Sale 1037 — United States and Foreign Stamps and Covers
Sale Date — Monday-Friday, 10-14 December, 2012
Category — Steven R. Belasco`s History of Stamp Collectors and Dealers
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2651
1c Ultramarine (156). Wide margins, tied by indistinct Boston circular datestamp and red "Boston PD All Br. Transit Jul. 8 (1876)" exchange datestamp on up-rated 1c Postal Card (UX5) to famed stamp dealer J. B. Moens in Brussels, Belgium, Brussels receiving backstamp, written side states "I do not want any more engravings of Russian Locals. I only want the Government Official issues.", Very Fine, Moens is regarded as the first stamp dealer and is also famous as an early philatelic journalist, he was the key figure in detailing the early history of the Post Office Mauritius stamps and was deeply involved with the stamps discovered by Madame Borchard in the late 1860s
E. 300-400
225