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
San Francisco, California: 1951. Unbound. 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..... More