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Public Auction #402

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COVERS, UNITED STATES — Collections and Accumulations
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
846FDCDealer stock of more than 4800 first days up to 1979 in 12 cover drawers. All are sleeved and priced, with a variety of cachets for most issues. Generally clean with unknown duplication, and a marked retail of $43,800.00. You could immediately become a first day cover dealer with the cheapest prices around and still have a good mark-up.Cat. Value: S.B. 5,000.00
Price Realized: $3,750.00
847FDCDealer stock of almost 1500 first days up to 1934 in four cover drawers. All are sleeved and priced, with a variety of cachets for many issues. Generally clean with unknown duplication, and a marked retail of $22,450.00.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,900.00
Price Realized: $2,500.00
848CVDealer stock of over 500 generally 19th or early 20th century covers and cards from all over the country, all sleeved and priced. All are also carefully identified as to better frankings, DPO’s, and interesting markings or contents. Marked retail is $10,650.00, but it is offered at a small fraction.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,200.00
Price Realized: $2,200.00
849CVA hoard of around 1,100 Michigan covers. Included are stampless, early cancels, DPOs, corner cards and a few postcards. Spend some time with this one.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,000.00
Price Realized: $1,900.00
850CVConsignment remainder massive accumulation of well over 14,000 covers. This modern cover lovers delight includes Jets, modern Lindburg, events, airport dedications, airmail related, Colorado and a big holding of Nebraska cancels, compact batch of crash covers and finally airmail related reference books. This group would keep a stamp club busy for months.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,400.00
Price Realized: $1,450.00
851CVA massive 1928-1970 airmail related collection of well over 12,000 items. Includes 1st flights, helicopter, airport dedication, air races, etc. An excellent opportunity for the air enthusiasts.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $2,800.00
852CVCollection/accumulation of probably a couple thousand 19th & 20th century postal history covers, postal stationery and picture postcards. They are generally arranged by town in 24 assorted binders and albums. Running from a few stampless to scattered modern, the majority are earlier Illinois cancels, with a few Ohio, New York, etc. Since they were collected for small-town postmarks, any advertising, franking or marking comes along for the ride. Condition varies, with multiple covers from the same town in some sleeves, and while some better are identified, there are most likely others to be discovered. We suggest you flip through most of the books to check this out.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $1,100.00
853CVAn absorbing modern town cancel collection consisting of over 32,000 covers of the 1980’s and 1990’s era. The collector attempted to acquire every post office that was open during the past 50 years. This massive holding is by far the largest group of this type of collection we have ever offered.Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $280.00
854FDCDealer stock of about 250 cacheted first days, 1940-1944, in a long cover drawer. All are sleeved and priced, with a variety of cachets for nearly all issues. Generally clean with unknown duplication, and a marked retail of $6,340.00.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $550.00
855FDCCollection of over 4,700 FDC’s mostly later issues. Includes around 400 Collins, a couple hundred Colorano plus many others. All are unaddressed and a very clean group.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $1,800.00
856CVAn eclectic accumulation of several hundred covers and postcards. Includes Postal history, flights, FDC’s, navals, stampless, advertising, better picture postcards, Christmas seals tied on cover, mint entires, registered, a group of #11’s, etc. Condition is mixed. Plan on taking your time to view this one to spot the diamonds in the rough.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $650.00
857CVAn original holding of approximately 1,200 assorted covers. We noted some early cancels, DPOs, advertising, postcards and a few FDCs. Dig deep as there are some better items in this box.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $550.00
858CVAn eclectic neatly mounted assembly of a few thousand mostly modern covers. Includes 1950’s-1970’s FDC’s (plus some postage), mainly unaddressed with Artcraft cachet, 1960’s-1970’s APO’s and navals, a group of first flight and airmail, couple Zeppelin flights, modern Hotel stationery, a rate and cancel study, a little bit of postal history and a small batch of UX’s. Pretty clean throughout and well annotated in many areas. Great lot for what it is.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $425.00
859CVSeven 16x12x8 cartons filled with fairly even quantities of mint entires mostly from the 1970’s. All clean and usable.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $700.00
860CVAccumulation of around 600 Art Cover Exchange (ACE) covers from between 1987 and 2008. They showcase the extraordinary creativity of members as they colorfully hand-draw, hand-paint, or otherwise create cachets relating to the stamp, a current event, or whatever. Many include Local Post stamps and/or contents that add to their interest. Very pleasant to view, with full appreciation after you examine them more carefully at home.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $375.00
861CVExtremely interesting assortment of covers that fall into three airmail specialties: Interrupted mail, Zeppelin flights, and various air events. This box includes dozens of each category. We noted various crash covers, some with contents or supporting documentation, Graf, Los Angeles and Akron covers, and one or more DOX, Bremen, Winnie Mae, and Rickenbacker covers. Many are in protective envelopes, on old auction pages, or have additional features, so careful viewing will be necessary to properly figure the value to various specialists.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $1,350.00
862CVNearly sixty priced and sleeved covers. All 19th century period. A couple highlights are #36 pair franking to London and #87 (E grill?) franking. A useful group to sell at a percentage of the marked prices.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $375.00
863CVAbout 100 stampless folded letters primarily from East Coast towns. A couple good markings including ornate “steamboat” and a green South Hadley, Mass. Also saw a couple Transatlantic. Generally Fine or better.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $900.00
864CVCollection of about 20 actual Mailomat cards and covers mounted among over 50 pages of historical information. It consists mostly of photocopies, but does include some original correspondence. Informative lot.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $70.00
865CVTwo part lot. First part are approximately 5,000 uncacheted, unaddressed FDC from about 1973 to 1993. These include block and high value frankings. The second part is approximately 4,000 mint postal stationery items which are mostly entires. Each useful in their own way and everything is very clean.Cat. Value: S.B. 140.00
Price Realized: $210.00

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