COVERS — UNITED STATES |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 41 | | Multivolume mostly mint Entire, Postal Card, and Postal Reply collection. The strength is in the Postal Card and Reply Card group and the reply cards are intact but folded Better numbers are UX1, UX13, UX21, set of 10 1893 World Columbia souvenir postal cards, UX35, UX47, UY5-UY6, UY10 w/ cert. Remounting would be beneficial. | Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00 Price Realized: $280.00 |
| 42 | | FDC’s from the US postal Service. About 750 with unaddressed and cacheted from 1996 to 2014. Also an attractive Orchid collection (about 100 worldwide) including reference material. Along for the ride a complete set of state quarters and stamps in original post office packages. Interesting lot. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00 Price Realized: $220.00 |
| 43 | FDC | All the covers as received from an outstanding US consignment in three cartons. Roughly 2,000 FDCs, postal stationery, postal cards, and event covers from 1940 to the late 1980s. Superbly organized and clean selection offering an opportunity immediate resale. | Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00 Price Realized: $190.00 |
| 44 | | Fourteen Herbert Hoover related handmade and rubber stamp (elephant/donkey) cacheted covers for the 1928 election and 1929 inauguration. Huge Brookman catalog value. Includes events, convention days, and seven different city inauguration day covers. Clean and collectable. Perfect for the presidential event collector. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $190.00 |
| 45 | | Postal stationery from Puerto Rico and Canal Zone. Only the better entires cataloged in the total. Canal Zone mint U1, U2, U3 toned, U9, UX4, UX7, UX8, UX10, UC2, UC2a and Puerto Rico mint U15, U16, U17, U18, UX1, UX2. Great small lot of difficult to find mint postal stationery. | Cat. Value: cat. 2,250.00 Price Realized: $375.00 |
| 46 | | Zeppelin franked covers. Nine #C18 and one #C14 all with faults. Soiled, tape soaked perfs, bends, folds, toned, etc. Offered appropriately. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $325.00 |
COVERS — UNITED STATES AND GENERAL FOREIGN |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 47 | FDC | Accumulation from a recently closed Ohio store in ten cartons. Approximately 7,000 FDCs, commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards with roughly 60% US and 40% worldwide from the early 1900s to 2000s. Be ready to go mining as there could be some hidden nuggets. Willing and ready to go for instant breakdown into smaller units to sell on the internet or bourse sales. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00 Price Realized: $1,200.00 |
| 48 | | Over 500 covers from the 1890s to 1990s in six albums. Roughly half are US Event covers and commercial covers. About 40% are from China (PRC) FDCs from 1981 to 1990s. Includes topicals especially Space. Cover collectors should really appreciate this diverse selection. | Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00 Price Realized: $500.00 |
| 49 | | All the covers from a consignment from the Sunshine State in two cartons. Roughly 1,000 FDCs, covers, postal stationery, and postcards from the 1860s to 1980s. Entails a pizza box of around 50 interesting items including an oversized 1939 Vatican registered cover with #29-31, Canada First Flights, and US postal history. Great potential. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00 Price Realized: $950.00 |
| 50 | | All the covers directly from the Queen City in Ohio in ten cartons weighing about 350 pounds. Approximately 5,000 FDCs, commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards including event, Europa, Vatican, Disney, and subscription items running to the 1990s Contains useful but also lame material. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00 Price Realized: $750.00 |
| 51 | FDC | FDC accumulation in five cartons weighing roughly 200 pounds. Owner’s count of over 3,000 contained in about fifteen binders and subscription item holders having an emphasis from the 1960s to 1980s. There is a small selection of older US commercial covers and postcards from the early 1900s to 1930s. Decent for a dollar cover booth. | Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00 Price Realized: $450.00 |
COVERS — French Southern Antarctic Territory |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 52 | | French Southern Antarctic Territory collection of over 110 covers. Mostly FDC’s with some light duplication. Nearly all cacheted. Mainly unaddressed. Runs from 1957 and runs to the mid 1970s. A clean group. | Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00 Price Realized: $750.00 |
