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Public Auction #429

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INDIVIDUAL COVERS — Germany
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
749CVGermany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Tubingen to Glencoe, Illinois. Posted on (20.1.34). Back stamp indicates delivery on February 2, 1934. Uses four of the nine values from Wagner Charity set including Michel #W47, W55 X2, to help pay the 55pf rate. On the reverse are three neat German Olympic Committee poster stamps for the 1932 Olympics in Los Angeles. Mount remains on reverse.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $55.00
750CVGermany “sets” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses all nine values (B49-B57) from Wagner Charity set postmarked on January 30, 1934. Overpaid, probable handback cover from Obermenzing. Neatly addressed.Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $120.00
751CVGermany “sets” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses all nine values (B49-B57) from Wagner Charity set on an overpaid registered cover from Kirchheim (16.1.34) to Brooklyn, New York, (January 26, 1934). Properly back stamped.Cat. Value: S.B. 70
Price Realized: $80.00
752CVGermany “sets” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses all nine values (B49-B57) from Wagner Charity set postmarked on March 22, 1934. Registered, overpaid, probable handback cover from Hamburg.Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $130.00
753CVGermany “sets” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses all nine values (B49-B57) from Wagner Charity set at the Wagner International Expo in Leipzig on March 6, 1934. Includes the pictorial cancel. A little wrinkly with no Back stamp.Cat. Value: S.B. 60
Price Realized: $130.00
754CVGermany “sets” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses all nine values from Wagner Charity set at the Wagner International Expo in Leipzig on March 6, 1934. Includes the pictorial cancel and the Messestadt hand cancel. Also includes the work of an overzealous German Postal clerk who when noticed that the 4pf stamp was without cancel used his black grease pencil to give it an X. Few sets of Wagner Charities (B49-B57) exist on cover.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $120.00
755CVGermany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Rare Sieger FDC. Travels from Lorch to Bad Freienwalde. Posted on (1.11.33). Back stamp and Sieger label indicate the cover was prepared the day before. Uses Scott #B51, B52, B55a, and B56 to overpay the rate. Scarce first day philatelic usage.Cat. Value: S.B. 80
Price Realized: $120.00
756CVGermany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Hermsdorf-Oberlungwitz to the Borek Stamp Company offices in Braunschweig. Posted on (10.3.34). Clean, crisp Back stamp indicates delivery the next day. The reverse also contains an interesting proof of sending/delivery receipt. Uses Scott #B56 block of four from the Wagner Charity set to send the cover. Commercial use that probably contained payment for or returned approvals.Cat. Value: S.B. 60
Price Realized: $160.00
757CVGermany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Stuttgart to Turgi, Switzerland. Posted on (5.3.34). Back stamp indicates delivery the next day. Uses Scott #B56 X2 and B52 from the Wagner Charity set to overpay pay the 55pf foreign registered rate.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $44.00
758CVGermany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Chemnitz to San Francisco. Posted on (10.11.33). Back stamp indicates delivery on November 25, 1933 plus a currency inspection label. Uses Scott #B56 from Wagner Charity set to help pay the 55pf foreign registered rate. Commercial use that traveled quite a distance.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $40.00
759CVGermany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Rostock through Lisbon, Portugal to Horta, Azores. Posted on (23.1.34). Back stamp indicates delivery on February 17, 1934. Uses two of the nine values from Wagner Charity set to help pay the 55pf rate. Solid commercial use to an interesting destination.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $44.00
760CVGermany “sets” card from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses all nine values (B49-B57) from the Wagner Charity set postmarked on December 29, 1933. Name erased on front. Blank back. Overpaid, probable handback cover from Fulda.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $120.00
761CVGermany “sets” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses all nine values (B49-B57) from Wagner Charity set postmarked on December, 31, 1934. Overpaid, probable handback cover from Lorrach. Two file punch holes at left.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $65.00
762CVGermany registered commercial cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Halle to Danzig. Posted on (20.5.34). Back stamp indicates delivery the very next day. Uses three tete-beche pairs of Michel #SK20 to pay the 60pf rate. Solid commercial use to an interesting destination.Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $38.00
763CVGermany “sets” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses all nine values (B49-B57) from the Wagner Charity set postmarked on July 27, 1934 in Munich. Arrived at its destination in Chicago on August 6, 1934 after being held up in a customs inspection “for currency” as noted in the German seals on the reverse. Great example of an overpaid overseas sets cover.Cat. Value: S.B. 70
Price Realized: $150.00
764CVGermany early 1923 Hamburg to Hannover cover. Posted on January 10, 1923 using Scots #142, 144, B3 X2, and B4 to pay some sort of 25pf rate. Odd and unusual usage.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $30.00
765CVGermany two early post WWII soviet occupation local covers. Purely philatelic. The first is an untied “sets” cover from Grossraschen (crossed hammer Provisionals group of 12) registered to Leipzig. Mailed (8.12.45) and received (10.12.45). The second is a sets cover to Karl Hennig registered to him in Hamburg (received 3.6.46). Includes four different Spremberg Provisionals (27.3.46) including four imperforate pairs. Odd and unusual.Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $32.00
766CVGermany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Chemnitz to San Francisco. Posted on (6.11.33). Back stamp indicates delivery on November 18, 1933. Uses Scott #B54, B55a, B56, and B57 to pay the 97pf foreign registered rate. Wax seal on reverse plus a currency inspection label. Clean exhibitable cover from the same correspondence.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $46.00
767CVGermany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Chemnitz to San Francisco. Posted on (13.12.33). Back stamp indicates delivery on December 27, 1933. Uses Scott #B49, B54, B57, and 415 X2 to pay the 57pf foreign registered rate. Wax seal on reverse plus a currency inspection label. Clean, exhibitable cover.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $48.00
768CVGermany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Ulm through Frankfort to St Louis. Posted on (23.1.34). Back stamp indicates delivery on February 6, 1934. Uses seven of the nine values from Wagner Charity set to pay the 70pf rate. Probably an approval cover that was opened for customs at the railway post office in Germany. Folded once and roughly opened at left. Solid commercial use.Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $50.00

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