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Item # Description Price Picture
4864 #320 with Shermack type III vending machine coil tied by SEP 25, 1908 Chicago machine killer on XF intact Marshall Field & Company corner advertising cover, VF New London, CT flag receiving postmark on reverse. $75
4922 #R26c, F+, sound 5 cent Foreign Exchange first issue revenue canceled by a superb SOTN strike of NOV 21, 1863, SCHUCHARDT & GEBHARD postmark style killer. Quite eye catching. $5
4816 #220, fine, tied on cover by fine letter N in ellipse killer with matching NASHUA, NH, Wesson TOB APR 9, 1890 postmark on F-VF cover, neatly opened at right. $5
4487 #270, VF, minor faults, canceled by an XF SOTN strike of U.S. POSTAL AGENCY, SHANGHAI (China) DEC 11, 10 P.M. postmark, scarce usage, outstanding cancel.  (HCS)

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3900 #246, 250, 255 on VF intact U311, each stamp and envelope indicia bearing a SOTN strike of small letter G surrounded by serrated double ring killer, matching GOUVERNEUR, N.Y. fancy oval 1895 REGISTERED postmark.  Scarce, colorful and attractive example of a registered cover with fancy cancel. $85
3737 #231, F-VF, tied by VF strike of purple A. A. CALHOON, P.M., DELL, WISC, FEB 10, 1894 postmark and target killer on cover to Viroqua, WI (back stamped), quarter inch reduction at left. Scarce late use of postmaster cancel. SOLD
3682 #279B, F-VF strip of 3, on U258 4 cent Jackson entire, 1902 registered KEYPORT, NJ to Newton Highlands, MA. Several VF registry and receipt markings. Late commercial use of entire, vertical crease at left. $15
3371 #220, fine, tied by XF strike of BELLOWS FALLS, VT 1890 postmark with unusual letter B 13-bar ellipse killer on cover, opened at right, minor toning at BR. $10 n3571.jpg (52856 bytes)
3365 #264 dark blue, VF paired with #279 green, fine, 1899 Yonkers, NY cancel, on VF pre-printed envelope to Binghamton, NY, back stamped RECEIVED 1 in oval (scan). Pretty and unusual two-color franking. SOLD n3365.jpg (64199 bytes)
3251 #231, fine, by WORLDS FAIR STATION 1893, JUN 27 machine killer (Bomar C93-11A) on unreduced advertising cover for Chicago Commercial Company. Scarce. $35 n3251.jpg (31678 bytes)
3186 #236, fine 8 cent Columbian, SE, plus 2 vertical pairs of #219, each tied by fine strike of violet DELAVAN, WIS. DEC 1, 1893 M.O.B. postmarks paying registration on VF Minneapolis stamp dealer envelope. Scarce money order business use. SOLD n3186.jpg (41111 bytes)
2960 #279B, #282C, tied by two VF strikes of unduplexed "kicking mule" killers on unreduced, 2 cent overpaid 1899 registered cover from Post Townsend, Washington (light green Port Townsend REGISTERED at left). Cover is part of a turn of the century correspondence to Lamar, MO.  (See scan of enclosed letter.)  Both stamps with SE, #279B with pulled perf. Very scarce.

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2647 #220, fine, tied by XF strike of bluish-black negative 5-point star-in-circle killer with matching 1896 ALMORAL, IOWA, J. B. DUNHAM, P. M. postmaster postmark on fine, unreduced cover, small stamp fault. Delaware County DPO 1857-1921. $30 n2647.jpg (23098 bytes)
2045 VF Spanish American War illustrated patriotic from Camp Alger, Falls Church, VA.  Scarce design, with flag-waving soldiers charging and the Washington Monument in the background.  Cover is postmarked Washington, D.C. JUN 26 1898 with VF DUE 2 and violet "SOLDIER'S LETTER, Collect postage from Addressee, E. S. HARRIS, Chaplain, 2d. Reg't. Tenn. Vols."  According to Barry Dunagan's Genealogy and History of Gibson County, Tennessee (http://www.geocities.com/Heartland/Hills/4427/index.htm), Edward Harris was captain and chaplain of the 2nd Regiment.  A terrific cover.

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