Sale 908 — Western Expresses, Carriers, Locals & Independent Mails
Sale Date — Friday, 17 March, 2006
Category — Overland Mail
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
4039


E. 200-300
400
4040


E. 750-1,000
900
Back to Top4041


E. 200-300
350
Back to Top4042

California Mails. 13 covers with a variety of scarce markings, includes three different New York 40c rate handstamps (red "40" in circle, rare red "New-York 40 cts." integral rate with attached "Paid" and black "New-York 40" integral rate), "30" rate handstamp on cover to New York, two covers to California with New York 10c debit datestamps, July 1851 to San Francisco with faint strike of rare red "Pan. & San Fran. S.S." Type I route agent's datestamp, "Steamship 20" in circle on 1854 cover from Australia to Maine with "Paid at Beechworth" handstamp, blue "Stmr. Sierra Nevada Via Nicaragua In Advance of the Mails" oval on cover to New York (faults), two covers to San Francisco with "Vapor Bogota" and "Vapor Santiago" straightlines, 1875 cover with blue "P.M.S.S. Co. S. S. City of New York" ribbon-marker backstamp and "New York Ship Letter 4", and ca. 1872 cover with "N.Y. Steamship 10" datestamp, some faults but overall Fine and an extremely desirable group for the postal historian
E. 1,500-2,000
1,200
Back to Top4043


E. 1,000-1,500
1,050
Back to Top4044


E. 1,000-1,500
1,400
Back to Top4045


E. 750-1,000
1,300
Back to Top4046


E. 750-1,000
525
Back to Top4047


E. 75-100
80
Back to Top4048


VERY FINE. THIS IS THE ONLY EXAMPLE OF THE McNEILL & DUDLEY RAILROAD PROPAGANDA DESIGN CONTAINED IN THE LEVI RECORDS OF WESTERN ILLUSTRATED COVERS.
The railroad designs were part of a public relations effort to promote completion of the transcontinental railroad. Although the "Per Overland Mail" route depicts a steam locomotive, the mail was actually transported by horses and stagecoach. Some of the designs are more explicit, reading "Overland Mail in hope of the [railroad]." This Napa City publisher's design is distinctive and, according to our Levi records, represented by this sole cover.
Ex Beals
E. 2,000-3,000
5,250
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