| COVERS, UNITED STATES — Collections and Accumulations |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| | | Lots 769-775 are from a retired Missouri dealer that relocated to Florida. The group is clean with very light if any duplication with a wide variety of cachet makers. All priced or figured at $1.00 retail. A turnkey opportunity. | |
| 769 | FDC | Grouping of well over 1000 termed “Better” or “handpainted”. | Cat. Value: cat. or ret. 16,360.00
Price Realized: $1,250.00 |
| 770 | FDC | Good mixture of 1200 1920’s-1940’s. | Cat. Value: retail 8,140.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00 |
| 771 | FDC | Over 1600 Silk Colorano 1970’s-1990’s FDC’s. | Cat. Value: cat. 4,700.00+
Price Realized: $450.00 |
| 772 | FDC | 520 Flugel covers. Mostly 1940’s, 1950’s and 1960’s. | Cat. Value: retail 4,562.00
Price Realized: $350.00 |
| 773 | FDC | Well over 1500 1989-2002. Mostly all multicolored cachets. | Cat. Value: cat. or retail 4,160.00
Price Realized: $280.00 |
| 774 |  | Remainder group of over 2200 items. Includes FDC’s, FDC’s of airmails, postalcards, postal stationery, modern postal history, topics of space and Black heritage plus others. | Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $270.00 |
| 775 | | Approximately 650 worldwide. Includes FDC’s and modern. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $95.00 |
| 776 | | An interesting diverse accumulation of over 1,600 items with around 700 being FDC’s. The rest include postal history (around 250 civil war era), advertising, picture postcards, etc. Heavily populated in the Grand Rapids and Muskegan Michigan areas. Condition is mixed. A beneficial group for someone specializing in this area. | Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $850.00 |
| 777 | FDC | Accumulation of over 1,000 Wisconsin covers and cards from stampless to modern. While some are sleeved and mounted, most are loose, and essentially all have Wisconsin postmarks, cornercards, PPC scenes, RPO destinations, etc. We noted some fancy or DPO cancels, first days, events, flights, advertising, and just plain commercial mail. Fun for the Wisconsin buff. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $475.00 |
| 778 | | Large carton of over a thousand flight covers from the 1930’s through the 1940’s with a few before and some after. Includes first flights, airmail weeks, airport dedications and helicopter flights. Mostly very clean. | Cat. Value: S.B. 425.00
Price Realized: $600.00 |
| 779 | | Stock of about 650 CAM cacheted first flight covers, and over 700 RPO cancelled covers and picture postcards. The CAMs are from the 1930’s to the 1960’s and in need of organizing, while the RPOs cover the entire time period of the service and are mostly Wisconsin related. Generally sleeved and priced, these are a good start to these collecting specialties. | Cat. Value: S.B. 425.00
Price Realized: $650.00 |
| 780 | FDC | Collection/accumulation of somewhere around 3,000 assorted covers in three cartons. Includes four rather haphazardly filled assorted albums and five shoeboxes of 1930’s to 1990’s first days and events, plus nine subscription sets of the 1980’s and 1990’s in their familiar binders. Intermixed among the various cachets on first days, and events with emphasis on flights and space topics, there are 19th and 20th century commercial covers, uncacheted first days, some UN and foreign and duplication. By now you may have surmised that this lot will mostly head for your dollar table. Fun for the cover person. | Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $325.00 |
| 781 | | A hodge podge of a few hundred cheap to slightly better covers. Includes FDC from the 1930’s to Colorano, some events, naval and postal history. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $85.00 |
| 782 | | Seven cartons stuffed with contemporary to modern postalcards and stationery. Huge face value, offered cheap. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $375.00 |
| 783 | | Box of a couple hundred covers with a southwest Michigan flavor as received from the consignor’s shed. Generally falling into three groups: Civil War in bad shape, early 20th century in better shape and stampless. These have never been in philatelic hands. If you’re willing to get a little dirty, there could be some finds. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $600.00 |
| 784 | | A special assortment of 33 private vending machine covers. Mostly Shermack Type III’s or Mail-O-Meter Type V’s. Wide variety of cd’s and subjects. Condition is mixed. Good lot for the specialist. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $325.00 |
| 785 | | An eclectic mixture of over 100 covers from 1851 to modern from an estate in Southwest Michigan. Includes three #14’s and around ten #11’s. A few pieces with interesting markings. There are some more modern added for ballast. Condition is mixed. Take a few minutes with this one. | Cat. Value: S.B. 180.00
Price Realized: $325.00 |
| 786 | | Naval cover collection of around 600 maybe all different 1960’s to 1990’s covers, often with ship cancels. About half are paquebot covers signed by a ship’s officer and about half have cachets celebrating a major event in the life of a ship. Clean lot. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $240.00 |
| 787 | | Small group of about 80 Michigan stampless covers dated 1848-1851. Almost all are Detroit or Port Huron but we did notice five with Lexington manuscript markings. Good study lot for the Wolverine postal historian. | Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00
Price Realized: $170.00 |
| 788 | | Accumulation of a few hundred with a real mixture of mostly airmail covers from the 1930’s through the 1960’s. Includes censored, first flight, incoming letter rates, dues and a few foreign along for the ride. | Cat. Value: S.B. 70.00
Price Realized: $500.00 |
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