Auction 2023-03
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Lot #201 | Year: 1898 US MILITARY STATION No. 1, CUBA. Prepaid fragment from Santiago de Cuba. Latest recorded use of the first type of duplex from this city. |
$25.00 | |
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Lot #202 | Year: 1898 US MILITARY STATION No. 1, CUBA. Registered letter from Santiago to New Orleans. The registry fee was 8 cents and the single letter soldier's rate was 2 cents. This is the earliest known registered cover from Cuba. The manuscript "#55 may indicate that this was only the fifty-fifth registered cover from Santiago. Also this is the only recorded example of this type of crude oval in any other colors than black. |
$855.00 | |
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Lot #203 | 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 #204 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No 3, GUANTANAMO. Very unusual printed matter to foreign country. Stamp cancelled with the second type of duplex canceller used after the Station had officially been transferred to civilian control. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #205 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No 3, GUANTANAMO. Prepaid military personnel rate but since it was not properly endorsed, six cents postage due was charged in New York (double the three cent deficiency). This is the second type of duplex handstamp (small circle) from this city. |
$80.00 | |
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Lot #206 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No 3, GUANTANAMO. Letter to New York via Santigo. Civilian rate. Probably carried on the steamer "Thomas Brooks" which made semi-weekly trips between Santiago and Guantanamo. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #207 | Year: 1898 MIL.STA.NO.3 GUANTANAMO. Letter to New York with duplex cancel from this station. Civilian rate over paid by one cent. |
$25.00 | |
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Lot #208 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 5 - SAN LUIS. Letter to New Bedford, MA. Civilian rate. Several other postal stations used cancelling devices from the military period with the word "MILITARY" deleted. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #209 | Year: 1901 US MILITARY STATION No. 5 - SAN LUIS. Letter from Palma Soriano to Indian Orchard, MA via San Luis, Santiago and Springfield, MA. Domestic printed matter rate carried on the Santiago and San Luis RPO. Second type of duplex canceller from San Luis with the words "MILITARY STATIO" and "No.5" deleted. This one of the latest recorded uses of a military station postmark in Cuba. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #210 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 6 - MANZANILLO. Front. Only recorded item with crude oval cancel from this station. Ex Kouri collection. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #211 | Year: 1898 US MILITARY STATION No. 6 - MANZANILLO. Letter to New York. Latest recorded usage of type 1 cancel. |
$185.00 | |
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Lot #212 | Year: 1898 US MILITARY STATION No. 6 - MANZANILLO. Letter to Wheeling, WV. Soldier's mail using USA postal envelope. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #213 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 6 - MANZANILLO. Military station cancel on cut strip. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #214 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 6 - MANZANILLO. Crude oval cancel on single stamp. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #215 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 7 - GIBARA. Letter from the mayor of Gibara to the military governor in Holguin. Second type of duplex canceller (small circle) from this station. On the reverse side is the only recorded receiving handstamp from Holguin. This is an example of the old Spanish colonial rate of 2 cents for letters within the same province. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #216 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 7 - GIBARA. Military station cancel on cut piece. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #217 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION NO.8, HOLGUIN. Fragment from post office impression book which shows the receiving and duplex markings from this station. EX KOURI. |
$55.00 | |
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Lot #218 | 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 #219 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 10 - HABANA. Official Mail envelope from Habana to Barbados. Ex Kouri collection. |
$23.00 | |
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Lot #220 | Year: 1898 US MILITARY STATION No. 10 - HABANA. Large fragment of a registered cover. Only one other example known of this type of straight-line marking. |
$15.00 | |
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Lot #221 US MILITARY STATION No. 10 - HABANA. Letter to Indiana with an another type of duplex cancel with movable letters and the number "2" in the grid. It was only used from Dec 17 to December 24. |
