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Public Auction #413

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COVERS — Foreign By Country
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
681CVFrance small group of covers in a small pizza size box. Just over 30 covers total with huge value in the classic era including three Balloon Monte covers. Covers a range of frankings with a handful of stampless and various pairs and two color usages. Of interest to a specialist in the marketing of this hard to replace classic material.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
682CVFrance group of 15 early flight cards and covers, five with colorful sets of semiofficial airmails. All reflect the interest in various air events and milestones.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $500.00
683CVGermany (Third Reich) cover and card holding in seven cover albums with a total of just over 350 items. All have been carefully chosen to highlight some part of the German War effort. Censored, patriotic and nationalistic, flights, propaganda including some elusive, battle scenes, military, and many other topics. Usages include prisoner of war, occupations, plus scarce destinations and origins. Good lot to go through, thoroughly figure the cost of each entity before calculating a winning bid.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,400.00
Price Realized: $3,500.00
684CVGermany mostly different group of well over 400 primarily Third Reich covers and cards with special cancels. Most attractive are the colorful propaganda postcards that are priced and often annotated, then corner cards and cachets, then blank covers with favor cancels. Also includes some WWI and WWII feldpost picture postcards. A nice stock to finish working up for sale.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,100.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00
685CVGermany lot of 11 concentration camp covers/letters in a binder. Dachau, Theresienstadt, Buchewald, etc. were noticed on pages with descriptions in German as well as some photos of their reverses. Also, includes single mint Polish Red Cross and a Dachau souvenir sheets and nine propaganda postcards from Himmler’s Reichsfuehrer SS office out of Berlin. Condition of covers varies. A good lot for the specialist or historian in this area.Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $550.00
686CVGermany and areas several hundred covers and cards from all eras and political divisions. Includes strength in commemorative stamps and cancels, plus commercial, first day, feldpost, flight, propaganda picture postcard, mint stationery and other familiar types of German area covers. A cross section that will interest many specialized collectors.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $800.00
687CVGermany and area covers in a small pizza size box. Just under 100 covers in total, all saved for a reason. Includes “Gebuhr Bezahlt”, Alsace occupations, Saar, Federal Republic, and a couple zusammendrucke. Interesting group of covers with enough premium ones to make it profitable.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $500.00
688CVGerman and French old time original mounted collection of covers showing the postal transition of various French towns to German towns in 1870 after the Franco Prussian War, and then back to French towns in 1918 after WWI. Includes maybe a couple thousand fully annotated SFLs, folded letters, postalcards, PPCs, and commercial covers from the mid 19th century to 1920, plus many hundred mounted stamps with similar legible cancels. Alphabetized by town in 37 original French binders, includes ordinary, provisional, dual, RPO, and HPO cancels, censored and registry markings, etc. on both domestic and international correspondences. If this labor of love interests you, go for it since you aren’t likely to another mother lode like this.Cat. Value: S.B. 4,500.00
Price Realized: $3,250.00
689CVGreat Britain folded letters, covers and cards (around 50) in a small box. Covers the classic area with markings from 1830-1890. Three penny blacks, a bunch of penny reds, and a pair of Mulreadys are the highlights. Excitement wanes because of the condition almost all seconds or thirds with none exemplary. Good value if you’re not a stickler for condition. Offered appropriately.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $900.00
690CVGreat Britain collection of about 100 primarily postal stationery covers and cards from all reigns, generally sleeved. Split about 60/40 mint and used, includes many pieces with dual embossed frankings or other attractive combinations. Many mint show catalog numbers and could be all different, while many are used registered letters of different designs from different towns. Various overseas markings add to the interest as you flip through this nice selection.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $600.00

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