Post by jamesw on Oct 30, 2017 0:33:18 GMT
Hit the semi-annual Old Book and Paper Show in Toronto today, my favourite treasure hunt! Picked up a number of nice covers.
Here's one with SC#10A Die II with a really nice New York CDS.
Talked the seller down to $20 only to discover (once I got home) that it catalogues on cover at $210! Ok, I feel a little guilty.
A quick google search uncovers a Hollis White in Niagara Falls at the time who was the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, a politician, a member of the Suspension Bridge building company, as well as a passenger in the first carriage to travel over the first suspension bridge over the Niagara River when it opened in 1869. There's also a mention of an 'event' involving a slave and the underground railroad, but I'm not sure yet where Mr White fell on the issue.
If this is all the same guy, he was very busy.
Research, research, research!
Here's one with SC#10A Die II with a really nice New York CDS.
Talked the seller down to $20 only to discover (once I got home) that it catalogues on cover at $210! Ok, I feel a little guilty.
A quick google search uncovers a Hollis White in Niagara Falls at the time who was the proprietor of the Eagle Hotel, a politician, a member of the Suspension Bridge building company, as well as a passenger in the first carriage to travel over the first suspension bridge over the Niagara River when it opened in 1869. There's also a mention of an 'event' involving a slave and the underground railroad, but I'm not sure yet where Mr White fell on the issue.
If this is all the same guy, he was very busy.
Research, research, research!
