Category Index

Public Auction #417

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended August 23, 2013 at 7:00pm (New York time)
Bids updated August 23, 2013 at 6:10pm (New York time)

Previous 10 | Items 1-10 (of 29) | Next 10
Items Per Page: 10 | 20 | 50 | 100

COLLECTIONS AND ACCUMULATIONS — United States and General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
935*oOld scrapbook collection of a couple thousand classic stamps grungingly hinged onto yellowing high sulfur pages. US (poor quality #1 and 2) and China are best with pockets of strength in Italian states, Australian states, British colonies and Western Europe. Collected long ago when collectable condition was a lot lower than it is now. Mixed condition with many nugget singles to recycle.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,300.00
Price Realized: $1,800.00
936*oCVGroup of mostly different fakes and facsimiles falling off of 24 “self stick” photo album pages. Includes over 80 small to large multiples and over 50 on piece copies of early issues from dozens of countries and colonies. Some are more convincing than others, but all grab your attention at first glance.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
937*oCVSeven heavy carton remainder from a large consignment. Bunches of good pickings, leftovers with tons of face. Also expect coil pairs mint and used, Mr. Zip singles, a few mint sheets (Elvis etc.), used PNCs, half a carton leftover foreign, a box or two of common US FDCs, and a carton of supplies. Each part has a place in the philatelic marketplace.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $2,000.00
938*oA-Z plus US collection in a 1965 Harris Citation album supplemented to 1971 and expanded to three matching volumes. Includes many thousands of mixed mint and used stamps, with sets and some souvenir sheets scattered throughout. This may be the neatest Citation you ever run across, with blank space and pages carefully put to use, and with all stamps in tight waxed paper mounts squarely and firmly taped into place. Your mission, should you choose to accept it, is to extract the many usable stamps.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $750.00
939*oGroup of about two dozen albums, books, and binders. Includes a two volume Mystic Heirloom with huge catalog value, but full of faults and postage. Also three battered Scott Browns, three battered Harris Worlds, plus other binders to flip through for US and UN postage. Lastly USPS trinkets and yearbooks with even more postage to count. A high maintenance lot with value to be liberated.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
940*oCVAccumulation/collections from the Wolverine State in 20 cartons. Thousands of mint and used stamps with varying degree of duplication neatly displayed in binders and on quadrille pages. Comprises US used to 1990s with C1-C6, US precancel, worldwide A-Z and numerous country collections. Also embodies covers, on paper and three cartons full of US and worldwide in glassines. Ideal for breakdownCat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $1,450.00
941*oDealer’s counter stock leftovers in eight immense cartons. Highlights include dozens of counterbooks mainly from areas that would not stand alone in the auction. Best is one whole carton of US with 3 cent to 22 cent plate blocks, two counterbooks of Hawaii, a counterbook of Canal Zone, etc. Also includes unsorted pages, bunches of Arab States sets and singles from the 1980s, several Liberia, a few Israel and many more. Lots of cheaper more common stuff to separate from the less frequent intermediate material. Could be a bargain to the right person.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00
942*oCVOne man’s collection as received filling 13 cartons in three parts. First is around a 30 volume collection of US in year order on old brittle black stockpages. Filled with multiples mainly garnered from mail collected over the last 70 years or so with an emphasis on the 1960s. Some volumes loaded with commemorative panels, Christmas seals, and other subscription items along with a similar A-Z 16 volume foreign. Secondly, mint US postage in sheets and plate blocks 1938-1975 with a few UN added. Includes many back faults and some no gum. Many are salvageable. At least $400.00 usable face. Lastly, several boxes of covers, postcards. Most nondescript commercial mail with pockets of interesting groups. Seventeen Civil War era covers, one Confederate and 16 US military railroad noted. Needs a thorough examination to determine true value.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $2,500.00
943**CVConsignment balance in three cartons that has an airmail slant and is far nicer than usual. Includes maybe 1,000 US and worldwide modern first day, event covers and cards, US and UN postage plus mint worldwide sets and singles on six binders of stockpages and in glassines. Plus, a tote box stock of mostly Chicago related first day ceremony programs from the 1960s to 1980s. Carefully stored by a collector who cared, and with depth in places, this is a reservoir of collectible material everywhere you look.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $750.00
944*oWorldwide collection with US in 27 clean and usable A-Z interfiled Scott International albums into the 1980s. Includes many thousand singles and sets generally from the 19th century into the 1970s, with annotated blank pages throughout adding to capacity. A careful and deliberate start to a long term relationship.Cat. Value: S.B. 950.00
Price Realized: $1,400.00

Previous 10 | Items 1-10 (of 29) | Next 10
Items Per Page: 10 | 20 | 50 | 100