Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale

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**Adams' City Express Post (New York NY)**
Lot	Sym.	Lot Description
406		Adams' City Express Post, New York N.Y., 2c Black on Buff (2L2). Large margins to just barely in lower left frameline, uncancelled but gum tones lettersheet beneath, used on folded cover to Nassau, Baden, via Bremen, addressed in old German to "An Adolf Schafer, Ministerialrath in Wiesbaden, Herzogthum, Nassau, Deutschland", bold "New York 24 Jun. 14" debit datestamp for unpaid sea postage, red "9/AMERICA/UBER BREMEN" two-line transit handstamp, red "10-1/3" (gutegroschen) Bremen debit handstamp, German transit charges of "13/45" in red pen and "1f1" due in red crayon (1 florin 1 kreuzer, equal to 61 kreuzer), "D1 3 7" letter carrier backstamp, pencil notation indicates origin date was Jun. 12, 1851, which corresponds to the transit markings on this cover VERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE AND SPECTACULAR COVER. PROBABLY NO MORE THAN A HALF-DOZEN EXAMPLES OF THE ADAMS 2-CENT ON BUFF EXIST. THIS IS BELIEVED TO BE THE ONLY BUFF STAMP SURVIVING ON A COVER TO A EUROPEAN COUNTRY. We have located four or five covers bearing the Adams' City Express Post 2c on Buff stamp. Among our photographs is an image of a damaged cover to Germany, with the Buff stamp tied by a "New-York Jan. 20" circular datestamp, but this stamp was removed from the cover, its margins were trimmed, and now it appears as the off-cover stamp in lot 407. There is also a cover bearing the 2c on Gray (2L4), addressed to Baden via Le Havre with a New York Oct. 11 (1851) datestamp, from which the stamp has been torn out and replaced. The cover offered here is by far the finer of the two Adams' City Express Post covers to a foreign country -- it is also the only one bearing the Buff stamp. This cover was carried on the Ocean Line's Washington, departing New York on June 14, 1851, arriving at Bremen on June 29. For an explanation of the rates and markings associated with U.S.-Bremen treaty mail, please refer to an article by James Van Der Linden in the Chronicle (Feb. 1986). We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Richard F. Winter and James Van der Linden in deciphering the old German writing and transit markings on this cover. (Image)	E. 7,500-10,000
407		Adams' City Express Post, New York N.Y., 2c Black on Buff (2L2). Full to large, fine impression on fresh paper, cancelled by rim of New York circular datestamp at upper left EXTREMELY FINE. A SUPERB USED EXAMPLE OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE STAMP. A survey of auction catalogues produced no more than a half-dozen examples of this stamp, including four or five covers bearing uncancelled stamps. This stamp was originally tied by the "New-York Jan. 20" circular datestamp on a defective cover to Germany. It was removed, the margins were trimmed, but the cancel matches the stamp on the cover shown in a photo from our files. An original-gum example realized $4,500 hammer in our Golden sale. (Image)	E. 2,000-3,000

Adams' City Express Post (New York NY)

Lot

Sym.

Lot Description

406

Adams' City Express Post, New York N.Y., 2c Black on Buff (2L2). Large margins to just barely in lower left frameline, uncancelled but gum tones lettersheet beneath, used on folded cover to Nassau, Baden, via Bremen, addressed in old German to "An Adolf Schafer, Ministerialrath in Wiesbaden, Herzogthum, Nassau, Deutschland", bold "New York 24 Jun. 14" debit datestamp for unpaid sea postage, red "9/AMERICA/UBER BREMEN" two-line transit handstamp, red "10-1/3" (gutegroschen) Bremen debit handstamp, German transit charges of "13/45" in red pen and "1f1" due in red crayon (1 florin 1 kreuzer, equal to 61 kreuzer), "D1 3 7" letter carrier backstamp, pencil notation indicates origin date was Jun. 12, 1851, which corresponds to the transit markings on this cover

VERY FINE. AN EXTREMELY RARE AND SPECTACULAR COVER. PROBABLY NO MORE THAN A HALF-DOZEN EXAMPLES OF THE ADAMS 2-CENT ON BUFF EXIST. THIS IS BELIEVED TO BE THE ONLY BUFF STAMP SURVIVING ON A COVER TO A EUROPEAN COUNTRY.

We have located four or five covers bearing the Adams' City Express Post 2c on Buff stamp. Among our photographs is an image of a damaged cover to Germany, with the Buff stamp tied by a "New-York Jan. 20" circular datestamp, but this stamp was removed from the cover, its margins were trimmed, and now it appears as the off-cover stamp in lot 407. There is also a cover bearing the 2c on Gray (2L4), addressed to Baden via Le Havre with a New York Oct. 11 (1851) datestamp, from which the stamp has been torn out and replaced. The cover offered here is by far the finer of the two Adams' City Express Post covers to a foreign country -- it is also the only one bearing the Buff stamp.

This cover was carried on the Ocean Line's Washington, departing New York on June 14, 1851, arriving at Bremen on June 29. For an explanation of the rates and markings associated with U.S.-Bremen treaty mail, please refer to an article by James Van Der Linden in the Chronicle (Feb. 1986).

We gratefully acknowledge the assistance of Richard F. Winter and James Van der Linden in deciphering the old German writing and transit markings on this cover. (Image)

E. 7,500-10,000

407

Adams' City Express Post, New York N.Y., 2c Black on Buff (2L2). Full to large, fine impression on fresh paper, cancelled by rim of New York circular datestamp at upper left

EXTREMELY FINE. A SUPERB USED EXAMPLE OF THIS EXTREMELY RARE STAMP.

A survey of auction catalogues produced no more than a half-dozen examples of this stamp, including four or five covers bearing uncancelled stamps. This stamp was originally tied by the "New-York Jan. 20" circular datestamp on a defective cover to Germany. It was removed, the margins were trimmed, but the cancel matches the stamp on the cover shown in a photo from our files.

An original-gum example realized $4,500 hammer in our Golden sale. (Image)

E. 2,000-3,000