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Public Auction #429

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COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
148***An impressive accurately identified well organized mint stock of several hundred. Loaded with very clean lower and medium priced items. Better mostly NH, are #’s 223, 237-238, 271, 283, 299, 305, 399 x2, 400 x2, 400A, 403, 475, 501b, 517 x2, 532 prs. x2, 570 x2, 571 x5, 572 x5, 573, 583a x2, C1 x3, C2 x4, C3, C5 x7, C10a, C18 x7, J41 x2, RW4, RW7, RW8. This assembly is one of the nicest groups we have offered and would be a great turnkey opportunity. Retail $22,000.00+Cat. Value: S.B. 3500
Price Realized: $4,250.00
149*oAn intriguing mint and used 19th, but mainly 20th century front and back of the book stock. Mostly lower to medium priced items from a knowledgeable retail dealer known for fair prices. One box has a retail value of $2448.00, another $2929.00, a couple of small boxes $454.00, a small bundle at $209.00, a stock book with $2200.00, a small sales book and red box of plate blocks including a 1053 with a retail of $2868.00, 3 groups of unpriced, loads of 1920’s-1930’s commemoratives, regular issues, and airmails with heavy doses of Farley souvenir sheets and singles, imperf Park sets, position blocks, etc., postage to count. A large portion neatly organized, identified, and priced to sell. Condition is much better than normally encountered. A perfect turnkey opportunity.Cat. Value: S.B. 3500
Price Realized: $2,900.00
150*A through Federal Duck plate singles and plate block collection. Plate singles are #’s RW1, RW2 x2, RW3, RW5-RW6, all NH, RW4, RW7 both are VLH. Plate blocks are #’s RW9-RW19, RW21-RW25, RW27-RW28, RW31-RW65 all NH plus a few later. There is $2420.00 face in the $5.00 and later items. Duplication starts with the $7.50 values. Condition and centering is mixed. Well worth to take a few moments to view.Cat. Value: S.B. 2700
Price Realized: $4,000.00
151**An absolutely tremendous Junior Duck plate block collection. Includes two precursor sheets of 9, JDS1 plate block plus two singles signed by the artist, JDS2 x3 plate blocks, JDS3 x3 plate blocks, JDS4 x4 plate blocks, one artist signed, JDS5 x2 plate blocks, one artist signed, JDS5-JDS7, one plate block of each, JDS9-JDS15, one plate block of each. Condition is very clean and fresh. An unparalleled opportunity to acquire a popular area.Cat. Value: Catalog 20300
Price Realized: $3,250.00
152*oStock of a few hundred apparently all different on six ring counter pages in three books. Looks to be material recently removed from a collection. Includes a nice selection of 1st issues, lots of red documentaries, green stock transfers, plus a few others. Not many items over $150. Mostly $5 to $50 in generally fine or better condition. Although some cut cancels or perfins to contend with.Cat. Value: S.B. 1900
Price Realized: $1,400.00
153*oA mixed mint and used 1847-late 1990’s collection in five Davo hingeless albums (one empty) with slip cases. Predominately used through the Washington-Franklins then turns mostly mint in the 1920’s then almost all mint starting in the 1930’s. Used items include #’s 1-2, 36, 69-71, 78 x2, 96, 100, 119, 147-155, 156-166, 182-191, 244, 500. Mint items are #’s 230-240, 328-330, 397-403, 524, 547 x2, 630, 568-679, C1-C6, C10a, C18, Q1-Q11. Condition is quite mixed so careful viewing is highly recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 1100
Price Realized: $2,900.00
154*oFour volume singles and plate block collection in Scott National albums. Plate blocks run from 1934 to 1997 which includes a perfed Park set. The singles run from 1847 to 1978 includes used #1, 70, 92, mint #’s are 113-114, 117, 163, 229, 240-241, 291-292, 294-299, 462//474, 476, 498-518, 551-573, 630, 803-834, 1030-1053, C1-C5. Condition is quite mixed so look closely. Worthy for expansion.Cat. Value: S.B. 1050
Price Realized: $2,100.00
155*A pedestrian 1939-1999 plate block a mint sheet collection in on White Ace pages. Mostly plate blocks until late 1998 then mainly sheets. A quite count amounted to over $2300.00 in face plus bonus items like a Famous American set, and a #1053. A real time saver for someone that wants to get serious about collecting plate blocks.Cat. Value: S.B. 900
Price Realized: $1,300.00
