From the Award Winning* Nesbitt Collection

By Ken Lawrence

 

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*Awards - Partial Listing:

ROPEX, 2007

Rochester, NY

Gold

APS Stampshow, 2006

Rosemont, IL

Gold

Garfield-Perry, 2006

Cleveland, OH

Gold

These items will be sold individually. When sold, the item will be so marked and the listing here will be italicized. The posting will remain so as to permit access by interested parties.

From Ken Lawrence’s pages:

The first stamped envelopes arrived at San Francisco on July 31, 1853, aboard the steamer Sierra Nevada, which had connected at Nicaragua with the steamer Northern Light, which had sailed from New York on July 5. These were letter-size 3¢ die 1 and 2 envelopes with Nesbitt seals on the flaps. Envelopes with 6¢ green stamps to pay the transcontinental single letter rate did not arrive until a later date, along with 3¢ envelopes without Nesbitt seals.

On April 1, 1855, prepayment of domestic letter postage became mandatory, and the transcontinental rate increased to 10¢, causing the 6¢ green envelopes to be replaced by 10¢ green envelopes, which remained in use until they were demonetized as a Civil War expedient in 1861.]

Several of the items shown here (in red italics) were recently returned to Ken Lawrence. If interested, please contact Ken directly.

Destinations/Origins:            

Unique 3¢ First Issue envelope to Prussia. posted at Hawaii June 20, 1858, View

                U1, EDU, entire to Canada, View

            U10, New York/Steamship, “Due 7”, View

U13, San Francisco to France, View

Unusual Uses:     

U1, underpaid, Due 5, EDU?, View

U3, forwarded, Due 5, View

U7, small knife, forwarded, View

U10, “Balloon” cachet, from early aeronaut correspondence, View

            U11, registered, Alligator, FL, View 

Locals, Express, RR, Steamboats:

U1, Wells Fargo/Steamboat, View    

U1, Pacific Express/Stockton, U2, Langton’s/Wells Fargo/Marysville, View

U10, 34LU3a, “Penny Post”, View

U1, New Orleans “WAY”, View

U1, Scarce Pennsylvania RR Marking, View

U3, Blood’s h/s, View           

LO2 on U9, Cincinnati, 1LB8a on U9, View

U10, “Southern Belle”, View

California:

            U13, Placerville, View

U15, Marysville – “Paid by Stamps”, View  

U17, San Francisco, View

Advertising:

Two very clean examples, View

Confederate Use:

            U9, turned in NC, View

            U10, variety, Alabama independent state use, View

Unusual Use:

            U1, double inking, Manchester Station, CT, View

            U1, printed after folding, Burlington, VT, View

            U1, double print, large offset & EDU W/O seal, View

            U5, VF example, View

            U9, EDU W/ patent lines, View

            U13, last day of 6ct rate from CA, W/ Letter, View

            U13 counterfeit cut square + 7 reprints, View

           

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