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(36b,64) 1857-61 12c black and 1861 3c pink Washington, tied by
bold ...di più (36b,64) 1857-61 12c black and 1861 3c pink Washington, tied by bold strike of large black "Paid" in grid cancel on elaborate full-color "Illustrated History of the Stars and Stripes" patriotic cover to Dr. Henry C. Angell in Vienna, Austria. Red "N. York Hamb. Pkt. PAID 2 Nov 10 (1861)" cds repeated twice at right, reflecting the fully prepaid 15¢ transatlantic rate via the Teutonia (Hamburg Line) for letters up to ½ oz. Hamburg transit and Vienna receiving backstamps, 12c stamp with small part of bottom left corner missing, likely a result from the original sheet separation and nick at top right, repaired backflap tear, though still extremely fine appearing overall.
This beautiful patriotic cover was mailed after the process of demonetization of the 1857-61 stamps had begun - but the New York post office clearly accepted the demonetized 12c stamp, making this a highly desirable franking with both Toppan, Carpenter and National Bank Note issues used together in November 1861. Of the nearly 100 known Angell Correspondence patriotic covers, approximately seven are mixed 1857-61 and 1861 Issue usages.
The addressee, Dr. Henry Clay Angell (1829-1911), was a distinguished Boston ophthalmologist whose early medical training and ambitions led him repeatedly to Europe for advanced study. A graduate of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1852, Angell initially practiced in Salem, Massachusetts, before traveling to Vienna for a year of postgraduate clinical work. He returned again in 1861 shortly before this cover was sent to pursue intensive specialization in ophthalmology under some of Europe’s most prominent eye surgeons. During his extended three-and-a-half-year stay abroad, he corresponded regularly with colleagues and family back in the United States, resulting in a now-famous group of patriotic transatlantic covers. After returning to Boston in 1864, Angell became a leading voice in American homeopathic medicine and ophthalmology, founding The New England Medical Gazette in 1866.
The famous Angell Correspondence is widely regarded as the most sensational group of American Civil War patriotic covers sent abroad with high-value frankings. Discovered in the 1920s and long preserved as a largely intact holding, the Angell correspondence passed through several important hands - first sold by a street seller to a collector named White, then acquired en bloc by Judge Emerson, and later by Miss Matthies from the Emerson estate. The dispersion of the Matthies collection in 1969 allowed these wonderful items to enter collections and exhibits around the world ever since.
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bold ...di più (36b,64) 1857-61 12c black and 1861 3c pink Washington, tied by bold strike of large black "Paid" in grid cancel on elaborate full-color "Illustrated History of the Stars and Stripes" patriotic cover to Dr. Henry C. Angell in Vienna, Austria. Red "N. York Hamb. Pkt. PAID 2 Nov 10 (1861)" cds repeated twice at right, reflecting the fully prepaid 15¢ transatlantic rate via the Teutonia (Hamburg Line) for letters up to ½ oz. Hamburg transit and Vienna receiving backstamps, 12c stamp with small part of bottom left corner missing, likely a result from the original sheet separation and nick at top right, repaired backflap tear, though still extremely fine appearing overall.
This beautiful patriotic cover was mailed after the process of demonetization of the 1857-61 stamps had begun - but the New York post office clearly accepted the demonetized 12c stamp, making this a highly desirable franking with both Toppan, Carpenter and National Bank Note issues used together in November 1861. Of the nearly 100 known Angell Correspondence patriotic covers, approximately seven are mixed 1857-61 and 1861 Issue usages.
The addressee, Dr. Henry Clay Angell (1829-1911), was a distinguished Boston ophthalmologist whose early medical training and ambitions led him repeatedly to Europe for advanced study. A graduate of the Homeopathic Medical College of Pennsylvania in 1852, Angell initially practiced in Salem, Massachusetts, before traveling to Vienna for a year of postgraduate clinical work. He returned again in 1861 shortly before this cover was sent to pursue intensive specialization in ophthalmology under some of Europe’s most prominent eye surgeons. During his extended three-and-a-half-year stay abroad, he corresponded regularly with colleagues and family back in the United States, resulting in a now-famous group of patriotic transatlantic covers. After returning to Boston in 1864, Angell became a leading voice in American homeopathic medicine and ophthalmology, founding The New England Medical Gazette in 1866.
The famous Angell Correspondence is widely regarded as the most sensational group of American Civil War patriotic covers sent abroad with high-value frankings. Discovered in the 1920s and long preserved as a largely intact holding, the Angell correspondence passed through several important hands - first sold by a street seller to a collector named White, then acquired en bloc by Judge Emerson, and later by Miss Matthies from the Emerson estate. The dispersion of the Matthies collection in 1969 allowed these wonderful items to enter collections and exhibits around the world ever since.
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8500.00 USD
(app. 7205 EUR)
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