156*oA small mostly used stock in seven sales books. Primarily lower priced used 19th and 20th century items with a bit of airmails and back of the book. More than half of the value is in the 19th century. Few better items are #’s 72, 78, 97-98, 121, 155. Very little duplication and the condition is very mixed. Great lot for the eBayer.Cat. Value: S.B. 1000
Price Realized: $950.00
157*A beginner’s tool kit of postage consisting of sheets, plate blocks and scrap amounting to $2067.91 owner’s face count and many brand new supplies. See our website for the inventory.Cat. Value: S.B. 850
Price Realized: $1,000.00
158*oAn old 1947 Scotts American album well populated with both 19th and 20th century items. Includes used #’s 1 x2, 36, 68-72, 76-77, 112-121, 155, 166, 218, 240, 291. Mint #’s are 239, 294-299, 357-358, 369, 578-579, 658-679. There is a little bit of airmails and B.O.B. The collector was a dedicated space filler so condition is very mixed. Still loads of catalog value to wrestle with.Cat. Value: S.B. 950
Price Realized: $1,350.00
159*oA small well-traveled stock in eight sales books. Mostly mint lower values in the front of the book then turns a mixture of mint and used in the airmails, revenues and Federal Ducks. Better pockets are found in the Columbians, 1922 Bureau issues, early airmails, and 1st issue revenues and ducks. Condition is very mixed, easy lot to figure, great for an eBayer.Cat. Value: S.B. 750
Price Realized: $1,350.00
160*oTwo volume 19th and 20th century mainly used collection in Scotts Specialty albums. The group includes mostly lower to medium value regular issues and commemorative along with some airmails and Federal Ducks. Also present is an elementary used collection in a Liberty album and a small sales book of primarily wounded older ducks along with some modern high face values with some in better condition and a hard cover "Duck Stamps" book thrown in as a bonus. Noteworthy used items are #’s 9, 71-72, 78, 119, 151-153, 240, 291, 460. The mint are #’s 572-573, 630, 658-679, 803-834, C1-C6. Condition is quite mixed and our suggested bid reflects that. Very appropriate for a starter collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 650
Price Realized: $1,900.00
161*oRemaindered collections of lower to medium value 19th and 20th century regulars, commems, airmails, and Back of the Book. Includes mint #’s 294-299 (2 sets), 328-330, 369, 581-591, 630 x2, 803-834, 1030-1053, plate blocks of 2¢ Reds, 1053, and $465 face in modern Federal ducks. Useful used are #’s 1, 71, 78. Condition is mixed. Organizing, consolidating, and remounting await.Cat. Value: S.B. 700
Price Realized: $1,350.00
162*An enticing ten volume 1903//1999 regular issue, commemorative plate block and mint sheet collection. Mainly plate blocks until the mid-1990’s then turns all to sheets. Better plates spotted are #’s 398, 620-621, 647-648, 740-479 (2 sets), 756-765 (2 sets), 834, 893. Loads of face value to consider to figure in. Still lots of holes to fill for this starter grouping.Cat. Value: S.B. 950
Price Realized: $1,700.00
163*oA few auction lots as purchased from Wolffers in the early 1980s. Helpful group of better items throughout. Also a serviceable Scott specialty album that deserves to be filled up. Condition mixed at times along with much fine or betterCat. Value: S.B. 800
Price Realized: $950.00
164*oAn eclectic assembly offered as received. Most of the value lies in a few small bundles of 102 cards of mainly used 19th century, 1st issues revenues and Ducks with an owner’s catalog of $11,350.+ (some discounting is necessary due to misidentification). Better #’s are 1, 15, 17, 71 x3, 78 x2, 79, 151 x2, 154-155, 166, 191, 218, 240. Also included is a 3 volume modern used collection, sliced up collection priced for retail sales, and a couple skinny stock books of cheap used thrown in for a bonus. Condition is quite mixed and being offered at the market price.Cat. Value: S.B. 950
Price Realized: $1,100.00
165*oAll the material from the basement of a small estate. Includes a basic, but better than intermediate mostly used US collection to 1945 in a clean Davo hingeless album. Also has a few stock books, a red box of modern, and a small box of interesting leftovers. Highlights include Columbians complete to 50 cents, banknotes (some in the wrong spaces) to 90 cents, old precancels, and a used baby zepp block of four. Look close for this holding is reasonably offered.Cat. Value: S.B. 700
Price Realized: $1,050.00
166*oConsignment as received in a medium size box. Includes a somewhat remaindered collection in a minuteman album, stack of album pages, coil stock on sales cards and a decent group of postal cards. Good value remains in mint values and sets along with the postage that needs to be counted.Cat. Value: S.B. 750
