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Public Auction #425

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COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, STOCKS — GENERAL FOREIGN
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
517*oStupendous collection of the odd and unusual put together over a lifetime in seven Lighthouse 3 ring stockbooks on double sided black pages. Roughly sorted by theme and country. Contains stamps from all over the world including dubious standard fare classics some of which may be real, all sorts of reprints, specimens, imperfs, proofs, counterfeits, fantasies, Cinderellas, revenues, phantoms, album weeds, inverted overprints, damaged overprints, color missing errors, printed on the reverse errors some of which are rare and catalog listed, and just a few covers. Packed with hundreds of spectacular items that retail from $10.00-$100.00. Between 10,000 and 12,000 items in total allowing one to jump in on this at a low cost per item. Enough cheap stuff to cloud the value. A unique lot that is impossible to duplicate in this market. Extensive webphotos help, but full long time viewing is necessary to give this amazing lot its due.Cat. Value: S.B. 8,500.00
Price Realized: $8,000.00
518*oStock from the closed Ohio store arranged on approximately 4500 “107” size salescards. Everything is in complete sets and most countries run past the millennium. More mint than used with much NH. A varied mix of over four dozen countries. Strong in Western Europe, UN, Scandinavia and former colonies.Cat. Value: S.B. 3,250.00
Price Realized: $2,200.00
519*oFantastic mint and used selection on roughly 400 “102” size salescards in a red box. Consists of singles, full, and partial sets mainly from the 1850s to 1970s already identified and cataloged by a knowledgeable owner. Highlights include used Australia 1-10, 52-54, 127, Bahrain 31-35,37, Great Britain 4, 28, 110-19, 121-122,129-38, Italy B20-B25, and mint Malaya-Perak #5, Sungei-Ujong 15, Federated States #6 as well as a decent offering of British and French colonies. Contains midrange stamps useful for your collection or internet sales.Cat. Value: cat. 19,940.00
Price Realized: $2,200.00
520*oStock of medium to better values and sets in seven small 6 ring binders. One binder is all Germany, the rest are set up A-Z. Very little duplication and very clean with much NH. Almost everything is a complete set, many cataloging over $100.00.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,600.00
Price Realized: $2,200.00
521*oCherry pickers hoard from a large Florida consignment. Just as we found it accumulated in a dilapidated old shoebox now replaced with a pizza size box. Packed with interesting and valuable specialty material. Neither rhyme nor reason. Has never been sorted. Mint and used, sets and singles, odd and unusual, it’s all here. Highlights of the over 100 piece lot include signed Austria imperf proof, Colombia #611 three pairs imperf between, Sarawak #180-194 mint NH, Monaco imperfs and proofs, Hong Kong # 20 mint, Canal Zone booklets, San Marino mint #32 and 33 without overprint, Great Britain #4 mint and #50 (plate 6) mint, unusual Stellaland and much more. Will work well for internet single sales and will break down easily into expensive lots. Condition varies from mint NH through space fillers. Not everything is real with dubious, fakes and forgeries mixed in, but as a whole much more premium items than usual included. Needs a long in person look to determine just how low our suggested bid really is.Cat. Value: S.B. 2,000.00
Price Realized: $1,700.00
522*oRiveting A-Z collection in 39 Minkus Supreme Global albums in 13 cartons weighing approximately 500 pounds. Encompasses thousands of mint and used stamps from the Victorian Era to the late 1980s. Sparse in some places leaving the opportunity to fill them in with all your loose stamps. Search carefully as there are areas still interspersed with plenty of stamps. Also includes Minkus country albums for Independent Africa, Vatican, Mexico, Czechoslovakia etc. as well as various albums and stockbooks containing mostly common encountered material. A most useful selection.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,900.00
Price Realized: $3,500.00
523*oOut of this world collections and accumulation in ten cartons weighing about 450 pounds. Encompasses thousands of mint and used stamps in albums, stockbooks, small boxes, folders, envelopes and glassines having the expected duplication. Contains remaindered collections not always from the popular areas and dealer stock that has been cataloged having a huge number. Lots of $10.00 to $50.00 items needing to be discovered by the right prospector. Requires patience and fortitude to make this selection your own. A potential money maker. Do not let this lot get away.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,800.00
Price Realized: $2,500.00
