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| Scott Number | 09X1 |
|---|---|
| Date | February 2, 1847 |
| From City | Baltimore |
| From State | RR |
| To City | New York |
| To State | NY |
| Addressee | Abraham Bell & Son |
| Cert Author | |
| Cert # | |
| Fake | |
| No. of Stamps | 1 |
| Plate Position | 15 |
| Initials | ACM |
| Others |
Notes
Chronicle 101
Four small margins, cancelled by one vertical black pen mark and three diagonal blue pen marks, one of which ties the stamp to the cover in upper right corner of folded letter. This cover has one strike of the customary curved red PAID, a rough manuscript "5" and a straight line "Baltimore RR". It is addressed to "Messrs. Abraham Bell & Son, 117 Fulton Street, New York" in the identical handwriting as is the cover to Bell & Son from Hamilton, Canada. I have never seen this cover, but I am told the letter is dated February 2, 1847
Lot 587 5c black (9X1), ample margins to just touched at top right, fresh and fine impression, black and blue manuscript cancels, the latter tying stamps on Feb 1847 folded letter from Baltimore to New York, from the Abraham Bell & son correspondence, red Baltimore RR straightline handstamp clearly struck, red PAID arc and blue manuscript 5 applied on arrival at New York, very fine, one other New York Provisional cover is recorded with the Baltimore Railroad circular datestamp (the stamp used for forwarding), this is the only recorded use of the New York Provisional to prepay postage on incoming mail from Baltimore, illustrated in Chronicle (Feb 1979), ex. Emerson, Grunin, Ashbrook note on back est, $3,000-4,000
Christie's Oct 12, 1989 Weill Brothers sale
Single, position 15, datelined Baltimore, Feb 22, 1847, ¦
Piller, Stanley M., The New York Postmasters' Provisional, Cosmos Press, 1991, p78
Four small margins, cancelled by one vertical black pen mark and three diagonal blue pen marks, one of which ties the stamp to the cover in upper right corner of folded letter. This cover has one strike of the customary curved red PAID, a rough manuscript "5" and a straight line "Baltimore RR". It is addressed to "Messrs. Abraham Bell & Son, 117 Fulton Street, New York" in the identical handwriting as is the cover to Bell & Son from Hamilton, Canada. I have never seen this cover, but I am told the letter is dated February 2, 1847
Lot 587 5c black (9X1), ample margins to just touched at top right, fresh and fine impression, black and blue manuscript cancels, the latter tying stamps on Feb 1847 folded letter from Baltimore to New York, from the Abraham Bell & son correspondence, red Baltimore RR straightline handstamp clearly struck, red PAID arc and blue manuscript 5 applied on arrival at New York, very fine, one other New York Provisional cover is recorded with the Baltimore Railroad circular datestamp (the stamp used for forwarding), this is the only recorded use of the New York Provisional to prepay postage on incoming mail from Baltimore, illustrated in Chronicle (Feb 1979), ex. Emerson, Grunin, Ashbrook note on back est, $3,000-4,000
Christie's Oct 12, 1989 Weill Brothers sale
Single, position 15, datelined Baltimore, Feb 22, 1847, ¦
Piller, Stanley M., The New York Postmasters' Provisional, Cosmos Press, 1991, p78
