Connecticut Postal History - Stamp Auctions

Lot 3125 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History -  H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Lot 3125 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History - H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

black duplex ties 1869 3c Ultramarine (114) to illustrated Independent Order of Good Templars advertising cover, very fine and attractive

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Lot 3142 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History -  H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Lot 3142 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History - H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

small group of five covers including 1873 cover to Italy, 1884 cover to Turkey, 1885 cover to India, 1888 cover to England with internal forwarding, and 1890 cover to Germany, generally fine to very fine, an interesting group with most accompanied by exhibit writeup

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Lot 3136 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History -  H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Lot 3136 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History - H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

black datestamp and matching leaf fancy cancel tie 1c Bank Note to locally-addressed cover, as the local letter rate was 2c the cover was marked "Held For Postage" and an additional 1c stamp was applied, left stamp small faults, otherwise very fine and attractive

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Lot 3131 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History -  H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Lot 3131 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History - H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

blue datestamp on oversized cover to New Haven, Connecticut with striking illustrated advertisement for the Hartford Fire Insurance Co., franked with 2c Brown, 3c Green, and two 6c Dull pink Bank Notes, light wear as expected with such a large piece of mail, very fine and extremely attractive, this cover's addressee, Simeon E. Baldwin, would go on to serve as Connecticut's governor from 1911 to 1915

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Lot 3148 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History -  H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Lot 3148 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History - H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

approximately 80 covers, better throughout including 1892 2c wrapper to Hungary, 1892 cover to Jerusalem, 1893 5c Columbian to Brazil, 1893 "No Such Office" handstamp on 2c Columbian entire, 1897 wrapper to Portugal, 1897 cover to Germany forwarded to Jerusalem, 1897 registered to Sweden, 1898 registered to Austria, 1898 Spanish American War advertising cover, 1898 cover to Haiti, 1898 "Sta. A." cancel on cover from Charles Dudley Warner (Mark Twain's co-author on The Guilded Age), and much more, generally fine to very fine, a wonderful variety of material which will prove very interesting to the dedicated student

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Lot 3126 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History -  H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Lot 3126 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History - H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

black datestamp with geometric duplex ties 1869 6c Ultramarine (115) to cover to Montreal, Quebec, backstamped Montreal October 7, very fine 

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Lot 3143 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History -  H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Lot 3143 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History - H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

24 covers with cancellations including stars in circles, leaves, geometrics, targets, circles of wedges, negative "K", "B", and more, generally fine to very fine, attractive group

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Lot 3138 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History -  H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Lot 3138 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History - H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Wesson time-on-bottom duplex on 2c Green entire, cornercard "Return to S.L. Clemens, Hartford, Conn., If not delivered within 10 days.", addressed to James R. Osgood & Co. in Boston, 1c postage due and "Due 1" and "Due 2" handstamps, light edge wear and toning from storage next to another envelope, fine and rare, a wonderful piece of postal history from Hartford's most notable resident
James R. Osgood was the publisher behind Mark Twain's 1882 The Prince and the Pauper and The Stolen White Elephant. Also in 1882, Osgood accompanied Twain on a riverboat trip to collect material for Life on the Mississippi, published by Osgood the following year. Interestingly, Life on the Mississippi was the first book submitted to the publisher as a typewritten manuscript (typed by Twain's secretary Isabel V. Lyon from his handwritten manuscript). 
The financial failure of Life on the Mississippi resulted in a fractured relation between Twain and Osgood. Mark Twain's Letters to his Publishers: 1867-1894, published by University of California Press in 1967, allows us to read the original letter contained in this envelope: a screed against Osgood which led to the severing of their partnership. It reads, in part:
I am peculiarly situated. The Prince and Pauper and The Mississippi are the only books of mine which have ever failed. The first failure was not unbearable - but this second one is so nearly so that it is not a calming subject for me to talk upon. I am out $50,000 on this last book - that is to say, the sale which should have been 80,000 (seeing that the Canadians were for the first time out of competition), is only 30,000.

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Lot 3132 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History -  H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Lot 3132 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History - H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

duplex ties 1873 6c Dull pink (159) to locally-addressed illustrated Hartford Steam Boiler Inspection and Insurance Co. advertising cover with steam locomotive, very fine and attractive

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Lot 3149 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History -  H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

Lot 3149 - u.s. postal history Connecticut Postal History - H. R. Harmer Inc The March United States Postal History Sale - Day 2

small group of 16 covers and cards including "Boston, Hart. & Erie R.R.", "Hart. & Millerton Agt" (with both "W" and "E" killers), "Hartford & M. Agt.", "Hart & Saybrook R.P.O.", "Hartford & State Line R.P.O.", "P.H. & Fishkill R.R.", and "Spring. & Hartford R.P.O.", some light duplication, generally fine to very fine, an interesting group
 
 

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