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My retail stock is primarily sold against existing want lists.
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I
frequently put material, in many different categories, up for direct
or auction sale on Ebay (1covers). This link will take you to a current listing of my lots. |
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Featured Item
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Nova Scotia, 1851 Issue,
Six Pence Yellow Green, (Scott #4 ) full to large margins, tied
by clear strike of oval grid cancel to blue folded letter,
endorsed "land mail" to New York City, red "Paid" handstamp,
"Halifax Nova Scotia OC 25 1851" origin backstamp, blue "New
Brunswick VR 1851" handstamp, black "St John OC 31 1851" transit
backstamp, an early usage, BPA certificate, extremely fine gem,
mentioned in Argenti, ex Caspary and
Mayer
price $5,000
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Featured Item -
March 2009
Costa
Rica #1, Medio Real on mourning cover to
Guatemala with boxed "11 NOV" datestamp
cancel, matching "San Jose Costa
Rica 11 Nov 82" circular postmark, this
cover was described and illustrated in my newly published book (The
Postal History of Costa
Rica to 1883) as figure 5-47:
It illustrates the requirement of a decree made
effective on August 31, 1882, only four months before the
first-issue stamps were demonetized on January 1, 1883, that
correspondence to other Central American republics be charged no
more than domestic internal rates. Under the new schedule,
therefore, the postal rate for a single-weight letter to
Guatemala became five centavos. This cover
was sent on November 1, 1882, from San Jose to
Guatemala City and is the only reported example showing this
brief-lived rate. It was correctly prepaid with a medio real
adhesive, which had a value of five centavos at this date. The stamp
bears the boxed datestamp, and a San Jose postmark of the same date
is at left. Upon arrival in Guatemala it was
rated as ten centavos due.
An exceptional first issue cover from the
Frederick Mayer collection.
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