1951 – Three hand-illustrated humorous orders submitted by W. G. Williams of San Francisco to Stanely D. Harris, a prominent stamp dealer who operated out of New York and Vermont in the mid-twentieth-century

Unbound

1951 · San Francisco, California

by W. G. Williams
San Francisco, California, 1951. Unbound. Very good.
Two of the three letters feature several colorful small vignettes, one showing Harris as "El Rey del Timbres" (The King of Stamps) standing atop a tower of stamp journals and almanacs.
The third contains an illustration in blue and black depicting Harris as a business mogul seated behind a large desk, surveying a huge stamp distribution warehouse and fleet of delivery trucks.
All are enclosed in one of Harris's shipping envelopes.
Harris was apparently also recognized as an expert with regard to valuable "grilled" U.S. stamps, as examples bearing his pencil signature occasionally appear in prominent philatelic auctions today. (Inventory #: 010520)
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Specializing in Unique Americana, that is, we keep a selection of personal narratives such as diaries, work journals, correspondence collections, photograph albums, scrapbooks, and similar items that shed light on some aspect of North American life, culture, or society. Additionally, we always have a nice selection of philatelic material (primarily postal history) and other paper ephemera.
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