| COVERS — United States |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 690 |  | Dealer stock of well over a thousand covers and picture postcards, generally sleeved and priced. Runs from stampless to modern including first days, flights, navals, patriotics, advertising, events, etc., plus frankings, cancels, markings, etc. on postal history. The file drawer of mostly 20th century mint and used picture postcards shows scenes and topics from across the country, while three cover albums hold many of the more interesting covers. Worth flipping through since offered at a fraction of marked retail. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1,250.00
Price Realized: $1,600.00 |
| 691 | | Maybe 400 covers and cards, primarily late 19th century or early 20th century, in two categories. About a quarter are censored soldier’s mail mounted in a binder and often annotated including various WWI AEF APO locations, occupations, plus naval forces in and around Europe. The balance generally on pages are mostly advertising strongest in farm machinery, plus autos, airplanes, holidays, and other topics no longer in order. Viewing is enhanced by Interesting markings, contents, and reverse photocopies. | Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $1,450.00 |
| 692 | FDC | Collection mostly all different in five cartons. Approximately 3,000 Colorano cacheted from 1972-2004 mainly in sparkling albums and around 2,000 others cacheted from 1946-1967. Also includes 400 space and railroad topical. Almost 450 UN round out this selection. Loved and maintained by the previous owner. Looking for new shelves. | Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00 |
| 693 | FDC | Hideaki Nakano hand colored 8x10 first days, about 310 different from 1981 to 1998 in individual sheet protectors. This Detroit artist and cachetmaker makes covers like no one else. His covers are at times humorous, political, socially opinionated, or risqué, and are always uniquely creative. All signed and numbered, when put in order they will illustrate the evolution of his style and technique. If you are not familiar with these covers, you may find yourself spending substantial time appreciating the content in the context of the times. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $700.00 |
| 694 | | Dealer stock of over 3600 covers and cards with town cancels from all across the country. Mostly 20th century with a few earlier, all sleeved, written up and organized by state for easier browsing. | Cat. Value: S.B. 475.00
Price Realized: $325.00 |
| 695 | | Cover selection from the 1930s to 2011 in five cartons. Around 3,000 mostly all different FDCs in 36 cover albums. Neatly organized and ready to sell on the internet or at a show. | Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $600.00 |
| 696 | | Huge accumulation of 1970s and 1980s machine cancels from smaller towns on ordinary correspondence. Includes about 13,400 covers cancelled locally before impersonal sectional centers took over. In the 22nd century this may be sought after postal history. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $375.00 |
| 697 | | Dealer stock of almost 1,900 covers and cards from hundreds of Michigan towns. Mostly 20th century, sleeved and written up, then loosely sorted in two cartons. We noted various corner cards and cachets, even a few simple HD ones, to further interest the Michigan aficionado. | Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $180.00 |
| 698 | | Accumulation of naval covers, over 2,300 legal size mostly from the 1920s, 1930s and 1940s. All are official mail on penalty envelopes from hundreds of different ships to various land based departments, some with stamps added for additional postal services. | Cat. Value: S.B. 230.00
Price Realized: $850.00 |
| 699 | | Modern military mail in seven volumes, mounted with a tremendous amount of collateral material. This is one man’s effort to chronicle dozens of recent military operations from the Iraq and Kuwait wars to Bosnia, Lebanon, Haiti, the Middle East, Africa, the Twin Towers, etc. Over 500 covers and cards, mostly with ship and APO cancels, and with contemporary newspaper and magazine pictures, text, etc. that would be impossible to duplicate today. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $270.00 |
| 700 | | Small box containing a couple hundred early mint, used and preprinted postal cards with a wide range of cancels and subjects. Also includes a beautiful set of ten 1893 Columbian World’s Fair postal cards with wrapper intact. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $240.00 |
| 701 | | Complete set of ten 1893 World Columbian Exposition Postal Cards with wrapper. Wrapper is a little soiled the set is F-VF. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $95.00 |
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