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Public Auction #430

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTABLES — WWII
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
51*Lot of twelve items signed by famous Luftwaffe flying aces sometime in the 1980s. Includes signed photos of: Gunther Rall x 5, Adolf Galland x 6, and one signed by Heinz Ebeling, Gerhard Schopfd, Josef Heilbock, and Joannes Neumar. One of the Galland autographs is on the book cover of Green’s book “Warplanes of the Third Reich" and was personally obtained by the consigner. Certificates of authenticity (Signature House) are included. Rare piece of WWII history.Cat. Value: S.B. $500.00
Price Realized: $240.00
52OThis lot is “Da Bomb” literally. Appears to be a WWII practice bomb, deactivated as a conversation piece. No sand or works inside. A full 37 inches in length and when full of sand weighed around 100 pounds. Heavy cast iron body. Removable screw in nose. Sheet metal fins. Man cave friendly. Fantasy football trophy?Cat. Value: S.B. $300.00
Price Realized: $100.00
53**WWII German flying Ace print signed by artist Donna J. Neary limited edition. Shows German Air Ace Adolf Galland his plane and insignia. Signed by him as well. Number 257 of 500. Measures 25 by 20 inches. Matted and framed.Cat. Value: S.B. $250.00
Price Realized: $100.00
54OHistorical artifacts found in the estate of a WWII vet stationed in Europe 1944-1947. Six Holocaust related items. Two emblems and four armbands each for the identification of the wearer as of the Jewish faith. It is possible that all or at least a couple are not reproductions, but no provenance. As found. Priced as reproductions. If authentic belong in museums as their condition is amazing being stored for the last seventy years in a stamp collection.Cat. Value: S.B. $200.00
Price Realized: $270.00
55OSubstantial 40 year collection of German Luftwaffe models in put together and displayed condition. Most are 1/72 scale and include fighters, bombers, seaplanes, transport aircraft, trainers, jets, rockets, experimental, and many more. Innumerable, probably more than 200 items. A bit disheveled from transit, but offered intact to anyone with the inclination and the space to appreciate the depth and scope of this amazing collection. NO Shipping available for this lot. Fragile. OFFICE PICK UP ONLY. YOU PACK IT CONDITION. AS IS.Cat. Value: S.B. $150.00
Price Realized: $170.00
56O*Historical artifact found in the estate of a WWII vet stationed in Europe 1944-1947. This armband for “Streifendienst der Waffen SS” appears to be the real Mc Coy. 17”x4 ½” with the photographed NSDAP registration sticker still inside. Priced as a reproduction with no certificate of authenticity.Cat. Value: S.B. $100.00
Price Realized: $120.00
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTABLES — Miscellaneous
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
57*Assorted items from a consignment. Includes a picture frame having the complete sheet of Space Achievement from 2000, a Moon Landing wall plaque, two small dagger having one with “Toledo” on the blade, and a set of gas station Presidential brass tokens from the 1960s to LBJ.Cat. Value: S.B. -----
Price Realized: $80.00
POSTCARDS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
58PTwo binders of Ellen Clapsaddle postcards. Roughly 300 Golden Age cards including Christmas, New Year, and greeting types. Ranges from postally used and unused in varying conditions. Already priced by a knowledgeable owner ready to sell at a percentage.Cat. Value: S.B. $200.00
Price Realized: $325.00
59PLightly sorted mint and used US postcard stock of a would be postcard and stamp dealer that never quite got past the planning stages. Encompasses nine full postcard display boxes in rough sorted by State in alphabetical order and by topic. 1890-2010 mixed sizes many sleeved. The tenth box and binder contain the “better cards” all sleeved and many priced. Probably somewhere between 4,500 and 6,000 cards all together. Perfect for internet singles, then the rest in a half dollar each box. Good variety with many popular topics and types.Cat. Value: S.B. $550.00
Price Realized: $1,250.00
POSTCARDS — United States and General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
60PAll the United States and foreign postcards as received in five cartons. Consists of owner’s count of perhaps 3,000 Golden Age, linen, and chrome cards loose and in some albums. Searching might be a barrel of fun.Cat. Value: S.B. $250.00
Price Realized: $425.00
61PAn original accumulation in six cartons of United States and foreign postcards. Around 4,500 Golden Age, linen, and chrome postcards from the estate of a Central Illinois collector. A dedicated deltiologist’s dream come true.Cat. Value: S.B. $550.00
Price Realized: $650.00
62PUnited States and foreign assortment in six cartons. Nearly 2,500 mainly Golden Age and linen postcards including motivating Russia and Japan. Four cartons entail what this Central Illinois collector called “Project” which are movie and theatre cards in tan envelopes identified by the biographical information neatly written in awesome calligraphy. Viewing recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. $500.00
