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Public Auction #406

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COLLECTIONS & ACCUMULATIONS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
767*oAn exceptional one man’s lifetime collection hinged in a Scott National album. The assembly is well represented in 19th century mint and used, strong early commemoratives, well populated Washington Franklins, and a good balance of airmails, special deliveries, postage dues, officials, and Ducks. Mentionable mint are numbers 25, 30, 68x5, 76, 76a?, 112, 115, 148, 187x2, 188, 190, 206-209, 210x2, 211, 213-214, 219-229, early Bureau issues, 266-267 pr., 285-290, 300-310, 326x2, 327x2, 328-330, 331-341, 364?, 369x2, 374-382, 397-401, 403-404, 414-421, 423, 424-428, 461, 462-476, 479-480, 498/518, 505 blk. of six, 524, 547, 551-573, 581-591, 630, 658-679, C1-C6, E1-E10, J38-J44, K1-K4, K6, O10, O15-O18, O20-O24, O35-O36, O40, O44, O57-O58, O62, O72-O82, and Q1-Q12. The 19th century used also comprises of many duplicates for shades and cancels. Useful used are numbers 1, 7x2, 9 pr., 12, 14, 15x2, 17x2, 18, 27, 37-38, 67, 71x5, many shades of 70 and 78, 79, 85, 91, 92-97, 100, 100 pr., 112-116x3, 118, 119x3, 120-122Cat. Value: (webphoto073pi) S.B. 11,500.00
Price Realized: $20,000.00
768o(7/547, E1/RW4) accumulation of 260 better used stamps in Scott order on the first five pages of a medium stockbook. Includes many F-VF appearing stamps with up to 5-6 of each in varying but usually collectible condition. We recommend careful examination to allow for centering, cancels, faults etc.Cat. Value: cat. 54,000.00
Price Realized: $6,500.00
769*oA useful mostly used 19th and 20th century front and BOB collection mounted on H.E. Harris pages. Most of the value is in the 19th century used which includes 1, 10A, 20, 23, 37-38, 67 (SE), 70d (SE with 1985 PFC) 72 x 2, 76, 100, 112-121 (includes three 119), loads of Banknotes like 138, 145/155, 156-166, 182-191. 212-218, 241-242, 276 and 276A. Likeable mint are 369 and 630. Back of the book contains a few used early E’s, J’s, a spot of O’s, set of Q’s, early Ducks then turn mint in the $5.00 values. Also spotted are some interesting small card proofs of officials and reprints of the 1857-1860 issues. Condition is very mixed, most made up of commercial grade. Lots of catalog with many Fine or better items to be plucked for stock or remounted into a new album.Cat. Value: (webphoto056pi) S.B. 3,000.00
Price Realized: $3,750.00
770*oA mostly mint neatly mounted 10 volume regular issue and BOB collection in White Ace binders. Lightly populated in the 19th century and even into the Washington Franklin era. More stamps starting the 1922 Bureaus and very heavy post 1930’s to 2003. There is a used #1. Mint issues are 30A (OG), 571, 573, 666, 679 and 2870. Airmails include C1-C6, C18 and a C10a booklet. BOB holds some used early J’s and mint later J’s, K10-K11, RW2-RW4. Finally, there is over $1,500.00 in face value. Condition a little mixed but better than most collections. Appropriate lot to expand upon.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,200.00
Price Realized: $2,900.00
771*oConsignment remainder group of 19th century front of the book and officials on salescards and a 1st through 3rd issue revenue collection mounted on Scott pages. Noteworthy used are 1, 2, 101, 120, 121 x 2, 122, 241-242 and 313. Mentionable mint are 260, 242 and 245. The officials are scattering of medium values. The revenue collection is well populated highlighted by R88a, R93a (repaired), R85c, R89c, R97c, R100c and R131. The condition of this high cataloging assembly is only average to Fine. Appropriate for eBay or a nondiscriminatory collector.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,100.00
Price Realized: $4,000.00
772*oCompact accumulation of 19th and 20th century lower values with an occasional medium value spotted. Both commems and regular issues are present with a few airmails and postage driven material. Condition mixed. Lots of catalog value.Cat. Value: Owner’s cat. 25,500.00+
Price Realized: $1,700.00
773oPrecancel accumulation loose in a carton scientifically estimated at about 43,000 stamps. While primarily bureau-printed, we noted various other styles, dates and relatively few service-inscribed issues. Just dive in.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,800.00
Price Realized: $1,300.00
774*oThe remainder portion of a huge consignment. We separated the wheat from the shaft so what remains is eight stuffed cartons containing tens of thousands if not a hundred thousand stamps on salescards and pages, album pages, glassines, etc. No effort was made to look for the good stuff so view carefully.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $2,000.00
775*oA pedestrian accumulation of remainder and picked over collections in Scott American Heirloom album and loose pages, containing 19th and 20th century mint and used front and BOB. Most of the value is in the 19th century in the Scott album. Better mint is 30A, 369, J6, O9, O11, O13 and O34-O45. Useful used is 72, 155, 166, 191 and 218. Condition is quite mixed. Combining and remounting the group into a new album would result in a respectable starter collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,300.00
