Mar 29, 2018 - Sale 2471

Sale 2471 - Lot 221

Unsold
Estimate: $ 300 - $ 400
(HISTORY--POSTAL.) Binder of 190 first-day postal covers, almost all with African-American themes. Commemorative printed envelopes, each about 3 1/2 x 6 1/2 inches, with stamps affixed and bearing postal cancellations; condition generally strong. Vp, 1940-89

Additional Details

Includes a wide variety of cancelled postal covers, often with several examples for the same stamp. The earliest is for a stamp honoring Booker T. Washington in 1940; also includes covers honoring George Washington Carver, Sojourner Truth, the Emancipation Proclamation, Frderick Douglass, W.C. Handy, Henry O. Tanner, Paul Dunbar, Harriet Tubman, Martin Luther King, Benjamin Banneker, Roy Campanella, Ralph Bunche, Jackie Robinson, Scott Joplin, Carter Woodson, Duke Ellington, A. Philip Randolph, and more.