Price Realized: $750.00
63PUnited States and foreign postcard accumulation in five of our largest cartons. Roughly 5,700 Golden Age, linen, and chrome postcards all in card storage boxes. From the estate of a Central Illinois collector. Fresh material newly coming on to the deltiology market.Cat. Value: S.B. $650.00
Price Realized: $700.00
64POne person’s original accumulation in ten cartons. Owner’s count of approximately 20,500 United States, foreign, and topical postcards nicely organized. Consists of in descending order of quantity chromes, linens, and Golden Age. Already set up for scanning and selling on the internet.Cat. Value: S.B. $800.00
Price Realized: $850.00
65PTopical mainly United States postcard selection in three of our largest cartons weighting around 150 pounds. Contains about 4,400 Golden Era, linen, and chrome postcards nicely organized and identified in eleven display boxes. Some topics are film, theater stars, highways, churches, Christmas, etc. Mostly sleeved, priced and ready to sell. New on the market from the estate of a Central Illinois collector.Cat. Value: S.B. $750.00
Price Realized: $650.00
66PUnited States and foreign postcard assortment in four of our largest cartons weighting over 175 pounds. Comprises about 5,500 Golden Era, linen, and chrome postcards nicely organized and identified in 13 display boxes of which ten are mostly U.S. States and three are foreign countries. Neatly sleeved, priced and ready to go at a percentage. Coming on the market from the estate of a Central Illinois collector.Cat. Value: S.B. $750.00
Price Realized: $950.00
67PTotally awesome mainly United States and foreign postcard selection in two of our largest cartons. Encompasses roughly 1,000 better Golden Era and linen postcards well organized and identified in five display boxes. Skillfully priced in hard plastic holders. Contains many real photos. Categories include topicals like Aviation, Native Americans etc. as well as selective U.S. States and foreign countries. You will not go wrong viewing and biding on this lot as it is freshly arriving on to the market place from the estate of a Central Illinois collector.Cat. Value: S.B. $1250.00
Price Realized: $2,200.00
68PPhenomenal mostly United States and also awesome foreign postcard assortment in one carton. Approximately 650 better mainly Golden Era and linen postcards identified and priced in hard plastic holders. Comprises many unusual cards including real photos from towns and villages throughout the U.S. International cards contain fascinating themes making this a very tempting lot. An opportunity like this does not come along that often. Do not pass viewing and biding on this selection as it comes from the estate of a Central Illinois collectorCat. Value: S.B. $1250.00
Price Realized: $2,400.00
POSTCARDS — General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
69PLightly sorted mint and used foreign postcard backstock of a would be postcard and stamp dealer that never quite got past the planning stages. Encompasses nine full postcard display boxes in rough alphabetical order. 1900-2010 mixed sizes many sleeved. Totally unsearched and unpriced. Not to be missed are the 1900-1910 real photos of the Port Arthur region of China some with violent images. Probably somewhere between 4,000 and 5,000 cards all together. Perfect for internet singles, then the rest in a quarter each box. Good variety.Cat. Value: S.B. $220.00
Price Realized: $600.00
70PForeign mainly Golden Age postcard accumulation. Owner’s count of 626 postcards from Japan, Benelux, Central, South America, France & related, Germany, Austria, Italy, Portugal, Spain, and Switzerland. Nice clean assortment already sleeved and priced by a knowledgeable person. Worth a peek.Cat. Value: S.B. $250.00
Price Realized: $190.00
71PUnsorted mint and used postcard backstock of a would be postcard and stamp dealer that never quite got past the planning stages. Encompasses twenty full postcard display boxes. 1900-2010 mixed sizes unsleeved. Totally unsearched and unsorted many US. Lot of golden age. Probably somewhere north of 10,000 cards. Perfect for internet singles, then the rest in a quarter each box. Lifetime supply.Cat. Value: S.B. $500.00
Price Realized: $1,100.00
POSTCARDS — Topicals
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
72PTwo cartons of theater, silent , “talkie” movie, stage, and opera star postcards from around 1905 to the 1930s. Roughly 400 “Project” envelopes that the owner neatly annotated with information about each person in calligraphy handwriting. Each envelope consists one, two or more of each person. Includes Tom Mix, Lillian, Gish, Cara Boll etc. and a lot of people only an afficando of this genre would know. A very difficult lot to duplicate today. All the background has been completed making this an easy lot to sell.Cat. Value: S.B. $650.00
Price Realized: $475.00
73PPostcard topical assortment mainly Golden Age but also some linen. Owner’s count of 1,500 postcards that have been already sleeved and priced by a knowledgeable person. Consists of Cowboys, Indians, Children, Novelties, Comics, Airships, Trains, Art, Animals, Fishing, Sports, Women/Lovers, Nudes, Farming, and Advertising. Profit potential selling at a percentage of marked prices.Cat. Value: S.B. $375.00
