Items for sale by Frajola

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Link will take you to items currently available which are listed in PhilaMercury census database. My retail stock is primarily sold against existing want lists.

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.

Featured Item

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

 

 

SOLD

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.


Richard Frajola (May 2009)