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Advertising Covers (#1)

Item # Description Price Picture
4001 #11, fine top margin copy tied by VF BALT & OHIO RAIL Rd. postmark (Remele B2-a) on XF intact Kefauver & Campbell Baltimore commission merchant cameo (Calvert engraver). Scarce and attractive combination of advertising and marking. $450
4002 #25, fine, blue Cincinnati, OH postmark ties to XF small, intact cover with beautiful blue embossed cameo back flap for Patent Kitchener Works. Cover flap opens to display cameo showing a detailed embossed 3D double oven. $250

3854 # 26, fine, faulty, tied by blue Baltimore, MD postmark on fine, intact cover with brown embossed cameo advertisement for MALTBY HOUSE. Attractive hotel cover, small edge faults. $60
3749 # 26, fine, tied by VF strike of prison bars in box killer with XF matching COLUMBUS, Ohio postmark on XF intact cover advertising Seltzer & Webster Gold Medal Premium Piano Fortes. Terrific early musical instrument cover. SOLD
3735 #26, fine, with fair BEAVER DAM, WI postmark and killer on XF, fresh, intact all over illustrated advertising cover with embossed letters for The Original Baker Vocalists, from "The Old Granite State." Now of Waukegan, Illinois.  Unusual and attractive. SOLD
3266 #11, tied by blue CINCINNATI, OH postmark on fine, unreduced blue cameo advertising cover for Schaefer & Cobb, hardware and cutlery. Attractive cover.  Stamp has tiny corner fault at UL, back flap torn with small piece missing. $100 n3266.jpg (35151 bytes)
3156 #11, fine, tied by PHILADELPHIA, OCT 15 postmark on complete, XF cover with front map illustration of the routes of the Pennsylvania Railroad. The complete intact back flap has the blue embossed emblem of the company.  An immaculate, absolutely gorgeous early advertising cover. SOLD n3156.jpg (51865 bytes)
3952 # 65, fine, tied by VF strike of New York City circle of wedges killer on on F-VF all over illustrated advertising cover for Robert C. Graves & Co., decorative paper hangings. Cover with tiny reduction at right. SOLD
3855 # 65, fine, Philadelphia, PA target ties to VF canary cover with black cameo-style advertisement for John Stroup & Co., Wholesale Dealer in Fish. Cover is neatly opened at right with only the tiniest reduction. $125
3225 #65, fine, target killer and double ring MOLINE, IL postmark on F-VF unreduced cover with corner advertising for Worden, Ransom & Co., Sewing Machines. Attractive. $30 n3225.jpg (24892 bytes)
3032 #64b rose pink, fine, SE, tied by Boston PAID in grid killer (late use) with red SEP 7 (1861) postmark on VF all over illustrated American Tract Society advertising cover, "Beautiful Useful Books". Stamp with small edge faults. $100 n3032.jpg (32768 bytes)
2920 #65, fine, sound, tied by SOTN BOSCOBEL, WIS. Postmark on XF preprinted address illustrated advertising cover to M.R. Bissell, Grand Rapids, MI, with wonderful picture of Bissell Carpet Sweeper, Noiseless, Improved.  Cover has tiny reduction at left clear of design.  A beautiful cover. $175 n2920.jpg (30593 bytes)
2399 #65, fine, tied by blue concentric ring killer with matching Indianapolis, IN double ring postmard on all over Bates House Hotel advertising cover with illustration of the hotel. $50 n2399.jpg (29202 bytes)
2183 #65, on VF circa 1865 advertising cover with a wonderful illustration of a woman's shoe in an ice skate ("Shirley's Patent SKATE, Easily and securely Fastened without Straps of any kind"), Hawkins Manuf'g Co., Derby, CT postmark.  A exceptionally early and desirable example of a scarce topic. $250 n2183.jpg (24892 bytes)
1885 #94, fine, light cork wedge killer and Virginia postmark tie to an XF unreduced canary cover with an illustration of an early model Wilcox & Gibbs sewing machine from Jas. E. A. Gibbs, Steel's Tavern, VA. Wonderful early advertising. $95 n1885.jpg (22703 bytes)
1810 #65, fine, tied by by Providence, RI 1866 postmark and duplexed target killer on F-VF small cover advertising the Musical Institute of Providence, describing faculty and available programs. Cover neatly opened at right. $45 n1810.jpg (25282 bytes)
983 #65, fine, tied by Springfield, VT cds with inverted 1865 year in date dial, on VF and fresh cover with a wonderful illustration of Upham Merino sheep. Cover neatly reduced 3/8 inch at right. Terrific eye appeal.

SOLD

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1176 #65, VF, target cancellation and matching postmark of Rutland, VT ties stamp to VF cover, neatly opened at right, with VF printed corner advertisement for Paine & Co., clothing manufacturer, hats, caps and furs, furnishing goods, trunks and bags. Pretty. $25 n1176.jpg (26448 bytes)
1147 #65, fine, light Cleveland, OH killer and postmark ties to VF unreduced advertising cover with terrific illustration of an early stove and other tin plate and sheet iron ware. Also advertises fire and burglar proof safes. Nice. $65 n1147.jpg (36127 bytes)
528 #65, F-VF SE, tied by target cancellation of Hartford, CT, 12/18/62 CDS, on VF unreduced cover with nice oval corner advertisement for Woodruff & Beach IRON WORKS.  Cover has some adhesion on reverse from original contents. $15 n528.jpg (26567 bytes)
       
 

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