Price Realized: $600.00
POSTCARDS — China
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
74PChina postcard canceled in Shanghai on November 30, 1910. Mailed to Elmira, New York having no receiving cancel. Sender was wishing addresse a good 1911 from West China.Cat. Value: S.B. $30.00
Price Realized: $75.00
75PImperial China postcard of Yang King Pang Road in Shanghai was canceled on May 12, 1908 at the British Post Office in Shanghai. This card was mailed with 2 two cents stamps to Strausberg, Germany.Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00
Price Realized: $110.00
POSTCARDS — Germany
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
76PGermany two ship postcards. Includes one with oval pictures of Prince Heinrich and President Roosevelt and SM Renn Yacht Alice and SMS Hohenzollern for February Visit canceled on March 5, 1902. Slight left diagonal fold. Also entails a RMS Adriatic postcard with a message but not mailed.Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00
Price Realized: $28.00
77PGermany two 1898 Saxony Royalty postcards both for the 25th Jubilee of the reign of King Albert. Both are postally used.Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00
Price Realized: $28.00
78PGermany early Propaganda card from 1933. Rare “two languages” card showing Hitler youth holding a Nazi flag with a rising swastika in the background. The front proclaims “Germany’s Future” while the reverse holds a quote from Hitler. Extremely scarce. Unused. Folded once with edge faults and a corner bend. Fine appearance. The only one of these we have ever seen.Cat. Value: S.B. $150.00
Price Realized: $40.00
POSTCARDS — Korea
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
79PKorea postcard canceled in Kieng-Hung, Korea in 1904. Postcard pictures the Destruction of Russia Fleet. Neat Korean postal history.Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00
Price Realized: $42.00
POSTCARDS — North Borneo
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
80PNorth Borneo postcard with a Dyak couple canceled on June 25, 1911 in Sandakan. (weak cancel) Transit cancel on July 3, 1911 in Singapore. Mailed to Washington D. C. and canceled there on August 4, 1911.Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00
Price Realized: $42.00
POSTCARDS — Norway
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
81PNorway polar exploration picture post card dated 25/6 1918 and signed by Roald Amundsen famous polar explorer. The four language disclaimer on the front says: "this card will be carried on the Fram across the polar sea" and was subsequently mailed back to the writer in Kristiania, Norway. The colorized printed postcard shows two polar bears in the foreground of Amundsen's ship. Bold signature. Better than usual condition. Three color franking. Rare as such.Cat. Value: S.B. $250.00
Price Realized: $260.00
POSTCARDS — Obock
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
82PObock postcard with three stamps canceled on March 28, 1901 in Djibouti and mailed to Rovins, France.Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00
Price Realized: $60.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
83CVFDCUS FDCs 1926-1950 housed in four heavy cartons. Well over 5,000 mainly sleeved and priced. Found in the depths of an old time dealer’s basement these probably have not been offered or priced since the 1970s. A wealth of cachets some in duplication. Lots of earlies with seldom offered commercial cachets. Few if any hand painted. Airmail including two C18. At one time was an orderly stock, but over the years has gotten a bit jumbled with good items throughout. A FDC collectors delight.Cat. Value: S.B. $2500.00
Price Realized: $3,250.00
84CVUnited States cover, postal stationery, and postcard accumulation in one carton. Approximately 750 items already identified in plastic sleeves from stampless area to the 1930s. Categories include stampless, 1851-59, 1861-69, banknotes, bureaus, advertising, and miscellaneous. Also has a small assortment of Canada and foreign. Super selection of postal history well worth consideration.Cat. Value: S.B. $2200.00
Price Realized: $2,100.00
85CVKansas postal history lot in thirteen bulging cover albums. Over 1,350 covers in all, representing all eras of late 19th century to more modern times. Most are between 1870-1920. Put together over many years by an advanced collector who always had an eye out for unusual Kansas markings. Seems to be organized alphabetically by marking or town. Includes advertising, banknotes on cover, picture postcard, classics, and the more than occasional better cover. Sure to please the heartland postal markings collector.Cat. Value: S.B. $1100.00
Price Realized: $2,300.00
86CVUS five cartons of postal history from the collection/accumulation of a downstate collector. Somewhere near 3,250 covers and cards most pre 1950. All saved for postal history reasons. Many with detailed analysis and huge perceived values. Most are sleeved. Haphazardly organized waiting for the right caretaker to put in order and vaue reasonably. A better than usual holding of US covers.Cat. Value: S.B. $900.00
Price Realized: $2,000.00
