T1601

Traditional Mail Delivery

Stagecoach, Paddlewheel Steamer, Biplane, Automobile

Spring 2020 Mail Sale Commentary 

Lot 20 T1601 — T1605 — Classic Mail Transportation — A five-cover lot (11-18-89)

In 1989, a World Stamp Exposition was held in Washington, DC, and from November 17th to December 31(1, we made eight separate trips to get special first day of issue cancels that were only available on site. To identify these very scarce covers, I created a unique, hand painted identifying logo (globe with banner) that appears on all of my covers produced at the Exposition. This is an incredible lot as it is for five of these unique covers featuring stamps and cachets that depict classic modes of mail transportation. My title for these five covers was "Historic Mail Delivery." 

My cachets include a clipper ship under full sail with a block of the four lovely stamps; a stagecoach crossing a western mesa; a Mississippi side-wheeler riverboat; an early post office truck; and a U.S. mail biplane. All five have a terrific first day of issue pictorial postmark featuring a stagecoach. To obtain this cancel you had to be present at the show. My exclusive custom globe and banner world Expo logo appears on each cover.