Sale 1188 — United States Stamp Treasures: The William H. Gross Collection
Sale Date — Wednesday, 3 October, 2018
Category — 1861-66 Issue, including Lincoln-Related, Sanitary Fair and Adams Express
This beautiful Civil War Sanitary Fair cover is one of four recorded with a combination of Great Central Fair and regular postage stamps, and it is the only one with the stamps used on a Great Central Fair illustrated envelopeDESCRIPTION
3¢ Rose (65), tied by duplex target cancel and “Phila. Pa. Jun. 15, 1864” circular datestamp, used with Great Central Fair, Philadelphia, 10¢ Blue (WV11), cancelled by “Great Central Fair. June 15, 1864” circular datestamp--strongly impressed, leaving indentation through interior of envelope, effectively tying stamp--two additional strikes on red illustrated Great Central Fair cover, battlefield scene with fallen soldier and return address imprint at side, to A. B. Hall, M.D., at 89 Salem Street in Boston, “P.O. Phila. A Jun. 15 4th” circular datestamp on back
PROVENANCE
* George Walcott, Robert Laurence sale 1/14/1935, lot 3090
* Possibly Robert S. Emerson
* Elliott Perry (collection sold privately to Kantors)
* Alvin R. and Marjorie Kantor, Siegel Auction Galleries, 5/5/1995, Sale 766A, lot 1263, to William H. Gross
CENSUS, LITERATURE AND EXHIBITION REFERENCES
* Alvin R. and Marjorie Kantor, Sanitary Fairs: A Philatelic and Historical
* Study of Civil War Benevolences, fig. 112, p. 127
* ANPHILEX 1971 (Kantor)
CONDITION NOTES
* Very Fine cover; cover slightly reduced at right and 3¢ has trimmed perfs at right, ink spot matching address (thus contemporary) Pencil “Walcott Sale 1935, 40.00, L3090” (appears to be Emerson’s source code)
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