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Advertising Cover Cameo Designs - Stampless
Lot Sym. Lot Description Est/Cat Realized
634   imageW. Eaves Business Card. Enamel-surfaced card with ornately-framed cameo design in blue, two small scrapes at upper right, still in excellent condition and the perfect frontispiece to a collection of cameo corner card covers, although more examples certainly must exist, this is the first Eaves business card we have seen (Image) E. 150-200 850.00
635   imageCameo Design Business Cards. Five cards with different cameo designs, incl. three for sash and blinds, one for carpenter and one for mattresses, colors incl. bronze (2), blue, green and black, few faults, still Very Fine assemblage (Image) E. 300-400 475.00
636 c imagePhiladelphia Pa. 3 cts. Paid Jan. 4. Red circular datestamp on cover to Easton Pa. with stove works' blue cameo corner card with factory illustration, with original 1853-dated enclosure, Very Fine (Image) E. 200-300 300.00
637 c imageNew-York Feb. 6, 1861. Circular datestamp on cover sent free to a congressman in Washington D.C. with manufacturer's bronze cameo corner card with illustration of arm and hammer, for bronze powders, gold, silver and metal leaf, docketed at left, Very Fine, a most unusual design and usage (Image) E. 300-400 400.00
638 c imageWinchester Va. Aug. 6. Circular datestamp with "Free" handstamp on buff cover to Congressman J. W. Denver in Washington D.C. with Taylor Hotel blue cameo corner card, Very Fine (Image) E. 200-300 375.00
639 c imageBridgeport Ct. Paid Oct. 26. Red circular datestamp on cover to Cornwall Bridge Conn. with hardware dealer's saw-shaped illustrated cameo corner card, Extremely Fine, scarce design and very attractive cover (Image) E. 150-200 275.00
640 c imageSouthington Ct.. Circular datestamp (Jan. 10 and 21) with "Paid" handstamp on matching pair of "Tinmans Machines" manufacturer's cameo corner card covers to Salisbury Conn., identical designs in blue and green, Very Fine, attractive pair (Image) E. 200-300 325.00
641 c imageNew-York Paid 3 Cts. Apr. 1. Red integral-rate circular datestamp on Concklin & Cos. Telegraph Express blue cameo corner card cover with illustrations of steamship and locomotive, to Cheney & Co.'s Express at Boston, forwarded to Derby Line Vt., ms. "Paid 3" with circular adhesive spot where 3c coin was affixed, Very Fine, rare design and extremely unusual usage (Image) E. 400-500 475.00
642 c imageSteamship 10. Circular handstamp on yellow cover to Seal Cove Me. with New York City ship brokers and commission merchant's blue cameo corner card with illustration of three-masted ship near lighthouse, red "Forwarded by Adot. Spalding & Co., Havana" backstamp, some slight wear, Very Fine, extremely rare usage (Image) E. 400-500 450.00
643 c imageCincinnati O. Aug. 27. Red circular datestamp and "Paid" with ms. "42c" double 21c American Packet rate on cover to Paris, France, with "Fashionable Furniture" dealer's blue cameo corner card, red "New York Am. Pkt. Sep. 3" datestamp, red French receiving datestamp and due handstamp, 1853 docketing, missing part of top flap, some wear, otherwise Fine, very rare usage of this cameo design (Image) E. 400-500 425.00

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