2013 CHICAGOPEX Stamp Show November 2013 | Page 177

Session II: Sunday, November 24, 2013 Estimate 2182 – MICHIGAN – 2180 1820s-50s BETTER STAMPLESS COVER SELECTION & MORE ............................................. $1000-1500 Nice selection of 70 auction lots of early Michigan stampless folded letters & covers, includes 14 different town cancels, 30 different manuscript postmarks and an assortment of 30 later covers (1850s-1920s) including various frankings, town cancels, stamped envelopes & manuscript cancels. A few Town cancel highlights include: black FORT WILKINS, MICH. & PAID with manuscript ‘6,’ black GIDLEY’S STATION, MICH. & circle PAID 3, red GRAND TRAVERSE, Mich. & circle PAID 3 with stamped red ‘5’ lightly lined out, and more including Pontiac, Eagle River, Geloster, Raisin & others. Some manuscript highlights include: Territorial Period: a July 31, 1831, red ‘Auburn Mich Ter’ (ASCC earliest known use) and 1826 red ‘Bloomfield Sept 16/M. T.,’ both addressed to Rev. Absalom Peters; Statehood Period includes: Algonac, China, Groveland, Nebraska, Polkton, Scio, Tyrone, Ynouski & others. Later covers include: large ‘HAMPTON, MICH’ cds on 1850s franked cover, stamped Civil War Patriotic front with manuscript blue ‘Moulin Rouge/Mich Sept 17,’ ‘Macomb, Mich.’ manuscript on 1869 franked cover, 1885 registered 3¢ stamped entire with additional 10¢ & 2¢ Banknotes, illustrated 1898 cover for ‘A. (illustration of Fox)/GENERAL MERCHANT,’ group of 4 ‘Swan Creek’ canceled covers each with different cds, others. Interesting and valuable lot for the collector or dealer. Clean & attractive material, a few minor cover faults, overall fine to very fine. Ex-Bergmann. 2181 Estimate Large valuable archive of more than 3,000 Michigan postmarks on stampless to modern covers and on picture & postal cards, assembled by dedica ??????????????5?????????????????????)5????????????????????????????????????????????)?????????????????A???=????????????????????????????)?????????????????????????????????????????????? ????)???????????????????????????????????????????????)???????????????????????????????????????????????)????????????????????????????????????????????????)????????????????????????????????????????????????????)]?????????????????????????????????????? ??]????????)???????????? ??????????????????????????)]????????????????A?????????????1M