UNITED STATES

613

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(1a) 5¢ Dark Brown Franklin tied to a wrapper with a red grid cancel.  1981 PFC states it is a Scott 1a, dark brown shade, genuinely used on this wrapper.  3 full margins and just touches at the top, Fine.

Photo cat. 840.00+

614

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(73c) 2¢ Black Jack bisect on cover.  2007 APS cert states, “Scott 73c, horizontal half used on 3 cent rate cover (large tear) genuine”.  Stamps are the typical Fair-Fine centering, very scarce.

Photo cat. 3,500.00

615

FDC

(834) $5.00 Coolidge plate number single on Crosby Photo cachet, VF.

Photo 175.00

616

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(C13) 65¢ on a Zeppelin Flight cover.  Cover is F-VF, stamp is VF.

Photo cat. 175.00

617

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(C14-C15) $2.60 and $1.30 franked on Apr 29, 1930 flight.  Cover has a few wrinkles, stamps are F-VF.

Photo 975.00

618

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(C15) $2.60 on April 29, 1930 flight.  Cover has a few minor wrinkles, stamp is F-VF.

cat. 600.00

619

FDC

(C18) 50¢ Zeppelin on an Oct 2 FDC, F-VF.

Photo 200.00

620

FDC

Unorganized stock of around 2,200 early first days, all sleeved and priced.  They appear to cover 1923-1934, with some duplication and includes many first cachets, seldom seen cachets, better cities and issues and other desirable items.  Viewing suggested as there is much value here.

S.B. 8,000.00

621

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Box of hundreds of Civil War related covers, letters and documents or Photos with revenues.  Includes numerous interesting people and places so allow substantial time to view carefully.  There are also a few earlier stampless covers and condition is varied as is to be expected.

Photo a b S.B. 3,500.00

622

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A massive accumulation of over 9,700 covers, 1425 postal cards and 2,600 on piece items all franked with flag cancels.  Predominately 1900-1920, mostly unsorted with many corner adv., a few full advertising and even some AEF types.  Also includes some literature.  This original holding is well fermented and waiting to be thoroughly viewed by a true aficionado of the ever popular flag cancel area.

S.B. 2,100.00

623

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Assortment of around 800 mostly earlier US cards and covers.  Includes some better ads and frankings, etc. that are sleeved and priced.  Also includes a batch of New Mexico commercial covers and some foreign that add more bulk than value.

S.B. 2,000.00

624

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Box of maybe 600 covers mostly cancelled on significant days in the lives of US Navy ships.  Mostly 1930’s-1960’s, all are sleeved and priced, cachets run from submarine to Santa Claus with a few foreign slipped in.  A look back into history before, during and after WWII.

S.B. 1,800.00

625

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Original correspondence of over 280 stampless folded letters, generally to Doctor Walter Wade of Port Gibson of Mississippi, or to his family at their addresses.  Includes many small town cds. from several southern states, plus manuscript cancels and auxiliary markings.  As a correspondence, there is duplication, but it has never been on the philatelic market before.  Therefore, the upside potential is great.

S.B. 1,700.00

626

FDC

Unorganized stock of over 2,000 first days, all sleeved and priced.  They appear to cover the 1920’s to the 1950’s with some duplication.  Includes a wide variety of cachets with some firsts, many better and other desirable items.  Viewing suggested.

S.B. 1,200.00

627

FDC

Accumulation of over 1,400 colorful Colorano “Silk” first days and events.  As unorganized as they are, they appear to cover 1971-1982 with duplication.  All are clean and unaddressed, some are in sets, some are sleeved and priced and total catalog is huge.

S.B. 1,100.00

628

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Stock of maybe 700 different Florida postal history cards and covers.  Most are sleeved, priced and identified by town.  They range from stampless to modern with advertising, DPO and interesting usages among the ordinary correspondence.  Browsing through this box in February almost makes you forget you are in a Chicago winter.

S.B. 1,050.00

629

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Neat and orderly stock of over 5,000 unaddressed Artcraft and Colorano FDC from Scott 737/2074.  Also includes over 1,700 mostly 1940’s flight and Naval covers.  Little duplication and good variety.  Very clean.

S.B. 750.00

630

FDC

Collections of over 4,000 first day and event covers from 2¢ Reds, to baseball, to modern subscription items.  Includes some better cachets, some sets and a lot of pretty topicals among the useful covers.

S.B. 550.00

631

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Collection/accumulation of a couple hundred advertising covers.  Some of which are mounted for an exhibit.  Includes quite a few post 1950 items but the value mainly lies in the late 19th century and early 20th century period.  Mainly Farm related plus useful home products, hotels, and transportation.  Condition mixed.