524*oAll the worldwide collections and accumulations from a consignment in five cartons, weighing about 250 pounds, from the early 1900s to the 1990s. Embraces albums, stockbooks, and small boxes having hundreds and hundreds of mint and used stamps. Includes Minkus albums with Austria to 1996, Australia, White Ace albums for Canada to the 1990s, Israel, with mint #7-9, Japan, UN, and Europa 1956-1968 having an occasional surprise interspersed. Also involves British colonies and Monaco. You will not experience a disaster by observing this selection. Thoughtful consideration recommended. S.B. 1,800.00Price Realized: $1,300.00
525*oOutstanding A-Z stock (no China, Japan, or Canada) from the recently closed Ohio store in six cartons. Over 3,000 souvenir sheets and booklets mainly from the 1950s to modern on counter or sales cards organized and cataloged neatly by the dealer in 32 white boxes of various sizes. Contains one box of Australia face from the 1980s to 2008 to count and a neat box of Laos having some interesting presentation folders from the 1950s and 1960s. You never know what you might find cruising through this selection.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,800.00
Price Realized: $3,250.00
526*oLarge carton of mint and used stamps A-Z foreign stock mainly in singles, sets and booklets from the recently closed Ohio store. Over 4,500 “107” size salescards in boxes nicely organized and cataloged in sequential order. Spotted strong presence of British colonies. Viewing highly recommended. Ready for sales on the internet or integration into existing red box stock.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,700.00
Price Realized: $2,700.00
527*oAccumulation of many thousand sorted in stockbooks and on stockpages. Mainly Europe with the strength in what looks to have been bought as new issues in the 1950s and 1960s. Three countries stand out which are Belgium highlighted by the high value 1932 Mercier, the 1949 souvenir sheet and the 1960 World Refugee souvenir sheet x 3, plus Spain and Portugal simply for the moderate quantities of the mid range 1950s and 1960s sets. The rest is a half dozen countries from the Eastern and Western Europe and one very mentionable Latin America stockbook.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
528*oTremendous A-Z stock from the recently closed Ohio store. Approximately 4,000 “107” size salescards in five red boxes and one small box. Appears starting around 1940 and going to the 1990s having mint and used stamps in singles and sets. Good variety and opportunity to start or add to an existing red box stock. Viewing recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,500.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
529*oA-Z mostly mint collection, weighing about 200 pounds, from around 1900 to 1940 in 10 very clean Scott International albums of which nine have slipcases in six cartons. Appears sparse having hundreds of stamps as owner did not collect volume but value. Classics are mostly used. Particularly strong in British and French colonies. Owner’s catalog of over $10,000. Not to be overlooked is an accumulation of folder collections and a stockbook of Queen Elizabeth material the owner never placed into the albums.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,250.00
Price Realized: $1,450.00
530*oFour cartons containing thousands of stamps from around the globe. Includes nearly 20 country devoted albums and stockbooks plus well over a hundred stockpages with stamps sorted by country. Then, a few hundred envelopes of two different sizes you can’t see into holding loose stamps sorted by country. Hours of sorting already done to assist the next owner to navigate through the mostly common material to find the somewhat better items and various useful postage.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $750.00
531*oCVMiniscule part of a newly closed Ohio store. After removing anything of an easily saleable nature, the knowledgeable owner filed much of the leftover in a room or two to get to later. Includes thousands of album leaves now loose. Loose stamps. Packets, covers, and a few albums. All filling ten large heavy (almost 500 pounds) cartons. Every once and a while a surprise, but mostly tens of thousands of the usually seen. Could easily wind up as 70 or more small lots for your bourse table or internet site. Huge profit potential.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $800.00
532*oSmall box of sets and singles on just over 90 black heavy duty approval cards. Almost all cards catalog $10.00 and higher with one up to $1,000. Best countries are Canada, Germany, France and colonies, Great Britain #108 mint disturbed gum, and four Japan airmails. Huge catalog in variable condition. Almost all look good from the front with back faults keeping many of these out of our singles session. Viewing recommended. Welcome additions to almost anyone’s stock.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,200.00
Price Realized: $800.00
