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Department Officials (#5)

Item # Description Price Picture
197 #O89, 12¢ War, VF and sound, 9-bar ellipse cancellation (numeral 4). $8
5528 #O90, fine, sound, bearing an XF strike of double outline Maltese cross. Pretty stamp. $25
4762 #O90, 15¢ War, canceled by a VF-XF strike of FORT MAGINNIS, MONTANA TER. DEC 3, 1882 territorial fort double rimmed octagon postmark. All fort cancels on high value officials are scarce.  Stamp with small perf faults. SOLD
4659 #O92, XF 30¢ War, canceled by a VF-XF SOTN strike of blue FORT DAVIS, TEXAS, NOV 16, 1880 postmark and partial star killer.  Stamp has a couple nibbed perfs at bottom, is otherwise sound.  A terrific and very scarce fort cancel on a high value official. $225
2972 #O92, 30¢ War, bearing a F-VF strike of unusual square shield killer (inverted). Scarce fancy killer on official. $20
5096 #O98, average-fine, small thin, very light target killer, stamp image displaying a dramatic overall doubling shift to the right that results in Washington having a pug nose, likely the result of a "kiss print" contact with plate. SOLD
5072 #O99, 6¢ Interior soft paper, fine, tied on U.S. Land Office, Larned, KS penalty envelope by VF Larned 1880 postmark and grid killer, cover barely reduced at right with 3 vertical creases at left.  Scarce stamp on cover.  Ex-Ainsworth. $125
4743 #O114, fine, sound, canceled by a VF-XF SOTN strike of bluish black FORT BRIDGER, WYOMING (territory), JUL 12, 1884 postmark (obsolete late usage). Scarce fort cancel. SOLD
4927 #O115, fine, sound 2¢ War on soft paper, on a VF, intact, small preprinted O.R.R. War Department cover to Washington, D.C., postmarked MONROE, MICH, MAR 19, 1884 (D.C. receiving stamp on reverse). $75
5482 #O115, F-VF+, canceled by a VF strike of FORT LEAVENWORTH, KS honeycomb killer and partial fort postmark. Stamp lightly toned along top edge, otherwise sound. $15
5480 #O116, fine, canceled by large octagonal FORT MAGINNIS, MONT. TERR., 1883 postmark. Stamp clearly shows the bottom half of this scarce Montana Territory western military fort postmark. $75
5481 #O116, VF, thin, canceled by a VF strike of fancy wheel of fortune commercial killer, not often seen on this issue. $25
5483 #O116, fine, sound, bearing an XF SOTN strike of fancy letter S in U (US) United States patriotic killer, known used from Grand Rapids, Michigan and Jackson Barracks, Missouri. SOLD
4270 #O116, 3 cent War soft paper, mint block of four, fine centering, disturbed gum, possible regum, upper right stamp with distinct evidence of plate damage at the the bottom left part of the portrait (detail). Rare. SOLD
5152 #O116, VF, tiny tear at left, canceled by a VF-XF strike of hexagonal medical bottle stop killer. The middle three negative letters of the word EAGLE ("AGL") clearly display in the cancel. Quite scarce this well struck. $40
4665 #O116, fine, SE, thin, canceled by a VF strike of partial UTAH, 1882 postmark. $25
4634 #O116, fine, SE, sound, canceled by an XF strike of solid purple outlined Maltese cross killer. $10
4760 #O117, 6¢ War, bearing a bold and XF strike of a hexagon nut style killer. Alan Campbell, noted Official collector, reports this cancellation as a bottle stopper killer. Stamp has light diagonal crease. SOLD
4636 #O117, fine, sound, bearing a superb SOTN strike of 5-point star in circle killer. A WOW star killer. $25
4027 #O117, XF 6¢ soft paper War, bearing a VF black star in circle killer. $10
       
       
       

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