Post by jamesw on Jan 14, 2017 23:06:52 GMT
Went to an estate auction today, which advertised a load of philatelic material. Came away with five binders, but went WAYYYY over budget (the missus was not pleased - I'm cooking dinner tonight!)
The auctioneer kept bundling binders together, so one bid X the number of binders. Spent way to much on some United Nations stuff just to get a binder of covers I really wanted. C'est la vie. Ebay here I come.
But I did find these in the back of a binder of US first day covers (which again, was not my target binder). These four pieces of folded paper were stuffed in the back pocket. All are court summons from Pennsylvania dated 1852. All appear to be land claims, so nothing juicy.
Two are even from the same case, Catherine W. Morris vs. Cyrus Strawbridge. I know the last paper looks to be dated 1832, but that's just the handwriting. The very long description talks about events from 1848 through 1852.
Not sure of the value of something like this. Where would I even attempt to unload it. I'm not sure I'd see a great return for these on Ebay.
The auctioneer kept bundling binders together, so one bid X the number of binders. Spent way to much on some United Nations stuff just to get a binder of covers I really wanted. C'est la vie. Ebay here I come.
But I did find these in the back of a binder of US first day covers (which again, was not my target binder). These four pieces of folded paper were stuffed in the back pocket. All are court summons from Pennsylvania dated 1852. All appear to be land claims, so nothing juicy.
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Two are even from the same case, Catherine W. Morris vs. Cyrus Strawbridge. I know the last paper looks to be dated 1832, but that's just the handwriting. The very long description talks about events from 1848 through 1852.
Not sure of the value of something like this. Where would I even attempt to unload it. I'm not sure I'd see a great return for these on Ebay.