533*oA treasure trove of several hundred mint and used stamps from the 1880s to 1990s in singles, sets, and souvenir sheets in “102” size cards, “110” size stock, counter, black pages. About 25% of the value is from Iceland which contains used 71-85, 108-128, and 152-166. Similarly entails Great Britain and colonies as well as France and colonies. Go exploring.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,150.00
Price Realized: $850.00
534*oCVAnother miniscule part of a newly closed Ohio store. After removing anything of an easily saleable nature, the knowledgeable owner filed much of the leftover in a room or two to get to later. Includes thousands of album leaves now loose, loose stamps, packets, covers, small boxes of leftovers, some unused or gently used supplies, and a few stockbooks. All filling nine large heavy (nearly 400 pounds) cartons. Every once and a while a surprise and some mounted down postage to count, but mostly tens of thousands of the usually seen. Could easily wind up as 50 or more small lots for your bourse table or internet site. Will keep you anchored to your stamp room for a long time.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,100.00
Price Realized: $800.00
535*oFour unrelated internet dealer’s stocks of superior singles and sets in red and brown boxes. First is a Surinam stock in a red box from 1941 to 2006. Next, a Korea stock of large sized mainly mint souvenir sheets, mini sheets, booklets, and long sets in an oversized 3 ring binder. Followed by a Rwanda stock. Mainly mint sets, souvenir sheets, booklets, etc. in large stockpages plus single and sets in a red box from 1965 to 1989. Lastly a Nicaragua mainly mint exceptional long set, souvenir sheet, booklet, and large piece stock. Diverse, colorful and ready for the market.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
536*oAll inclusive older selection from various decades of the 20th century in two cartons. Comprises mainly of stockbooks having British colonies and Western Europe with hundreds and hundreds of mint and used stamps of similar material to last for quite some time. France has most of the value. Fun lot to breakdown into smaller units.Cat. Value: S.B. 1,000.00
Price Realized: $750.00
537*oFantastic selection having good British colonies on Scott quadrille pages in a pizza size box. Over 500 stamps mostly mint stamps in sets and in black mounts from the early 1900s to early 1960s. Includes North Borneo, Netherlands East Indies, India, Iraq (British Occupation) etc. in sets and blocks of four. A rare opportunity to view and own some original material.Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $750.00
538*oCollection in sixteen clean Minkus Supreme Global albums. Weighing roughly 250 pound, in six cartons. Owner’s counts of over 60,000 mint and used stamps from the 1880s to 1980s populate these somewhat sparse albums. An opportunity to fill them now with all your loose stamps or to sell them by the album.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
539*oSmall group of a couple dozen better items. Some Scott unlisted and a few dubious but still a useful group from British areas, Western Europe, Scandinavia and Japan. Needs inspection.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $450.00
540*oEight serviceable to like new Scott Speciality albums (some with slipcases) and clean pages. Some near empty. Some lightly filled. The Japan and the Russia areas are a bit better. Also includes four for French colonies, one Central America and one Australsia. Nice group to start new collections.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $500.00
541*oCVTwenty heavy cartons of a major dealer’s run off. Consists of worldwide mint and used in albums, covers (four cartons), and a big jumble of stocksheets, random loose stamps, glassines, and stockbooks. Amazing number of collectable stamps in no apparent order except for a few topicals housed in collections or aggregations. If you have the time good profits are possible.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $600.00
542*oAll the rest of the red counterbooks 1872-2002 from a recently closed Ohio stamp shop. Comprised of singles, short sets, sets and varieties from his comprehensive every day stock. Includes all the countries and areas that could not be suitably grouped together in viable lots. A bunch of small country lots. Best are: Memel, St. Pierre and Miquelon, Burma, New Caledonia, Indo China, and many more. Duplication in places some of which is substantial. Some of the 39 red binders hold few pages others are over packed. Lots of gems, in this stock, here for your rediscovery. Two heavy (60 pounds) cartons that will be simple to recycle.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00
543*oSuper selection from a consignor in 14 boxes, weighing around 500 pounds, from mainly various decades of the 20th century. Thousands of mint and used stamps in over 50 binders, shoeboxes with envelopes by country, other envelopes, and loose having enough of the same material to last your sorting adventures for quite some time. Good for the fall bourse season.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $550.00
