Sale 1120 — Outstanding United States Stamps
Sale Date — Thursday-Friday, 17-18 March, 2016
Category — 1844-45 Independent Mails
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1719
H. T. Crofoot's Letter Office, Newburyport (Mass.). Red oval handstamp and matching framed "Paid" handstamp on Mar. 15, 1845 folded letter to Boston, missing one page and small hole but interesting content remains including "I commend to your attention (an article) by John Neal called 'Instinct of Childhood', in which a gentleman persuades his child to release her birds from the cage and the child afterwards applies the same arguments to the condition of her father's slaves.", Fine, ex Schwartz
E. 200-300
110
