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Public Auction #412

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended May 18, 2012 at 7:00pm (New York time)
Bids updated May 18, 2012 at 6:12pm (New York time)

COVERS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
666CV(C15) $2.60 on a May 1, 1930 round trip zeppelin flight. Cover has corner crese. Stamp has faults in the UL, centered Fine.Cat. Value: $625.00
Price Realized: $100.00
667FDCAccumulation of around 10,000 FDC’s partially organized in seven cartons. Runs from the 1920’s primarily uncacheted, to the 2000’s with a variety of cachets. Includes various duplication throughout, with mid period available for add ons, familiar cachets for your dollar table, complete sets and pleasant surprises everywhere. We suggest unloading some of each carton in order to enhance your viewing.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00
668CVStampless cover accumulation of around 240 folded letters and the like from around 1800 into the early 1860s. Selected by a knowledgeable collector who spared no expense to obtain interesting and clear markings. Highlights include free franks, Wisconsin Territorial, a couple Texas usages etc. Many contain interesting historical letters along with the easily seen postal history markings.Cat. Value: S.B. 1000.00
Price Realized: $2,300.00
669CVStampless cover collection of around 225 folded letters and the like from around 1800 into the early 1860s. Selected by a knowledgeable collector who spared no expense to obtain interesting and clear markings. His collection is of mainly different markings on covers from New York and Maryland. Some even contain interesting historical letters along with the easily seen postal history markings.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
670CVCover and picture postcard accumulation packing six heavy cartons. Around 6,000 covers and cards altogether including mostly modern FDC and picture postcard along with enough oldies to make it interesting. Highlighted by the old correspondence with the letters included from Iowa circa 1889-1925. Enough value to sort before regulating most to a dollar table.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $375.00
671CVOver 4,500 commercial, RPO, Naval and 1st day covers divided inyo cover boxes or heaped in. Good dollar table material.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $500.00
672CVAirmail cover collection in an old Kovergard album containing C1/C134. Mostly complete for the time period with highlights of #C1-C6 and C13-C15. Condition is average for covers having made the rounds with the later covers being common cachet FDC. A good way to add some pizazz to your US collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $750.00
673CVFDCAccumulation of over 4,000 First Day covers in four cartons well identified and organized in glassines. Clean lot, mostly Art Craft unaddressed from the 1940’s-1990’s with a small mixture of other artists. Some duplication noted, priced reasonably, take a look.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $400.00
674CVRemainder of consignment accumulation of around 125 covers and the like from the early 1800s into the twentieth century. Most were selected by a knowledgeable collector who spared no expense to obtain interesting and clear markings and readable postal history. Highlights include stampless covers, historical letters, etc. Great lot to flip through slowly.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $750.00
675CVCovers which include mainly family correspondence and business mail from the late 19th century up through the 1930’s. Several hundred items are included with the best part being the letters back and forth between family members often without envelopes. Also includes a few revenue documents, WWI mail, stampless covers and some interesting postal stationery. A fun, truly postal history lot.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $800.00
676CVCollection of upwards towards 2,000 flight covers which encompass 1st flights and airport dedications from the 1930’s to 1960’s, several of which are postmaster signed. Also includes a few FAM’s.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $325.00
677CVMaybe 4,500 mainly FDC in all forms from cacheted unaddressed to uncacheted addressed in three large heavy cartons. Seems to be across the eras with covers from the thirties next to ones from 1999. Good lot if you like this kind of thing.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $290.00
678CVFDCAccumulation of FDC’s and souvenir pages. The FDC’s are common cacheted into the 1960’s where no cachet was used up through the 44 cent values. Mainly clean, unaddressed and valuable for their used modern stamps containing around 2,000 in all. The souvenir pages (several hundred) are of the usual type and quality with the higher face values and setenant left in.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $210.00
679FDCCollection of a couple thousand running from about 1950 into the 1970’s. Ranges from uncacheted addressed to cacheted unaddressed with the cachets overwhelmingly the more common types.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $190.00
680CVGroup of WWII covers from various places in Iran. Includes eight from US APO’s and ten from India FPO’s. A slice of history.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $100.00
681CVHandful of 1890’s era advertising covers. Includes seven illustrated bakeries, a corner card with E4 and a couple others. Interesting designs.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $140.00
682CVOriginal folk art on postal cards for the N.B. Forrest Camp of the United Confederate Veterans of Chattanooga, TN, on twenty “come to meeting” cards from the first ten years of the twentieth century. This group was very politically active and the artist hand drew political cartoons to advertise their meetings. Almost all are on #UX14 and UX18 canceled Chattanooga. Many Southern and controversial themes featured many now politically incorrect. A nice mirror into the thinking of this era.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $210.00