544*oA varied group on a conglomeration of several dozen salespages and salescards. Runs from the classics to fairly modern of mainly medium to better grade. Condition mixed and a few dubious but overall a worthwhile group with good profit potential.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $500.00
545*oMedium size carton containing a respectable Canada/Newfoundland collection on Harris pages to the early 1990s with the 19th century mostly used and the 20th century mainly mint. Also includes two Scott Internationals of “A” countries. These hold a few thousand total. Worth a peak.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $475.00
546*Mostly medium to better values and sets that have been culled out of auction lots identified, cataloged and arranged on “102” size salescards. Strong in Europe, then British with much more from around the globe. Encompasses around 150 cards.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $450.00
547*oStock from the closed Ohio store arranged on “107” size salescards filling about 1½ red boxes. Mostly NH sets running past the year 2000. The UN fills over half a box with Martinique and FSAT accounting for a quarter box each.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $750.00
548*oInternet dealer’s stock of superior nature in a red box circa 1937 to 1999. Involves virtually all mint sets, souvenir sheets, or booklets mainly NH. Approximately 500 “108” size cards with hundreds and hundreds of stamps neatly organized. Catalog value of $7,800.00 added on enclosed tapes Some countries included are Reunion $630.00, Nepal $330.00, New Caledonia $290.00, New Hebrides $960.00, Ryukyu Is. $1,400.00, St Pierre $550.00, Wallis and Futuna $670.00, plus Surinam $885.00. Any duplication is sensible and quite often on better items. Perfect for beefing up your stock in these areas.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $900.00
549*oConsignment as received filling a carton. Includes seven Scott Specialty albums for Great Britain, Hungary x 2, Mexico, Greece, German area, Salvador, etc. The first mentioned is the most valuable and all the albums are serviceable to clean. Also includes eight skinny stockbooks that the Canadian postage is the most redeemable.Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $400.00
550*oFive volume Minkus album A-Z collection from the 1860s to 1980s. Thousands and thousands of mint and used stamps in singles, partial, and full sets in mismatched binders. Entails decent PRC, Thailand, Scandinavia plus other interspersed throughout on these mostly jammed packaged pages. You will not go wrong contemplating this selection.Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $600.00
551*oFour small island groups. Comprises Maldives from 1906 to 2001, the Marshal Islands, Micronesia and Palau from 1984 to 1990 on Scott album pages having over 2,200 mint stamps in singles, full sets and 90 souvenir sheets. Already cataloged by a knowledgeable collector with a value of about $3,000.00. The second part includes collections from South Africa 1910 to 2004, Salvador from the 1970s to 1990s, an accumulation of Tonga mint sets from the 1970s cataloging $400.00, a small stockbook of modern Algeria, small accumulation of modern Israel tabs and miscellaneous in glassines, sales and counter pages. An offering that has topicals “galore”Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $550.00
552*oConsignment as received in two cartons. Includes three Germany Lindner hingeless albums from 1990 to 2007, two DDR KaBe albums from 1948 to 1987, and a KaBe Europa album from 1956 to 1969 filled with hundreds of mint and used stamps. Also encompasses stockbooks having German extras plus miscellaneous foreign. Set up for easy processing.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $400.00
553*oSuper Asia and Africa pairing from the 1870s to 1980s. Embraces mainly PRC, ROC, Japan as well as Liberia, Rwanda, St. Thomas and Prince Islands in four counterbooks, two Scott Specialty albums, one M-Z Africa from 1960-1968, and one for Liberia from 1860 to 1973, a stockbook and glassines containing hundreds of mint and used stamps with enjoyable duplicates. Includes PRC #1903 and 1923-1928 in sheets, and some early Japan on an album page having some surprises. Checking out this offering could result in a broad smile.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $425.00
554*oEleven volume Harris worldwide albums from the 1880s to 1990s, weighing about 200 pounds, in four cartons. Thousands of mint and used stamps in singles, full, partial sets, and souvenir sheets amassed in these bulging albums. Appears the owner had a heavy tongue as some stamps are stuck down. An impressive selection that needs some reorganization.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $375.00
555*oBulging seven volume Citation album collection from the 1880s to early 1970s in four cartons. Entails hundreds and hundreds of mint and used stamps having a variety of singles, full or partial sets. Spotted a decent PRC as well as British colonies. Excellent candidate for folder collections for bourse or internet sales.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
