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Public Auction #426

Click here for pre-auction bidding, ended November 20, 2015 at 7:00pm (New York time)
Click here for live auction, takes place November 21-22, 2015 at 10:00am (New York time)
Bids updated November 20, 2015 at 6:30pm (New York time)

SINGLE COVERS — Foreign By Country
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
48CVFaroe 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
49CVGreat 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
50CVTwo 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
51CVGreat 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
52CVGreat 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
53CVItaly 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
54CVJerusalem 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
55CVNetherlands 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
56CVNetherlands 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
57CVNova 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
58CVRussia 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
59CVRussia 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
60CVSweden 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
61CVUkraine cover (1-15-1919) registered and mailed with three trident local overprints. Types not indicated, but expertized BULAT BPP. Beautiful three color cover. Clean with mounting tape (repair?) on front and back not affecting the overall appeal.Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $46.00