| INDIVIDUAL COVERS — Germany |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 729 |  | Wagner related Zucker rocketmail cover from the January 28, 1934 flight posted on January 29, 1934. Uses Wagner Charity stamps Michel #W57 for “postage”. Addressed to Beck. Signed, Cacheted, three imperforate rocket stamps show off Zucker’s work. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $42.00 |
| 730 | | Germany Wagner related Zucker rocketmail cover from the January 28, 1934 flight posted on January 29, 1934. Uses Wagner Charity stamps Michel #W57 for “postage”. Addressed to Beck. Signed, Cacheted, three perforated rocket stamps (one on reverse) make this a busy pretty cover. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $44.00 |
| 731 | | Germany Wagner related Zucker rocketmail cover from the January 28, 1934 flight posted on January 29, 1934. Uses Wagner Charity stamps Michel #W50 for “postage”. Addressed to Beck. Signed, Cacheted, three perforated rocket stamps (one on reverse) add to the interest. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $46.00 |
| 732 | | Germany pair of Zucker rocketmail cards from the November 4 1933, flight. Addressed to Zucker. Unsigned, cacheted, each with a different rocketmail “stamp” and label. Not posted. A pair of used singles of the same design along for the ride. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $38.00 |
| 733 |   | Germany Wagner related Zucker rocketmail cover from the January 28, 1934 flight posted on January 29, 1934. Uses Wagner Charity stamps Michel #W57 and Scott B49 for “postage”. Addressed to Beck. Signed, cacheted, three tete-beche pairs of perforated rocket stamps (two on reverse) make this one a statement cover. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $70.00 |
| 734 | | Germany Mecklenburg-Vorpommern Soviet occupation local cover. Uses Scott #12N1, 12N9, and 12NB7-12NB9 to pay a 50pf rate. Posted on February 21, 1946 and mailed to Karl Hennig in Hamburg. Back stamp shows delivery on March 11, 1946. Colorful registered cover. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $26.00 |
| 735 | | Germany Wagner related Zucker rocketmail cover from the January 28, 1934 flight posted on January 29,1934. Uses Wagner Charity stamps Michel SK19 and a Scott B49 for “postage”. Addressed to Beck. Signed, cacheted, three imperf stamps (one on reverse) and a flight label add to the fun of this cover. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $60.00 |
| 736 | | Germany souvenir card from an extensive Opera topical collection. Addressed to Augsburg and posted in Landsberg on November 9, 1933 on a Wagner commemorative postcard. No evidence this ever traveled through the mail as it is over franked (Scott #B54, B55a, B56 and B57) and blank on the reverse. Great philatelic piece for the title page of any Wagner exhibit. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $85.00 |
| 737 | | Germany 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: $80.00 |
| 738 | | Germany souvenir card from an extensive Opera topical collection. Faintly addressed to Lorch and posted aboard the Graf Zeppelin, August 27, 1934 on a commemorative “Garrison Church” postcard. No evidence this ever traveled through any mail as it correctly franked for a zeppelin flight but blank on the reverse indicating a hand back souvenir. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $110.00 |
| 739 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Hannover to Nuremburg. Posted on (2.11.33). Back stamp indicates delivery the same day. Uses four of the nine values from Wagner Charity set to pay the 95pf rate. Wax seals removed from reverse. Great early commercial use. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $48.00 |
| 740 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels across Bayreuth. Posted on (21.12.33). No Back stamp. Uses two of the nine values from Wagner Charity set to pay a 60pf rate. From the complete booklet sheet using a tete-beche block of six (Michel# SK20 X3) for the franking. Huge catalog value for this obscure position piece. Scarce. | Cat. Value: S.B. 70
Price Realized: $70.00 |
| 741 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Berlin to Hannover. Posted on August 29, 1934. Back stamp indicates delivery the following day. Uses five of the nine values from Wagner Charity set (B49, B51, B55a, B56, and B57) to pay a 93pf rate. Pencil notations on the front, with a clean readable Back stamp on the reverse. | Cat. Value: S.B. 60
Price Realized: $120.00 |
| 742 | | Germany “sets” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses all nine values (B49-B57) from Wagner Charity set. Posted as registered, special delivery, in Berlin on November 9, 1933 with two Back stamps indicating delivery to Basel, Switzerland the next day. Overpaid, but one of the best “sets” covers for this issue we have ever seen. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80
Price Realized: $140.00 |
| 743 | | Germany 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: $65.00 |
| 744 | | Germany “sets” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses all nine values (B49-B57) from Wagner Charity set. Posted as registered in Munich on November 12, 1933 with an indistinct Back stamp for delivery to Marienbad, Czechoslovakia. Overpaid and roller cancelled, but the only way to get a sets cover. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80
Price Realized: $140.00 |
| 745 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Frankfurt to Stuttgart. Posted on (3.2.34). Back stamp indicates delivery the next day. Uses five of the nine values from Wagner Charity set including Scott #B50 and Michel #W49, W58, and S144 to pay the 54pf rate. These zusammendrucke pieces are scarce on cover. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80
Price Realized: $85.00 |
