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Public Auction #431

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COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
101PA stately selection of official proofs from the Empire estate. Almost entirely complete of the P3 and P4 types. There is also an Agriculture set in India paper blocks and a Justice set in card plate pairs. Condition is mixed. An appropriate starter assembly.Cat. Value: S.B. 300
Price Realized: $1,300.00
102O*A neat and tidy pedestrian mostly commemorative collection on White Ace pages. Noteworthy items are #’s 230-237 (10¢ is NH), 323//327, 397-400 (5¢ and 10¢ are NH), 630 NH. Condition is a little mixed yet better than most encountered. An appropriate starter group if there ever was one.Cat. Value: S.B. 250
Price Realized: $475.00
103O*Lot of twelve APS circuit books. Three that have circulated with a reasonable remaining retail of $186.00 and nine uncirculated with a starting retail of 1075.00.Cat. Value: S.B. 200
Price Realized: $290.00
104CVUnusual original WW II censored POW cover selection from the Empire estate. Consists of 10 covers mostly cancelled in 1943 in Olean, New York which were mailed to PFC Bernard T. Wallon Hoten Camp Mukden, Manchukuo. Condition is a factor which does not distract from this historical nature of this lot. Wallon returned after the war to live and later die in 2008 in his hometown of Olean where his was a renowned tile maker. Viewing recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 200
Price Realized: $325.00
105*PSmall group twenty-seven Newspaper facsimiles, fakes, and proofs. Condition is mixed. Good lot for the specialist.Cat. Value: S.B. 100
Price Realized: $325.00
106OSeven binders or stockbooks of United States. Thousands of used stamps in multiples saved by the owner. Needs to find a new home.Cat. Value: S.B. 75
Price Realized: $80.00
107O*CVThe ever popular Kim’s floor sweepings in eleven heavy cartons. If it has anything close to do with stamps or covers it’s in here.Cat. Value: S.B. -----
Price Realized: $2,500.00
COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — United States and Possessions
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
108O*Consignment offered as received. Includes a mint and used accumulation on sales pages with optimistic identification and catalog value, an elementary collection of mint and used lower values and a Possessions collection of the same ilk. Condition is very mixed. Good group for someone that wants to get started at the right price.Cat. Value: S.B. 400
Price Realized: $260.00
COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — United States and United Nations
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
109***Three cartons of mint United States and United Nations fun. The two largest are filled to the brim with UN collections, plate blocks in glassines, purchases from the procurement center, year sets, extra sheets, and anything and everything UN. The smallest carton contains over $500 face in Bicentennial souvenir sheets (not so much fun) still usable for mailing. Should be a bargain for the intrepid recycler.Cat. Value: S.B. 500
Price Realized: $950.00
110O*United States and United Nations collection/accumulation offered as received. The US consists a Scott album that is pretty barren until the 1920s then displays lower value mint until 1980. There is a two value mostly modern plate collection in Harris albums. You will need to take a little time counting up the pile of postage types that are in glassines. The four volume UN collection houses runs from 1951 to 1997 that also consists of a large pile of loose in glassines. Great starter group.Cat. Value: S.B. 400
Price Realized: $475.00
111O*CVThree heavy cartons stuffed with US and UN. The highlights of the US are two All American albums with a better than beginner collection to 1970 plus a Lindner stockbook with better mint airmails. The rest is filler with a couple hundred face in 3 and 4 cent plate blocks to count along with pounds and pounds of unused postal stationery. The UN group is a remaindered pile of postage, year sets, and postal stationery. Worthwhile to breakdown.Cat. Value: S.B. 350
Price Realized: $650.00
COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — United States Possessions
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
