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Is This 1920 Sausilito CA Cover Worth Anything To Anyone Without Stamp?

 
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Posted 05/02/2018   09:23 am  Show Profile Bookmark this topic Add jchrisler to your friends list Get a Link to this Message
Hello,

Here I have a registered letter and envelope from Nov 1920 - the stamp on the envelope is gone, it looks like it got wet and fell off or was taken off. Here is the cover:




There are 2 cancels on the back of the envelope, but they are quite faint on part of the cancel, you can read the town however, and that the letter was registered - you can see the registered number on the front of the envelope. I am wondering if this is of any value to to anyone, especially since I have the letter, here:



The letter is the only way of dating this cover I think. The letter is from a smoke shop in Madera California to Miss Mary Madruga in Sausilito, CA.

Does this have any value at all since the stamp is missing? Any help with this would be most appreciated. Thank you, Julie
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Posted 05/02/2018   1:08 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add Jenny2U to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Hi Julie. Unfortunately your cover has no value to collectors. The letter is of a commercial nature, so it also has little interest. Only in case a cover without stamps is related to a famous person/event (or it has a very rare postmark) would it have value.
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Posted 05/02/2018   1:14 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add rod222 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply

May interest a Tobacco Thematic collector?

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Posted 05/02/2018   2:41 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jchrisler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Thank you Jenny2U for the information, I did not know commercial material is not of interest to collectors, I don't think I have any more commercial philatetic stuff, I believe this is the only one like this.

Thank you Rod for your suggestion, I am not sure what I will do with this particular piece, may try to sell it and see if there are any takers. If not, there is always the circular file.

Thank you both for the replies, I appreciate it very, very much. :) Julie
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Posted 05/02/2018   2:49 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add perf12 to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
Tobacciana collecting is anything to do with smoking.Cigars,cigarettes,boxes ,pipes,documents..ect.
Your Invoice is a "Bill Head" document;so can be of interest.
Example:
https://chadbourneantique.com/colle...-tabac/cigar
There are many others.
OK;it's not worth a bit coin...
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Posted 05/03/2018   11:05 pm  Show Profile Bookmark this reply Add jchrisler to your friends list  Get a Link to this Reply
perf12, thank you so much for the link, it was good to see the tobacco invoice for sale there - I am now hoping I will be able to do something with this letter anyway, even with the missing stamp. Speaking of missing stamps, I found one more envelope and letter with a missing stamp, again it looks as if someone soaked off the stamp. This one is more interesting I think, it was written in 1895 from a resort called Highland Springs between Santa Rosa Ca and Clear Lake, Ca. This new piece would be very nice if the stamp were still present. Anyway, I will do my best with the covers with the missing stamps, thank you so much for giving me hope! Julie
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