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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 — United States And General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
966*oNO LOTCat. Value: S.B. 0.00
Price Realized: $0.00
967*oLarge stockbook packed with mint and used sets and singles of enormous catalog. US mint booklet panes 405b x 2, 406a, 501b, 502b, and used singles #70, 71 along with a multitude of intermediate and higher value foreign. Better country groups include Germany, Sweden, Hungary, Hawaii, Thailand, Burkina Faso, etc. Only roughly sorted by area and country, needs a thorough searching to prove the value.Cat. Value: S.B. 4,000.00
Price Realized: $2,700.00
968*oCVComprehensive collections/accumulation from the 1870s to throughout the 20th century in seven cartons. Consists of two cartons from A-H and I-Z collections and collection remnants in folders and on album or stockpages including French Antarctic Territory, AAT, BAT, Belgium, Belgian Congo, around ten Croatia NDH color proofs, Cuba, Czechoslovakia, Greenland, Egypt, Greece, Iran, Korea, Romania, San Marino, Turkey, and Vatican etc.. Other cartons contain pre 1940 folder collections having decent Portuguese colonies, US collections, duplicates and China. Rounding out this selection are two cartons with around 1,000 covers and postcards having a good presence of Canada from the 1940s. A thought provoking offering that needs time for viewing.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,700.00
Price Realized: $1,900.00
969*oCVCollection/accumulation as received in six heavy cartons. Includes folder collections, a dozen or so boxes of sorted stamps, 15 or so semi sorted foreign binders mainly country collections, some modern US mint yearbooks, and a box or two of US face to count (looks to be over $600.00). Plenty of value that never quite got to be a serious collection. Talented recyclers should view as this could be quite a bargain.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,050.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
970*oA very profound worldwide accumulation from the early to mid 20th century. Includes four binders and two small boxes having a strong military presents. Contains hundreds of mainly different labels, German cigarette cards, stamps, and other ephemera. Also have “muchie” items which are skillfully copies of some better issues. If you like this type of material, great lot for your collection of for the internet.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $1,350.00
971*oConsignment as received. Almost all of the value is in postage. Includes 1983/2008 year sets, sheets, booklets, 1970 to 1990 plate block collection in a Liberty Album, a Liberty album with singles. Also includes a small batch of cheap foreign stamps thrown in for a bonus. Easy lot to figure, just get out your calculator.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $800.00
972*oCVConsignment as received in seven cartons. Thousands of stamps in albums, binders, shoe, small boxes, and subscription items having ample amount of backup. Value is in the volume and US postage. Worth a look.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $750.00
973*oCVFantastic holding in five cartons. Thousands of mint and used stamps having a multitude of backup from the late 19th century throughout the 20th century. Includes albums, stock, counterbooks and stockpages as well as covers. Noticed a two volume JFK collection, Vatican on White Ace pages from 1963 to 1983 and an accumulation of modern Germany. Ideal for making small groups for the internet.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $850.00
974*oCVConsignment as received in four cartons. Hundreds of mint and used stamps from throughout the 20th century in albums, stockbooks, cigar, and small boxes having an abundance of backup. Ideal for breakdown for bourse or flea market box lots.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $800.00
975*oA comprehensive assortment from the late 19th century to 2000 in three cartons. Hundreds of mint and used stamps having miscellaneous backup in albums, glassines, stock and salecards. Involves clean Scott Specialty albums and slipcases for San Marino having stamp concentrations from 1935 to 2000, Fiji from 1947 to 2000, and Costa Rica in a Minkus album from 1937 to 1996. There is $275.00 mint US face in 29 cents and up in sheets. A lovely group.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $600.00
976*oOld school collection in two homemade albums from 1847 to 1930s. Hundreds of mainly different US and worldwide mint and used stamps. Includes a US selection going to the 1950s comprising an US pen cancelled #1 and used #119. Also comprises fascinating German states including Bavaria, plus British, French colonies, and Western Europe. Original holding coming freshly onto the philatelic market. Worth the time needed for thorough viewing.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $950.00
