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Advertising Covers (#7)

Item # Description Price Picture
4986 #231, fine, SE at top, canceled by Boston, MA machine killer on XF intact illustrated advertising cover picturing a bottle of Rock-Eye Honey, "The Great French Remedy for Colds, Throat and Lung Troubles.  This remedy contains strictly pure barley malt rye whiskey, rock candy and honey."  Nice patent medicine advertising item. $35
4815 #UX3, VF, canceled by an XF strike of 5 point star killer with poor Cincinnati, OH postmark. Back has nice printed advertisement for HALL'S SAFE and LOCK CO. promising a $1000 bounty to anyone who proves that one of their safes has ever been burglarized.  Scarce early advertising on postal. $25

4304 #U349, VF intact entire, canceled Westfield, MASS., 1893, with fancy illustrated advertising corner card for Warren Thread Works picturing a spool of thread with the town address spelled out by thread and needle. Neat. $30
4286 #279B, fine, SE, tied by QUINCY, IL 1899 flag cancel (APMC, Hanmer dial 9) on red-illustrated advertising cover for Electric Wheel Company, picturing wrought iron wheels for wagons. Small reduction at right affects nothing. $25
4120 #279, 2 copies, Tuscaloosa, ALA. 1899 postmark and ellipse killer tie to VF intact two color gun advertising cover for Allen & Jemison Co., picturing two detailed images of different Smith & Wesson revolvers ejecting spent shells, front and back.  Front pictures a sepia image of the store.  Back image also includes a pump shotgun.  Cover lists extensive goods available: pistol cartridges, ammunition, paints, oils, agricultural implements and machinery, wagons, buggies, carriages, harness, stoves, tinware, scales, mowers, reapers, sash doors, blinds, glass, putty, grates, mantels, lumber, lime, blasting powder, dynamite.  An absolutely gorgeous gun cover. SOLD

3859 #210, two fine copies, target killers, light WARM SPRINGS, VA (Bath County, 1877-) postmark and purple DUE 2 and matching JUN16, 1886 date stamp with #J16 not tied on intact advertising cover to Chicago for the warm sulphur springs Ladies' Bath, with all over yellow illustration of the bath. Interesting.

SOLD

3750 #231, fine, Baltimore, MD 1894 machine killer ties to VF, fresh and intact illustrated advertising cover for Fruit Puddine Co., picturing in red boxes of their product and a bowl of fruit. Attractive food product advertising cover. SOLD
3616 #220, F-VF, Cleveland, OH 1890 postmark, on F-VF illustrated advertising cover for Tiger Brand Ginger Ale, picturing a roaring tiger with similar fancy negative illustration on reverse, tiny reduction at right. Content.  Wonderful animal imagery. $95

3549 #231, fine, tied by MADISON, S. DAK 1894 postmark on VF illustrated real estate dealer advertising cover picturing farm animals. Back has Morris & Payne APMC Chicago 20 dial-only APR 20, 1894 service mark (scan), early use of scarce machine marking, known used APR 16-JUN 29, 1894. SOLD n3549.jpg (78032 bytes)
3448 #264, fine, tied by Baltimore, MD small double oval numeral 5 postmark on advertising cover for dealer in horse riding gear with nice illustration of a bridled galloping horse minus its rider. Tiny reduction at right. SOLD n3448.jpg (95852 bytes)
3336 #319, fine, Pittsburgh, PA 1904 machine killer ties to VF bicolor illustrated advertising cover for American Lumber & Mfg. Co. picturing the head of an American Indian chieftain labeled Monarchs of the Forest. Attractive. $45 n3336.jpg (113236 bytes)
3291 #311, fine, tied by 1910 San Francisco, CA postmark on multicolor illustrated corner card picturing a water view of the city, advertising California Welcomes The World To San Francisco, The Exposition City 1915. Terrific and early pre-exposition advertising.

SOLD

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3271 #267, #272, fine copies, postmarked St. Louis, MO 1896, paying double rate to Germany on F-VF unreduced blue and black Cigar Makers Union advertising cover. Attractive and scarce color advertising used to foreign destination. $85 n3271.jpg (47896 bytes)
3228 #206, XF, tied by numeral 13 Philadelphia, PA double oval killer on VF complete circular with an XF illustration of a horse's head, advertising M. S. Frink, Saddlery Goods. An extremely attractive cover. $60 n3228.jpg (34259 bytes)
3229 #279B, VF, SE, cancelled by LOWELL, MA flag killer on VF complete advertising cover beautifully illustrated by horses and a variety of riding implements (saddles, cinches, and the like). Terrific. $55 n3229.jpg (46444 bytes)
3230 #279B, faults, LaFayette, IN flag killer ties to advertising cover for LaFayette Stock Farm, displaying a beautiful dual color embossed image of two horses. Cover is slightly reduced at right. Very attractive. SOLD n3230.jpg (38271 bytes)
3231 #247, dual SE corner copy, not tied, on F-VF advertising cover for Ohio Hitching Post Company, Norwalk, OH, with an nice deep violet illustration of a horse's head hitched to a metal post driven into the ground.

SOLD

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