| COVERS — United States |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 846 | FDC | Gargantuan selection from 1940 to 2008 in 27 long cover drawers. Roughly 20,000 mostly unaddressed FDCs in sleeves having amply amount of backup. Nice clean lot of very saleable material. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,000.00
Price Realized: $2,600.00 |
| 847 |  | Advertising cover selection from the 1870s to 1940s. Approximately 220 mainly sleeved and from the East Coast and Midwest. Includes grocers, hotels, stoves, hardware, etc. This accumulation was amassed by a collector who for many years was hoping to open a retail store which never materialized. Super opportunity as these covers are newly available to the philatelic market. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,000.00
Price Realized: $1,250.00 |
| 848 | | A well documented mostly FDC collection of well over 2900 items. The group starts with Scott #551 and goes up to #3338. Better regular issues are numbers 553, 600 pr., 638, 658-679, 700-701, and 830-834. Useful commemoratives are numbers 614-621 in various stages of orientation, 718-719, and Farleys of many types. Airmails are C7-C12, C10a, and C18-C19. Mainly uncacheted until # 716 and addressed up to #1100. Some of the earlier are moderately better multi color while the later issues are the common Artcrafts. There is the 1st House of Farnum on # 778. Condition of the earlier is quite mixed with some only Fine but gets better when later. Also included are U’s, UX’s UXC’s, a few later inaugurals and a couple WWI Patriotics. The checklist is available on our website for downloading. Owner’s est. value 26,000.00 | Price Realized: $1,400.00 |
| 849 | | Navy and related accumulation in two cartons. Consists of approximately 3,700 covers and postcards mostly from the 1930s to 1990s having a variety of ship names, postmarks and cachets. Includes around 300 ships sunk during WWII having about 60 different already identified with dates of loss and roughly 750 from aircraft carriers from the 1930s to 1990s. For the naval historian could be a wealth of material. | Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $1,500.00 |
| 850 | | Consignment as received in several heavy cartons and two plastic tubes. Includes around 2000 modern uncacheted event covers, 3600 FDC’s with a mixture of uncacheted and cacheted earlier, a few modern multicolored cachet, many common types which hold 1980s to 2008 Postal Commemorative Society types, both in presentation books and other just on pages. There are also around 400 U.N. FDC’s thrown in for a bonus. Huge original cost offered at today’s market prices. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $425.00 |
| 851 | | Covers and cards containing 28 stampless covers most with strong markings each having something to do with the postal act of 1845, 120 picture postcards in an album mostly scenic and greetings from the golden age, and a handful of patriotic labels on cover most not tied from the Spanish American war. Good research lot. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $400.00 |
| 852 | | Selection of approximately 3,350 covers from the 1940s to 1990s in two cartons. Involves almost 400 WWII Patriotics having a wide variety of cacheted which were addressed to the same person. Also contains nearly 1,800 WWII mail having APO’s, training camps, airfields, bases, censored and free mail. Rounding out this holding are almost 1,150 event covers from the 1930s to 1990s. Big time fun for the WWII buff or researcher. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00 |
| 853 | | Assembly of around 3,350 covers and postcards from around 1905 to the 1980s in four cartons. Encompasses around 2,000 commercial covers mostly having their contents from the 1920s mailed to Marshall, Michigan franked with the two cent red Washington stamp. Similarly, the remaining items include purple experimental ink machine cancels from the 1970s to 1980s, RPO cancels ranging from the 19th century to 1960s, and a collection of mostly 4 bar cancels on postcards primarily from 1905 to 1920. Very useful selection. | Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $450.00 |
| 854 | | 4000 covers in six cartons from an estate with FDC’s, event, subscription items in albums, binders and loose covers. Along for the ride are a few foreign. Can be a money maker, well worth a look. | Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $475.00 |
| 855 | FDC | Accumulation of cacheted FDCs from 1956-2008. Consists of around 115 high face value covers with 78 different and an original face of $833.20. Consists of definitives, priority and express mail stamps from $1.00 to $16.50 having a variety of cachets. Some highlights are #1053, 1295 block of four, 1909a, 2122a, and 2541. Already identified, sleeves and ready for internet sales. Rarely offered, so do not miss out. | Cat. Value: cat. 3,526.00
Price Realized: $400.00 |
| 856 | | All the leftover cards and covers from a large estate. Best are around 200 US Civil War era covers. Around half are official, penalty, and free frank covers without letters, while the other half are letters from home to officers on duty near Civil war times. Some of the free franks are from the US Senate, but none from the executive branch. Condition rough mostly fair to good. Most of the free franks were the result of pension inquiries. Also includes around 100 US PPCs in average condition and a valentine or two. Postal historians should examine this one thoroughly. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $650.00 |
| 857 | | Postal study selection from the 1880s in 12 binders. Around 300 covers of #210 two cent red brown issue divided into cities and advertising. Includes cancels from Boston, Chicago, New York City, Philadelphia, and Washington DC. Difficult to reproduce today. Do not miss out. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $350.00 |
| 858 | | On the15th of November 1979 American Airlines flight 444 in a Boeing 727 carrying 78 people was headed from Chicago to Washington DC. Thirty minutes into flight, a mail bomb hidden in a wooden box in the cargo hold ignited. The device produced large amounts of smoke but failed to detonate, though investigators found only a faulty timer prevented the bomb from obliterating the plane. The pilot made a successful emergency landing at Washington-Dulles but several passengers had to be treated for smoke inhalation. The bomb was built by Ted Kaczynski, better known as the Unabomber, and this was his first attack to be investigated by the FBI. Kaczynski’s bombing attempts spread over 18 years before he was finally caught in 1996, and he has since been sentenced to life imprisonment. This cover was on that flight and was delivered to Washington, D.C. the following week in the Post Office “body bag” in which it still resides. Scarce and historical. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $650.00 |
| 859 | | Remainder lot in a heavy carton stuffed with hundreds. We spotted FDC’s, events, unused postal stationary, postalcards, and anything else we did not see at the bottom. Offered cheap. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----
Price Realized: $280.00 |
| 860 | | Censored cover with a bold “DEC 7, 7AM, 1941, Honolulu Hawaii, N. Air Sta. Pearl Harbor Br.” killer cancel strike. Passed by Naval censor handstamp. No backstamp. No enclosure. Appears to be a legit cancel that needs further investigation. Still a great cover for a WWII collection. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----
Price Realized: $180.00 |
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