The Classic Cancel

Item #	Description	Price
9956	#179, fair, sound, tied by NEW ORLEANS LA. JUL 24 postmark and fancy geometric killer on VF intact small cover, JACQUES SIEGFRIED & Co. fancy design company address on back, to Alsace, Germany, Rothau 1880 back stamp.	$25
9955	#281, VF sound, on #U330 intact entire (bend at left) paying the double 5¢ supplementary mail rate (2 strikes of type G postmark) to Austria. Blue steam ship hand stamp "PER S. S. CAMPANIA", blue CZERNOWITZ double ring receiver on reverse.	$40
9978	#212, #213 on #U277 VF intact entire with 3 strikes of CLARKSVILLE, TENN. JAN 21 [1888] postmark and ellipse killers, mail to Antwerp, Belgium, NY transit and ANVERS receiver on back. Very pretty 3 color franking paying th 5¢ UPU rate.	$30
9979	#304, sound, San Francisco JAN 18 1908 cancel, on intact Belgium Consul General envelope to Belgium. Cover returned when addressee could not be located, as indicated by the "INCONNU / Onbekend [Unknown]" label and "REBUT [Rejected]" hand stamp. Red DEAD LETTER OFFICE F.D.U.S.A. FEB 28 1907 receiver on reverse, DLO Washington DC "RETURNED TO WRITER" pointing hand on front.	$25
9915	#U190, VF unsealed 10¢ entire with purple boxed "REGISTERED / STATION No. 164 / DEC 12 1907" and NY STA. 164 double oval killer, typed address, sent to Belgium. Late use for this entire, very scarce registered printed matter.	$50
9729	#230, fine, sound, SAN FRANCISCO JUL 20 93 postmark and ellipse killer tie to underpaid cover to Canada, "MORE-TO-PAY" and large Canadian "2" postage due hand stamp, 7/22 Seattle transit postmark and Victoria 7/23 receiver on reverse. Cover reduced 5mm at right. Unusual with scarce Canadian markings.	SOLD
9477	#147x2, leftmost with small fault, tied by two strikes of very unusual and unlisted solid "fan-shaped" killer, PENSACOLA FLA. AUG 11 postmark on intact cover (opened at left, small upper left edge fault) sent to Ireland, DUBLIN AU 27 1873 receiver.	$25
9792	#U222 intact entire, #223, target killers, BEAR RIVER CITY UTAH JUN 24 1891 postmark (Box Elder County 1871-), double rate to Skanderborge DENMARK. Reverse bears CORRINE UT and NYC transits and Skanderborge receiver. Scarce destination and Utah Territory usage.	$45
9667	#205, fair, sound, toning at upper left, canceled by a VF strike of New York Supplementary Mail type F MAY 4 1884 postmark and numeral 2 ellipse killer on VF intact #U222 entire to Bremen, Germany, backstamped. Manuscript endorsed steamer transit "pr. 'Elbe'".	SOLD
9696	#U330, VF intact entire sent from New York City to Java, E.I. [East Indies]. The cover has several back stamps: Marseille transit; WELTEVREDEN (8 3 1899); CHERIBON (9 3 1899), English for Cirebon; INDRAMAIOE (10 3 1899). Nice destination.	$40
9657	#UX10 with VF sound #230 1¢ Columbian issue canceled by NEW YORK JUL 3 93 station P postmark and P in ellipse killer, paying the UPU card rate to Belize, Honduras, C.A. Reverse has a red printed advertising for CHAS. H. LEVY stamp dealer advertising. Scarce destination.	$50
9243	#205 jumbo, tiny faults, WASH. & RICH. R.P.O. DAY AUG 10 1885 railroad postmark (Towle 305-T-3) on intact Richmond VA tobacco corner advertising cover to Germany, Rheydt R.B. Dusseldorf receiver.	SOLD
9575	#300, fine, sound SE stamp, tied by small numeral 2 gridded NEW YORK double oval killer on unsealed Dennison's clasp envelope (tong removed), to Germany, "PRINTED MATTER" and "PRIVATE OFFICE" hand stamps. Unusual.	$15
j0042	#150, fair, creased, red cork killer and matching BALTIMORE MD DEC 13 postmark with red NEW YORK PAID ALL BR. TRANSIT DEC 14 exchange office postmark on VF intact cover to Rev. Dr. S. M. Chatard, American College, Rome, Italy, stamp paying the 10¢ Italian closed mail rate. 1874 ROME receiver on reverse.	$85
