Postal History

 

"Postal History" means the envelopes (known as "covers" in the philatelic hobby), folded letters and outer wrappers for correspondence and packages that have gone through the mails...either domestically or in the international mails. Such postal history extends back many centuries though "envelopes" (as they are known today) were not developed until the mid-19th century. There is a great demand for this postal history and we are one of the world's most active buyers of this material. If you have collections of postal history or old family correspondences, be sure to contact us for our prompt and fair offer.

Listed below are the many forms of Postal History that comprise our active "BUY" list...

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

• 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