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Public Auction #425

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COVERS — UNITED STATES AND GENERAL FOREIGN
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
51CVFDCFDC accumulation in five cartons weighing roughly 200 pounds. Owner’s count of over 3,000 contained in about fifteen binders and subscription item holders having an emphasis from the 1960s to 1980s. There is a small selection of older US commercial covers and postcards from the early 1900s to 1930s. Decent for a dollar cover booth.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $450.00
COVERS — French Southern Antarctic Territory
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
52CVFrench Southern Antarctic Territory collection of over 110 covers. Mostly FDC’s with some light duplication. Nearly all cacheted. Mainly unaddressed. Runs from 1957 and runs to the mid 1970s. A clean group.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $750.00
COVERS — Germany
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
53CVGermany Kraft durch Freude collection 1935-1939. Abbreviated KdF (German for Strength through Joy), was a large state operated leisure organization in Nazi Germany and became the world’s largest tourism operator of the 1930s. KdF was supposed to bridge the class divide by making middle class leisure activities available to the masses. This was underscored by having cruises with passengers of mixed classes and having them, regardless of social status, draw lots for allocation of cabins. This collection focuses on the cruise ships with dozens of photographs, picture postcards, menus, and brochures. 86 original pieces in all from all sorts of cruise liners and vacation cruises. Plenty of original firsthand accounts of prewar travel on the backs of the cards with a dozens of onboard cancels. Great start to an interesting area with enough diversity in the information to form a prize winning single frame exhibit.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $450.00
54CVGermany covers and postcards in two binders. Comprises around 100 WWI era postcards and roughly 200 mainly postal stationery, postcards, (some are dubious) and covers having a concentration from the Nazi era. Collectors should view as there could be some gems waiting to polish your collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $500.00
55CVGermany six covers all with interesting postal history. The first is a May 19, 1912 “Offizielle Luft-Post-Karte” for the Mannheim to Heidelberg flight. The rest are various Soviet occupied area early post war covers. All are registered and multifranked. Includes #12NB10-12NB12, 13N1-13N12, 14N15-14N20, and two other mixed franked covers. The webphotos add enough information for an informed bid.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $190.00
56CVGermany and areas covers, fantastic discovery. Over 700 unsearched packet cards from the Nazi era 1943-1944 from Germany, Poland General Government, and Bohemia Moravia. Put away and forgotten years ago most are addressed to residents/prisoners of the infamous concentration camp in Flossenburg, Bavaria. Each one lists a recipient often with name, date of birth and inmate number and block code. Most were saved for the heavy franking they exhibit with plenty of interesting wartime stamps and represent sent packages of 2 kg. and larger. Now these are very useful in building a database of these peoples’ happenstance and connection to loved ones. Wartime history filled with facts to trace the ending places of so many people. Postal, genealogical, and world history buffs take heed for this is one of the largest hoards of this material to ever hit the market in one piece. Irreplaceable.Cat. Value: S.B. 6,500.00
Price Realized: $5,000.00
COVERS — Iceland
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
57CVIceland all the better covers from a recently closed Ohio store. Consists of 12 FDCs and covers from 1930 to 1954. Includes six FDCs having #240-245, three covers with two sets #152-166, and one cover with C4-C8.Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $400.00
COVERS — Ireland
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
58CVIreland cover collection in five cartons weighing around 200 pounds. Over 1000 FDCs, First Flights, commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards from 1870s to 1996 nicely arranged in binders. Contains maritime mail, WW I, WW II censored, “Angel” airmail, slogan cancelled Machins used in Northern Ireland covers. Also includes three binders of mint and used stamps in singles and blocks of four mainly from the 1980s to 1990s. If you like Irish postal history, this lot could be your cup of tea.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $2,300.00
COVERS — Japan
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
59CVJapan 35 covers and cards in a small pizza size box. Mostly from 1920-1955. Best are the flight cards which include #C1 and C2 plus a couple other first flights from the 1950s. Compact cover lot with seldom seen usages.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $475.00
COVERS — Lithuania
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
60CVLithuania thematic covers in five cartons. Roughly 3,700 Event, commercial covers, postal stationery postcards, and postal stationery from the 1960s to 1990s having a concentration from the latter. Consists of Lithuanian American, Canadian, British themes and Soviet and Independence periods. One of the largest amounts of this material that we have offered for a while. Good for adding to your collection or for sales on the internet.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $475.00
COVERS — British colonies
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
61CVForty British colonies 1948 Silver Wedding covers from a recently closed Ohio store in a pizza size box. Consists of 13 Falkland Dependencies and 27 from Bermuda, Mauritius, British Honduras, Dominica, KUT, Seychelles, Jamaica, Basutoland etc. having many with the high value of them. Offered appropriately.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $1,300.00
COVERS — GENERAL FOREIGN
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
62CVFDCAll the worldwide covers from a large consignment weighing about 100 pounds from the “Gem City” in Ohio in four cartons. Approximately 1,500 mainly Great Britain addressed and unaddressed FDCs from mid 1980s to 2000s having regular, commemorative, booklets, and souvenir sheets. Hong Kong also has a strong presence. No real clunkers here.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $450.00
63CVAll the worldwide covers from a consignor in three cartons. Approximately 1,500 Ajman to Zimbabwe covers FDCs, postcards, Maxim cards, and postal stationery from the 1930s 1990s having the main concentration from the 1960s to 1990s. Excellent candidates for a $1.00 table.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $425.00
POSTAGE — Scrap
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
Lots 64-70 commemorative and regular issue mint sheet and booklet pane sorted by Scott order and are from a well respected dealer from the Buckeye State who owned the last brick and mortar store in the state dedicated solely to the sale of stamps. Duplication will moderate to massive can be expected.
