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1927 10 c. Gray-Violet Issue 1927: 10 c. grey violet, postal
history ...mehr 1927 10 c. Gray-Violet Issue 1927: 10 c. grey violet, postal history study on exhibit pages, with eighteen covers and cards, including a first day cover, examples carried on Graf Zeppelin Round-the-World and South America flights, United States - Canada Special Delivery reciprocal agreement mail, the outgoing to Canada a registered advertising cover, foreign origins including British Guiana, Gibraltar, Canal Zone, and Trinidad & Tobago, with foreign destinations including London, (2, one redirected back to the United States), World War II patriotic and soldier's mail, postage dues, auxiliary markings, etc, a diverse holding with many scarcer covers, fine
Special Delivery Balances 1885/1932: Special Delivery postal
history ...mehr Special Delivery Balances 1885/1932: Special Delivery postal history balance, compising five covers, with 1912/3 examples of regular issue postage stamps paying the special delivery fee, 1913 and 1915 covers with Parcel Post stamps paying the fee, 1932 incoming special delivery cover from Canada, the Canadian stamps deemed invalid and taxed 2 c. due on arrival, and scarce 1885 "List of Post Offices in the United States of the Immediate Delivery System", dated listing all Post Offices with special delivery services available on the day of issue of the first Special Delivery stamp, a fine group
1895: 10 c. Blue Issue 1895, 10 c. blue, postal history group ...mehr
1895: 10 c. Blue Issue 1895, 10 c. blue, postal history group of
eight, illustrating a diversity of usages, including non-delivery
carrier notices, one with adhesive double-crossed in pen denoting
attempted delivery, another with notice of attempt to delivery
affixed to front, varieties on cover including the "dots in curved
arc above messenger" and "line through colour through POSTAL
DELIVERY", the latter on florist advertising cover, two examples of
local service, including one uncommon usage on a particularly fresh
postal card, three 1900/02 examples to or from Cleveland displaying
attempts to reduce carrier fraud, with strikes of "NOTICE / No
Charges / On This Mail" or "PAY NO MONEY TO MESSENGER", and two
examples of foreign origin, including use on 1901 stationery card
fom Canada, and one on piece cancelled in Pago Pago Samoa, one of
only two recorded examples, the odd small fault, but a mostly very
fine group of unusual and desirable covers
1902: 10 c. Ultramarine Issue 1902: 10 c. ultramarine, 1909
re-issue ...mehr 1902: 10 c. Ultramarine Issue 1902: 10 c. ultramarine, 1909 re-issue in blue, stamp and postal history group, with plate number single and multiples comprising plate 5240 single, plate 5240-09 upper margin inscription block of six, and plate 5243-09 top and bottom inscription strips of three, all but the single showing the full "Bureau Engraving & Printing" inscription and plate number, all with large part original gum, and four covers, two 1910 usages showing Boston "clock-type" receivers, showing both the earliest and latest recorded usages in purple ink, and two illustrating the Canada / United States Reciprocal Arrangement, one franked with 10 c. Special Delivery and sent from Winnipeg to Chicago, the second from New York to Toronto, franked with 10c green Canadian Special Delivery issue, a scarce group, overall fresh and fine. Cert. Philatelic Foundation (2004) for block of six. Scott = $6,750+ covers
1914, 10 c. Ultramarine Issue 1914: 10 c. ultramarine, ...mehr
1914, 10 c. Ultramarine Issue 1914: 10 c. ultramarine, specialised
group of stamps and covers, mounted on exhibit pages, with three
singles in pale ultramarine, one dramatically under-inked, one
example each of plate number singles 5854 and 6049, respectively
the first and last plates used, and scarce upper plate number 5863
block of six in a fresh deep shade, covers (4) comprising 1916
example with sender's notation "deliver at 8:30am", an evident
misunderstanding of the special delivery service, resulting a
failed attempted delivery at 7:30am; 1915 registered special
delivery from Greenwich to New York; unusual 1916 British soldier's
cover from Army Post Office S, affixed on arrival with 10 c.
