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Great story of a pleasant time, while coming home with some interesting covers.
Your dealer friend said something interesting about covers being in his possession sime 25-30 years. I’ve got covers in my inventory that I’ve had going on 50 years!
As I go through hoards I acquire, I’m finding boxes of covers from the 1800s to 1920 era that have been together since new. Just sitting decade after decade in a stored box!
It means that they’ve never been in a collection! So I enjoy putting them on eBay where somebody will buy an individual cover. It’s like a pound puppy finally getting its forever home!
Here’s an envelope I found in a box of old covers. It was never used and had a tear on the face. No doubt it was in someone’s junk box for maybe 75 years because they didn’t know what to do with it and didn’t want to be the person who threw it away so they pass it in to the next owner.
I nearly became that guy who was going to toss it but found it intriguing. I checked for history and found that Jenny Wade was a 16 year old girl who was in her family kitchen baking bread for the soldiers during the Battle of Gettysburg and a shot came into the room killing her.
So I listed it for sale figuring it would never get sold. I was wrong. It sold the same evening I listed it to someone with Gettysburg in their eBay user name!
I feel really good about connecting that probably unique envelope with a collector who appreciates it!
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incredible story about baking bread for the very last time
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Each July my wife and some of the Stamptrotters go up to Albany for a show at the Polish community center. I found the show just so/so until i sat down at this one fellows table and we started to chat. As we talked he took a marker and started to mark down covers and put them in baskets...saying something to the effect that he had some of them 25/30 years and would take something for them rather than nothing. I thought it was great..i spent a pleasant hour and spent 25/30 bucks and had a good time. Here are a few of the covers that came to light.
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re: A pleasant hour at a dealers table
Great story of a pleasant time, while coming home with some interesting covers.
Your dealer friend said something interesting about covers being in his possession sime 25-30 years. I’ve got covers in my inventory that I’ve had going on 50 years!
As I go through hoards I acquire, I’m finding boxes of covers from the 1800s to 1920 era that have been together since new. Just sitting decade after decade in a stored box!
It means that they’ve never been in a collection! So I enjoy putting them on eBay where somebody will buy an individual cover. It’s like a pound puppy finally getting its forever home!
Here’s an envelope I found in a box of old covers. It was never used and had a tear on the face. No doubt it was in someone’s junk box for maybe 75 years because they didn’t know what to do with it and didn’t want to be the person who threw it away so they pass it in to the next owner.
I nearly became that guy who was going to toss it but found it intriguing. I checked for history and found that Jenny Wade was a 16 year old girl who was in her family kitchen baking bread for the soldiers during the Battle of Gettysburg and a shot came into the room killing her.
So I listed it for sale figuring it would never get sold. I was wrong. It sold the same evening I listed it to someone with Gettysburg in their eBay user name!
I feel really good about connecting that probably unique envelope with a collector who appreciates it!
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incredible story about baking bread for the very last time
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