Se-Tenant Pair, With "ACM" Initials and Without Initials (9X1/9X1e). Positions 35/40, vertical pair, bottom stamp without signature, unused (no gum), full margins to touched at bottom left, top stamp with natural horizontal pre-printing crease at top, bottom stamp with two tiny tears and tiny trace of extraneous ink in Washington's cravat VERY FINE APPEARANCE. THE UNIQUE VERTICAL PAIR OF THE NEW YORK POSTMASTER'S PROVISIONAL CONTAINING ONE STAMP WITH INITIALS AND ONE STAMP WITHOUT INITIALS. AN IMPORTANT AND PREVIOUSLY UNRECORDED VARIETY OF THE NEW YORK PROVISIONAL. Despite the existence of abundant literature on this, the most studied and collected United States Postmaster's Provisional, we have found no mention anywhere of a se-tenant with-and-without-initials variety. It is easy to envision how it occurred -- the last position on the sheet (the bottom stamp, Position 40), or perhaps the entire bottom row, was left unsigned. Yet this is the only example we have encountered, and we failed to find another expert in the field, dead or alive, who reported the existence of this variety. Ex Lapham. With 2011 P.F. certificate. (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 10,000-15,000 SOLD for $75,000.00 Will close during Public Auction

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