Special Delivery and forwarded and 1916 usage from Montreal to New
York cancelled on route by "Rouse's Point, N.Y. & Montreal R.P.O.",
the stamps mostly large part original gum, the block hinged in
selvedge only, covers with light wear consistent with commercial
use, a lovely study of this issue, fine-very fine. Cert. PSE (1995)
for plate block of six
1917, 10 c. Ultramarine Issue 1917: 10 c. ultramarine, postal
history ...mehr 1917, 10 c. Ultramarine Issue 1917: 10 c. ultramarine, postal history group of ten,a select group, comprising two 1920/21 examples of combined registered special delivery services, one undeliverable and returned to sender; 1918 double-payment usage on the first flight from New York to Chicago via Cleveland, the special delivery fee having already been paid by the 24 c. Air Post; 1918 example affixed to cover from London, Ontario to Madison, Wisconsin, accepted despite the stamp having been cancelled in Canada contrary to regulations; unusual 1919 usage on A.E.F. soldier's cover, affixed in Ashland, Ohio for swift local delivery; 1921 uprated stationery cover to Zurich, no service provided as reciprocal special delivery with Switzerland was not available until 1926; scarce 1919 example used on a 2 c. Grant letter sheet, likely delivered Christmas Day; 1920 officially sealed cover damaged in transit; Reserve Bank of New York perfin used on registered bank tag; and 1919 use on parcel post piece, paying a total of $1.59 postage + 10c Special Delivery, some small faults, but a desirable group, highlighting a diversity of usages of this issue, fine-very fine
1925 20 c. Black Issue 1925: 20 c. black, postal history group ...mehr
1925 20 c. Black Issue 1925: 20 c. black, postal history group of
seven, comprising first day usages on both cover and parcel post
piece, rare 1926 (Dec 15) first day of reciprocal Special Delivery
service between the United States and Finland, 1928 cover from New
York to Switzerland carried on the S.S. "Majestic", 1928 postcard
from New York to Berlin carried on the Graf Zeppelin, small
combination franking with 15 c. deep orange on piece, and an
exceptional hand-illustrated Pan-Am flight cover from Ireland to
New York forwarded to the Philippines, a few small flaws, an
overall very fine and diverse group
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history ...mehr 1927 10 c. Gray-Violet Issue 1927: 10 c. grey violet, postal history study on exhibit pages, with eighteen covers and cards, including a first day cover, examples carried on Graf Zeppelin Round-the-World and South America flights, United States - Canada Special Delivery reciprocal agreement mail, the outgoing to Canada a registered advertising cover, foreign origins including British Guiana, Gibraltar, Canal Zone, and Trinidad & Tobago, with foreign destinations including London, (2, one redirected back to the United States), World War II patriotic and soldier's mail, postage dues, auxiliary markings, etc, a diverse holding with many scarcer covers, fine
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history ...mehr Special Delivery Balances 1885/1932: Special Delivery postal history balance, compising five covers, with 1912/3 examples of regular issue postage stamps paying the special delivery fee, 1913 and 1915 covers with Parcel Post stamps paying the fee, 1932 incoming special delivery cover from Canada, the Canadian stamps deemed invalid and taxed 2 c. due on arrival, and scarce 1885 "List of Post Offices in the United States of the Immediate Delivery System", dated listing all Post Offices with special delivery services available on the day of issue of the first Special Delivery stamp, a fine group
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re-issue ...mehr 1902: 10 c. Ultramarine Issue 1902: 10 c. ultramarine, 1909 re-issue in blue, stamp and postal history group, with plate number single and multiples comprising plate 5240 single, plate 5240-09 upper margin inscription block of six, and plate 5243-09 top and bottom inscription strips of three, all but the single showing the full "Bureau Engraving & Printing" inscription and plate number, all with large part original gum, and four covers, two 1910 usages showing Boston "clock-type" receivers, showing both the earliest and latest recorded usages in purple ink, and two illustrating the Canada / United States Reciprocal Arrangement, one franked with 10 c. Special Delivery and sent from Winnipeg to Chicago, the second from New York to Toronto, franked with 10c green Canadian Special Delivery issue, a scarce group, overall fresh and fine. Cert. Philatelic Foundation (2004) for block of six. Scott = $6,750+ covers
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700.00 CHF
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history ...mehr 1917, 10 c. Ultramarine Issue 1917: 10 c. ultramarine, postal history group of ten,a select group, comprising two 1920/21 examples of combined registered special delivery services, one undeliverable and returned to sender; 1918 double-payment usage on the first flight from New York to Chicago via Cleveland, the special delivery fee having already been paid by the 24 c. Air Post; 1918 example affixed to cover from London, Ontario to Madison, Wisconsin, accepted despite the stamp having been cancelled in Canada contrary to regulations; unusual 1919 usage on A.E.F. soldier's cover, affixed in Ashland, Ohio for swift local delivery; 1921 uprated stationery cover to Zurich, no service provided as reciprocal special delivery with Switzerland was not available until 1926; scarce 1919 example used on a 2 c. Grant letter sheet, likely delivered Christmas Day; 1920 officially sealed cover damaged in transit; Reserve Bank of New York perfin used on registered bank tag; and 1919 use on parcel post piece, paying a total of $1.59 postage + 10c Special Delivery, some small faults, but a desirable group, highlighting a diversity of usages of this issue, fine-very fine
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(app. 321 EUR)
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