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Public Auction #420

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COLLECTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS — General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
1282*oSeven potent Scott Internationals with thousands of stamps into the 1960s. This is an accumulation that took several years to put together by a knowledgeable collector. Stronger areas include France and colonies, Central and South America, China, Mexico, Italy and more. Loaded with mint sets and better singles. Mostly fresh material, take a look.Cat. Value: S.B. 7,000.00
Price Realized: $4,500.00
1283*oDealer’s estate find. Over 800 “102” size cards in a red box. All of these sets and singles were culled from collections and put aside for a red box stock that never materialized. What remains are almost all medium to better values of worldwide that contain very little duplication. Hundreds of $20.00-$100.00 catalog value cards waiting for someone to sort and then integrate into stock. Condition varies from dogs (not that many) to gems. Each card with retail value. Take a look and see what you think.Cat. Value: $37,900.00
Price Realized: $4,750.00
1284*oSmall but powerful grouping in a box. Contains a couple of counterbooks, one with good South America and the other with strong Spain and Portugal, together with two smaller boxes with worldwide on dealers cards. The balance of a dealer ‘wanna be’ who took only the very best out of the collections he bought. Absolutely loaded with singles and sets cataloging $100.00 and up with strong Japan, excellent Switzerland (especially officials), very good Germany, plus much, much more. Condition varies a little but generally better than usually seen with much marked as NH and minimal duplication. A highly recommended lot.Cat. Value: S.B. 5,500.00
Price Realized: $3,750.00
1285*oOld timer’s main collection in a five volume international with pages to 1965. Several thousand stamps. Meticulously cataloged with his totals for each country (see web photos for inventory). Would be easy and profitable to break down into country folder collections and market at shows or on the internet. Wonderful ground floor opportunity.Cat. Value: Owner’s cat. 80,700.00
Price Realized: $4,250.00
1286*Huge new issue accumulation with many thousands mostly from the 1980s-1990s. The stamps in the shoeboxes are organized somewhat by country while the pizza boxes are unsorted. Strength in the British Empire, French area and Africa. Offered at a very reasonable price.Cat. Value: S.B. 4,500.00
Price Realized: $6,500.00
1287*A comprehensive assortment of all better material from 1897 to 1974. Approximately 150 mint mostly all different stamps in singles, sets, and souvenir sheets. Strongest in Canada and Greece. Highlights entails Canada #58, 61, Greece #321-334, #535-538, 539-544, Ireland #77-79, Iceland 152-166 and Reunion #27 having a Calves Certificate. Terrific lot for internet or bourse dealer.Cat. Value: S.B. 3,250.00
Price Realized: $2,600.00
1288*oSouvenir sheet accumulation from the 1980’s to mid 1990’s in five cartons. Roughly 10,000 mostly mint sheets in 29 binders having enjoyable duplication. From a long time collector who had pleasure with this material. Get your catalogs ready to have some fun.Cat. Value: S.B. 3,000.00
Price Realized: $3,500.00
1289*oIntact original collection in 15 Scott Specialty two post binders on Classic reproduction pages 1847-1940. The clean heavy duty well cared for pages are organized A-Z containing all the foreign countries. Strong in the classics and especially British area with thousands and thousands of stamps neatly hinged inside. Lots of “almost full” pages along with a few sparse areas (Yugoslavia, etc.). Focus was filling spaces with interesting singles everywhere you look. Perfect lot for continuation for someone wishing to put together an exemplary worldwide pre 1940 collection. If you view this one you will wish it was yours.Cat. Value: S.B. 3,000.00
Price Realized: $8,000.00
1290*oA comprehensive group from the 1890s to 1950s in a blue stockbook. Approximately 550 nearly all different mint and used stamps in singles and sets. Includes good British material from Cook Islands, St. Helena and Italian Niger Coast. Also encompasses areas, colonies, Sweden, and Iceland. Ideal for breakdown for red box or internet sales.Cat. Value: cat. 17,400.00
Price Realized: $2,500.00
1291*oHighly interesting A-Z collection from the 1880 to 2005 in 21 various packed solid Harris albums in five cartons. Thousands of mostly different mint and used stamps in singles, sets, and souvenir sheets. Good representation of China, Russia, Great Britain and its colonies, plus French colonies. An original collector’s selection.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,500.00
Price Realized: $4,250.00
1292*oA splendid A-Z collection from the early 1890s to the 1980s having some pages to 2000 in 39 Scott Specialty albums in eleven cartons. Thousands of mint and used stamps mainly different and in black mounts in singles, sets, and souvenir sheets. Some countries are slightly remaindered. Japan was the owner’s favorite with Parks, Beauty, and postage to count. Nice collection to further expand.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,500.00
Price Realized: $2,700.00
1293*oComprehensive collection in five Minkus Global albums with thousands of stamps into the 1960s. Stronger areas are Korea, Western Europe and South America. Clean lot ready for expansion, viewing recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,400.00
Price Realized: $2,700.00