S.B. 475.00

632

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An eclectic assembly of over 130 mostly 19th century covers.  Good mixture of usages, destinations, markings and sizes.  Condition is mixed.  Good group for a general accumulator or dealer.

S.B. 450.00

633

*FDC

Box of over 400 first days from the 1930’s and 1940’s, all with blocks on airmail envelopes, many with the postmaster’s autograph, and none with cachets.  Also a book with 70 better Zeppelins, interrupted flight, first flights and other airmail events, most with cachets.  These undoubtedly are of greater interest.

S.B. 350.00

634

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Collection of SE Michigan counties of Huron, Macomb, Sanilac, Lapeer, St. Clair, Mt Clemens and Tuscola.  Well over 600 from modern to old covers.  Includes picture postcards, entires, postal history, advertising, stampless, DPO’s, etc..  Wide variety of cancels, markings and destinations.  Condition mixed, great for a club auction. 

Owner’s cost $6,800.00+ 

635

FDC

Box of maybe 500 different hand lettered/outlined/colored first day covers 1986-2006.  Includes many varieties of selected issues, strongest in Olympics with many combo frankings, plus some Ameripex, Christmas, etc..  They are apparently from a local Chicago cachetmaker who signed them what looks like “NF” or “RL”.  Very attractive and uncommon.

S.B. 220.00

636

*FDC

Accumulation of maybe 1600 assorted covers, stampless to modern.   Includes first days, uncacheted and cacheted, unaddressed and addressed, picture postcards, first flights, censored, UN, etc., plus just plain correspondence.  Useful for your dollar table, more or less.

S.B. 200.00

637

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A mounted collection of the Prexie issues.  Includes over 100 covers and cards with an exhaustive array of rates and usages.  All are commercial types and would, if remounted plus written up make a very nice exhibit.

S.B. 180.00

638

FDC

Box of over 600 first days, 1930’s-1990’s, all with cachets issued at stamp shows or sponsored by stamp clubs.  Includes official cachets for national shows plus lower volume local cachets and some foreign.  Clean with scattered duplication.  Unusual to offer an entire lot of such covers.

S.B. 150.00

639

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Collection of over 30 covers involving the 1893 Columbian issues and the 1992 issues.  Some interesting combos on the 1st types especially for the late usages.  Also includes a set of the 1992 sheets, mint NH.

S.B. 130.00

640

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Box of over 200 mostly different US airmail covers, 1920’s-1980’s.  Mostly first flights with rubber stamped cachets, there are also Lindbergh and Zeppelin topics, other airmail events, foreign destination, Roesslers, etc..  A good mix.

S.B. 90.00

641

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Old holding of inexpensive used postal stationery and postal cards.  Also includes a few picture postcards with some interesting subjects plus a couple other miscellaneous items.  More fun than value.

S.B. 75.00

UNITED NATIONS

642

FDC

Well over 1,200, 1958-1980’s FDC in official White Ace books.  Also includes covers with 25 Sterling Silver Medallions.

S.B. 200.00

UNITED STATES AND GENERAL FOREIGN

643

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Stock of around 1,500 worldwide WWII covers, mostly censored, all sleeved and priced.  There is a large variety of US topics including APO’s, V-mail, official mail, etc. and a wide range of worldwide markings and frankings.  Interesting viewing.

S.B. 4,750.00

644

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A cover tray of several hundred generally sleeved and priced cards and covers.  Appears to be primarily Germany with many other parts of the world represented as well.  There is a wide variety of markings and frankings some much better and some quite ordinary, but many will hold your interest as you view.

S.B. 1,400.00

645

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Box of several hundred first flights, first day and commercial airmail covers including Zeppelin, balloon, rocket, etc..  Generally sleeved and priced, many have interesting markings, better frankings, typed write ups, etc..  Enjoyable to fly through each cover.

S.B. 1,250.00

646

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Stock of around 600 cards and covers all military or war related up to WWII.  Generally sleeved and priced and primarily used, we noted censored, propaganda, patriotics, Red Cross, POW, etc.  Also some “Israel” and “Sara” covers from Germany and a Spanish American War correspondence of over 100 covers.  An interesting and varied stock worth viewing.

S.B. 1,100.00

647

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Cover tray full of hundreds generally sleeved and priced cards and covers.  A large portion is foreign postal stationery, but there is a surprising range of mid 19th century better frankings and early 20th century better usages, both US and foreign.  Spend some time viewing in order to accurately figure this one.

Photo S.B. 1,000.00

648

*FDC

Two boxes with probably thousands of almost any kind of fun cards or cover imaginable.  Items from any era or any county could be in here somewhere.  It’s been awhile since we have seen a cover lot quite this diverse and disorganized so who knows what you’ll find.