556*oAccumulation of mainly worldwide in six cartons from the recently closed Ohio store. Involves thousands of mint and used stamps on album pages, small boxes, folders, loose, and subscription items. Plenty of similar material to make awesome bourse or internet lots. Viewing a must.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $600.00
557*oAccumulation of three old Scott albums with strong classical Italy up to 1936, along with comparable Greece, Egypt, Guatemala, Mexico, and Canada. Lots of power with Great Britain #1 and many other $25.00-$50.00 range. Extra stockcards of Australia, Canada, a pair of striking Cape triangles and two small boxes of stamps in glassines add to the value. Huge catalog better than average condition. Will be a lot of fun to take apart.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00
558*Small box housing mostly souvenir sheets and booklets. Wide range with notable Switzerland, Portugal, East Germany, Cuba, Turkey, Indonesia, Mexico, Germany, Japan, Russia, Brazil and more. Condition mixed. Inspect wisely.Cat. Value: S.B. 475.00
Price Realized: $325.00
559*oDealer backroom clean out lot of remaindered country collections. 27 in all. Half are stockbooks the others are albums with most of the better ones parts two or three of a country collection. Better than most lots like this with surprises here and there if you go through them slowly. Over 20 saleable lots possible with some expert recycling necessary for marketing.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $375.00
560*oMarvelous accumulation in a pizza size box. Several hundred mint stamps in singles, sets, souvenir sheets, and booklets in glassines mainly from the 1940s to 1970s already identified and cataloged by the owner. Consists of good Russia and Monaco imperforate and over 40 Netherlands, Netherlands Antilles, and Belgium booklets from the 1960s to 1970s. Advantageous additions to your collection or for quick internet sales.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $700.00
561*oConsignment as received in four cartons weighing about 150 pounds. Contains hundreds of mint and used stamps having a medley of backup in 11 albums and stockbooks. Includes San Marino Lighthouse hingeless to 1984, Schaubek Hungary from 1886 to 1959, Marini Italy from 1962 to 1991, and two Minkus Supremes; one to 1950 and another B-C (no China), a Russia in a binder on homemade pages from 1967 to 1970. The stockbooks have a concentration of Latin America and the nine folders collections are remaindered. Useful for making bourse bulk lots.Cat. Value: S.B. 425.00
Price Realized: $375.00
562*oSmall group of better values and sets. Only a couple used and most of the mint NH. All F-VF.Cat. Value: S.B. 425.00
Price Realized: $400.00
563*oA highly desirable consignment balance of two totally unrelated collections. The more valuable is the Canada in a clean Lighthouse hingeless album with dustcase. It has just a scattering of 19th century, then respectable KGV period, followed by the usual postage to the mid 1970s. The other is a Germany collection stored in a KABE hingeless album with dustcase that encompasses just the third Reich period and is at the starter stage. Have a look, you might get a good buy.Cat. Value: S.B. 425.00
Price Realized: $325.00
564*oEight Minkus albums from the 1880s to the 1970s, weighing about 90 pounds, in two cartons. Hundreds and hundreds of mint and used stamps offered in singles, full, and partial sets. This A-Z collection in broken in two sections consisting of three albums to the early 1960s and the other five albums starting in the early 1960s and going to the 1970s having most of its material in clear mounts. A thought-provoking offering.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $300.00
565*oCVFascinating selection in our largest carton weighing about 30 pounds. Comprises a Cyprus Lighthouse hingeless album and slipcase from 1880 to 1987 having mint and used stamps, but from 1949 to onwards about 95% mint complete. Also includes hundreds and hundreds of mainly mint worldwide mint accumulation in a stockbook and a box with roughly 100 “112” salescards mainly from 1960s to the 1980s offering plenty of the same material to make numerous similar lots. Rounding out this selection is roughly 100 US FDCs from 1980 to 1990.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $260.00
566*oA selection in six cartons weighing about 250 pounds from a recently closed Ohio store. Comprises hundreds and hundreds of mostly worldwide mint and used stamps having enough duplicates to make this an entertaining sorting lot. Ranging from the past hundred years or so, on album, stock, pages, folders, stock, sales, cards, glassines, loose, and subscription items.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $280.00

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