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Public Auction #400

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended May 15, 2009 at 7:00pm (New York time)
Bids updated May 29, 2009 at 8:58am (New York time)

COVERS — General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
788CVA mixed group of easily 2,700 covers and cards. Includes mainly Germany and Areas, Great Britain and British, Cuba, contemporary Baltic, Honduras, and Poland. Strongest in 1st days and philatelic types with a wide range of topics. About 10% could be classified as somewhat better and the rest would serve well as dollar table stock.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $750.00
789CVCollection of well over 300 worldwide occupation covers haphazardly arranged in three binders of page protectors. We noted P.O.W. covers, cachets, special cancels, and covers from at least a dozen countries occupied during WWII. Also includes some earlier or later related covers and a few picture postcards. This should stimulate a lot of historical interest from a lot of viewers. __Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $1,250.00
790CVFDCCarton full of worldwide first day and commercial covers, etc.. Includes very diverse items worked up for sale, plus much British area and over 500 Sweden FDCÕs and maximum cards. The best items to view are on the Ò107Ó cards.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $550.00
791CVBox of a couple hundred unusually fresh worldwide folded letters that became stampless when their stamp was removed by some collector. Also a box of a couple hundred battered letters that appear to be correspondence among several families without a stamp collector in their midst. Since many have contents, they could still be interesting while not being very valuable.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $210.00
792CVSeveral thousand mostly unused postal stationery items. Duplication runs from one to a few hundred of each. All 20th century vintage from a wide variety of countries including China, Spain, Japan, Korea, Austria, Nepal, India and Thailand.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $375.00
793CVFDCBox of maybe 1,500 worldwide covers and cards from all eras. Strong in India, with many other countries represented. Includes registered, events, first days, and ordinary business and personal correspondence, with many being flimsy airmail envelopes. Condition varies, but there are still a lot of clean covers interspersed.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $250.00