Price Realized: $500.00
167*o1851-1997 mostly used collection in four Scott National albums. Lightly populated until the Banknotes then picks up steam after the first Bureaus with respectable amount of lower to medium value commemorative and Washington-Franklins. Starts to turn more mint after the 1930’s with postage types to figure. Little bit of airmails and B.O.B. to consider with nice batch of Federal Ducks. Better used #’s are 70, 78, 155, 191, 240, 291. Condition is quite mixed. Good starter group.Cat. Value: S.B. 600
Price Realized: $900.00
168*oTwo remaindered collections in Scott National Albums. Pockets of moderate value scattered throughout. The best we spotted was mint #’s 572, 581-591, C1-C6, C18. Combining and remounting in a new album would present a respectable start to a lifetime of philatelic fun.Cat. Value: S.B. 700
Price Realized: $550.00
169*oPredominantly used 1851-1991 regular, commemorative collection in nine binders. Early commemoratives up to the 50¢ values used 78, 155, 166, 191, 218, mint 369. Philippines and U.N. collections of little consequence, over $120 in postage and Christmas seal collection. Condition is very mixed. An appropriate assembly for a starting philatelist.Cat. Value: S.B. 500
Price Realized: $700.00
170***NO LOTCat. Value: S.B. 0
Price Realized: $0.00
171***1893-2000 clean mint collection of lower housed in three Lighthouse Hingeless albums. Very lightly populated up to 1920 then moderately occupied through 1939 then completely filled from 1940 to 2000 with singles with a few sheets in the later issues. Albums are like brand new with huge original cost and loads of face to figure. Very clean and a perfect starter lot, great time saver for the common stuff.Cat. Value: S.B. ----- 400
Price Realized: $850.00
172*An elementary mint regular, commemorative, and airmail collection in three like brand new larger format Scott albums. It’s a stamp desert until the 1920 issues and then just a scattering before the 1903’s. The few better we spotted are #’s 666, 679, 803-803, 1030-1053, Imperf Bugs Bunny sheet, C1, C3, C5-C6. Finally, at the bottom we found a pizza box of 37¢, 39¢ sheets and scrap. There is an identifiable amount of postage that needs to be figured between what is in the collection and box. Very clean and ready for expansion.Cat. Value: S.B. 350
Price Realized: $750.00
173*oCVOver 220 pounds of US and US related runoff from a large dealer clean out. Around a dozen beginner collections and heavy amounts of subscription covers in various sizes of large coffee table type books. A miniscule amount of face, a few hundred pre cancels, and a better than beginner Duck group (most with faults) are the meager highlights. Just stuff, stuff, and more stuff to break down into collector acceptable lots.Cat. Value: S.B. 400
Price Realized: $800.00
174oCVA far reaching cancel accumulation/exhibit of over thousand 2¢ vermillion Banknotes. Wide variety of different types including numerals, cork, geometrics, etc. Also includes a dozen covers. Condition is mixed. Great lot to start a popular specialized area.Cat. Value: S.B. 500
Price Realized: $375.00
175*An old time airmail collection with a few early blocks then turns all plate blocks. Blocks are #’s C4-C6, plates are #’s C7-C10, C11 x2, double tops, C18, C20-C22, C25-C31. Some face that will need to be figured. Condition is mixed, nice starter collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 300
Price Realized: $750.00
176***A neat and tidy mint group offering. Includes Columbians up to the 30¢ minus the 15¢, Trans-Miss up to the 10¢, 294-299, 328-330, and an NH set of Kansas-Nebraska. Condition is mixed, yet a very clean appearing bunch.Cat. Value: S.B. 300
Price Realized: $425.00
177**A work in progress specialized collection of the 32¢ Flag over Porch issues. Includes plate number coils, singles, self-adhesive panes, booklets, etc. Owners face $600.00+.Cat. Value: S.B. 240
Price Realized: $450.00
178*oConsignment remainder lot. Includes an elementary used collection on White Ace pages. A stock book of interesting tax paids and state revenues, a small sales book of Hawaii with some early issues in average condition, and a little bit of postage for ballast. Fun lot to play with offered at a reasonable price.Cat. Value: S.B. 240
Price Realized: $600.00
