Auction 2023-02
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Lot #151 | Year: 1898 Scott: 198 ($92.50) Edifil: 14 PUERTO PRINCIPE OVERPRINT. Fourth Printing. Position 5. Unused with hinge mark and original gum. |
$60.00 | |
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Lot #152 | Year: 1898 Scott: 200 ($312.50) Edifil: 15 PUERTO PRINCIPE OVERPRINT. Fourth Printing. Strip of five. Positions 1, 2 ,3, 4, 5. Unused with hinge mark and original gum. Echenagusia certificate. |
$200.00 | |
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Lot #153 | Year: 1898 Scott: 200 ($62.50) Edifil: 15 PUERTO PRINCIPE OVERPRINT. Fourth Printing. Position 1. Unused with hinge mark and original gum. Echenagusia certificate. |
$40.00 | |
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Lot #154 | Year: 1898 Scott: 200 ($62.50) Edifil: 15 PUERTO PRINCIPE OVERPRINT. Fourth Printing. Position 1. Unused with hinge mark and original gum. Echenagusia certificate. |
$42.00 | |
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Lot #155 | Year: 1898 Scott: 200 ($62.50) Edifil: 15 PUERTO PRINCIPE OVERPRINT. Fourth Printing. Position 2. Unused with hinge mark and original gum. Echenagusia certificate. |
$40.00 | |
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Lot #156 | Year: 1898 Scott: 200a ($225.00) Edifil: 15hp PUERTO PRINCIPE OVERPRINT. Fourth Printing. Position 4. Variety "broken 1". Used on piece. Echenagusia certificate. |
$170.00 | |
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Lot #157 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO 1 CUBA. Early mail from first US post office in Cuba during the war. Hand written note "Camp Siboney". |
$80.00 | |
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Lot #158 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO 1. NYPO-CUBA. Prepaid soldier's letter from Santiago to New York City. Only reported cover with the two-line MILITARY STATION marking. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #159 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO 1 CUBA. Patriotic cover from New Orleans to Siboney with two "NOT IN CUBA" markings. |
$220.00 | |
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Lot #160 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO 1. SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Registered letter from Santiago to Philadelphia with crude oval canceller type II used to cancel stamps. |
$75.00 | |
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Lot #161 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO 1. SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Soldier's letter with the first duplex canceller with the number "1" in oval. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #162 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO 1. SANTIAGO DE CUBA. Incoming mail via England with "FORWARDED. MILITARY STATION NO.1, SANTIAGO,CUBA." marking. |
$185.00 | |
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Lot #163 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO.3 GUANTANAMO. Letter to New York with duplex cancel from this station. Civilian rate over paid by one cent. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #164 | Year: 1899 MIL.STA.NO.3 GUANTANAMO. Registered letter to New York with crude oval cancels and Type 3 registry mark. |
$350.00 | |
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Lot #165 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO.3 GUANTANAMO. Letter to New York with duplex cancel from this station. |
$30.00 | |
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Lot #166 | Year: 1899 MIL. STA. NO 5. SAN LUIS. War Department official envelope from Guantanamo to San Luis. This has the only recorded receiving marking from this station. |
$30.00 | |
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Lot #167 | Year: 1900 MIL. STA. NO 5. SAN LUIS. San Luis to Catalina de Guines. Domestic printed matter rate. This is the second type of duplex canceller used at this station but with the words "MILITARY STA." and "No.5" deleted. It was used for nearly a year after the station was transferred to civilian control. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #168 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO.6 MANZANILLO. Civilian rate letter to USA. This is the earliest cover from this station recorded and was mailed before the official opening date. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #169 | Year: 1899 MIL.STA.NO.6 MANZANILLO. Civilian rate letter to USA with the second type of duplex canceler used at this station. |
$30.00 | |
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Lot #170 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO.6 MANZANILLO. Example of the crude oval cancel used at this station on strip of five stamps on piece. |
$37.00 | |
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Lot #171 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO.7 GIBARA. Civilian rate letter to Matanzas with one of two reported uses of the first type of duplex canceler and the earliest cover from this station. |
$45.00 | |
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Lot #172 | Year: 1899 |
$7.00 | |
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Lot #173 MIL.STA.NO.7 GIBARA. Only recorded registry marking from this post office. Tied by crude ovals. |