1294*oStock put up on “102” size cards but never yet offered for sale. Roughly alphabetically sorted but slightly jumbled. High accurate catalog value, but never priced. Around 450 (est.) cards each cataloged at $5.00-$200.00 each. Part sets, singles with light duplication, full sets, mint, used, and speculative all included. Look close to uncover all the better values not often found in a lot like this.Cat. Value: $17,200.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00
1295*oAn exciting and important collection with thousands of mostly different mint and used stamps in singles, partial, full sets, souvenir sheets and BOB. Involves three albums including Scott International Junior from the 1870s to 1940, Belgium Schaubek from 1849 to 1941 and France Henri Thiaude from 1853 to 1945. Well worth to take a few minutes to view.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,200.00
Price Realized: $1,500.00
1296*o43 binders and albums containing dozens of overlapping beginner accumulations passing for world collections in nine overly heavy cartons. Multiples, duplication (sometimes massive), CTO, on paper, etc. organized into country groups. Try as I would, I could not come up with a single surprise in this organized mess of tens of thousands of everyday stamps in about twice as many binders as necessary. A few Germany covers provide the slightest blink of interest. Would furnish beneficial fodder for a nickel table for years to come or be broken down into country lots for beginners.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,100.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00
1297*oHuge accumulation in six cartons with stamps organized in 59 type shoe boxes. Huge stated catalog value. There are several better items spotted included but hard to find in this mess. Excellent lot to breakdown into smaller units.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,900.00
Price Realized: $2,000.00
1298*oSkinny stockbook with pockets of high catalog stamps. Strong in British area plus Italy and colonies. Generally F-VF with huge literal catalog value. Some dubious makes viewing a must.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,900.00
Price Realized: $1,300.00
1299*oStock organized and priced on “107” size cards by countries. Strong in British colonies, French area, Canada and Great Britain. A few thousand stamps with better singles, sets and souvenir sheets. Good lot for filling blanks in your collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,800.00
Price Realized: $1,100.00
1300*oStockbook accumulation almost filling a medium sized Lighthouse stockbook. Typified by used classics and many mint sets sorted by country with aggregate catalog values noted. Better countries include Finland, Luxembourg, Austria, Switzerland, Hungary including imperfs and many others. Huge catalog, minor duplication, in better than usually seen condition. Careful examination is necessary to come up with right bid.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,700.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00
1301*oConsignment balance in two cartons with albums, stockbooks, packets, small file boxes etc. The Greece, Paraguay and Czechoslovakia are the best. Additional better items are tucked away. Spend a few minutes to see the value for yourself.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,600.00
Price Realized: $650.00
1302*oCarton with 22 country collections. Stronger areas are Denmark, Romania, Switzerland, Monaco, Belgium, France and more. If you like the classics this lot is for you. Colossal catalog value. Easy one to break down by country. Viewing highly recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
1303*oCVThree fat Scott Brownies (1840-1929) in remarkable condition. Very strong in the classics with stamps in the $20.00-150.00 range. Better countries are Brazil, Germany, Great Britain and Newfoundland. This is an above average collection, condition mixed, viewing highly recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,900.00
1304*oA-Ro collection from 1870s to 1992 in four Scott International albums. Thousands of mint, used, and CTO stamps in singles, sets, and souvenir sheets mostly different. Interesting Canada, Japan, having face to count and Romania. A solid collection with many delightful stamps.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,400.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00
1305*oStockbook containing a few hundred stamps with a huge catalog value in mixed condition. Includes older material from Italy, France, Norway, Lombardy-Venetia, Finland and more. Could be broken down into small country lots.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,400.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
1306*oFive volume collection in four senior Statesman and a Scott International (A-Z). Several thousand stamps going into the 1970s. Could be very useful for a dealer to break down into country collections. Worth quick a look.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,400.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
1307*oConsignment as received with a wide range of material. Includes stockbook filled with worldwide mint, collection showing the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, folder with modern SWA, Photos and covers of WWII, Austria collection, three stockbooks with China plus old “Boys Own Paper” and “Gem” Magazines. Take a look for yourself.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,300.00
Price Realized: $850.00
1308*oCVConsignment as received somewhat organized by countries and areas. Canada with postage and covers, British Commonwealth, stock of new issues, small box with Israel, event and FDC’s etc. Heaps of material to go through.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,300.00