64**Scotts 2535//3150, 29¢, 32¢ values.Cat. Value: face 7,550.00
Price Realized: $3,500.00
65**Scotts 3151//3417, 32¢, 33¢, values.Cat. Value: face 6,200.00
Price Realized: $2,600.00
66**Scotts 3349//3896, 37¢, values.Cat. Value: face 5,550.00
Price Realized: $2,400.00
67**Scotts 3420//3748, 33¢, 34¢, 37¢, values.Cat. Value: face 6,315.00
Price Realized: $3,000.00
68**Scotts 3898//4124, 37¢, 39¢, values.Cat. Value: face 5,150.00
Price Realized: $2,500.00
69**Scotts 4125a//4501, 41¢, 42¢, 44¢, Forever (Liberty Bells & a couple commems. at the end) values.Cat. Value: face 9,360.00
Price Realized: $4,500.00
70**37¢ and a few 39¢ to 44¢ values.Cat. Value: face 6,550.00
Price Realized: $3,000.00
71**A plethora of postage. Mostly 29¢ and above with an identifiable number of high values. Includes sheet, booklets, plate strips, scrap, etc. Strap in your seat and start you calculator.Cat. Value: S.B. 3,250.00
Price Realized: $3,250.00
72*All the higher value plate blocks, booklets, and strips from a large estate. Encompasses 10 centers through 37 centers mainly stored in glassines in shoeboxes. Clean, collectable, and packed with face value. Owner’s count: $5,635.01 which looks accurate to us.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,000.00
Price Realized: $2,500.00
73*A postage catch all group made up of six components. 1. An assembly of collection pages, mostly 29¢ and above holding singles, booklet panes and mini-sheets. 2. A pile of 3¢ sheets about two inches high. 3. Four White Ace binder boxes bulging with plate strips. 4. A pizza size box with booklets. 5. A nearly full bankers box filled with sales sheets stacked vertically containing mainly 29¢ and above values of booklets and booklet panes. 6. 110 Bicentennial sets in official envelopes plus numerous sets not in envelopes, 139 Ameripex Presidential sets in official envelopes plus numerous sets not in envelopes, 26 World Columbian Souvenir sheet sets, a little over 300 panes of ten of the 1941 to 1944 (29¢ value) WWII commemoratives. A patient postage person’s lot to be sure.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,800.00
Price Realized: $2,500.00
74**A pretty postage lot of mostly 25¢ to 37¢ self-adhesive booklet panes. Also includes 70 Old Glory, 56 Lewis and Clark, and 8 Submarine Prestige booklets.Cat. Value: face 5,100.00+
Price Realized: $2,300.00
75**A humongous 1972//2007 USPS Year Set accumulations. Ten heavy to very heavy cartons. Shipping weight 450 lbs., call or email for a rate quote. See our website for an inventory.Cat. Value: face 6,345.00
Price Realized: $2,400.00
76*All the lower value plate blocks and strips from a large estate. Encompasses 3 centers through 15 centers mainly stored in glassines in shoeboxes. Clean, collectable, and packed with face value. Owner’s count: $3,147.06 which looks accurate to us.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $1,400.00
77*All the postage from a consignor as received in two medium cartons. Approximately $3,000.00 face mainly from 10 cents to 29 cents in sheet files and small binders mostly in full sheets and blocks. Careful considerations as a small amount appear to be stuck from storage. Bring a handy calculator and have some useful fun. For the virtue of US postage.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
78*Postage types in five heavy loaded cartons weighing 150 pounds. Easy to count with values up to 34 cents face noted. Mostly in backstock binders, many duplicates, and remaindered collections. Our estimate of $3,500.00 face is just a guess, just too many for us to count in a limited amount of time. Put your calculator to work and get a bargain.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $3,000.00
79*From a recently closed Ohio store, a litany of postage in three hulking cartons as found on the shelves. Includes of albums, small boxes, stock, salescards, and loose. Might be a super bargain for the patient counter who preps for a long, courageous ordeal.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $1,250.00
80*From a recently closed Ohio store. Involves face on album pages and glassines with plate blocks, booklet panes and singles. You do the counting and after surviving that ordeal, you could fill your collection and then mail the rest.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00
81*oAbsolutely packed to the gills large carton of scrap postage. An estimate of face $2,000.00 may be a little high because most of it is below 8 cent face each. Includes disorganized plate blocks, zip blocks, multiples, some no gum, and just a lot of scrap. Great gambler lot for the person who likes to put multiple stamps on correspondence. Massive, not for the faint of heart.Cat. Value: S.B. 950.00
Price Realized: $1,450.00
82*A postage potpourri in two cartons as found on the shelves or boxes from a recently closed Ohio store. Consists of mint sets, albums pages having plate blocks, booklet panes and singles. Could be a bargain as we did not have time to count. Prepare for a long, adventurous counting ordeal.Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $1,300.00