$260.00 | |
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Lot #174 | Year: 1899 MIL. STA. No 8. HOLGUIN. A rare example of this Military Station cancel on piece. Very few covers recorded. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #175 | Year: 1898 MIL. STA. NO. 10 HABANA. The earliest type of cancellation used at this station was a duplex canceler with movable characters. This is the only known example of this variant (date on bottom). MOST LIKELY BROUGHT BY THE EARLY SURVEY GROUP AND USED BEFORE THE STATION HAD OFFICIALLY OPENED. |
$30.00 | |
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Lot #176 | Year: 1898 MIL. STA. NO. 10 HABANA Early duplex cancel with "10" in grid. This canceller was used from December 21, 1898 to January 26, 1899. |
$30.00 | |
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Lot #177 | Year: 1899 Soldier's letter to Michigan with MIL STA NO.10 HABANA cancel and sent from CAMP AMARO, CUBA. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #178 | Year: 1899 Scott: 222 On cover to USA sent from SANTA CHRISTINA BARRACKS, MATANZAS, CUBA. RARE. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #179 | Year: 1899 Scott: 225 MIL. STA. NO. 11 PUERTO PRINCIPE. Crude oval cancel used on registered letter to New York. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #180 | Year: 1899 Scott: 221, 222, 223 MIL. STA. NO. 11 PUERTO PRINCIPE. Registered civilian letter to Santiago. Underpaid by one cent. Modified registry marking with out the words "Military Station No.11" |
$103.00 | |
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Lot #181 | Year: 1899 Scott: 223 MIL. STA. NO. 10 HABANA - on soldiers letter to Chicago. "CAMP COLUMBIA" envelope. |
$19.00 | |
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Lot #182 | Year: 1899 Scott: 223 MIL. STA. NO. 10 HABANA - early cancel on soldiers letter to Illinois. |
$7.00 | |
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Lot #183 | Year: 1899 Scott: 223 Used on cover from CAMP RODRIGO. Hard to find item. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #184 | Year: 1899 MIL.STA.NO.13 CIENFUEGOS. Underpaid civilian rate which was charged double the deficit upon arrival in New York. |
$32.00 | |
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Lot #185 | Year: 1899 Scott: 223 MIL.STA.NO.13 CIENFUEGOS. Registered letter to San Francisco. Civilian rate overpaid by 2 cents. One of two recorded copies of the boxed registry marking from CIENFUEGOS. Note that the words "MIL. STA NO.13" have been deleted. |
$210.00 | |
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Lot #186 | Year: 1899 Scott: 223 MIL.STA.NO.13 CIENFUEGOS. Clear sharp cancel on piece. |
$5.00 | |
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Lot #187 | Year: 1899 MIL.STA.NO.15 PINAR DEL RIO. Soldier's letter to Pennsylvania. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #188 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO.15 PINAR DEL RIO. Unused Official Business envelope from this station. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #189 | Year: 1899 Scott: 222 MIL.STA.NO.16 GUANAJAY. Soldier's. letter to USA on captured Spanish patriotic envelope. Crude oval cancel. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #190 | Year: 1899 MIL.STA.NO.16 GUANAJAY. Soldier's letter with beautiful cancels. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #191 | Year: 1899 MIL.STA.NO.20 SANCTI SPIRITUS. Civilian rate letter. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #192 | Year: 1900 MIL.STA.NO.20 SANCTI SPIRITUS. Letter from England missent to Sancti Spiritus. Only recorded usage of "MISSENT" from any of the military stations in Cuba. Very late usage of military station marking. |
$30.00 | |
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Lot #193 | Year: 1899 Scott: 223, 225, 226 MIL. STA. NO 26. BUENA VISTA. Privately used Department of Posts penalty envelope sent registered. Quintuple wight rate (2 cents x 5- 10 cents + 8 cents registry fee = 18 cents. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #194 Scott: 222 MIL.STA. NO. 27 MATANZAS. Undated patriotic envelope from Matanzas to New York state. Crude oval cancel. |
$100.00 | |
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Lot #195 | Year: 1899 MIL.STA. NO. 27 MATANZAS. Postal money order from Matanzas to New York. Note the canceller is beginning to deteriorate. |
$30.00 | |
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Lot #196 | Year: 1899 Scott: 221 MIL.STA. NO. 32. JUCARO. Latest recorded usage from this station showing the rubber device breaking up. On piece. |
$25.00 | |
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Lot #197 | Year: 1899 MIL.STA.NO.38 GUINES. One of six reported items from this station, all of them fragments. |
$30.00 | |
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Lot #198 Stereo photo card of Spanish cruiser, Reina Regina, sunk off Cuba in 1898. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #199 | Year: 1899 Sailor's mail to USS Brooklyn at Habana. By the time the letter arrived in Cuba the addressee had transferred to the USS Topeka at Washington, DC. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #200 | Year: 1899 War Department Official Business envelope used privately by an assistant surgeon from Camp Columbia Field Hospital. |
$15.00 | |