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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)

MISC. COLLECTIBLES — Misc. Collectibles
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
736*Small box of interesting memories someone put away. Includes tourist coins and cards, covers, booklets, pamphlets, autographed photographs, and other paper and metal collectibles. You have to see it to believe it.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $170.00
737oThree antique scales, the best being from England in a velvet type container. Also included is an old Òstamp boxÓ. This lot is looking for a good home, name your price.Cat. Value: S.B. ----
Price Realized: $100.00
738*Autograph collection from the late 1940Õs and early 1950Õs put together by a determined stamp collector. Includes about 80 autographs, mostly across a contemporaneous related stamp on a small card. Each is annotated with the personÕs connection to the stamp, through government office, religious position, or involvement in the subject matter. Some are famous and some are obscure, and you will enjoy reading who they were.Cat. Value: S. B, 325.00
Price Realized: $0.00
739*Two hundred fifteen Topps baseball cards circa 1961 in mostly VG-EXF condition. Some duplication and a few better cards such as Billy Williams and Whitey Ford. Good starter.Cat. Value: S.B. -----
Price Realized: $90.00
740*oCinderella accumulation on stock pages, sales pages, and glassines, etc.., filling a box. We noted autographs, documents, poster stamps, revenues, labels, cigarette cards, etc.. There are even some useful US and foreign stamps among all the stamp-like and other types of ephemera. This includes some very interesting things that you may not have seen before, so check it out.Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $800.00
741*About 225 different labels, seals, and poster stamps that are carefully, but rather randomly, arranged in two slim stockbooks often in sets. They are primarily from stamp shows to the 1930Õs, but are also from the California Pacific IntÕl Expo, the Golden Gate IntÕl Expo, the New York WorldÕs Fair, and other state and national expos of the time period. Also includes some related tickets, covers, etc.. to increase interest.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $400.00
742CVLChicago Century of Progress 1933-1934 souvenirs. A priced collection consisting of 17 different picture postcards and covers, and 21 different booklets and flyers from the fair and from individual pavilions. Condition ranges from like new to very readable used, with some seldom-seen publications.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $80.00
743*Professional 6x9 sepia photographs of famous US sights glued into two albums from the pre-automobile days. The very nice ones includes shots of New York x 19, Philadelphia x 7, Washington DC x 9, Niagara Falls x 10, and Chicago x 5. The not so nice ones includes shots of Yellowstone Park x 20. All interesting vintage views of an earlier era.Cat. Value: S.B. ----
Price Realized: $42.00
744*A soldierÕs WWII paper souvenirs: Newspapers, maps, booklets, and handbooks. Memories for veterans of the Òbig oneÓ.Cat. Value: S.B. ----
Price Realized: $42.00
745*Trade card collection of well over 200 different on clear stock pages. Many are filled with ad copy for a wide variety of products, and some are blank. Unfortunately some have been cut to shape or have lost a fight with a scrapbook. Still a colorful window on the times.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $160.00
746*United Nations WFUNA graphics (66//134) , 43 different from 1984 to 1995, all identified and mounted. They are actually limited editions, with from 385 to 826 mint artist-signed lithographic or photographic 8.5ÓX11Ó prints made. They accompanied the WFUNA cacheted first day covers of the same design. More than a quarter of the CV is in better prints by Folon (92), Rauschenberg (117), and Kuang (121 & 124).Cat. Value: Gaines cat. 3,751.00
Price Realized: $750.00
747*Germany cigarette card book ÒThe New ReichÓ filled with 156 different captioned propaganda photo cards. Like-new and informative.Cat. Value: S.B. 130.00
Price Realized: $110.00