Unusual Stamps & Fancy Cancels

Unusual Stamps and Fancy Cancels

1847 Issue

1 – 7 Bar blue grid
5c Red brown, sharp impression, four margins, with S-O-N dark blue seven bar grid cancel with PF certificate. $350.00

1 – Blue “PAID”
5c Red brown, sharp impression, four margins, with S-O-N blue “PAID” cancel with APS certificate. $450.00

1851-57 Issue

11 – Blue PAID
3c Dull red with four ample margins, strong strike of blue “PAID”, tiny pinpoint hole opposite lower left rosette. Great eye appeal! $75.00

1861-68 Issue

63 – Blue grid
1c Blue with near perfect centering, sound, blue rimless grid cancel. With clean PFC. A marvelous stamp! $150.00

63 - Face free cancel
1c Blue VF with light face free cancel, nicely centered, two shorter perforations. Good eye appeal! $40.00

63 – S-O-N revenue cancel
1c Blue S-O-N strike of "Housatonic Rail Road Co. Aug. 31, 1865" circular datestamp, choice well-centered with rich color, Very Fine. Probably used as a revenue stamp. Ex-Diamond $600.00

63 – Scarce used block of four
1c Blue used block of four with target cancels, centering is just F-VF which is typical for surviving blocks. The internal perforations are solid. One of the more difficult used blocks to acquire from the 1861 issue. Ex-Diamond $500.00

63 – Scarce used block of four with blue target cancels
1c Blue used block of four with blue target cancels and indistinct CDS. Typical centering for a used one-cent block. The internal perforations are solid. One of the more difficult used blocks to acquire from the 1861 issue. Ex-Born $500.00

63 – Townsend, NY Jan 19 on piece
1c Blue tied to piece by “Townsend, N.Y. Jan 19” typeset straight-line cancel. Age spots on piece, scarce straight-line. Ex-Diamond $75.00

63 – Pair on piece with GB three pence
1c Blue vertical pair tied by New-York CDS and Great Britain three pence stamp tied by London (1862) duplex CDS on piece with numeral “2”. A onetime it was a hellava cover. Ex-Diamond $275.00

63 – Strip of four
1c Blue strip of four with four strikes of Boston boxed “PAID” cancel. Very nice centering for a strip, perforations sensibly reinforced, a very attractive piece $300.00

63 – Cincinnati & Louisville Mail Route
1c Blue vertical strip of three on piece with two strikes of the Cincinnati & Louisville Mail Route steamboat cancel (Rarity 8 – 4 t0 6 known in 1979 in Alexander) Ex-Diamond $350.00

63 – Strip of six on piece
1c Blue left sheet margin strip of six struck with light black target cancels. This strip was probably used to pay a double rate. Stunning piece! $500.00

63 – Geometric
1c Blue, 100% strike of black hexagon, Sinner/Eno GE-H 3. $75.00

69 - San Francisco Cog
12c Black, 100% strike, type 2 cog wheel, two shorter perfs, S/E GE-P30. $75.00

69 – Geometric star
12c Black, 90% strike of star in geometric cancel, S/E SFE 41. $50.00

73 – Blue NYC
2c Black, S/E GE-E 87 $100.00

73 – With “Chop” type cancel
2c Black well centered for the issue (design clears perforations on all four sides), tiny corner crease. With PF certificate which declines opinion as to whether or not it is a Japanese “chop” cancel. $95.00

76 – Negative star
5c Brown, bold 95% strike. $75.00

76 – San Francisco cog
5c Brown, 100% strike, type 2 cog wheel. $75.00

76 – NYC Fancy
5c Brown, with NYC fancy (second state) S/E GE-P 39a. With PFC $125.00

76 with manuscript revenue cancel
A wonderful top row copy with a manuscript "R. C., Feby 8, 1684" cancel. This copy obviously came off a document that required a revenue stamp. $125.00

77 – Star
15c Black, well centered stamp with 98% strike. $125.00

78 – NYC Fancy
24c Lilac, NYC fancy, S/E GE-P 39. $200.00

87 – “E” grill – Blue wedges
2c Black, 90% strike. $45.00

87 “E” grill – Blue
2c Black, large dot in circle. $50.00

88 – “E” grill – Clover
3c Rose, full strike. $75.00

93 “F” grill – Cork
2c Black, virtually complete strike of blue quarter cork cancel.  $35.00

94 – “F” grill - Negative star
3c Rose, full strike. $35.00

94 – “F” grill – Clover
3c Rose, full strike. $65.00

114 – Negative U.S.
3c Ultramarine, nice strike. $100.00

114 – Heart
3c Ultramarine, bold full strike. $125.00

114 - Masonic triangle
3c Ultramarine, bold full strike. $75.00

116 – Negative star
10c Yellow, bold 95% strike. $125.00

121 – On piece

121 - Red “leaf” cancel

121 – Black “cross” and red transit cancels

Large Bank Note Issues

137 – Full strike of Chicago blue “Flag” cancel
6c Carmine, “I” grill, top row copy with imprint capture (National Bank) and 100% strike of a very rare blue Chicago “Flag” cancel (Cole FL-18). PF certificate mention a very very “tiny tear at right in fourth perf hole down”. Certainly negligible on this incredible stamp. One of the rarest Chicago blue cancel in existence. $2,375.00

147 - Geometric
3c Green, virtual full strike. $25.00

147 – Masonic triangle
3c Green, nearly complete strike. $30.00

147 – Four keystone wedges
3c Green, with a complete a strike as one can get. $30.00

147 – Chicago
3c Green, with Chicago “Blue” but in black.  $35.00

148 – Cross
6c Carmine, bold 99% strike.  $35.00

148 – Chicago shield
6c Carmine, Chicago “blue”. $50.00

152 250
15c Bright orange, used with fancy cork cancel. APEX certificate
mentions nibbed perforations at the lower right. $50.00

156 –Black
1c Ultramarine, tracks type cancel. $35.00

158 - Blue cancel
3c Green, with thin. $50.00

158 – Chicago
3c Green, with Chicago “Blue” but in black. $25.00

158 – Cross
3c Green, with bold full strike. $35.00

158 - Solid triangle
3c Green, solid full strike! $35.00

158 – Blue negative square
3c Green, full strike. $25.00

158 – New Orleans like cancel
3c Green, bold 96% strike. $25.00

158 – Blue geometric
3c Green, bold deep blue strike.  $35.00

158 – Negative “79”
3c Green, full strike. $35.00

178 – Patent cancel
2c Vermilion, the pins at the center break the paper. $45.00 

210 – Large Open “L"
2c red-brown, 95% strike. Ex-Blandford $35.00

210 – Star within Star
Interesting, (FC55-14) $25.00

210 – Solid Star
2c Red-brown solid star over CDS. Ex-Blandford $25.00

210 – Masonic
2c Red-brown, 90% strike. Ex-Blandford $35.00

213 – Masonic triangle
2c Green, 95% strike. $35.00

  11 – Unused
3c Dull red, with three clear margins and just in at the upper left, no gum. SCV: $85.00 Net $30.00

133 – American Bank Note company 1880-82 re-issue