Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, Inc. Sale

California Mails and Western Expresses, Carriers, Locals and Independent Mails continued...

**Name-of-Ship Markings**
Lot	Sym.	Lot Description
4011		PER STR. COLUMBUS. Red straightline handstamp and matching "San Francisco 18 June 40" integral-rate circular datestamp on 1850 blue folded letter Troy N.Y., datelined "Washington Platt Mersais June 7th 50" from a miner who mentions arrival of "Express Man" and conditions at camp, light folds and faint toning, still Very Fine, one of the finest known examples of this rare marking, applied to indicate use of the U.S. Mail Steamship Co.'s Columbus -- this is the first mail trip, on June 18, 1850 (Image)	E. 1,000-1,500
4012		PER STR. COLUMBUS. Red straightline handstamp and matching "San Francisco 17 June 40" integral-rate circular datestamp on cover to East Granby Ct., fresh and Very Fine, scarce, carried on the first sailing of the Columbus, with copy of 1995 P.F. certificate for a similar cover (as reference) (Image)	E. 750-1,000
4013		STEAMER/WINFIELD SCOTT. Two-line handstamp in red struck on 1853 brown cover to Auraria Ga., red "Culloma Cal. Nov. 29" circular datestamp and "10" rate handstamp, refolded at top, stained and repaired at bottom right ONE OF ONLY SEVEN KNOWN COVERS RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY STEAMER WINFIELD SCOTT. The Winfield Scott was a 1,291-ton steamer built in New York City in 1851, which was put into service along the Pacific Coast route in 1852. On December 2, 1853, she was stranded off Anacapa Island in the Santa Barbara Channel and lost, but the mails, passengers and cargo were saved. Our Levi records contain nine examples of the two-line handstamp, of which two were carried before the Winfield Scott was commissioned into the Pacific service. Ex Knapp and Wiltsee (Image)	E. 1,500-2,000
4014		G. B. Post & Co. Undated folded cover from France to Hawaii with blue handstamped oval return card of Winslow & Co., Havre, addressed to the French Consul at Honolulu, green framed "MORGAN/HATHAWAY/& CO." forwarder's handstamp on flap, conjunctive use with "FORWARDED BY/G. B. POST & CO./SAN FRANCISCO" in octagonal frame, straightline "BK. 'FRANCES PALMER.'" name-of-ship routing handstamp applied by Post & Co., carried entirely outside the mails by private forwarders and delivered to French Consulate in Honolulu, Very Fine, an outstanding inbound usage (Image)	E. 1,500-2,000
4015		California & New York Steamship Cy. San Francisco. Blue double-oval handstamp on back of folded letter to Marysville Cal., datelined San Francisco Jun. 27, 1857, a somewhat humorous account of the writer's business travails and an apologetic conclusion signed "Pilgrimas Pertinacitus", Very Fine, accompanied by May 27, 1857 Alta California newspaper ad announcing establishment of the California and New York Steamship Co. (Image)	E. 200-300
4016		P.M.S.S. Henry Chauncey. Blue double-circle ribbon marker, clear strike on 1875 folded letter from Bogota, Colombia, to New York, "New York Due 5cts Oct. 24" circular datestamp, Fine, the only reported example of the steamship mail agent's handstamp (Image)	E. 750-1,000

Name-of-Ship Markings

Lot

Sym.

Lot Description

4011

PER STR. COLUMBUS. Red straightline handstamp and matching "San Francisco 18 June 40" integral-rate circular datestamp on 1850 blue folded letter Troy N.Y., datelined "Washington Platt Mersais June 7th 50" from a miner who mentions arrival of "Express Man" and conditions at camp, light folds and faint toning, still Very Fine, one of the finest known examples of this rare marking, applied to indicate use of the U.S. Mail Steamship Co.'s Columbus -- this is the first mail trip, on June 18, 1850 (Image)

E. 1,000-1,500

4012

PER STR. COLUMBUS. Red straightline handstamp and matching "San Francisco 17 June 40" integral-rate circular datestamp on cover to East Granby Ct., fresh and Very Fine, scarce, carried on the first sailing of the Columbus, with copy of 1995 P.F. certificate for a similar cover (as reference) (Image)

E. 750-1,000

4013

STEAMER/WINFIELD SCOTT. Two-line handstamp in red struck on 1853 brown cover to Auraria Ga., red "Culloma Cal. Nov. 29" circular datestamp and "10" rate handstamp, refolded at top, stained and repaired at bottom right

ONE OF ONLY SEVEN KNOWN COVERS RECOVERED FROM THE WRECK OF THE PACIFIC MAIL STEAMSHIP COMPANY STEAMER WINFIELD SCOTT.

The Winfield Scott was a 1,291-ton steamer built in New York City in 1851, which was put into service along the Pacific Coast route in 1852. On December 2, 1853, she was stranded off Anacapa Island in the Santa Barbara Channel and lost, but the mails, passengers and cargo were saved. Our Levi records contain nine examples of the two-line handstamp, of which two were carried before the Winfield Scott was commissioned into the Pacific service.

Ex Knapp and Wiltsee (Image)

E. 1,500-2,000

4014

G. B. Post & Co. Undated folded cover from France to Hawaii with blue handstamped oval return card of Winslow & Co., Havre, addressed to the French Consul at Honolulu, green framed "MORGAN/HATHAWAY/& CO." forwarder's handstamp on flap, conjunctive use with "FORWARDED BY/G. B. POST & CO./SAN FRANCISCO" in octagonal frame, straightline "BK. 'FRANCES PALMER.'" name-of-ship routing handstamp applied by Post & Co., carried entirely outside the mails by private forwarders and delivered to French Consulate in Honolulu, Very Fine, an outstanding inbound usage (Image)

E. 1,500-2,000

4015

California & New York Steamship Cy. San Francisco. Blue double-oval handstamp on back of folded letter to Marysville Cal., datelined San Francisco Jun. 27, 1857, a somewhat humorous account of the writer's business travails and an apologetic conclusion signed "Pilgrimas Pertinacitus", Very Fine, accompanied by May 27, 1857 Alta California newspaper ad announcing establishment of the California and New York Steamship Co. (Image)

E. 200-300

4016

P.M.S.S. Henry Chauncey. Blue double-circle ribbon marker, clear strike on 1875 folded letter from Bogota, Colombia, to New York, "New York Due 5cts Oct. 24" circular datestamp, Fine, the only reported example of the steamship mail agent's handstamp (Image)

E. 750-1,000