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
2021
(Revolutionary War -- British Occupation of New York) "Brooklyn 22d April 1779". Dateline on folded letter from Richard William Parkin to Seth Norton, Commissary Forage, Oyster Bay (Long Island), endorsed "On His Majesty's Service", letter orders Norton to take charge of the provisions at Oyster Bay and continue to issue forage and provisions, Very Fine, extremely scarce British military letter carried by express from occupied Brooklyn to Oyster Bay on Long Island, discussed in an article by Calvet M. Hahn in CCP March-April 1991
E. 1,000-1,500
3,250