Sale 1188 — United States Stamp Treasures: The William H. Gross Collection
Sale Date — Wednesday, 3 October, 2018
Category — 1847 Issue Covers
This is the only recorded cover with the 1847 Issue and Honour’s City Post 4LB8 stamp--only five intact 1847 covers are known with Charleston carrier stamps, one of which is permanently housed in the British Library collectionDESCRIPTION
5c Orange Brown (1b), margins touching or slightly in on three sides, tied by several strikes of red grid cancel, used with Honour’s City Post, Charleston, South Carolina, 2c Black on Bluish, Period after “Paid” (4LB8a), First setting, position showing upturned pearl at left and inverted period after “Post”, full to large margins, tied by pen strokes carefully applied across each corner which leave the “Honour’s City Post” name unobscured, red “5” rate handstamp on blue folded letter with sender’s “Paid” notation, datelined Charleston, December 17, 1850, to John L. Manning at Columbia, South Carolina--Manning was then a state senator, and in 1852 he was elected governor--the letter is from an educator and promoter of “Southern Education” and the “Abolition of Abolition Text Books” in Southern schools
PROVENANCE
* Philip H. Ward, Jr., Siegel Auction Galleries, 3/31-4/1/1965, Sale 285, lot 537
* Katherine Hall, Siegel Auction Galleries, 5/13/2000, Sale 824, lot 82, to William H. Gross
CENSUS, LITERATURE AND EXHIBITION REFERENCES
* USPCS census no. 13520
* https://www.uspcs.org/resource-center/censuses/1847-cover-census/
CONDITION NOTES
* Very Fine cover with vertical file fold at center; tiny pre-use nick in left margin of 5¢ stamp; carrier stamp has faint pre-use crease
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