Sale 1026 — United States Stamps and Postal History, CSA, General Foreign
Sale Date — Wednesday-Thursday, 27-28 June, 2012
Category — U.S. Stamps: Collections and Accumulations
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Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1694
Appleton Postage Stamp Album. Published by D. Appleton & Co., title page "Album for Postage and Other Stamps, American and Foreign. MDCCCLXIII" (1863)," cover is dark brown with hubbed spine and gilt decorations, 208 pages with gilt edges, all stamps removed, significant cover edge and corner wear, first few pages including title page detached and with broken edges, some page thinning from removal of hinges, still a collectible and rare early stamp album, a smaller edition was published in Dec. 1862, with two copies known to exist (one in green, the other in red), twelve copies of this edition were reported in the American Philatelist (Mar. 1988) and probably no more than 20 exist
E. 500-750
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