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Public Auction #430

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COVERS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
1623FDC(557, 560) The first is canceled in New York (Oct.27.1922) while the other is canceled in Washington D. C. Uncacheted early FDCs.Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00
Price Realized: $50.00
1624FDC(564) Two FDCs by Edward Worden. One is canceled in Caldwell, New Jersey, while the other in Boston, Massachusetts. Both are clean early First Days.Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00
Price Realized: $60.00
1625CVFDC(614-616) Five covers, blocks of four FDCs cancelled on May 1 in Allentown, PA and two commercial covers using # 614-15 cancelled on July 5 in Petersburg, Alaska.Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00
Price Realized: $42.00
1626CV(C13-C15) Matched set of US zeppelin flight covers. All sent to Michigan City, Indiana April 23/24, 1930. Two of the stamps have minor faults, C15 missing corner perfs, C14 blunted UR corner perf, C13 F-VF. All the proper cachets and backstamps. Examination required.Cat. Value: S.B. $200.00
Price Realized: $350.00
1627FDC(C15) $2.60 Graff Zeppelin FDC from Washington D.C. to Danville Illinois. Proper flight backstamp folded once away from the stamp.Cat. Value: Catalog $625.00
Price Realized: $180.00
1628CV(15L13) Cross town local post cover acid tied on an ornate ladies cover. Bloods Dispatch Jun 4 8 AM circle date cancel nowhere near the stamp. Along for the ride are two other unused locals found inside the envelope during write up: # 18L1 and 87L56. Fresh and nice.Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00
Price Realized: $38.00
1629CV(20L55) Cross town local post cover tied by handstamp from a Broadway Plant and Flower shop to a local address. Fresh and nice.Cat. Value: S.B. $60.00
Price Realized: $55.00
1630CVJapanese Internment WW II censored cover from Camp Livingston, Louisiana. Canceled on August 3, 1942 and mailed to Los Angeles The writer talked about being treated fair by the Army, how hot the weather was as opposed to Los Angeles and hopes for the termination of the war. Totally awesome document from a tragic time in our nation’s history.Cat. Value: S.B. $100.00
Price Realized: $210.00
1631CVFirst Flight Hindenburg May 14,1936 cacheted large cover having 13 stamps. Cover was mailed to Galva, Illinois having no visible receiving cancel. Neat, interesting combination of stamps to make the rate.Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00
Price Realized: $42.00
1632CVFour color registered bank to bank shipping tag mailed September 17, 1920 from Duluth, Minnesota to Chicago. Uses # 479, 508, 515, and 518 to pay the $3.48 rate for registration and return receipt for a declared value of $4,550.00. Great condition mainly because of the use of a Porter Safety Label made of "indestructible" material. Great example.Cat. Value: S.B. $100.00
Price Realized: $42.00
1633CVImportant WWII postal history cover addressed to Pfc. John W. Baine of the 322 Fighter Squadron from Pittsburgh, Pa. The cover (unopened) contains his Military ballot mailed by registered mail, return receipt required. He was aboard the Rohna off the North African coast which was sunk by German guided missiles and claimed more than 1,000 American lives. Among them were 19 servicemen from the Pittsburgh area, all still listed as missing in action. A converted troop ship, the British-built Rohna was on its way to the China-Burma-India theater and jam-packed with nearly 2,000 men when it was hit by a German radio-controlled bomb on Nov. 26, 1943. But at the time, according to “Forgotten Tragedy: The Sinking of HMT Rohna,” published in 1997, the sinking was kept secret, largely because the U.S. did not want to acknowledge publicly that the Germans had developed the world’s first guided missiles. Even after the war, little information was revealed about the incident, and it wasn’t until a story appeared in an AlCat. Value: S.B. $120.00
Price Realized: $160.00
1634CV1917 cover using a bisect 4 cent Washington to pay the 2 cent rate. Traveled across Milwaukee November 1, 1917. Indistinct backstamp. This philatelic curiosity was probably mailed as a matched pair of covers. Only the bottom right half on this one.Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00
Price Realized: $26.00
1635CVZeppelin covers. Three from the 1928/1929 around the world flights and one from Century of progress flight. All four have small problems. Heavy cancels, torn, but repaired, corners, oversize, use of non-Zeppelin stamps, etc. Interesting slice of postal history.Cat. Value: S.B. $100.00
Price Realized: $65.00
1636CVCrash cover cancelled on August 7, 1939 in New York City and ailed to Buenos Aires, Argentina. The crash occurred on August 13, 1939 when a Pan Am Sikorsky S-43B aircraft en route from Miami to Rio de Janeiro crashed into Rio's Guanabara Bay killing 14 of the 16 people on board. This frail cover is held together by stamp mounts on a cardboard.Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00
Price Realized: $26.00
1637CVThree covers cancelled in 1904 using Louisiana Purchase stamps. Consists of a registered cover to Camden NJ using #323, 325, one to Berlin, Germany using #326, and one to Paris, France using #325. Neat historical postal history.Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00
Price Realized: $26.00
1638CVFour covers having Trans-Mississippi issues from 1898 to 1908. Entails two registered covers one having #289 cancelled in Wyoming, PA to New York and the other having #290, two #285 cancelled in Marlboro, MASS to Bethlehem, PA. Also involves one cover having five #285 cancelled San Marcos TX to Sweden, and the other is a card having two #285 cancelled in Norton, VA to Knoxville, TN.Cat. Value: S.B. $60.00
Price Realized: $36.00
1639CVSeven covers and one postcard from 1901 to 1929. Highlights involve Scott #330, 1901 Pan Am Expo cachet having four #295 mailed to Kapaa, Kaui Hawaiian Islands and 1913 having six #397 and one 396 mailed to Bergen, Norway. Neat grouping of early 20th Century postal history.Cat. Value: S.B. $40.00
Price Realized: $42.00
1640CVStriking 1901 registered cover from Buffalo, NY (12.24.1901), to Cleveland, OH (12.26.1901). Use #294, and 298 on a one cent Columbian postal stationery entire to pay the 10 cent rate. Proper registration markings and backstamps. Pretty period cover.Cat. Value: S.B. $55.00
Price Realized: $32.00
1641CVOutstanding 1892 “all over” advertising cover from Conshohocken, Pa. to Circleville, Oh in June of 1892. Touts the J. Ellwood Lee Co. manufacturers and exporters of medical supplies that includes a list of things we had no idea of what they were. Green and gold with a view of their factory/warehouse. Intact front missing its back flap. Great example of this highly sought after topical.Cat. Value: S.B. $36.00
Price Realized: $24.00
1642CV(232) on souvenir cover postmarked October 30, 1893 (designated Columbus Day) at the World’s Fair Station. The envelope is a Chile postal stationery entire available at the celebration. Not backstamped.Cat. Value: S.B. $50.00
Price Realized: $55.00

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