Price Realized: $4,000.00
776oAn outstanding old time cancel assembly of many, many hundreds. An example would be over 325 3¢ 1861-1867 issues, we didn’t check for grills, over 90 #113’s loads of 1¢ to 3¢ Banknotes. There is a plethora of colors (red, blue, green) and a variety of fancy cancels, some being quite scarce like masonic kicking mule, eagle, Lincoln heads. A specialists dream and needs to be seen to be appreciated.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,300.00
Price Realized: $2,600.00
777***A neat and tidy accumulation of well over 100 Federal Ducks and around 50 Illinois duck, game and trout stamps. Federals start with RW1, Illinois includes Il1. Duplication of the Feds is light while the Illinois area appears all different. Condition is mixed but overall clean. Great lot of a popular area.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
778*oAccumulation of primarily 1920’s to 1940’s material on all kinds of pages. There could be any number of used and/or mint and/or NH copies of the same stamp spread throughout the stack. A lot of extractable material to mine as you seek some kind of order.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
779**(TDB12a, TD107b) over 400 red “DUMMY” overprint test booklets and the center 3.75 inches of a 1966 black test coil roll. Thousands of “stamps” with a huge total catalog.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $800.00
780*oAn almost entirely used front of the book collection in an old dilapidated Scott album. Starts with Scott #134 followed by a decent balance of Banknotes, no 90¢ value however. Early commems are well represented by #241 and 292-293. Good balance of Washington Franklins. The collection stops in the early 1990’s. Condition is mixed. Finding a new album and remounting would help.Cat. Value: S.B. 950.00
Price Realized: $1,600.00
781*oMint and used collection neatly mounted in a clean Scott National album. Mostly used up to the 1930’s and not many spaces are occupied. Then turns mint with most of the spaces filled up to about 1980. There are a few airmails and BOB along with some used Ducks. Used items are #1 (pen cancel removed), 2, 12 (repaired), 29, 76, 78, 98, 152-153, 166 and 242. The only mint worth mentioning is a $1.00 Columbian. Condition is mixed with some damage not figured. Good starter collection to be passed on.Cat. Value: (webphoto057pi) S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $1,500.00
782*An elementary mint collection mounted on White Ace pages. Contains both regular issues, commemoratives and a few airmails. Mentionable commems are 230-240, 285-291, 294-299, 323-330 and 630 (damaged). The regulars are quite sparse until you reach the Kansas-Nebraska sets then later issues followed by postage types. Also includes C1-C6, C18 and plate blocks are 1053, C20 and C25-C31. Condition is mixed. Perfect lot for expansion.Cat. Value: S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $1,700.00
783*A very clean accumulation of mostly 1920’s and 1930’s lower value regulars and commems in singles and sets. Mentionable are 603 line pair x 3, 619 x 6, 692-701, 699-701 x 3, 803-834 x 2, 2875 x 25, C4 x 12, C25-C31 x 5, and C25-C31 set of plate blocks. Also includes 2¢ Reds, Farleys, Prexy’s and some postage types. All items we checked were NH. Compact group that can easily be digested.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $1,100.00
784*oThe remnants of a huge consignment. Thousands and thousands of mostly cheap stamps in remainder collections, salescards and pages, stockbook, album pages. Also included is a fair amount of postage. Great lot for the winter ahead.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $2,600.00
785*oAn accumulation as received. Includes a small commemorative collection with a White Plains sheet. A small box filled with Prexy and Liberty series coil line strips of 5 with partial numbers. An interesting group of EFO’s, some postage and a small stockbook of early Bureau’s, Washington-Franklins in strips of three with plate numbers. Rounding out the lot is an eclectic group of other stuff. Good batch for a savvy marketer.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $3,750.00
786*oConsignment remainder assembly. Includes miscellaneous collection of 19th and 20th mint and used collection, cheap revenues. Also within are an accumulation of a few 1920-1930 lower priced pairs and line pairs with much duplication, some miscellaneous mint sheets. An eclectic group worth going through.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $3,000.00
787*oCompact unit of lower to medium value singles and plate blocks. Hinged items are 438, plate blocks of 368, 481-483, 534. NH includes singles of 330, 583a, C10a. Lastly you will spot a set of National Park Pekmore engravings. Clean group, take a look.Cat. Value: Owner’s cat. 5,800.00
Price Realized: $700.00
788*An old time accumulation of plate number multiples. Mainly low value early commems and regular issues. Includes (230-232) x 3, 236 plate strips of 4, 264 x 75 plate strips of 3, 285 x 5, 286 x 13, 288 x 2 plate pairs, 264 plate block of eight and a 220 plate number strip of 7. Due to the age of this assembly you should assume a very mixed centering, condition and hrs. Take time to analyze this group to spot the NH VF copies to be mined from the mix. Good lot for the specialist.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