COVERS — Germany |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 53 | | Germany Kraft durch Freude collection 1935-1939. Abbreviated KdF (German for Strength through Joy), was a large state operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany and became the world’s largest tourism operator of the 1930s. KdF was supposed to bridge the class divide by making middle class leisure activities available to the masses. This was underscored by having cruises with passengers of mixed classes and having them, regardless of social status, draw lots for allocation of cabins. This collection focuses on the cruise ships with dozens of photographs, picture postcards, menus, and brochures. 86 original pieces in all from all sorts of cruise liners and vacation cruises. Plenty of original firsthand accounts of prewar travel on the backs of the cards with a dozens of onboard cancels. Great start to an interesting area with enough diversity in the information to form a prize winning single frame exhibit. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00 Price Realized: $450.00 |
| 54 | | Germany covers and postcards in two binders. Comprises around 100 WWI era postcards and roughly 200 mainly postal stationery, postcards, (some are dubious) and covers having a concentration from the Nazi era. Collectors should view as there could be some gems waiting to polish your collection. | Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00 Price Realized: $500.00 |
| 55 | | Germany six covers all with interesting postal history. The first is a May 19, 1912 “Offizielle Luft-Post-Karte” for the Mannheim to Heidelberg flight. The rest are various Soviet occupied area early post war covers. All are registered and multifranked. Includes #12NB10-12NB12, 13N1-13N12, 14N15-14N20, and two other mixed franked covers. The webphotos add enough information for an informed bid. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $190.00 |
| 56 | | Germany and areas covers, fantastic discovery. Over 700 unsearched packet cards from the Nazi era 1943-1944 from Germany, Poland General Government, and Bohemia Moravia. Put away and forgotten years ago most are addressed to residents/prisoners of the infamous concentration camp in Flossenburg, Bavaria. Each one lists a recipient often with name, date of birth and inmate number and block code. Most were saved for the heavy franking they exhibit with plenty of interesting wartime stamps and represent sent packages of 2 kg. and larger. Now these are very useful in building a database of these peoples’ happenstance and connection to loved ones. Wartime history filled with facts to trace the ending places of so many people. Postal, genealogical, and world history buffs take heed for this is one of the largest hoards of this material to ever hit the market in one piece. Irreplaceable. | Cat. Value: S.B. 6,500.00 Price Realized: $5,000.00 |
COVERS — Iceland |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 57 | | Iceland all the better covers from a recently closed Ohio store. Consists of 12 FDCs and covers from 1930 to 1954. Includes six FDCs having #240-245, three covers with two sets #152-166, and one cover with C4-C8. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00 Price Realized: $400.00 |
COVERS — Ireland |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 58 | | Ireland cover collection in five cartons weighing around 200 pounds. Over 1000 FDCs, First Flights, commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards from 1870s to 1996 nicely arranged in binders. Contains maritime mail, WW I, WW II censored, “Angel” airmail, slogan cancelled Machins used in Northern Ireland covers. Also includes three binders of mint and used stamps in singles and blocks of four mainly from the 1980s to 1990s. If you like Irish postal history, this lot could be your cup of tea. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00 Price Realized: $2,300.00 |
COVERS — Japan |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 59 | | Japan 35 covers and cards in a small pizza size box. Mostly from 1920-1955. Best are the flight cards which include #C1 and C2 plus a couple other first flights from the 1950s. Compact cover lot with seldom seen usages. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $475.00 |
COVERS — Lithuania |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 60 | | Lithuania thematic covers in five cartons. Roughly 3,700 Event, commercial covers, postal stationery postcards, and postal stationery from the 1960s to 1990s having a concentration from the latter. Consists of Lithuanian American, Canadian, British themes and Soviet and Independence periods. One of the largest amounts of this material that we have offered for a while. Good for adding to your collection or for sales on the internet. | Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00 Price Realized: $475.00 |