$30.00 | |
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Lot #222 US MILITARY STATION No. 10 - HABANA. Letter to New York with an another type of duplex cancel with movable letters and the number "2" in the grid. It was only used from Dec 17 to December 24. |
$110.00 | |
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Lot #223 US MILITARY STATION No. 10 - HABANA. Soldier's letter overpaid by one cent to Illinois. One of five examples known of the use of a crude oval cancel from this station. |
$70.00 | |
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Lot #224 | Year: 1899 Soldier's letter to Michigan with MIL STA NO.10 HABANA cancel and sent from CAMP AMARO, CUBA. |
$25.00 | |
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Lot #225 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 13, CIENFUEGOS. Cut piece with duplex cancel from this station. Ex Kouri collection. |
$15.00 | |
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Lot #226 US MILITARY STATION No. 13, CIENFUEGOS. Registered letter to Canada. |
$75.00 | |
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Lot #227 US MILITARY STATION No. 13, CIENFUEGOS. Printed matter rate to New York. |
$42.00 | |
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Lot #228 US MILITARY STATION No. 13, CIENFUEGOS. Civilian rate cover to New York state. |
$65.00 | |
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Lot #229 | Year: 1899 MIL.STA.NO.15 PINAR DEL RIO. Soldier's letter to Pennsylvania. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #230 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 16, GUANAJAY. Unusual usage of MONEY ORDER official business envelope on cover to Buffalo, NY. Ex Kouri collection. |
$45.00 | |
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Lot #231 | 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 #232 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 19 - LAS TUNAS. Patriotic soldier's cover from Las Tunas to Philadelphia. Note the poor impression of this marking which was made with rubber. |
$25.00 | |
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Lot #233 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 20, SANCTI SPIRITUS. Two stamps used to complete the duplex cancel from this station. The item on the left is the earliest recorded usage. |
$55.00 | |
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Lot #234 | Year: 1899 MIL.STA.NO.20 SANCTI SPIRITUS. Civilian rate letter. |
$25.00 | |
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Lot #235 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 21, CARDENAS. Prepaid soldier's letter to USA canceled with captured Spanish canceller. |
$15.00 | |
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Lot #236 US MILITARY STATION No. 27 - MATANZAS. Illustrated envelope to Somerville, MA. Properly endorsed soldier's letter that was sent unpaid. Only reported example of Postage due cancel with "…TWO CENTS". |
$120.00 | |
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Lot #237 US MILITARY STATION No. 27 - MATANZAS. Registered multiple weight civilian letter to Paris. The oval "CERTIFICADO" handstamp is a captured Spanish Colonial marking. |
$120.00 | |
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Lot #238 US MILITARY STATION No. 27 - MATANZAS. Patriotic envelope to New York city. Soldier's letter sent unpaid and not properly endorsed. Thus the six cent postage due. |
$120.00 | |
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Lot #239 | Year: 1899 Scott: 222 On cover to USA sent from SANTA CHRISTINA BARRACKS, MATANZAS, CUBA. RARE. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #240 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 28, SANTA CLARA. Two examples of the cancel on stamps. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #241 | Year: 1899 US MILITARY STATION No. 38, GUINES. Receiving cancel on bisected Spanish stamp. |
$25.00 | |
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Lot #242 | Year: 1899 Scott: 223 Used on cover from CAMP RODRIGO. Hard to find item. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #243 Stereo photo card of Spanish cruiser, Reina Regina, sunk off Cuba in 1898. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #244 | Year: 1899 Scott: 221 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 #245 USA MILITARY CAMPS. Camp Alger, Falls Church, VA. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #246 USA MILITARY CAMPS. Camp Alger, Falls Church, VA. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #247 USA MILITARY CAMPS. Camp Black, Hempstead Plains. |
$50.00 | |
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Lot #248 USA MILITARY CAMPS. Camp Cuba Libre, Jacksonville, FL. The Immunes were an organization of soldiers who had had "yellow Jack". They were colored troops recruited along the Mississippi Valley. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #249 USA MILITARY CAMPS. Camp Cuba Libre, Jacksonville, FL. |
Unsold | |
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Lot #250 USA MILITARY CAMPS. Camp Davis, Columbus, GA. |
Unsold | |