GREAT BRITAIN (1952) Harvest scenes: Angels* and doves* carrying basket of fruit* (apples*, pears*, oranges*, etc.). Horse* pulling hay*. Farmers dancing* and on hay ride*. Sickles*. Rake*. Pitchforks*. Bundles of wheat*. Rooster*. Flute*. Multicolor telegram (O) with accompanying envelope. First Day of use. Superb!
AVAILABLE AT $120
GERMANY (1939) Glass of wine*. Bells*. Clock*. Baby in crib*. Soldier*. Blacksmith at anvil*. Fruit tree*. Sheaves of grain and harvesting equipment*. Lovely illustrated telegram (O) number C 187,LX 3.
AVAILABLE AT $60
U.S.A. (1940) Beaver*. Red meter cancellation on piece Pitney Bowes No 169508: "Beaver tools are workin' fools."
AVAILABLE AT $20
U.S.A. (1937) Oxen* pulling pioneer covered wagon*. Red meter cancellation on piece Pitney Bowes No 91704: "Tools for all trades since 1848."
AVAILABLE AT $15
ETATS UNIS (1954) Enfant* cassant une montre* avec un marteau*. Empreinte rouge de machine à affranchir sur fragment Pitney Bowes No 307278: "Protégez votre montre. Demandez un verre de montre Flexo. Fixé [sur votre montre] par n'importe quel bijoutier pendant que vous attendez."" "" MERRI""
AVAILABLE AT $15
GERMANY (1939) Shovel*. 6 pf postal card with special event cancel for National Garden Exhibit in Stuttgart.
AVAILABLE AT $10
MOROCCO (1967) Hands holding pickax*. Die proof in red signed by the engraver DANDINE. Scott No 159, Yvert No 525. Community development campaign.
AVAILABLE AT $140
U.S.A. (1953) Hand* grasping socket wrench*. Red meter cancellation on piece Commercial Controls Corporation No 6261. Nicely detailed!
AVAILABLE AT $20
U.S.A. (1953) Hands* tightening tool part connection. Red meter cancellation on piece Pitney Bowes No 114748: "Grinding wheel dressers."
AVAILABLE AT $20
EAST GERMANY (1969) Hand holding wrench*. Imperforate phase proof in final colors. ILO 50th anniversary. Scott No 1152, Yvert No 1210. Michel catalog 75 Euros.
AVAILABLE AT $40
U.S.A. (1883) Silver medal*. Postal card (O) with illustrated ad from C. S. Osborne & Co, Newark, NJ (maker of leather tools and knives) showing front and reverse of French silver medal from 1878 exposition in Paris.
AVAILABLE AT $15
U.S.A. (1952) Pick axe*. Test tube*. Red meter cancellation on piece Pitney Bowes No 184890: "Foote Mineral Company, a step ahead in industrial ores and chemicals."
AVAILABLE AT $15
U.S.A. (1958) Pick ax*. Shovel*. Pan*. Attractive red meter cancellation on piece Pitney Bowes No 187317: "Coming Oregon's Centennial Exposition, 1859 - 1959."
AVAILABLE AT $25
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AVAILABLE AT $80
AUSTRIA (1999) Draftsman's tools*. Books*. Black proof. Austrian patent office. Scott No 1781.
AVAILABLE AT $15
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AVAILABLE AT $80
U.S.A. (1862) Southerners cutting off branch they are sitting on. Unused Civil War patriotic cover with illustration and motto "Secessionists leaving the Union."
AVAILABLE AT $20