1c-90c 1870-88 Bank Notes (betw. 134-218), massive specialized collection of 916 virtually all used items and four covers neatly mounted on quadrilled pages, replete with better items, selected for overall appearance, shades, cancels incl. many attractive and some fancy cancels, better items incl. used nos. 134, 135 four, 138, 139 two, 149 (24), 152 seven, 152 eight, 153 (13), 154 seven, 155, 160, 166 four, 191 ten and 218 six, collected for shades, cancellations incl. some fancy cancels and overall appearance; several attractive or scarcer cancels are present incl. many in blue, red, magenta or purple, several fancy stars, geometrics, leafs, negative letters and numbers, 'Paids', 'Paid Alls', Circle of Hearts, a few NYFM's, cogwheels, Star of David, 'OK' in circle, Maltese Crosses, rosettes, wheels of fortune, some fancy geometrics, ornate monograms, supplementary mail, checkerboard, the best cancels incl. a fancy blue shield on no. 148, bold 'keyhole' cancel on no. 149, Glen Allen Star on no. 182, 'E' in ornate wreath (Ellenville, N.Y.) on both nos. 183, 184 and 'U.S. Mail' on no. 210, faults should be expected, but still a very valuable and extremely useful showing of these difficult issues, the range of cancels needs to be viewed to be appreciated, good-very fine lot, Scott retail $22,256.85 (cataloged solely as basic used stamps)

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1c-90c 1870-88 Bank Notes (betw. 134-218), massive specialized collection of 916 virtually all used items and four covers neatly mounted on quadrilled pages, replete with better items, selected for overall appearance, shades, cancels incl. many attractive and some fancy cancels, better items incl. used nos. 134, 135 four, 138, 139 two, 149 (24), 152 seven, 152 eight, 153 (13), 154 seven, 155, 160, 166 four, 191 ten and 218 six, collected for shades, cancellations incl. some fancy cancels and overall appearance; several attractive or scarcer cancels are present incl. many in blue, red, magenta or purple, several fancy stars, geometrics, leafs, negative letters and numbers, 'Paids', 'Paid Alls', Circle of Hearts, a few NYFM's, cogwheels, Star of David, 'OK' in circle, Maltese Crosses, rosettes, wheels of fortune, some fancy geometrics, ornate monograms, supplementary mail, checkerboard, the best cancels incl. a fancy blue shield on no. 148, bold 'keyhole' cancel on no. 149, Glen Allen Star on no. 182, 'E' in ornate wreath (Ellenville, N.Y.) on both nos. 183, 184 and 'U.S. Mail' on no. 210, faults should be expected, but still a very valuable and extremely useful showing of these difficult issues, the range of cancels needs to be viewed to be appreciated, good-very fine lot, Scott retail $22,256.85 (cataloged solely as basic used stamps)