Kelleher Sale 781 Newspaper With "Handstamped Postal (?) Marking"

Lot 3279 in last week's Kelleher auction (sale 781) was in the "Ephemera" section of the catalog and was described as:
"The New-York Gazette: or The Weekly Post-Boy, No. 794, April 10, 1758; a remarkably well-preserved 4-page news paper with much of the content relating to the ongoing French and Indian War with a red handstamped Postal(?) marking on the front page; Very Fine. A very rare intact eighteenth century U.S. Colonial newspaper."



The "red handstamped Postal (?)" marking is is the 1/2p New York Colonial tax stamp used from 1757 to 1760. Scott Catalogue number RM9 catalogue value (2020) $1,600.

Apparently, DFK was clueless as to what the marking is.

Well Kelleher has sold at least one more of those that than Siegel has.



Edit:
That is one more RM9 and one more The New-York Gazette: or The Weekly Post-Boy, No. 794, April 10, 1758; a remarkably well-preserved 4-page news paper.

Siegel is fantastic for 19th Century but not as strong in 20th nor 18th Century material.

Actually, Siegel sold one in 2017, Sale 1166, Lot 1361:



https://siegelauctions.com/lots.php...6&page_no=56

Parcelpostguy - I just tried Siegel Powersearch and found 9 sales - not sure why your search returned 0

Neither do I , perhaps it is like my bidding with them, sometimes I lose and sometimes I win.


Edit:

And no, it has nothing to do with the price range of my bids. All of my bids are at least four figures, five if you count the decimal point.


{edit2 the Kelleher buyer might make some money if it was placed in the Siegel auction looking at the Siegel realizations. The Kelleher item sold(?) at $375, half of high estimate of $500-750. $Zero to $2600 in Siegel with estimates 3-5 times higher.}

It came in the mail yesterday

The strike of the tax stamp is weak, so it wouldn't bring anywhere near $2,600 realization in the Siegel sale of the Antizzo collection. I'm not planning to flip it. I have another example with a better strike of the tax stamp, but on a newspaper in much worse condition. Not sure which is better, good strike on torn newspaper or weak strike on a newspaper in good condition.

1. The Antizzo Collection was astonishingly good, so prices were high generally.
2. Both are amazing. For any examples to have survived to today is a miracle.

I wonder what a similar condition newspaper would be worth without the strike. Any idea, anyone?

I suspect that a lot depends on what the stories are and exactly what the date is.