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Public Auction #421

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended August 22, 2014 at 7:00pm (New York time)
Bids updated August 22, 2014 at 6:14pm (New York time)

COLLECTIONS & ACCUMULATIONS — Topicals
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
999*oNeatly displayed Kennedy topical selection from the 1960s in a large stockbook in a medium box. Several hundred mainly different mint stamps in singles, sets, and souvenir sheets catalog value of $1,410+ and Michel catalog of €2,610. Involves interesting Jordan, Niger, Yemen, and Togo. Excellent for completion of your Kennedy collection or for internet sales.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $270.00
1000*oCVReligion topical group in two large cartons. Purchased piecemeal over time from new issue sources, dealers and bourses, and an occasional auction entity. Hundreds and hundreds of units, each having something to do with Popes, religious paintings, the Madonna, sculptures, paintings and holidays. All need to be resorted especially the seven large shoeboxes where a start was already in progress. Enough better to make this endeavor worthwhile.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $1,500.00
1001*oCVRotary collection/accumulation circa 1930 to 1980s in two cartons. Hundreds of mostly different stamps in singles and sets including two collections on exhibit pages from 1931 to 1979. Highlights are Austria mint set, used block of four set and three covers of B87-B92 as well as interesting Monaco, France, and Belgium. Considerable interest for the Rotarian specialist.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
1002*oCVRussian Revolution 1917 collection in four volumes organized alphabetically by country. Includes the Mother Russia 1917 revolutionary issues hardly organized in a stockbook and then all the worldwide anniversary stamps up until 1967. Some better include PRC mint #194-197 plus the set on cover, #321-325 plus the set on cover, and #635-636 plus the set on cover. Other sets from odd places like North Korea and North Vietnam along for the ride. Interesting seldom seen topical group.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $550.00
1003*oCVTelephone topical collection in six volumes. Anything and everything concerning the telephone centenary in 1976. As good as it gets for this topic with worldwide sets and singles neatly custom organized on clean topical pages. Also includes the odd and irregular: progressive proofs, imperfs, “errors”, ephemera all awaiting rediscovery. Along for the ride are some Royal Wedding topicals and a mundane remaindered US collection of little value.Cat. Value: S.B. 425.00
Price Realized: $650.00
1004*oCVExplorer’s thematic collection from the 1890s to 2000 in two cartons. Hundreds of mainly different mint, used, CTO stamps in singles, partial, full sets, and souvenir sheets in binders, albums, and pages. The owner successfully told a story about exploration. Along the line some stamps and covers have been removed resulting in broken sets. Still a great start to collecting a new area as the background information has been completed. All you need to add or replace the necessary material according to your interest.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $500.00
1005*oTrain (Railroads on stamps) topical collection in 23 plastic bags of White ace pages that used to be part of a 20+ volume collection. Somewhat remaindered. Alphabetically Bi-Z. A couple thousand stamps in Scott order probably according to an ATA list with over 90% coverage for the over 500 pages. Lots of value in South America, Canada, China, Russia, etc. with many intermediate values present. Seems to end around 2004. Great start to any train topical collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $700.00
1006*oUPU accumulation from 1949 and 1974 in two stockbooks. Several hundred mint stamps in singles, partial, full sets, and souvenir sheets. Includes Berlin #9N35-9N41, Spanish Morocco #280-291 and Vatican C18-C19. Super for integration into an existing general or UPU collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $260.00