| COVERS — United States |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 1633 |  | Important 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 Al | Cat. Value: S.B. $120.00
Price Realized: $160.00 |
| 1634 | | 1917 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 |
| 1635 | | Zeppelin 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 |
| 1636 | | Crash 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 |
| 1637 | | Three 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 |
| 1638 | | Four 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 |
| 1639 | | Seven 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 |
| 1640 | | Striking 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 |
| 1641 | | Outstanding 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 |
| 1642 | | (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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