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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)

COVERS — General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
794CVAround 5,000 covers from the overflow of a large dealer. All eras from early stampless (just a few) up through more modern commercial mail. Heavy in 1935-1955. Most are dollar table denizens with only an occasional nugget. Looks to be easy to put out for resale in an appropriate venue.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $11,500.00
795CVHighly delightful selection in a medium pizza size box. Roughly 100 airmail related mainly Western European covers, postcards, and postal cards from 1915-1959. Contains zeppelin, rocket, catapult, crash, and first flights from Germany, Switzerland, Austria, Netherlands etc. A superb lot for the specialist.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $950.00
796CVAround 350 dealer’s covers in a small box. Almost 2/3 are Germany related, all sleeved and priced. Around half of these are dollar table covers with a few that would sell at a fraction of their stated value. The rest are general worldwide covers mostly better than dollar table fare. Enough value to make viewing profitable.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $1,100.00
797CVGroup of 10 foreign Zeppelin covers all flown. Five Germany, two Russia Polar flights and three Paraguay. Lots of colorful philatelic markings for the specialist.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00
798CVMainly large size commercial covers in two large cartons. Owner’s estimate of 5,000 seems a bit optimistic, but with the range of countries with mail from the later parts of the twentieth century hard to duplicate in today’s market. Lots of dollar table fare.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $600.00
799CVFDCSeveral thousand mostly 1930s to 1950s covers and cards that have been stored for decades by a stamp (not cover) dealer’s family. Includes first days, first flights and other air events, business and personal correspondence, etc., plus a few earlier or later missives. Strong in the Americas and British, with scattered overlooked US, we partially straightened it up for you.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $2,000.00