| 746 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels across Gestringen. Posted on (30.6.34). Back stamp indicates delivery on the next day. Uses four of the nine values from Wagner Charity set including Michel #W47 X2, W55, and W51 to help pay some sort of 48pf rate, probably overpaid. Clean, clear Back stamp on reverse. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $50.00 |
| 747 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Lorch to Barnsdorf, Nurnberg. Posted on (23.12.33). Back stamp indicates delivery on Christmas Eve. Uses four of the nine values from Wagner Charity set including Michel #W47, W55, to help pay the 54pf rate. On the reverse is a neat Sieger company label. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $42.00 |
| 748 | | Germany “Eilbote Expres” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Berlin to Kolberg, January 22, 1934. Uses B50, B53 X5, and B54 to pay the 80pf rate. Includes Michel # S114 pair as part of the franking. Elusive three color cover. Looks VF with a crisp same day Back stamp. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $50.00 |
| 749 | | Germany 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 |
| 750 | | Germany “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 |
| 751 | | Germany “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 |
| 752 | | Germany “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 |
| 753 | | Germany “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 |
| 754 | | Germany “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 |
| 755 | | Germany 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 |
| 756 | | Germany 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 |
| 757 | | Germany 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 |
| 758 | | Germany 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 |
| 759 | | Germany 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 |
| 760 | | Germany “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 |
| 761 | | Germany “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 |
| 762 | | Germany 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 |
| 763 | | Germany “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 |
| 764 | | Germany 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 |
| 765 | | Germany 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 |
| 766 | | Germany 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 |
| 767 | | Germany 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 |
| 768 | | Germany 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 |
| 769 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Dahme, Holstein to Hamburg on June 30, 1934. Possibly philatelic since the rate for a registered letter was 42pf, so 3pf overpaid. Probably the only way the collector could get a postally used singles of Scott #B56 and B55a on cover. Roughly opened, but properly Back stamped. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $50.00 |
| 770 | | Germany “Eilbote Expres” cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Mannheim to Amsterdam, Netherlands, November 28-29, 1933. Uses a strip of three #B56 to pay part of the 90pf European Continent rate. Tough to find multiple use. Folded once through the far left stamp. Looks VF. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $42.00 |
| 771 | | Germany pair of matching covers showing the use of the 1926 semipostals (Scott #B15-B18). Two on each cover. Rates are ignored to produce this philatelic pair. Across Gumbinnen (1.1.27). Clean and presentable. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $44.00 |
| 772 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Mellrichstadt to Munnerstadt. Posted on (15.2.34). Back stamp indicates delivery the same day. Uses four of the nine values from Wagner Charity set including Michel #SK19 X3 and SK20 to pay the 50pf rate. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $50.00 |
| 773 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Frankfurt (14.2.34) to Stuttgart with delivery the next day. Uses Michel #W56 and W48 to help pay the 54pf rate. Zusammendrucke triples like this are seldom seen. Striking example. | Cat. Value: S.B. 80
Price Realized: $75.00 |
| 774 | | Germany pair of catapult covers from an extensive Opera topical collection. Two different flights from 1934. Grouped together because of faults. Both have corner stains effecting at least one of the stamps. Clear cancels and the complete Wagner Charity set used between the pair. | Cat. Value: S.B. 55
Price Realized: $90.00 |
| 775 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels across Essen-Steele on June 29, 1934. Possibly philatelic since the rate for a registered letter was 42pf, but across town local rate was 38pf. Probably the only way the collector could get a postally used single of Scott #B57 on cover. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $40.00 |
| 776 | | Germany registered cover from an extensive Opera topical collection. Uses Scott #B55a and B56. 54pf paid the double rate from Ober Schreiberhau to Hessisch-Oldendorf (16.3.34). Indistinctly canceled and Back stamped. | Cat. Value: S.B. 40
Price Realized: $46.00 |
| 777 | | Germany Zeppelin card (20.5.34). Uses two values of the Wagner Opera set (B53-B54) along with two Hindenburg medallions to pay the 50pf rate. Clean Zeppelin picture postcard (Graf Zeppelin) adds to the value. Top condition. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $100.00 |
| 778 | | Germany registered card from an extensive Opera topical collection. Travels from Leipzig (6.3.34) to Apolda (7.3.34) with a Wagner commemorative cancel. Uses Scott #B57 to pay the 40pf rate. Fresh and exhibitable single rate cover. | Cat. Value: S.B. 55
Price Realized: $60.00 |
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