j0043	#156, #161, fine sound copies, quartered cork killers with PRINCETON N.J. JUN 15 postmark and red NEW YORK PAID ALL JUN 16 exchange office postmark, stamps paying the 11¢ NGU closed mail rate to Constantinople, Turkey. Red New York crayon "4" (cent credit to Germany) and light red "Wf 2" hand stamp (weiterfranco 2 silbergroschen foreign postage notation), "Kaiserlich Deutsches Postamp" receiver on reverse. Sent to Rev. Geo. Washburn, "For Mrs. Washburn". Clean and attractive cover, scarce rate.	$200
j0023	#178, fine, barely tied by superb SOTN strike of intense black geometric killer with partial SAN FRANCISCO postmark on VF November 10 1876 prices current circular to Tepic, Mexico. Circular docketed "pr Newbern via Mazatlan". Blue crayon "5" [centavo] internal postage due for conveyance from Mazatlan to Tepic. A beautiful foreign destination circular usage.	$200
9123	#158, VF sound vertical pair, two XF strikes of BOSTON foreign mail killers, red BOSTON PAID ALL DIRECT JUN 11 exchange office postmark, blue French 1878 receiver, 1¢ convenience overpay to France. Small cover faults at upper left with some paper loss.	~~$30~~ $25
j0024	#W131, VF 2 cent Jackson wrapper entire, opened for display. The wrapper was sent to Paris, France from New York, where it received a black cork killer, and red NEW YORK PAID JUL 1 exchange office postmark and red boxed "PD" front and back. Front bears a red "ETATS-UNIS CHERBOURG 12 JUL 75 receiver. Cover sent to Smith Owen c/o N. F. Fenwick, No. 8 Rue St. George, Paris (blue oval receiver on reverse). Address penned out and a new address for Smith Owen c/o Messrs. Rob't Thode & Co., Banker, Dresden, Germany applied on reverse where a green 5 centime Ceres head stamp canceled JUL 13 has been applied for forwarding postage. Unfortunately, the wrapper has lost a (presumed) 1 cent Banknote stamp that was positioned just below the wrapper indicia and would have just been canceled by the cork killer. The missing stamp would have completed the 3 cent newspaper rate to France. Nevertheless, this is an extremely scarce example of a foreign destination wrapper forwarded to a second foreign destination.	$100
9132	#183, #184, fine margin copies, tied by XF strike of magenta EMMETSBURGH, PALO ALTO CO., IOWA 8/16/80 county name postmark (Doane-Thompson 1339, PO open 1877-) and Wheel of Fortune killer on VF intact cover to Scotland. This is one of the prettiest I have ever encountered and a very scarce foreign destination WOF usage.	SOLD
j0044	#215, #216, fine sound copies on VF intact #U311 entire, canceled by purple target killers with XF balloon HACKBURY, TEXAS JAN 6 1890 postmark (DPO Lavaca County, 1862-1906, R3 scarcity), a 1¢ convenience overpay of double rate cover to Graz, Austria (back stamp receiver). Cover has a central vertical bend. The #216 has weak blind double perfs at top partially removed (not a fault). Colorful and attractive cover.	$125
9139	#U349, VF intact 2¢ Columbian entire, corner tear at upper left, with 3¢ #268 and 5¢ #270,all paying the Supplementary Mail double 5¢ rate to England. Stamps and indicia struck by three VF brilliant magenta Type G, code 3 oval 1-16-97 postmarks. Nominate to go on the Cunard "S/S Lucania" it was back stamped in red London 25 JA 97. Colorful and attractive usage.	SOLD
9145	#307, fine, sound, tied by a VF strike of NEW YORK 3-17-1909 Type G code 3 large double oval Supplementary Mail postmark on XF intact cover to Leeds, England, MR 24 09 receiver on back. An extremely scarce solo supplementary mail use of this stamp.	SOLD
9104	#W399 2¢ Hartford issue wrapper with 1¢ #300 and 5¢ #304 Bureau issues, three strikes of small "NY" oval killer, paying an 8¢ newspaper bulk rate to Switzerland. Colorful.	$35

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