The Classic Cancel

Item #	Description	Price
9556	#11, fine, sound, PHILADELPHIA JUN 15 postmark ties to VF intact 2-sided illustrated quack medicine advertising cover. Cover front has a *blue oval corner " A.E. SMITH'S ELECTRIC OIL * THE GREAT ABSORBENT, Only Cure for Rheumatism, Palsey, Asthma, &c., &c.". The cover back bears a detailed picture of the vendor's warehouse ("DR. SMITH'S CENTRAL FAMILY MEDICINE DEPOT") surrounded by more extensive claims of the oil's curative powers: "The New Theory Vindicated!!"; "APPROVED BY 300 PHYSICIANS AND MANY EMINENT DEALERS IN All parts of the Country." A wonderful example of early medicine advertising.**	$300
9538	#114, XF sound jumbo stamp tied by strike of negative floral killer (Skinner-Eno PP-Fl 30 unattributed), WOOSTER, OH may 20 postmark on XF intact small illustrated advertising cover picturing Fire Clay Drain Tile.	$95
9492	#65, fine, sound, blue LOUISVILLE KY JAN 1864 postmark and grid killer ties to VF intact illustrated corner advertising cover picturing blue 3D box, Hoyt, Barbour & Co. SUNNYSIDE Fine Cut CHEWING TOBACCO. A beauty!	$75
9341	#U9, VF intact unsealed Nesbitt entire, minor overall toning and prior light owner's mark at lower left, canceled PHILADELPHIA PA SEP 16, to Lewisburgh. Blue embossed Bullock & Grenshaw, Chemist & Druggist advertising on back flap.	$40
9340	#65, VF sound, NORWICH, CT double ring postmark ties to embossed corner advertisement for Charles Osgood & Co. Wholesale Druggist, essentially intact cover to Rye, NH, cover neatly opened at left, small nick at lower right.	$45
9316	#87, New York City rosette killer ties on oversized allover illustrated Guffroy's Dragees Sugar Coated Pills of Cod Liver Extract buff shaded unsealed advertising cover showing Cod Fish & four country medallions. Cover sent to Hallowell, ME, with original 14 page brochure on the active medicinal principles of cod liver. Extremely fine, one of the finest examples of this early allover advertising design. Exceptional, ex-Faust.	SOLD
9037	#73, VF, sound, PAINESVILLE O. OCT 31 double ring postmark ties to VF intact illustrated advertising cover for West Union Commercial College, Painesville & Berea, Ohio. Minor smudging at bottom right.	SOLD
9384	#210, F+, sound, ellipse and BOSTON MASS FEB 20 85 postmark on immaculate, intact blue & red advertising cover for D. L. Guernsey promoting investment services. Guernsey was a noted Boston publisher. Very scarce.	$60
9369	#213, VF, sound, KANSAS CITY MO. FEB 3 1889 postmark tied to VF intact advertising cover with terrific illustration of a racing hound, "If I'm not caught in 5 7/8 days, I'll return to EGN EW and WINGATE REAL ESTATE". Great dog image cover.	$60
9339	#206, VF SE copy, on VF large wrapper with front and back advertising for Hood's Sarsaparilla, promoted for numerous medicinal remedies. Wrapper addressed to single name without address, an obvious local mailing. Scarce advertising wrapper.	$50
9379	#182, VF, sound, tied by simplex grid on wrapper made from a refolded illustrated envelope for Boston Electric Co., an extremely early example of electrification advertising. Locally mailed and forwarded to Lower Bartlett NH. Very unusual.	$40
8956	#147, edge fault, tied by VF geometric killer, NEW YORK FEB 16 postmark VF on intact advertising cover picturing a silver trompe-l'œil medallion for John Matthews, soda water apparatus. Matthews is noted as the father of the soda fountain. Nice.	$35
8663	#65, fine, NEW YORK JAN 4 1864 double ring postmark with XF strike of circular geometric killer (similar to Skinner-Eno GE-C 121-3) on green embossed cameo advertisement for fish commission merchant (codfish, mackerel, tongues & sounds, smoked halibut), tear in cameo. Nice combination of fancy cancel and advertising. Ex-ERIVAN.	~~$75~~ $65
8886	#U311, VF-XF, neatly opened at top, ST. LOUIS JUL 15 (1895) postmark and ellipse killer, with beautiful green corner illustration of Sacred White Elephant of Siam in jungle, trademark for Mansur & Tebbetts Implement Co. Scarce elephant topical pictorial.	SOLD
8477	#331, scissor separated, SAN FRANCISCO, OCT 19 1910 machine cancel, on promotional postcard for 1910 PANAMA-PACIFIC-INTERNATIONAL EXPOSITION in San Francisco 1915. This is a beautiful and scarce multi-color advertising promotion for the exposition. The writer implores the recipient, Frank McConnell of Greensburg, Indiana, to vote for the exposition. (I have not been able to fix McConnell's relationship to the exposition, but believe he may have been involved with the commission considering it.)	~~$50~~ $30
8467	#372, fine Hudson-Fulton Celebration issue, New York Madison Sq. Sta. OCT 22 1909 machine cancel, on illustrated postcard to England, picturing Robert Fulton, "the pioneer of steam navigation". Minor edge wear. Interesting card tying together its subject with the commemorative issue's subject.	~~$30~~ $25
8260	#U282, VF intact manila 2¢ entire, BOSTON, MASS. AUG 2 1887 postmark, with very scarce early multicolor advertising (3 colors: red, gold, green) for HECKER'S WHEAT GRANULES cereal. Very attractive.	~~$75~~ $70
8086	#114, fair-fine, sound, tied by quartered cork killer, BALTIMORE, MD, DEC 23 postmark on VF advertising cover for Wilhelm's Hotel & Drove Yard picturing horses, cattle, sheep and pigs. Terrific design, great eye appeal. Just reduced at left.	SOLD
7669	#U277 entire, reduced at right and a bit soiled, with CINCINNATI, O, MAY 26, 1887 postmark and ellipse killer, with a terrific gold, blue, red and black multicolor advertisement for FLEISCHMANN'S PURE RYE GIN. The indicia of the entire is not the typical brown color. It may be faded, but it is definitely more olive or grayish than the Scott listed color. Cover has heavy soiling and a PORTSMOUTH, [??] receiver on reverse. Still, a very scarce and colorful early liquor advertising cover.	SOLD
7325	#U379, XF and fresh, intact 1¢ Franklin entire, canceled QUITMAN, GA., JUN 22, 1907, illustrated by a bi-color black Jim Crow racist caricature of an elderly black man cutting watermelon for black children. Unsealed circular mailing contained melon quotations. A highly desirable addition to any collection on Black History or related.	SOLD

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