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**Carriers and Locals**
Lot	Sym.	Lot Description
2832		1c Blue, Eagle Carrier, Perf 12 (LO6). Block of sixteen with sheet selvage at top, deep rich color on brilliant white paper FINE-VERY FINE. ONE OF THE LARGEST RECORDED MULTIPLES OF THE 1875 REPRINT OF THE EAGLE CARRIER WITH PERFORATIONS APPLIED IN ERROR. Scott Retail as four blocks of four (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	4,000.00 SOLD for $1,300.00 Will close during Public Auction
2833		U.S. City Despatch Post Covers. 51 stampless covers, opened to display originations which are primarily Boston and Haverhill but also incl. Marblehead, London England (2), Norwalk O., Cincinnati and New Orleans, all from 1844-45, overall Fine-Very Fine and interesting group Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 300-400 SOLD for $375.00 Will close during Public Auction
2834		Bishop's City Post, Cleveland O., (unstated value) Blue (10LB1). Uncancelled and affixed to piece of cover, beautiful rich color, clear margins to touching the frameline at right FINE AND RARE EXAMPLE OF BISHOP'S BLUE CARRIER STAMP. Henry S. Bishop was appointed to operate the Cleveland carrier department on December 21, 1853. Research by Elliott Perry shows that Bishop became an employee of the post office on July 1, 1854, but the city post continued to function, with or without his direct participation. Bishop issued two stamps: the 10LB1 Blue with blank oval, presumably designed to accommodate more than one denomination, and the 10LB2 Black with 2c value. Both are very rare (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	4,000.00 SOLD for $5,000.00 Will close during Public Auction
2835		Barr's Penny Dispatch, Lancaster Pa., (unstated value) Black on Green (8L2). Ample margins to touched at top, uncancelled, used on buff cover to Waynesboro Pa., red "Lancaster Pa. Nov. 15" circular datestamp and matching "Paid 3" in oval, Very Fine, ex Hollowbush, signed Sloane as genuinely used on cover, with 1995 P.F. certificate (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 500-750 SOLD for $800.00 Will close during Public Auction
2836		Barr's Penny Dispatch, Lancaster Pa., (unstated value) Black on Green (8L2). Large margins to just in, cancelled by two tiny penstrokes and affixed to buff cover to Lancaster Pa., Very Fine and very rare, with 1995 P.F. certificate stating that the stamp is genuine but declining opinion as to whether it originates on this cover (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 300-400 SOLD for $325.00 Will close during Public Auction
2837		Blood's Penny Post Letter Drop Box. Metal letter box measuring 6.5 wide x 9 in. high with letter slot on top and original lock, no key but lock not engaged so the top opens, front and sides covered with deep red-brown coated paper with extensive directions in red and black enamel, sides labeled "Blood's Despatch.", front with "Blood's Penny Post/Office 28 S. Fifth St. above Chestnut" and notices including "Five Deliveries Daily. Letters Collected Day & Evening for U.S. Mails./At One Cent Each, Prepaid./N.B. -- Blood's Penny Post will neither receive nor deliver money, jewelry, or other articles of intrinsic value, and the proprietors will in no case hold themselves responsible for such articles.", excellent condition considering the age and nature of use of the box, some paint chipping and wear on front where lock touches "Blood's" but all lettering is complete AN OUTSTANDING ARTIFACT OF PHILADELPHIA'S BLOOD'S PENNY POST. THE ULTIMATE DISPLAY PIECE FOR A LOCAL POST COLLECTOR. We sold a similar example in our 2006 Rarities of the World sale (realized $4,000 hammer), but it had a portion of the front label missing and was also missing its lock. This example is in superior condition (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 3,000-4,000 SOLD for $4,250.00 Will close during Public Auction
2838		Boyce's City Express Post, New York N.Y., 2c Black on Green Glazed (19L1). Two large margins, cut in at top and right, just tied by pencil "X" on brown cover to post office box, black "New-York 1 ct. Jan. 8" drop-letter rate datestamp, some edgewear at bottom left, Fine and extremely rare, perhaps eight to ten are known on covers, very little is known about Boyce's City Express Post, nothing in the city directories ties any particular Boyce to the post, nor are there advertisements or source material to identify the proprietor, covers are dated in late 1852 and April 1855, the stamp on this cover is illustrated in Pat Paragraphs (reprint, p. 367), ex Golden and Kuphal, with 1999 P.F. certificate (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	4,000.00 SOLD for $1,800.00 Will close during Public Auction
2839		H. T. Crofoot's Letter Office, Newburyport (Mass.). Red oval handstamp and matching framed "Paid" handstamp on Mar. 15, 1845 folded letter to Boston, missing one page and small hole but interesting content remains incl. "I commend to your attention (an article) by John Neal called 'Instinct of Childhood', in which a gentleman persuades his child to release her birds from the cage and the child afterwards applies the same arguments to the condition of her father's slaves.", Fine, ex Schwartz (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 200-300 SOLD for $250.00 Will close during Public Auction
2840		Hussey's Post, New York N.Y., (unstated value) Blue, Perf 12-1/2, Brown, Ty. I (87L59, 87L73). Two covers, first tied by purple handstamp to local address, second tied by oval handstamp also to local address, Very Fine, ex Wagshal, with 2010 P.F. certificates (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	500.00 SOLD for $325.00 Will close during Public Auction
2841		Pomeroy's Letter Express, 5c Deep Milky Blue on Pelure Paper (117L7). Complete left pane of 20, huge margins, including enormous sheet margins on three sides, beautiful rich color in the distinctive Deep Milky Blue shade, horizontal crease between rows 3 and 4, natural pre-printing paper crease in Positions 13L and 17L, few other faint creases do not detract EXTREMELY FINE APPEARANCE. A RECENTLY RECORDED PANE OF THE POMEROY'S LETTER EXPRESS STAMP IN DEEP MILKY BLUE ON PELURE PAPER, OF WHICH VERY FEW EXAMPLES ARE KNOWN. This pane is printed in the distinctive Deep Milky Blue shade on very thin, nearly transparent paper. Prior to the discovery of this pane, only a few examples of Scott 117L7 were known. The Philatelic Foundation has certified this as "onion-skin paper" (an unlisted variety of 117L7), but in our opinion there is no such thing as a Pomeroy stamp on "onion skin paper," and this paper matches the other known examples of Scott 117L7, so we are not really sure why the P.F. felt compelled to create a new unlisted paper variety to describe this pane. With 2012 P.F. certificate. (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 2,000-3,000 SOLD for $2,800.00 Will close during Public Auction
2842°		Robinson & Co.'s Express. Paid. Printed frank with design of a bear foraging in mountains (Haller FR5), on unused 3c Pink entire, Very Fine, a desirable design and the only Western Express frank to depict a bear, signed Frajola (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 300-400 CLOSED Will close during Public Auction

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