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Advertising Covers (#4)

Item # Description Price Picture
4880 #206, VF, sound, tied by XF strike of CLEVELAND, OHIO numeral 2 double oval killer on illustrated unsealed circular advertising cover for Hull Vapor Stove, Co. Contains terrific illustrated pamphlet for stove and home gasoline tank. A real burner. $60
4706 #212, fine, tied by WASHINGTON, D.C. letter B small double oval circular mail killer on VF intact illustrated all-over advertising cover pension attorney. Extensive broadside on both sides. $60

4709 #145, fine, tied by quartered cork killer and SALEM, O postmark on VF intact, unsealed illustrated advertising circular, picturing pipes, for Sewer and Drain Pipe, Chimney tops, Fire Pipe, Stone & Terra Cotta Ware manufacturer. $25
4589 #210, fine, canceled by Troy, NY ellipse killer on VF illustrated advertising cover from M. Mahony, Iron Founder to Nashua, NH picturing a Steam and Hot Water Boiler. $60
4590 #210, fine, tied by Manchester, NH ellipse and 1886 postmark on VF illustrated advertising cover for Wood Working Machinery to Nashua, NH, picturing a large, mechanical planer. $60
4245 #212 pair, fine, St. Louis, MO ellipse killer and postmark tie to intact advertising cover with illustration of black man with wings pushing a cart bearing Missouri Steam Washer, "Womans Best Friend." Printed contentsTerrific early use of negro racial stereotyping in postal advertising.  Cover with minor wrinkles and edge wear, otherwise sound. $100
4038 #212, fine, tied by BELLOW FALLS, VT oval killer on clean, intact unsealed circular with humorous illustration of a man in a suit reading a newspaper walking face first into the extended brush of a chimney sweep.  Very unusual. SOLD
3955 #210, avg, tied by 1885 Chicago, IL duplexed ellipse killer on F-VF advertising cover with purple illustration of Union Folding Bed - Open, Union Wire Mattress Co. Attractive and unusual, the color purple is seldom seen used. Tiny cover reduction at right. SOLD
3784 #206, fine, tied by VF CHICAGO, ILLINOIS W.D. (West Division) oval killer on fine, intact illustrated advertising circular for Chicago Scale Company picturing a horse-drawn wagon on a weighing scale. $30
3726 #210, fine, Chicago 1886 ellipse killer ties to XF, fresh multicolor advertising cover for C. F. Gunther, Confectioner. Letter and rays are gold on red and blue field. Cover neatly reduced 1/4 inch at right. Pretty. SOLD
3677 #158, VF, Philadelphia, PA target killer ties to gorgeous intact two-sided all over illustrated advertising cover for Wilson, Childs & Co. Wagon Works. Front pictures lumber piles in front of factory, back has multiple wagons. SOLD

3452 #210, F-VF, tied by B ellipse killer with Wesson TOB postmark of XF intact cover with beautiful bicolor illustration of a crosscut hand saw, advertising for Richardson's Celebrated Saws. Stunning cover. SOLD n3452.jpg (120864 bytes)
3302 #213, fine, small fault, Boston 1889 machine killer ties to VF illustrated advertising for Christmas Cards, Stationer, Paper Merchant and Engraver, with attractive picture in red of a young child. $25 n3302.jpg (50744 bytes)
3012 #210, VF, tied by Philadelphia numeral 3 ellipse with Wesson TOB postmark on fine, unreduced cover with bright red corner illustrated advertisement for solicitor of patents. Minor cover edge toning.  Pretty. $30 n3012.jpg (26821 bytes)
2572 #264, VF, quartered cork killer ties to illustrated advertising cover for Maple City Soap Works, Monmouth, Illinois. Front and back advertisements. Tiny stain on bottom edge. $25 n2572.jpg (55609 bytes)
2931 #231, fine, tied by VF UTICA, NY 1894 machine killer on VF illustrated advertising cover for Empire State Brand of Raw Oysters and American Biscuit Manuf'g. Co. picturing a parrot eating a cracker. $55 n2931.jpg (38333 bytes)
2688 #230, F-VF, just tied by light Natural Bridge, NY postmark on unreduced advertising cover with a wonderful illustration of a fishing lure picturing a live minnow inside a glass tube. Line across front from rubber band hardly detracts from this terrific image.

SOLD

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965 #319, avg on XF window envelope, 1906 Chicago cancel, advertising ORR & Lockett Hardware Co. with illustration of knife and a wonderful reverse illustration of an open pocket knife ("800 Kinds of Pocket Knives"). $45 n965.jpg (70379 bytes)
738 #319, fine, tied by nice strike of Lynchburg, VA 4/19/05 flag cancellation on F-VF unreduced advertising cover for field and garden seeds attractively illustrated by bunches of flowers and sheaths of wheat. Pretty. $25 n738.jpg (42755 bytes)
       
       
       

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