977*oCVLarge accumulation in 12 cartons with modern world collections which include Cuba etc., country collections, several US starter collections, covers, subscription items, stockbooks and more. Excellent lot to break down for the flea marketer.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $750.00
978*oCVBattleship ballast lot in nine of our largest cartons. Includes subscription items and FDCs. FDCs looks like a couple thousand mainly US addressed with many uncacheted, supplies, a plastic tub of unopened black mounts and an unused Scott National album plus a few Melone catalogs along with miscellaneous world stamps in all sorts of conditions. Needs an expert recycler to squeeze a profit out of this untamed beast of a lot.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $425.00
979*oTwo carton consignment as received. One man’s collection mounted in 14 mismatched albums on custom organized commercial pages. Thousands of stamps mainly packet types but a surprise every once and a while. A little dusty and disheveled, but the adroit folder collection maker might be able to recycle to an advantage. A few supplies and a little US add to the mystique.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $400.00
980*oSmall carton of a would be dealer’s holding of a few hundred fakes, forgeries, printer’s waste, phantoms and the like that had one time been categorized as real. Everything made it to this box for a reason. Few if any US stamps. In this category for the two, rough condition, semi redeemed Confederate bonds and a dozen or so punched Liquor licenses from the late 19th century. Great lot for Heligoland reprints and poor quality overprint and general issue forgeries.Cat. Value: S.B. 425.00
Price Realized: $550.00
981*oTwo carton fun lot form the end zone of a large estate. Highlights include small unobtrusive beginner collections of mint US, UN, and Japan in continuable albums, accumulations of Faroe Islands, Aland, Zambia, Kiribati, Tuvalu, etc. Enough bounce to make a favorable impression on any avid recycler.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $425.00
982*oCVSmall but powerful accumulation 1840 to the 1970s. Contains hundreds of mint and used stamps having an enjoyable amount of backup in candy tins, envelopes, small canisters, and boxes. Highlights include #1’s from Great Britain, Norway, and Bahamas (1987 Royal Philatelic Society expertize paper), and a neat Vatican small stockbook containing an accumulation of Pope Pius XII mint stamps with #C16-17 and C18-19. Also entails an original holding of 1930’s US First Flight and Event covers. A very desirable selection.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $650.00
983*oOld ledger book (small size) with the remains of a 1880ish collection. Slathered with paste each stamp has been securely mounted to the hand drawn pages. Around 50 pages in all with stamps around three or four to a page. All classic material with many unusual stamps. Includes used US #1, Nova Scotia #2, 4, and nine Hong Kong mint no gum type A1 including a 48 and 96 cent Queen. As is. Great bargain for one who will assume the risk of removing these.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $900.00
984*oColumbian Bank Note Co of Chicago accumulation circa 1935 to 1958 on quadrille pages . Includes around 45 photogravue, lithograph and stamps designed by George G. Fats for Peru. Includes a typed explanation and signature by the designer. Also contains about 50 postage, tax stamps and proofs for world as well as US and State fishing and Hunting. Very unusual. Do not let this one get away.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $425.00
985*oCVAll the odds and ends from a consignment in four cartons. Consists of hundreds mainly US and worldwide covers from the mid 20th century onwards. Offered appropriately.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $600.00
986*oInteresting odd lot in three cartons. Includes several binders of US, spotted #834 and #1053 OG in one book. The US also has a bit of postage to factor in. The two remaining boxes are loose foreign and US in shoe boxes and envelopes with lots of common material. Hours of sorting here.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $425.00
987*oA useful selection from the 1880s to 1970s in six worldwide, US albums and one stockbook in two cartons. Incorporates Schaubek, Scott Junior, International Part II, Minkus Master Global, and Scott US Specialty having several thousand mint and used stamps containing an assortment of backup. The stockbook comprises of Germany from the 1920s to 1930s. Nicely set up for easy processing.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $375.00
