Sale 1232 — United States Stamps and Postal History
Sale Date — Tuesday-Wednesday, 30-31 March, 2021
Category — Local Posts and Independent Mails: Brainard thru Eagle City Post
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
1760
Bush's Brooklyn City N.Y. 2 Cent Express. Red oval handstamp clearly struck on beautiful lace Valentine cover to local street address, with lovely hand-colored lithographed "Love Binds" poetic Valentine enclosure, some unavoidable splits along lace in envelopeVERY FINE. PROBABLY NO MORE THAN A HALF-DOZEN COVERS EXIST WITH THE HANDSTAMPED OVAL OF BUSH'S BROOKLYN CITY EXPRESS. ONLY TWO OF THE COVERS KNOWN TO US ARE VALENTINES.
See our Golden Sale 817, lot 854 for details of the post. This cover, ex Golden, and the one offered in the following lot are the only Valentines with Bush's handstamp that we record.
Image 2
E. 1,000-1,500
1,000