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Discussion - Member to Member Sales - Research Center
I came across an envelope with a letter and some covers. The owner of this particular hoard was a Civil War buff so there may be some connection there. From the notes:
...Reverend C.P. Bragdon was a Methodist Episcopal minister involved in slavery abolition and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
...He moved to Evanston IL. Son Charles became Principal of the Lasell Seminary For Young Women in Auburndale MA.
...His other sons Merritt and George E. (famously killed by lightning in 1905 in Colorado as reported by the Chicago Times) were Charter Members of the Omega Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity at Northwestern University.
...His daughter Louisa married Julian R. Fitch, a Civil War veteran and Commissioner of Public Works for Evanston.
Happy Memorial Day!
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Hmmm... dollar box maybe, I wasn't aware we still had quarter boxes! 
Value wise, as a set with the proper research as you have shown, they make an interesting story and may be worth a premium to the right buyer. If you were to find descendants, they could be priceless!
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Tom said,
"If you were to find descendants, they could be priceless! "
The operative words: "…could be priceless!" Or they could be worthless in the same circumstances. My wife, Susan, once bought a box of U.S. postal cards representing two or three decades in the lives of a family in Indianapolis in the early 1900s. She put together an interesting collection with a fair amount of text based on historical research she did, managed to contact a member of the family, and offered it to him free of charge. He declined, rather rudely. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder; rudeness seems to be an increasingly common response of contact between stranger.
Susan eventually sold the collection to a collector here in Vancouver for a few dollars' profit.
Bob
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" She put together an interesting collection with a fair amount of text based on historical research she did, managed to contact a member of the family, and offered it to him free of charge. He declined, rather rudely."
Then again there is always the Numpty Factor.
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Thanks. I have absolutely no sense on what is significant to Americans. The Slavery and Temperance associations seemed to be important and to my ignorant mind the names and positions could have made them the Kardashians of their day for all I know...
I also still struggle with valuations of US stamps but am learning that old with interesting (to me) cancels does not raise them above the 25c bin...
Cheers, Dave.
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I came across an envelope with a letter and some covers. The owner of this particular hoard was a Civil War buff so there may be some connection there. From the notes:
...Reverend C.P. Bragdon was a Methodist Episcopal minister involved in slavery abolition and the Women's Christian Temperance Union.
...He moved to Evanston IL. Son Charles became Principal of the Lasell Seminary For Young Women in Auburndale MA.
...His other sons Merritt and George E. (famously killed by lightning in 1905 in Colorado as reported by the Chicago Times) were Charter Members of the Omega Chapter of Sigma Chi Fraternity at Northwestern University.
...His daughter Louisa married Julian R. Fitch, a Civil War veteran and Commissioner of Public Works for Evanston.
Happy Memorial Day!
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re: FROM HOARD #2: Historical/Postal Significance?
Hmmm... dollar box maybe, I wasn't aware we still had quarter boxes!
Value wise, as a set with the proper research as you have shown, they make an interesting story and may be worth a premium to the right buyer. If you were to find descendants, they could be priceless!
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re: FROM HOARD #2: Historical/Postal Significance?
Tom said,
"If you were to find descendants, they could be priceless! "
The operative words: "…could be priceless!" Or they could be worthless in the same circumstances. My wife, Susan, once bought a box of U.S. postal cards representing two or three decades in the lives of a family in Indianapolis in the early 1900s. She put together an interesting collection with a fair amount of text based on historical research she did, managed to contact a member of the family, and offered it to him free of charge. He declined, rather rudely. Beauty truly is in the eye of the beholder; rudeness seems to be an increasingly common response of contact between stranger.
Susan eventually sold the collection to a collector here in Vancouver for a few dollars' profit.
Bob
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re: FROM HOARD #2: Historical/Postal Significance?
" She put together an interesting collection with a fair amount of text based on historical research she did, managed to contact a member of the family, and offered it to him free of charge. He declined, rather rudely."
Then again there is always the Numpty Factor.
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re: FROM HOARD #2: Historical/Postal Significance?
Thanks. I have absolutely no sense on what is significant to Americans. The Slavery and Temperance associations seemed to be important and to my ignorant mind the names and positions could have made them the Kardashians of their day for all I know...
I also still struggle with valuations of US stamps but am learning that old with interesting (to me) cancels does not raise them above the 25c bin...
Cheers, Dave.
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