Our "BUY" List

We need...

* 19th CENTURY U.S. COVERS

• Colonial to pre-1860 stampless covers

• Letters with significant historical or human interest content

• Better territorial covers

• Western express covers

• Civil War patriotics and postal history

• Pre-1920 Travel Brochures

Ocean Mail

• Interesting and unusual usages and destinations

• Confederate States postal history

• Fancy cancels and unusual postal markings

• Specialized postal history collections

• Better aerophilately: pioneer flights, transocean covers, zeppelins, historical flights, autographs, collateral material

• No ordinary CAMs or FAMs please

• Important autographs and manuscripts

• Pre-1942 Antarctic expedition covers

PRE-1960 FOREIGN COVERS:

• Large accumulations and lots of foreign covers, especially commercial mail, bank and missionary correspondences

• Censored covers. Premium for registered!

• Foreign postal stationery lots

• British Commonwealth

• All Asia

• Antarctic expedition covers

• South and Central American postal history

• Independent African postal history

• Ship covers: worldwide naval, paquebot, mailboats, etc.

• Specialized postal history collections

• War covers

• Airmail covers: zeppelins, transocean, crashes, pioneer and historical flights, collateral material

• Historical: any cover with an interesting story to tell