87CVUS cover and card accumulation of just over 200 covers all saved for a reason. Includes a ratty #1, confederate, machine cancels, early post marks, stampless, military, special destinations and much more. Needs a close look to determine the vale of the many sleepers included.Cat. Value: S.B. $650.00
Price Realized: $1,450.00
88CVAround 750 “better” US covers and cards all saved for a reason. Close examination reveals Machine cancels, FDCs with better dates and/or cachets, flight covers which includes tiny covers, Lindbergh, Century of Progress covers, early covers, two Astronaut autographed covers, and even a round the world Zeppelin flight. Their only drawback is some toning and foxing that a several have received after long time storage in Florida. Plenty of retail per cover items to be harvested and internet marketed.Cat. Value: S.B. $650.00
Price Realized: $750.00
89CVUnited States cover accumulation in six of our largest cartons. Around 6,000 commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards from the 1870s to 1980s having 75% in cover storage boxes. The other 25% are mainly oversized, loose covers and postcards that were saved by owner. Direct from the estate of a Central Illinois collector offering the opportunity to obtain some fascinating American postal history.Cat. Value: S.B. $500.00
Price Realized: $800.00
90CVUnited States selection in five cartons from the 1870s to 1990s. Approximately 3,500 commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards from a Central Illinois accumulator. Searching might reveal some interesting postal history.Cat. Value: S.B. $500.00
Price Realized: $700.00
91CVUnited States out of this world cover accumulation in five cartons. Roughly 4,000 commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards from the 1870s to the 1970s. Contains interesting postal history including a variety of WW I, WW II APO and McLean County, Illinois. Mesmerizing and tempting lot. Viewing and biding on this selection a must as it comes from the estate of a Central Illinois collector.Cat. Value: S.B. $650.00
Price Realized: $950.00
92CVUnited States accumulation from 1849 to 1919. Approximately 170 commercial covers, postal cards, and postcards nicely mounted in five binders. Contains advertising, Columbians, registered, interesting franking usages, and foreign destinations. Includes a fascinating 1814 official letter free franking. A noteworthy selectionCat. Value: S.B. $450.00
Price Realized: $750.00
93CVFDCAssortment of commercial, first flight, event, covers, FDCs, and postcards in two cartons from a consignment from the Badger State. Mostly in albums, these covers are f from the 1880s to the 1960s.The postcards are from the Golden Age having holidays, greetings, Midwest towns including a selection from Wisconsin. Runs the gambit from common to interesting.Cat. Value: S.B. $375.00
Price Realized: $450.00
94CVUnited States over 100 commercial covers, FDCs, and postal stationery from 1867 to 1999. Includes advertising, fancy cancel, airmail, postage due, and special delivery Already sleeved and priced ready for sale at a percentage. Fascinating postal history lot.Cat. Value: S.B. $400.00
Price Realized: $550.00
95CVUnited States roughly 90 United States commercial covers and postal stationery from 1860 to 1940s. Already sleeved and priced ready for sale at a certain percentage. Fascinating postal history lot.Cat. Value: S.B. $375.00
Price Realized: $240.00
96CVFDCAccumulation as received from the consignor in five cartons. Approximately 2,500 mainly US FDCs, postcards, and commercial covers. Includes FDCs from the 1940s to 1970s, UN FDCs from the 1980s in books, and postcards from the 1910 to the 1980s. Postcards have a strong presence from the Midwest as well as over 30 unused leather postcards mostly from Portland, Maine. A useful selection.Cat. Value: S.B. $350.00
Price Realized: $650.00
97CVAll the flight covers from a small estate. Comprised of 57 total covers. All originate in the US from 1918-1962. Many first flights, the earliest of which is a September, 1912 pioneer flight from the Aviation and Street Circus flown by Horace Kearny and once owned by Harry Truby. Also includes catapult flights (2), C2 from 1918, C3 from 1924, and C5 from 1924. The rest are mainly common flights, but enough value to form an interesting holding.Cat. Value: S.B. $250.00
Price Realized: $300.00
98CVRoughly 3,000 common cachet US FDCs from 1938 to 1979. The majority are organized in order in five large cover red boxes. A beneficial aggregation to the right market maker.Cat. Value: S.B. $260.00
Price Realized: $190.00
99CVFDCClean accumulation of cacheted, unaddressed FDCs and postal stationery in eight cartons weighting roughly 200 pounds. Owner’s count of 5,000 to 6,000 covers from 1940 to 1990. Needs to go home with you.Cat. Value: S.B. $350.00
Price Realized: $750.00
100CVFDCUS and UN mostly different FDCs from 1938 to 2000 as received from the consignor in two banker boxes. Around 1000 covers in albums and counter books including a complete cacheted 1938 Presidential set as well as some other interesting cachets. Pleasant offering.Cat. Value: S.B. $250.00
Price Realized: $270.00

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