Price Realized: $850.00
1309*oCompact stock with strength in Europe and the British Empire. Material is identified on salescards. Time frame starts in the 1900s to the 1960s. Good lot for enhancing a dealers stock or filling holes in a collector’s collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,250.00
Price Realized: $850.00
1310*oDealers unused red box stock nicely set up in alphabetical order. Very few classics or stamps before 1900. Lots of things going for it, mostly smaller countries, lower than average duplication (slight), mostly mint much NH, all sets or “better” singles out of sets, very clean, almost everything catalogs between $2.00-$30.00, and over 4,000 (estimated probably more) individual “102” sized cards in six red boxes. Perfect addition to a mint stock that already the 19th century covered.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,250.00
Price Realized: $2,200.00
1311*oLarge assemblage in seven cartons with eight Minkus, five New World, three Comprehensive and several miscellaneous albums. Many thousands of stamps with some material going into the 1960s. Spotted mint sets throughout with better British Empire and China. Good lot to break down into smaller units.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
1312*oAn impressive and vital selection of collections in eight Scott Specialty albums and slipcases from the 1860s to the 1980s. Hundreds of mint and used stamps in singles, partial, full sets, and souvenir sheets mostly different, France, Spain and Greece are the best with Turkey not far behind. Don’t pass this one by.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $850.00
1313*oOne man’s collection in 23 Scott International albums to 1986. Organized alphabetically. Thousands and thousands of stamps. Some volumes appear sparse while countries such as Russia, Sweden, Venezuela, etc. are packed. No pages for US, Canada, and Germany as these were his favorites housed in Specialty albums offered elsewhere in this sale. Homemade interleaving, easily removed, hides some of the value, on clean well maintained pages. Original with nothing removed as it was on shelves untouched since 2007. Perfect start to a world collection already organized for use.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
1314*oFatso stockbook containing the remnants of an old time European collection. Roughly sorted by country just as if it had been removed from an old album. Totally uncataloged. Huge catalog value. Strength in the classics. Stronger countries include Germany Italy, Luxembourg, Spain, and Switzerland. Would be a fun lot to catalog fully as it must be a bargain at the suggested bid.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,150.00
Price Realized: $1,250.00
1315*oCVAccumulation with seven Schaubek albums A-Z. German area being the best. The pages go only into the 1940s. Also a few German covers and some loose material. Condition mixed but many attractive sound stamps present.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
1316*oCollection from 1901-1929 with over 5,600 mint and used mostly different stamps by owner’s count in two “brownie” Scott International albums. A very beneficial selection.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $700.00
1317*oCommanding collections on sparkling Minkus pages in manila envelopes. Entails hundreds of mint, used and CTO stamps mostly different in singles, sets, and souvenir sheets. Includes Fiume form 1918 to 1923, Azores from 1870 to 1990, Angola from 1870 to 1990, Laos from 1951 to 1990, Cambodia from 1951 to 2000, Vietnam from 1951 to 2000, and Yemen from 1926 to 1970. Also encompasses Colombia mint blocks of four on two stock pages from the 1940s to 1960s. A diverse selection worth checking out.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $550.00
1318*oMint and used sets and souvenir sheets on counterbook pages (just over 500) in five sales ready volumes. Owner’s catalog is $5220.00 which includes every stamp. Lots of topical stuff with Royal wedding, Princess Di, Queen Mother, etc. featured strongly. Much NH, but enough back faults and used on the higher catalog items to be mentioned. Useful for those whose niche is in this area. Viewing necessary.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,050.00
Price Realized: $800.00
1319*o23 country folder collections on floppy black pages roughly sorted into time period bunches. Focus is on used stamps often in incomplete short sets with an occasional higher value single to spice up the enormous catalog value. Two heavy cartons with France, French colonies, Portugal and colonies, Switzerland, Greece, South America, and New Zealand having the most power. Hundreds and hundreds of stamps in all. Will take a while to organize for the slippery pages are packed solid giving rise to escapees that make the final sorting difficult. Easy to resell as country units.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $850.00
1320*Skinny stockbook packed with identified and cataloged mint sets and singles each with better than intermediate catalog value. Huge aggregate catalog value with some sets in duplication. Best countries include Pakistan, Albania, Italy, UN UNTEA, Israel, and Burundi. Look before you leap on this one.Cat. Value: $7,260.00
Price Realized: $850.00
1321*oCVAccomplished general collector’s duplicates mainly organized in country stockbooks filling 12 large heavy cartons. 83 binders along with an old collection or two, glassines of stamps in a pair of boxes, and two cartons of mundane covers. Covers all areas of the world with Latin America being best. Fun lot to look through and figure as these have never hit the market before.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $750.00