S.B. 1,000.00

649

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Thousands of covers in 7 boxes.  Contains mostly low end with a few better noted.  From an old time dealers stock, unsorted and unpicked for many years.  Has first days commercial both US and foreign.  Good lot to break down for resale.

S.B. 900.00

650

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Two cartons with many hundreds of assorted older and interesting cards and covers.  Includes a binder of mostly unused US real Photo PPC’s plus one of mostly used US special occasion PPC’s.  Also hundreds of diverse worldwide commercial covers, both loose and lotted from ordinary to much better.  additionally for the specialist, a group of mint Cape of Good Hope postal stationery and a written up group of censored WWI covers from Lemberg Austria.

S.B. 900.00

651

*FDC

Six large boxes of covers with FDC’s non philatelic covers and lots of stationery.  One of the six is entirely US stationery. The other five are mostly US FDC’s from the 1930’s-1980’s, and the equivalent of about ½ a box of foreign FDC’s.  Also of note are a few hundred HPO’s.  But, the best part are 2 large homemade worldwide cover albums from the 1880’s to about 1910.  Some of the more interesting are US Washington-Franklins, Canal Zone and other interesting countries.  The books do not look like they have seen the light of day in a while.

S.B. 750.00

652

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Several thousand covers both FDC’s and commercial from a dealer’s back room.  Kind of messy but you never know what you might find.  Note the US and UN FDC’s and scattered commercial worldwide.

S.B. 750.00

653

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Several thousand covers both FDC’s and commercial from a dealer’s back room.  Kind of messy but you never know what you might find.  Note the postwar Germany and loads of US FDC’s.

S.B. 750.00

654

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Several thousand covers unsorted and unpicked in 6 boxes.  From an old time holding that has been in storage for the past 20 years.  Mostly low end offered cheaply.

S.B. 700.00

655

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Four boxes filled with thousands of mostly low end covers.  Unsorted and unpicked containing US First Days, Events, Foreign, etc..  From an old time west coast dealer.  The material has been out of circulation for at least 20 years.  Take a look.

S.B. 700.00

656

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Six banker boxes of FDC’s, postcards and commercial covers from primarily US.  However, many other countries and areas spotted, like British colony FDC’s, Canada and lots and lots of miscellaneous.  Too much to describe, much would be perfect for the .25¢ table.

S.B. 650.00

657

*FDC

Accumulation of many thousands of covers jumbled every which way in four cartons.  Appears primarily US first days and events with some commercial and foreign covers scattered about.  They could be put out on a dollar table but many cachets are the most common or absent for someone to find the elusive ones with a $5.00 stamp affixed.

S.B. 600.00

658

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Five cartons containing thousands of covers and some ephemera.  A little bit of everything, US, foreign, some FDC both addressed and unaddressed, few earlies with better cachets, first flights and even an award winning Eisenhower topical group.  Worth a serious look.

S.B. 500.00

659

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An old family correspondence from Connecticut of around 2,000 covers.  US is from 1850’s to 1920’s while the foreign is from 1900 to 1950.  US has loads of 3¢ 1851’s, and 1857’s unplated.  Many enclosures.  Condition is very mixed as one might expect after setting in the attic for over 50 years.  Take your time with this one.

S.B. 500.00

660

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Small box of over 50 worldwide airmail covers including early first flights from several countries, plus DOX, catapult, etc..  There are also various Zeppelin flights with better frankings and other air events with rubber stamped or printed cachets.  An interesting group.

S.B. 425.00

661

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Several hundred 1940’s-1960’s commercial covers, primarily Germany including better, plus Russia and a few other places.  Also over 100 US first flights and other air events with some better frankings.  Material for a wide range of interests.

S.B. 425.00

662

*FDC

Collection of a couple thousand mostly modern covers in somewhat random order filling at least 18 assorted albums.  Includes US and foreign FDC with 1990’s Collins cachets, without cachets and by subscription, etc..  Also US and foreign events concentrating on WWII with AMG, Philippine Occupations, etc..  If the first box interests you, we suggest you view all three.

S.B. 425.00

663

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Box of several hundred US and worldwide cards and covers.  Much is WWII era, but there are earlier and later pieces included.  Some are priced with features noted, some are specialized like Swiss feldpost or US V-mail and some are very diverse picture postcards.  Deserves a look through.

S.B. 350.00

664

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Accumulation of over 3,000 cards and covers separated by this collector’s categories into various books and boxes.  There are hundreds each of US WWI and WWII soldier’s mail, postage due covers, modern first days and mint postal stationery.  Also, hundreds each of modern German picture postcards, modern German Commercial covers and commercial covers from elsewhere.  Generally dollar table material, more or less.

S.B. 270.00

665