83**A plethora of postage in sheet form harbored in two heavy cartons. Mostly Scotts 3105 and above with loads of duplication. Also includes modern mint Postal Card packages and a few FDC’s of the same ilk not in the face count. See our website for a list of the contents. Shipping weight 77 lbs., call or email for a rate quote.Cat. Value: Owner’s face 2,862.47
Price Realized: $1,600.00
84*Face type scrap lot hoarded over many years by a knowledgeable Ohio dealer. Completely unsorted from 1936-2003 with ugly multiples of everything. Uncounted, just estimated by us. Needs a thorough count which will take all afternoon. Thousands and thousands of stamps just jammed together.Cat. Value: S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $650.00
85**(BK140B, BK148) Wholesale lot of high face value booklets.Cat. Value: face 1,444.50
Price Realized: $1,050.00
86*oFace types in two large cartons (weighing 75 pounds) from the backroom of a recently closed Ohio store. Messily stored over many years mainly 3-8 cent scrap that he had no way of getting face value back out of it. Shambolically stored with ng, used, and even a few foreign making a face count difficult. In heavy packaging, “102” cards, “104” cards various glassines, stockcards, pocket plate block files, and loose, etc. Our estimate is around $2,500.00 face which could be high or low as counting this mess was counterproductive. Many poor condition loose stamps included.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $2,000.00
87*Neat, nifty, and tidy postage assemblage in three cartons from a recently closed Ohio store as discovered on its shelves. Mostly mounted in albums and on album pages starting with 3 cents onwards. A thorough search and count could be profitable. Prepare to have some fun.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $500.00
88*oFace types in an additional two large cartons (weighing 75 pounds) from the backroom of a recently closed Ohio store. Messily stored over many years mainly 3-13 cent scrap that he had no way of getting face value back out of it. Chaotically stored with ng, used, and even a few foreign making a face count difficult. In heavy packaging, “102” cards, “104” cards various glassines, stockcards, shoeboxes, and loose, etc. Our estimate is around $2,250.00 face which could be high or low as counting this mess was counterproductive. Many poor condition loose stamps included. Another gambler lot that literally will take hours to count.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
89*CVPostage types piled into five hefty cartons. Includes postal stationary, postal cards, scrap, and sheets still in USPS wrapping. Some items are massively duplicated. Good counting opportunity for a patient postage purveyor.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00
90*A unique pile of postage. This postage stamp decorated suit case was proudly displayed at stamp show tables of a well respected retail dealer from the Buckeye State who owned the last brick and mortar store devoted solely to the sale of stamps. The case, in inches measures 6½ H x14½ W x 20½ L and weights 24.6 lbs. We did not attempt to dig into the mass fearing we would not be able to close the case. On the surface we did spot up to 20¢ values. A true gamblers lot. The buyer’s premium and seller’s commission (25%) of the sale of this lot will be donated to the APS in the dealer’s name.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $700.00
91**Consignment remainder lot that is a pile of postage.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $375.00
POSTAGE — SHEETS
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
Lots 92-102 are mainly commemorative mint sheet from a well respected dealer from the Buckeye State who owned the last brick and mortar store in the state dedicated solely to the sale of stamps. Duplication moderate to massive can be expected.
92**$1.00 values and above (except 3209, 3409). Also includes sixteen 2000 Space Souvenir Sheets sets plus extra values of the other dollar values in the set.Cat. Value: face 4,600.00
Price Realized: $3,500.00
93**32¢ values.Cat. Value: face 12,850.00
Price Realized: $5,500.00
94**33¢ and a few 34¢ values.Cat. Value: face 5,400.00
Price Realized: $2,500.00
95**32¢ values.Cat. Value: face 6,380.00
Price Realized: $3,000.00
96**29¢ values.Cat. Value: face 5,940.00
Price Realized: $2,800.00
97**25¢ values. Limited variety.Cat. Value: face 1,500.00
Price Realized: $700.00
98**20¢ values. Heavy in Birds and Flowers (over $3000.00 in face).Cat. Value: face 5,220.00
Price Realized: $2,700.00
99**13¢ values. Heavy in 50 State Flags.Cat. Value: face 4,140.00
Price Realized: $2,400.00
100**10¢, 15¢, 18¢ (Heavy in the Space issue) values.Cat. Value: face 4,180.00
Price Realized: $1,800.00

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