Sale 1037 — United States and Foreign Stamps and Covers
Sale Date — Monday-Friday, 10-14 December, 2012
Category — Autographs & Free Franks, Colonial, States, Waterway & Ship
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2710
(Lancaster Pa., 1771) "La Way Pd. 2". Red manuscript "Way" postmark and 2dwt rate on folded cover to John Steinmetz in Philadelphia, receipt docketing "William Bells Let. Lancasr Augt. 1771", toned along folds, right panel removedFINE AND EXTREMELY RARE EXAMPLE OF THE LANCASTER PA. COLONIAL "WAY" POSTMARK.
The Siskin sale offered the normal "La" Lancaster postmark as "possibly the only example of this postmark in private hands." The ASCC Vol. 3 lists two dates priced at $2,000 (1768) and $1,750 (1773, the Siskin example).
Ex Pennsylvania Historical Society
E. 2,000-3,000
8,500