24c Green & Violet (120).
Rich colors, very clear vignette impression, tied by cork cancel with
duplex "New-York Sep. 27 1:30 PM" circular datestamp on legal-size yellow
cover to Wiscasset Me., cover refolded to reduce sizeA FINE EXAMPLE OF THE 24-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL ON COVER. ONLY 23 OF THE 76 RECORDED 24-CENT COVERS ARE DOMESTIC USAGES.
Ex Hart. With 1972 P.F. certificate. (Image)
24c Green & Violet (120).
Rich colors, centered to upper right, used with horizontal pair of 10c
Yellow (116), well-centered, intense shade, tied by circle of wedges
cancels, "New-York Apr. 5" circular datestamp on bright white cover to
Lima, Peru, red "24" credit, large red crayon "2", blue Lima backstamp
(1870), tiny opening tear at bottom right cornerEXTREMELY FINE AND IMMACULATE COVER. THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF THIS FRANKING TO PERU AVAILABLE TO COLLECTORS.
The Davis correspondence, also known as the famous Portchester find (named for the New York town where many of the covers originated), provided a large number of high-value 1869 covers, all addressed to Lima, Peru. The 24c 1869 covers in the Davis correspondence include several 24c and 10c combinations for the 34c rate. However, after the rate reduction to 22c, only 44c double-rate covers required a 24c stamp. Two recorded covers to Peru are franked with a 24c and pair of 10c 1869's, one of which is part of the Hirzel collection housed in the Swiss PTT Museum. Only this cover remains in collectors' hands. (Image)
24c Green & Violet (120).
Used with 1c Buff (112), each stamp cancelled by matching circular
cork cancel and tied by part of adjoining "Boston Mass. Jan. 21 3 P.M."
circular datestamp on 1870 cover to Rosario, Argentina, red "8"
credit handstamp, faint red oval handstamp applied in Argentina, pencil
"10c", reduced at leftA FINE AND COLORFUL COVER. THE ONLY GENUINE COVER WITH THIS COMBINATION OF 1869 STAMPS AND ONE OF TWO RECORDED 24-CENT 1869 COVERS TO ARGENTINA.
The 1c and 24c stamps were intended to prepay the 25c rate (between -1/4 and -1/2 ounce) for American Packet service to Rio de Janeiro and from there by French Packet to Buenos Aires. However, the French Packet service ended by January 1870, and the cover was sent via the new British Packet. The 18c per -1/2 ounce rate applied to British mail, and the cover was correctly marked with the 8c credit.
Only two 24c 1869 covers to Argentina are recorded in the 1869 PRA census book. Although two 1c and 14c combination covers are listed in the same census, subsequent to publication the other cover (ex Ishikawa) was determined to be a forgery, leaving only this cover with the 1c Franklin and 24c Signing of the Declaration of Independence pictorial stamps.
Ex White, Emerson and Krug. Signed Ashbrook. With 1990 P.F. certificate. (Image)
24c Green & Violet (120).
Beautifully centered with wide margins, rich colors and distinct vignette
impression, tied by large circle of wedges cancel, red "New York Sep. 8"
circular datestamp, matching "12" credit handstamp on 1869 blue folded
letter to Cadiz, Spain, 2c overpayment of the 22c rate, sender's
blue oval datestamp, red "New York Paid All Br. Transit Sep. 8" circular
datestamp, red London Paid circular datestamp and "PD" in oval, red crayon
"4", Cadiz receiving datestamp, sender's routing per steamship
China, negligible tiny sealed tear at top (well clear of
stamp)EXTREMELY FINE GEM EXAMPLE OF A SINGLE 24-CENT 1869 PICTORIAL USED ON COVER. ONE OF THE FAMOUS COVERS FROM THE GOMEZ CORRESPONDENCE TO SPAIN.
In our sale of the Jonathan W. Rose 1869 collection (Sale 794), we offered a single 24c tied by a blue cancel on cover to England. Described in the Rose catalogue as "the most beautiful of the covers bearing a single stamp", the cover realized $28,000 hammer. At the time we wrote those words, we had this Gomez cover in mind as the runner-up -- they would be tied for first if this also had a colored cancellation. Only 76 24c covers in total are recorded in the 1869 PRA census.
Illustrated in 1869 PRA census book, p. 184. With 1964 P.F. certificate. (Image)
24c Green & Violet (120).
Rich colors and proof-like impressions, centered to bottom right with perfs
slightly in, used with horizontal pair of 2c Red Brown (146), s.e.
at right, tied by circle of V's fancy cancel on 1870 blue folded cover
to Cadiz, Spain, red "New York Paid All Br. Transit Aug. 3"
backstamp, matching "24" credit handstamp, red London Paid transit and "PD"
in oval, large red "2" handstamp, Cadiz receiving datestamp, sender's blue
oval datestampVERY FINE AND FRESH. A COLORFUL MIXED-ISSUE 1869 FRANKING FOR THE 28-CENT RATE TO SPAIN -- ONE OF FOUR RECORDED WITH THIS FRANKING. A SPECTACULAR COVER FROM THE GOMEZ CORRESPONDENCE.
Ten 24c 1869 covers to Spain are recorded in the 1869 PRA census, but one of these (with 1c and 3c stamps, ex Ishikawa) has been declared a forgery, leaving nine genuine covers. Four covers are prepaid with a combination of the 24c and two 2c Bank Note stamps. (Image)