Sale 1223 — U.S. Postal History and U.S. Gold Coins
Sale Date — Thursday-Friday, 4-5 June, 2020
Category — Transatlantic Stampless, Ship Mail
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
8023
(Birmingham, England, to New York) “Packet Ship [above oval] James Munroe/Liverpool/ Watkinson/Sailed Mar. 1,/1819”. Red oval handstamp (“Munroe” misspelling) on front and back of folded letter to New York datelined “Birmingham Feby. 15th, 1819”, arrived Apr. 9 with manuscript “6” cents due, Fine, a rare Black Ball Line vessel-named handstamp used only on this Mar. 1, 1819, voyage of the James Monroe
E. 100-150
80