988*oCVEnd zone lot with the best parts including an intermediate Israel tabs collection to 1985 (too many short tabs to be advanced), a hundred dollars or so in US and Canadian face, some clean supplies, and a small book of US FDCs. Enough value to rejuvenate a recycler.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $350.00
989*oOne man’s lifetime collection housed in nearly 50 stockbooks and albums. Stored since the mid 1970’s, this group appears to be assembled from buying packs and sorted by country plus a few trips to the post office.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $700.00
990*oCVAll the leftovers from a large consignment. Highlighted by a US prominent Americans collection with mint (face over $195.00), used, and FDC’S, six volumes of a mainly used Machins collection, a few counterbooks of topicals (airplanes etc.), common Russia, and sorted Machins. Boxes of correspondence, loose on paper Machins etc. along for the ride. Lots of backup for the avid recycler.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $325.00
991*oFive carton mish mash with the remains of an deep rooted hoarders group. Old collections mainly remaindered topical groups, soaked off paper US singles some sorted, foreign in glassines semi sorted topically and a few pockets of US face. Will take a load of work to boil this holding down into something marketable.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $425.00
992*oCVBalance of consignment in two cartons. Hundreds of mint and used stamps having a prevalence of duplication. Consists of five stockbooks of mainly used US from the 1930s to 1980s, three German produced albums of mostly Western Europe mint souvenir sheets from 1983 to 1984, an envelope of train topicals on stockpages, and a smattering of FDCs form the 1960s to 1980s. Don’t pass this one by.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $325.00
993*oCVAll the stamps from a closed antique store. Includes two US press sheets, $148.04 face in lower value plate blocks, five pizza sized boxes of APS StampStore unsolds crowded with misidentified, short sets, priced at 85-95% of Scott, Canada off paper, a cigar box of Canada face, a small box of world stamps in glassines, two tubs of scrap US FDCs, and a handful of UN souvenir folders. Lots of stuff that needs a major overhaul to make it in today’s market.Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00
Price Realized: $750.00
994*oCVBulk of a cursory collector’s estate in four heavy large cartons. Best is a custom five binder collection of the world on Harris Standard pages. Hundreds and hundreds of stamps often interspersed with homemade stockpages filled with non pictured stamps. Almost all packet quality stamps along with some from the mail. Also around 1,000 US FDCs from the 1960s-1980s all non cacheted and addressed. All the other ancillary items gathered over the years with the look of a beginner’s collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00
Price Realized: $400.00
995*oLast bunch of a consignment in three parts. First and best is a US remainder collection 1904-1945 all used on custom quadrille pages. Interesting Washington/Franklins and a nice run of used blocks of four. Also includes a remaindered Monaco collection in a Scott album plus a similar Switzerland collection. Easily broken down into saleable portions.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $210.00
996*oCVRemainder lot in nine musty old White Ace albums to around 1970. The US is typical of an old time intermediate collection with a preponderance of used with just a few mint like #630 with perf separations and other faults, 834, C10a, C18. This group has been stored in humid conditions so many of the mint have been lightly and not so lightly stuck down. But the mold has not yet set in saving the many used. Also includes rudimentary collections of Ryukyu Islands (mint C1-C3), a tiny bit of Canal Zone, and an album of Ghana all stored together and offered as on holding.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $325.00
997*oCVPetite but useful selection from the various parts of the 20th century to 2002 in two cartons. Consists of five worldwide binders having hundreds of used stamps on homemade pages plus a wee bit of miscellaneous. Most of the value is in the three Scott Minuteman albums having face to count. Patience could be rewarding.Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00
Price Realized: $400.00
998*oConsignment remainder in one banker’s box. Bunches of old correspondence from England and newspaper articles from there to keep the former owner abreast of current conditions. Only saving grace are some 1980s mint sets from Great Britain plus a tiny bit of UN and US postage hiding throughout the mess.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $190.00