789*oTwo carton accumulation of collection remnants. Includes some possessions and a bit of UN for ballast. Best is a ‘back of the book’ volume with O60 (mint), R101 and nearly complete used ducks (including RW1 on license). Scattered value and face in the balance of the lot. Useful for a collector, internet sales or anyone who needs something heavy to lift.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $900.00
790*oAn established eBay seller’s room cleaning accumulation in 27 cartons. Includes thousands of FDC’s, stamps and baseball cards. Maybe other types of things but we aren’t sure because we didn’t go through everything.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $1,600.00
791(*)*oAn accumulation of almost entirely no gum issues from the 1930’s-1940’s, some postage with gum, cheap covers. The highlights of the group are C13-C14, C18 block of 4 and a single, all no gum. Also includes a C14 on cover, C14-C15 on cover and C18 (five covers). Condition of the group is average. Good lot for what it is.Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $1,500.00
792*oA combination collection and accumulation in a Scott album and salespages. The highlights of the collection is a White Plaines sheet and loads of postage. The rest of this assembly contains mostly used of unfavorable quality. Good lot to fuse together for the non discriminating collector.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
793*oA small old time holding housed on stockcards and pages, auction pages, etc. Better mint items are 240, 290-291 OG, 299, 547 NH, 630, back of the book Q1-Q11, JQ1-JQ5. Also included are some card plate proofs and a 287-E9 (removed from card) and a revenue stamp paper essay. Digging deeper will reveal a scattering of other worthwhile lower value 20th century. Condition mixed.Cat. Value: S.B. 475.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00
794*oConsignment remainder 19th century group of European origin. Includes 68 mint ng, used 67, 100, 1869 issues plus others and a bit of locals and carrier (mostly likely reprints). As to be expected very high catalog content of average quality.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $700.00
795*oSeven cartons stuffed with several thousand stamps and covers. Hours and hours of philatelic fun.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $500.00
796oUsed accumulation of primarily modern se-tenants and high values. Many are full panes on first days or large pieces commercially used. There is extensive variety and duplication as you find it. Some have been soaked and separated, but with many you may have the pleasure.Cat. Value: S.B. 280.00
Price Realized: $210.00
797*oAccumulation of several hundred mostly 20th century lower values on salescards. There is an occasional 19th century item but condition is average. BOB is also present. Overall condition is quite mixed. Good lot for a bargain box.Cat. Value: S.B. 260.00
Price Realized: $2,200.00
798*Compact assembly of lower to medium value 1920’s-1930’s commems and airmails that were sold as an investment. Includes 3P4, plate blocks of 368, 632/642, C20-C22, also a C18 block of four. Very clean and tidy group, sadly being offered at a tiny percentage of the original cost.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $350.00
799*Consignment remainder lot. Better include 212 block of four, 220-226, 371pair, 483-484 block of four and 611 x 10. Condition mixed.Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00
Price Realized: $140.00
800*oConsignment as received repacked into seven cartons. Includes promo covers, unused postal stationery, first day sheets, coins, etc. More bulk than value.Cat. Value: S.B. 210.00
Price Realized: $450.00
801*oFour cartons stuffed with 19 stockbooks well populated with cheap stamps. Loads of sorting and identifying.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
802PConsignment remainder lot of proofs, trial color proofs and samples. Mentionable are 148P3 block of four, 222Pa, 223Pa, 224Pa, 264Pa x 2, 219DPc x 3, 224TC x 3 different shades, 191Sx 2 different shades. Condition very mixed.Cat. Value: S.B. 190.00
Price Realized: $325.00
803EA random accumulation of ten different essays. Condition is mixed with a few minor faults.Cat. Value: S.B. 190.00
Price Realized: $260.00
804*oA large precancel collection/accumulation. Four albums/stockbooks sorted by state, type and issue. Also many thousands in envelopes that need sorting including older. Also small library of books and precancel forum magazines. Great lot that will take some time to work up.Cat. Value: S.B. 180.00
Price Realized: $800.00
805*oConsignment remainder. Used sorted by Scott numbers from 1900 to 1940’s plus a few extra items. Good packet material.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $90.00
806*oConsignment remainder in two cartons as received. Includes modern bundles commems, left over collections and postage. Take a quick peek.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $400.00
807*oKim’s floor sweepings in seven cartons. You’ll find some general foreign in this batch.Cat. Value: S.B. ----
Price Realized: $1,700.00