179*oUS Christmas stamp collection/accumulation where the value is in the issues of the 1960s and early 1970s. Includes # 1384 precancel, 1415a-1418a , and others all in huge quantities. Needs a specialist to go through it again and rediscover the reasons for saving so many. Flyspeckers, minor variation hunters, and black light detectives will all enjoy this lot for its possibilities. An interesting topical collection could emerge from this accumulation of used singles, huge multiples of sheets and blocks, and the thousands of stamps that populate this banker's box.Cat. Value: S.B. 325
Price Realized: $350.00
180*United States mint selection from mainly from 1920 to 1950s. Consists of a counter book containing plate blocks including J88 and a binder of pages having mounted stamps and stock pages. A useful offering.Cat. Value: S.B. 250
Price Realized: $210.00
181*Accumulation of Permit Postage and over 100 sealed USPS color postal cards and other philatelic products mainly from the 1980s and 1990s. If you can use this type of material or have a permit to use these stamps, this lot has you name on it.Cat. Value: S.B. 250
Price Realized: $170.00
182*oCVAll the odds and ends as received. Comprises around 1,500 mainly US FDCs, covers, and postal stationery and hundreds of mint and used stamp aggregation in large plastic bags, stock books, and glassines running to roughly 1990. Useful to the right market place.Cat. Value: S.B. 250
Price Realized: $750.00
183***An eclectic consignment remainder lot housing 343-347 pairs, 517 vlh, with jumbo margins small batch of Federal Ducks, some NH, E1P4-E2P4, J1P4-J7P4, two sets, LO1P4-LO2P4, PR57P4//PR77P4. Condition is mixed. Easy group to figure.Cat. Value: S.B. 180
Price Realized: $375.00
184oAn interesting accumulation of quite a few thousand pre-cancels in eight binders and stock books. A great assembly of a very popular collecting subject. 34 images on our website await your perusal.Cat. Value: S.B. 200
Price Realized: $230.00
185*oA compact stock of mostly lower to medium priced 19th and 20th century cut squares with a few entires and postal cards. There is also a bit airmail mail and Official cut squares. Very little duplication and the condition is pretty clean. The group can either be a quick infusion into a working stock or the beginning of a collection with some trading material.Cat. Value: S.B. 200
Price Realized: $150.00
186*CVConsignment offered as received. Includes a dozen binders and a shoe box housing around five hundred 1960-1970 FDC’s, over $500.00 face of mint scrap and sheets of the same era.Cat. Value: S.B. 200
Price Realized: $375.00
187*Specialized assembly of early triangle Bureau issue of mostly plate imprint number strips of three. All different numbers. Very few are NH and there is some perf separation. Condition and centering is average. Good lot for an accumulator of this area.Cat. Value: S.B. 180
Price Realized: $280.00
188PCompact assembly of almost entirely proofs, of both card and India paper types. Includes mostly 1861-1868 and Banknote issues. Condition a little mixed with many fine copies. Easy lot to figure.Cat. Value: S.B. 100
Price Realized: $290.00
189*A desk drawer sweepings lot from an old time customer. Mostly lower values with a few mediums scattered about. Includes a few Washington-Franklins, early commemoratives, airmails and Postage Dues.Cat. Value: S.B. 150
Price Realized: $170.00
190*An old time EFO accumulation of around a couple hundred items. Includes mis-placed perfs, color shifts, gutter snipes, printer’s tape, a BK153a, and #1384q. Great lot for the savvy eBayer.Cat. Value: S.B. 150
Price Realized: $600.00
191*oCVConsignment remainder of elementary collections and loose. Also includes some postage to count. Good lot for the beginner.Cat. Value: S.B. 200
Price Realized: $200.00
192oA plethora of a few thousand precancels more or less sorted by city. Duplication abounds in some issues. Also includes an official Precancel Society catalog. Good way to get started in this wide reaching collectable area.Cat. Value: S.B. 80
Price Realized: $130.00
193*oAn eclectic assembly of several hundred state revenues in two binders. Decent variety of states and types with a few state ducks on license. We took 13 pictures because we really don’t anything about these types of items.Cat. Value: S.B. 100
Price Realized: $280.00
194*oCVKim's floor sweepings. Includes a great bunch of old picture postcards and a lot of postage to count as well as the usual hidden treasures.Cat. Value: S.B. ----- 0
Price Realized: $1,700.00