Sale 1188 — United States Stamp Treasures: The William H. Gross Collection
Sale Date — Wednesday, 3 October, 2018
Category — 1847 Issue Covers
A unique 1847 local post combination cover with two 5¢ stamps from the first printing in a beautiful Dark Brown shade with sharp impression, used with the Blood’s “For the Post Office” local stamp of Philadelphia--of the four recorded with this combination, only this cover has all stamps tied by cancellationsDESCRIPTION
5¢ Dark Brown (1a), two singles, both with full to large margins, stamp at top has huge bottom margin showing part of adjoining stamp, both with rich dark color and prooflike impression from first printing, placed to the right and below D. O. Blood & Co., Philadelphia, (2¢) Black, “For the Post Office” (15L8), ample margins to touching, all three stamps tied together by blue grid cancels (lower 5¢ tied and all tied by impressions through paper), matching “Philada. Pa. 10cts Oct. 15” 10¢ integral-rate datestamp on light blue folded letter datelined October 14, 1847, to Boston, Massachusetts
PROVENANCE
* William S. White (not in Doane sales, 1/16/1937 or 3/20/1937)
* Robert S. Emerson, Daniel F. Kelleher, 6/11/1938, Sale 399, lot 19, to Fifield
* H. R. Harmer sale, 11/25-26/1963, lot 97, to Hart
* Creighton C. Hart, Robert G. Kaufmann sale, 4/30/1990, lot 220, to Boker
* John R. Boker, Jr. (collection sold privately to William H. Gross, 1994)
CENSUS, LITERATURE AND EXHIBITION REFERENCES
* USPCS census no. 10417
* https://www.uspcs.org/resource-center/censuses/1847-cover-census/
* Creighton C. Hart, “1847 Covers from Philadelphia,” Chronicle 90, May 1976
* Vernon R. Morris, Jr., M.D., “Blood’s Part 8: 15L8,” The Penny Post, October 2014, fig. 15 (census no. 25)
CONDITION NOTES
* Extremely Fine; 5¢ stamps with negligible slight creasing or wrinkling from the time they were affixed (bottom stamp tiny tear at top)
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