Auction # 60 - The Westpex Sale

Sante Fe N.M. Sep 9. Double-circle datestamp and matching open grid cancel ties 3¢ dull red (26) on cover to Lexington Ind.; reduced slightly at right, F.-V.F., ex-Chase with his notes on back.
Estimate; $150 - 200.

New Mexico Territorial Balance, 1870-90's. 8 covers; includes 1882 & 1884 Fort Wingate (different postmark types), 1887 Mescalero, 1884 Lamy, 1890 Glorieta, 1887 East Las Vegas on illustrated mill corner card cover, 1883 Rincon on illustrated Central Hotel cover, and 1879 Fort Stanton with interesting enclosure in part…The population (here) is the worst class, desperados & outlaws. They shoot each other here for little more...

(New York) Troy, N.Y., 10, Mar 7. Sharp blue integral rate cds with matching "Paid" in scroll handstamp on cover to Stanbridge, Canada, red "U. State"s in scroll exchange handstamp and red "St. Johns, U.C., Mar 8" cds applied over "Paid" handstamp which also has been crossed out in pencil, Very Fine.
Estimate; $150 - 200.

Ohio Cover Stock. Box of approximately 1,000 covers in sleeves, ranging from stampless to 1900s arranged by county, includes some better like 1827 Athens fancy postmark, 1839 Hamilton straightline, 1862 Brunswick O., three Cleveland O., Medina C.H. with fancy ratemarker, etc.; some fancy cancels, registered uses, airmail and foreign destinations, range of towns and counties, plenty of value, viewing a must, F.-V.F.
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(South Carolina) "So Ca R R". Manuscript railroad postmark on two covers; one with red "5" cent due rating handstamp on circa 1851 small cover to North Carolina, other with matching "5" cent rating on docketed 1851 folded cover to Willington S.C., F.-V.F., Rarity IV.
Towle No. 336-A-1; Estimate $200 - 300.

(Utah) Fort Bridger, U.T., Dec "30". Clear town postmark with manuscript date and matching "X" canceling 1861, 3¢ rose on orange cover bearing to East Chester, N.Y.; barely reduced at left with light fold, Very Fine.
Estimate; $100 - 150.

(Vermont) Thetford, Vt., June 29th. Brown oval handstamp with manuscript town, state and date, on 1814 folded letter to Boscawen, N.H., manuscript "10" rate; internal cover hole affecting address panel, otherwise Very Fine, a very unusual postmark.
Estimate; $100 - 150.

[Post Office] Assistant Postmaster General Free Franks. Group of 50 covers including the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Assistants and some clerks, includes 1st Assist.: 1798 Charles Burrall free frank cover, Abraham Bradley Jr. (3), Charles Gardner (2), Selah R. Hobbie (2), S.D. Jacobs (2), Horatio King (2), St. John B.L. Skinner (2 handstamped), 2nd Assist.: Seth Pease, Phineas Bradley, Selah R. Hobbie (2), Robert Johnston, Philo. C. Fuller,...

[Navy] Naval Accountant and Chief Clerk Free Franks. Group of 14 covers including 1800 Thomas Turner, 1822 & 1837 John Rodgers, Charles Morris, 1862, W. Wheelan, T. Jenkins, Thomas Harris 1865 William Faxon, Edgar T. Welles, Chas. Welsh and Charles W. Goldsborough; mixed condition, generally Fine.
Estimate; $300 - 400.

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1860 (May 7) Capers Island S.C. to Charleston S.C. Orange buff cover bearing 3¢ dull red (26) (piece out of left margin), prepays postage tied by "Steam-Boat" straightline handstamp and matching large "2" cent due rating handstamp for 2¢ ship captain's fee, docketed at top left "1 Book / Capers 7th May 1860", Very Fine and rare use.
Estimate; $200 - 300.

Over time Capers Island has been home to...

Steam Ship 12½. Straight line with rate in circle handstamps on two folded letters; one in red from San Francisco, Cal. to Providence, R.I. in 1850, other in black from Trinidad de Cuba to New York in 1851, Very Fine.
Estimate; $150 - 200.

[Hudson Bay Company] "En Route, August 7th, 1838" to London, England. Datelined folded Autograph Letter Signed with integral address leaf of A.M. McLeod written while with the Hudson's Bay Co. canoe brigade express traveling from Fort Chipewyan on Lake Athabasca to York Factory on Hudson's Bay via Norway House to Chief Factor John Stewart in London, carried by H.B.C. ship to England arriving with stepped "Deal/Ship...