| SINGLE COVERS — United States |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 41 |  | June 3, 1934 First Fight cacheted cover from New Orleans to Chicago. Pilot was forced to land in a swamp after engine conked out. Men had to trudge through the swamp carrying the mail where a Coast Guard Cutter rescued them. Mail was somewhat water soaked but intact. A few pieces of the recovered mail are known. | Cat. Value: S.B. 65.00
Price Realized: $40.00 |
| 42 | | Hand drawn addressed 1918 cover mailed to Nantucket, Rhode Island. YMCA in upper left corner. A truly a work of art. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $38.00 |
| SINGLE COVERS — Alaska |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 43 | | Livengood, Alaska March 11, 1916 Registered cover to Hamilton, Washington. Purple Registration box 31. Uses a 10 cent Parcel Post stamp (Q6) and a two cent postal stationery to pay the rate. Hand stamped “Return receipt requested”. Gold was discovered in Livengood in 1914. This Fairbanks doctor went there as the town boomed. Interesting cover interesting franking. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $26.00 |
| 44 | | J. Lindley (Judge) Green penalty cover from 1904. Alaska pioneer Green served as commissioner and was dispatched to towns that had fallen apart as gold seekers abandoned areas for the big strike. This cover is from Rampart, Alaska, that had been virtually abandoned in 1903. Here is an attempt by Green to find a land owner using only hearsay from the local natives. Dispatched from Rampart. Alaska Oct 1, 1904 it arrived in Fairbanks Nov 19, 1904. Because W.G. Strong could not be located it was returned to Judge Green still in Rampart. Remailed Jan 28, 1905 received back in Rampart 100+ miles to the north Feb17, 1905. A little rough from its amazing journey this cover is a rare survivor. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $34.00 |
| 45 | | Three Fairbanks, Alaska registered covers all to Hamilton, Washington. All are franked with a ten cent yellow Washington and type U91 2¢ postal stationery. Hamilton, Wash receiving marks on the backs along with CDS registration markings (small circle) on two. Fine. Sharp well defined cancels. Various 1910-1913 dates. Tells a story of early “registered” markings from Alaska. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $26.00 |
| 46 | | Fairbanks, Alaska, Nov 25, 1908. Purple REGISTERED CDS on cover to Hamilton, Washington. Franked with smudge (oblong cork) canceled 8¢ #306 violet black and type U91 2¢ postal stationery. Hamilton, Wash RECD Dec 12, 1908 backstamp, Fine. Sharp well defined cancels. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $26.00 |
| 47 | | Fairbanks, Alaska, Oct 5, 1907. Black REGISTERED CDS on cover to Richland, Washington. Franked with CDS canceled 8¢ #306 violet black and U385, no receiving backstamp, Fine. Sharp well defined cancel. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $30.00 |
| SINGLE COVERS — Foreign By Country |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 48 | | Faroe Islands mixed franking cover cancelled in 1919 having Scott #1, Cancelled in Torshavn with no back stamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 70.00
Price Realized: $65.00 |
| 49 | | Great Britain one penny Mulready letter sheet having a Scott #1 penny black tied with a red Maltese Cross, a second Maltese Cross cancelled the sheet. Cancelled on November 19, 1840 at Newcastle On Tyne. | Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $400.00 |
| 50 | | Two Great Britain Mulready letter sheets. Consists of an unused 1840 B-1 and a postally used cancelled “Catterick” on November 13, 1847 having light creases. | Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00
Price Realized: $140.00 |
| 51 | | Great Britain cover having two #5’s (one folded through center of stamp. Cancelled in 1853 and mailed to an attorney in New York. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $70.00 |
| 52 | | Great Britain 1857 large registered cover having a multiple ten 1 pence stamps from two rows. Cancelled in Torquay on July 16 and mailed to Darlington. | Cat. Value: S.B. 75.00
Price Realized: $50.00 |
| 53 | | Italy airmail cover franked with #834a color. Cancelled on April 3, 1961 and mailed to Esmeraldas, Ecuador where it was cancelled on April 11. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2,000.00
Price Realized: $1,400.00 |
| 54 | | Jerusalem card from 1908 where the sender went to each of six foreign offices for cancels. Includes France, Austria, Russia, Turkey, Italy, and Germany. All the cancels are legible. The card is from Egypt showing a hookah and prayer rug. Great philatelic showpiece in excellent condition. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $42.00 |
| 55 | | Netherlands three 1942-1943 philatelic covers having B144-B145 and souvenir sheets having B144a-B145a for the Netherlands Legion during WW II. | Cat. Value: S.B. 75.00
Price Realized: $200.00 |
| 56 | | Netherlands cover sent by a Belgian soldier from a prisoner of war camp in Zeist in 1916 to Liege. The cover bears the green Internment camp stamp “INTERNEERINGSKAMPEN” which was in use only for a few weeks. The letter was not delivered (“unzulässig zurück” = inadmissible, return).The cover also bears a fragment of the four line cancel “Free of postage/ foreign millitaires/interned in the Netherlands.” | Cat. Value: S.B. 75.00
Price Realized: $60.00 |
| 57 | | Nova Scotia cover with Scott #3 cancelled May 19, 1854 in Truro and mailed to New Brunswick. | Cat. Value: S.B.75.00
Price Realized: $65.00 |
| 58 | | Russia card (1-25-1904) from Warsaw to Papeete, Tahiti by way of San Francisco, California (February 13 backstamp). No Tahiti receiving markings. Interesting use from Poland inside Russia. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $34.00 |
| 59 | | Russia card (6-13-1919) from Vladivostok to St. Louis. Russian Censored. Message indicates “exciting stories” to be told about “the last two weeks in Vladivostok”. The picture side shows a bird’s eye view of the city. Interesting and historical. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $38.00 |
| 60 | | Sweden cover cancelled in 1870 having two 20 ores and one 5 ore stamps. Cover was mailed to London. Great legacy of Swedish postal history. | Cat. Value: S.B. 90.00
Price Realized: $75.00 |
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