1322*oCVTen volume collection in some of the ugliest binders ever to hold a nice collection. Generally on a mixture of Harris and homemade pages lurk between 40,000 and 55,000 stamps (owner’s estimate). Consists of his least favorite countries. No China, Germany, DDR, Russia, Romania, Hungary, etc. Mixed mint and used with a proclivity toward smaller countries and souvenir sheets. This owner spent all his money on stamps and not supplies so organization and mounting is haphazard at best. Most of the value is in the preponderant number of stamps with an occasional cover and better value stamp. Will break down into an awesome group of country folder collections along with many better for your stock. Give this ugly duckling a chance with a long look.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $2,400.00
1323*oFour large heavy cartons packed with the sweepings at the bottom of a large estate. Lots of junky stuff but more than usual nuggets to be mined. Swiss classics, stocksheets of Third Reich, interesting France, a small reference collection of fakes and forgeries, along with pockets of DDR, Spain, Monaco, Greece, British Empire, and Japan. Although outnumbered 2,000 to 1 by common packet material and refuse these nuggets are discernible. Perfect for the avid recycler.Cat. Value: S.B. 950.00
Price Realized: $450.00
1324*oA-B selection from the classics to 1980s in eight portable indestructible Rubbermaid file drawers in two cartons. Hundreds of mint and used stamps mainly different in singles, partial, broken, full sets mostly from $1.00 to $20.00 value with possible surprises. Neatly organized and identified by catalog number on salecards. A perfect lot for the serious internet or show dealer.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $475.00
1325*oB-D selection in eight portable durable Rubbermaid file drawers in two cartons. Hundreds of mint and used stamps from the classics to the late 20th century mostly different in singles, partial, broken, full sets having values from $1.00 to $20.00 with potential revelations. Highlights include Canada, China, and Danzig. Nicely organized and identified by catalog number on salecards. Plenty of value for the skillful marketer.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $750.00
1326*oExciting D-F selection in eight portable durable Rubbermaid file drawers in two cartons. Hundreds of mint and used stamps from the classics to the late 20th century nearly all different in singles, partial, broken, full sets having values mostly from $1.00 to $20.00 with possible surprises. Includes France, German States, and Germany. Nicely organized and identified by catalog number on salecards. Excellent value which can be a money maker.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $550.00
1327*oCollection of East Germany-Go in eight portable resilient Rubbermaid file drawers in two cartons. Hundreds of mint and used stamps from throughout the 20th century generally all different in singles, partial, broken, full sets having values from $1.00 to $20.00 with potential surprises. Mostly DDR material. Neatly organized and identified by catalog number on salecards. As a whole, this lot has some decent value for the internet dealer.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $475.00
1328*oG-I selection in eight transferable durable Rubbermaid files drawers in two cartons. Around 4,800 salecards of mint and used stamps from the classics to the late 20th century mostly different in singles, partial, broken, full sets having values from $1.00 to $20.00 with potential surprises. Highlights include Great Britain and Ireland. Neatly organized and identified by catalog number. Take a look and see what you think.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $475.00
1329*oTremendous Ireland to Kuwait selection in eight manageable sturdy Rubbermaid files drawers in two cartons. Roughly 5,000 salecards of mint and used stamps from the early to the late 20th century nearly all different in singles, partial, broken, full sets having values from $1.00 to $20.00 with probable discoveries. Italy, Japan, and Kuwait are the best. Skillfully organized and identified by number using an older catalog. A few minutes of viewing can bring plenty of enjoyment.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $800.00
1330*oMarvelous Liechtenstein to New Zealand selection in eight handy durable Rubbermaid files drawers in two cartons. Roughly 4,900 salecards of mint and used stamps from the classics to the late 20th century mainly different in singles, partial, broken, full sets having values from $1.00 to $20.00 with likely surprises. The best are Netherlands and New Zealand. Skillfully organized and identified by number using an older catalog. Should be internet wonders with a little work.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $600.00
1331*oNigeria to Senegal selection in eight portable hard wearing Rubbermaid file drawers in two cartons. About 4,500 salecards of mint and used stamps from the classics to the late 20th century mostly different in singles, partial, broken, full sets having values from $1.00 to $20.00 with prospective surprises. Poland, St. Pierre Miquelon, Russia, and Saar are the best. Proficiently organized and identified by catalog number using an older one. Nicely set up for easy processing.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $750.00

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