| COVERS, UNITED STATES — Collections and Accumulations |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 961 |  | Dealer stock of around 1,900 Ohio covers and PPC organized by county, all sleeved and priced. Includes stampless to the mid 20th century with a focus on various early cancels, but frankings and topics could also provide value. Per the tapes, retail is almost $30,000.00, so there is good profit potential. | Cat. Value: S.B. 5,000.00
Price Realized: $2,600.00 |
| 962 | | An outstanding airmail collection/accumulation of well over 4,400 from the original collector. This impressive assembly includes early government, domestic and foreign contract, airport dedication, clippers, air races, air shows, airmail week topic, pilot signed, picture postcards, FDCs, and many interesting ephemera. It is organized in a time line from 1918 to the 1990s or by subject and was acquired over a lifetime. This is the United States section of the Worldwide airmail and Zeppelin cover consignment. Condition is mixed. A marvelous collection that must be seen to be appreciated and a terrific opportunity for the airmail enthusiast. | Cat. Value: S.B. 4,250.00
Price Realized: $4,750.00 |
| 963 | | Dealer stock of around 860 covers and cards organized by state, all sleeved and priced. Runs from stampless into the mid-20th century with emphasis on various 19th century frankings and markings, which provides substantial interest and value. Per the tapes, retail is almost $14,000.00, so there is good profit potential. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,400.00
Price Realized: $1,800.00 |
| 964 | | Dealer stock of around 800 covers, generally categorized by 19th century, 20th century, possessions, and other topics, all sleeved and priced. Primarily commercial covers and PPC, there are all sorts of frankings and markings to provide interest and value. Per the tapes, retail is about $13,300.00. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,300.00
Price Realized: $1,350.00 |
| 965 | | Dealer stock of around 700 covers, categorized as Prexie, Liberty, penalty, and meter frankings, all sleeved and priced. Includes a wide variety of frankings and markings to provide interest and value. Per the tapes, retail is about $11,100.00. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,900.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00 |
| 966 | | A dealers stock of almost four hundred postal history covers. All medium range retail items, priced and sleeved ($7,700.00 retail). Nearly all are from the mid 19th century to 1950. Wide range of interests including advertising (very strong), town cancels, DPOs, Naval, etc. Good eBay potential. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,600.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00 |
| 967 | | Dealer stock of around 350 covers, generally military related with APOs. POWs, navals, and patriotics, all sleeved and priced. Also includes a few small bundles of FDCs and other topics, with all sorts of frankings and markings to provide interest and value. Per the tapes, retail is about $8,700.00. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,350.00 |
| 968 | | Splendid consignment with about 800 covers. Includes older advertising, stampless, flights, V mail, censored, postcards, event and more. A nice grouping with excellent potential for the US cover specialist. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $800.00 |
| 969 | | Dealer stock of around 470 covers, categorized as Washington-Franklins and 1922 regular issues, all sleeved and priced. Includes a wide variety of frankings and markings to provide interest and value. Per the tapes, retail is about $7,800.00. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,400.00
Price Realized: $700.00 |
| 970 | | Dealer stock of around 450 covers, primarily early RPOs with also some BOB, all sleeved and priced. Includes all sorts of frankings and markings to provide interest and value. Per the tapes, retail is about $6,800.00. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $600.00 |
| 971 | | Dealer stock of maybe 1,100 sleeved and priced covers and cards. They are primarily late 19th and early 20th century usages, most with detailed annotations of cancel type, city and county, or other feature. We noted political autographs, DPOs, PPCs, and many states represented, with even a stack from Chicago. High retail, so you should have room to discount at our suggested bid. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $850.00 |
| 972 | | Dealer stock of around 450 covers, generally flights, commercial airmail and used postal stationery from all eras, all sleeved and priced. Includes all sorts of frankings and markings to provide interest and value. Per the tapes, retail is about $5,400.00. | Cat. Value: S.B. 950.00
Price Realized: $500.00 |
| 973 | FDC | Box of almost 500 covers that are part of the working show stock of a dealers estate. All sleeved and priced, over half of the value is in first days, mostly cacheted. There are also numerous flights and other events, plus some 19th century stampless and stamped covers. We noted popular topics and better frankings so viewing should prove productive. | Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $400.00 |
| 974 | | APO collection of around 400 sleeved and annotated covers. We noted very scattered duplication, but no minimum-value types since they all catalog in the $5.00-$30.00 range. Organization will result in a nice addition to your APO stock or collection. | Cat. Value: Forte-Helbock 5,600.00
Price Realized: $750.00 |
| 975 | | A box full of a knowledgeable dealers expertly written up older US cover stock. Includes many interesting items, viewing is a must. Nice stock for the US cover dealer or historian with over $4,800 in retail. | Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $650.00 |
| 976 | | Huge collection of about 4,000 RPO covers, mostly from the 1930s and 1940s with a few earlier or later. Many have been carefully annotated with rail line data, with duplicates, but have since gotten out of order in the various file boxes. We noted a few HPOs and a few cachets, but mostly these covers are ordinary personal correspondence that happened to be sorted on the rails. A lot of effort was originally put into this collection, and a lot more effort will be needed to carry it forward. | Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $1,100.00 |
| 977 | FDC | Collection of FDCs from 1924 to 2002 in 53 White Ace albums of various vintages. The more than 5000 covers run from mostly uncacheted in the earlier period as usual, through an assortment of cachets in the middle period, to all Artcraft until 1995 when they switched to Farnam. Three USPO binders of subscription commemorative panels and a few other publications came along for the ride. An attractive array with high original cost. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $1,350.00 |
| 978 | | Shoebox of over 150 assorted covers with strength in stampless and 19th century, and running to the mid-20th century. Includes personal correspondence, parcel tags, and a few events and advertising, often sleeved and priced. Interesting material for many cover specialties. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $550.00 |
| 979 | | An original holding of over 850 mostly 19th century covers and postalcards with a heavy Illinois flavor. The cover groups are almost entirely 1861, 1867 3¢ values while the postalcards are mainly 1870s-1890s issues. In both areas you will find a pleasing variety of towns and markings. Condition is mixed. A worthwhile assembly from our favorite state. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00 |
| 980 | | Nice group of over 40 medical advertising covers and cards, mostly 19th and early 20th century. Includes all sorts from simple corner cards to multi-color all-over designs, plus some advertising contents. Many of these companies were not shy about making claims for their products. | Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $600.00 |
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