Sale 1090 — United States, Possessions and Confederate States Stamps and Postal History

Sale Date — Wednesday-Friday, 17-19 December, 2014

Category — Revolutionary War

Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
2016
c
Sale 1090, Lot 2016, Revolutionary WarAcross the Lines from London to Boston, 1779. "London Mar. 26th 1779" dateline on folded letter from Joseph Green to Samuel Eliot in Boston, receipt docketing dated Dec. 22, 1779 indicates lengthy delay in getting mail through the American reverse blockade, Very Fine, an interesting letter from a well-known Boston Loyalist who left for England in 1775, mentions "all means of correspondence seem to be cut off"

E. 400-500
200