112PCanal Zone a one of a kind collection of 153 American Bank Note Printing of the Canal Zone overprinted ‘SPECIMEN” either in red or blue, of the various types that exist, all being hole punched from the Donald Kuske estate. Includes both a block and a single of numbers 31-34, 36-37, 38-41, 39c x2, (imperf vertically), 42-45, 49-51, 52-54, 53c x2, (imperf vertically), 55e (imperf vertically), 56g (imperf vertically), 55-57, 58-59, 60b (imperf vertically), 61f (imperf vertically), 60-66, 68-69 (unissued booklet panes imperf vertically), 68-69, plus the unissued 5¢ to 1b values, J4-J6, J7-J9, U1 perfin “SPECIMEN A.B.N. Co.”, UX4 perfin “SPECIMEN A.B.N. Co.”, and four values in horizontal pairs, imperf vertically. The unissued 1924 stamp were prepared but never issued due to the repeal of the Taft Agreement which required the Canal Zone to use overprinted Panama stamps. 600 of each denomination were not destroyed, as they were sent to the Director General of Posts of Panama for forwarding to the UPU which rCat. Value: S.B. 2000
Price Realized: $4,000.00
113O*Canal Zone a small remainder lot of lower priced mint and used from the Donald Kuske estate. Includes a few sheets and multiples, a partial roll of #160, 163a x70, C49a x90, and a small stockbook of interesting fakes. Good lot for the budding Canal Zone enthusiast.Cat. Value: S.B. 100
Price Realized: $800.00
COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — United Nations
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
114O*One man’s United Nations accumulation from 1951 to 1994 in nine cartons from the Empire estate. Thousands of mainly mint stamps, booklets, souvenir sheets, presentation packs, postal stationery, and FDCs having many in their original shipping glassines. Plenty of face to count. This collector had a craving for this type of material and could not pass up an opportunity to buy it. A money maker.Cat. Value: 0 950
Price Realized: $1,300.00
115*United Nations unusual selection in a medium carton from the Empire estate. Consists of 1955 limited edition numbered 7 of 11 issue of the 10th anniversary of the UN souvenir sheet and the designer signed matched set of three numbered 5 out of 11 for the same issue. Also, includes around 150 panes of 12 1988 Forest issue for the three UN Offices, a mint collection in a binder and on White Ace pages of singles from 1951 to 1983 (no #38) and plate blocks from 1951 to 1972 and seven mint #38 souvenir sheets of both types.Cat. Value: S.B. 500
Price Realized: $1,100.00
116***All the United Nations face in three large cartons from the depths of a South Florida storage locker. Sheets, sheets, and more sheets in dozens of sheet pages, boxes, and loose glassines. Multiples abound. Around 120 pounds shipping. Thousands of dollars in face, lots more in catalog. Both figures are probably meaningless. Not cataloged. Not counted. Its face value is for the next owner or persistent viewer to assess. Easily worth the asking bid.Cat. Value: S.B. 450
Price Realized: $650.00
117O*CVUnited Nations "investment lot " from the 1970s. Highlights include: 10 or more clean expensive Gibbons Sheet albums. Each one either empty or half full with UN full sheets from the period. Our investor took meticulous notes on expenditures and paid an average of 2.5 times face for each. All the Vienna has been devalued leaving huge multiples of relatively ignorable stamps with nebulous value. Does include the US office and Geneva. Also includes FDCs, year folders, singles and stock of limited usefulness. Way too much common, but plenty of face value for the new owner to ponder. Huge capital outlay, but like penny stocks these peaked long ago. Ground floor anyone?Cat. Value: S.B. 180
Price Realized: $300.00
COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — United States and General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
118O*United States and worldwide accumulation/collections in four cartons. Consists of four clean Scott International albums moderately filled, one US National album from 1870 to 1976 having both mint and used stamps with a mint set of prexies, an envelope containing a Republic of China collection on blank pages, and roughly $1,500 US face largely from 29 cents to 44 cents in sheets, blocks, and singles as purchased from the USPS. One carton holds all the miscellaneous US and worldwide mint and used stamps having backup in small boxes and envelopes.Cat. Value: S.B. 1200
Price Realized: $2,800.00
119O*Consignment as received in two large cartons. Best part is a pedestrian US mint collection on loose pages in a pizza sized box. Plenty of US used. A stockbook or two with general World not all beginner stamps. Princess Di collection. Two binders of religious post cards. Two small boxes of pins and pinback buttons all modern. Plus a large handful of empty almost new mint sheet protectors. Two cartons of fun for someone.Cat. Value: S.B. 750
Price Realized: $750.00
120O*CVEstate collection as received in four heavy cartons. The collection of US is the main part with almost all 1945-1995 mint postage types. Around $1,000.00 face in sheets (20 cents), souvenir pages, stockbooks and collections. A small amount of value in the foreign part, and the US and other FDCS. Needs a look with a fully charged calculator to determine the true value of this collector made original grouping.Cat. Value: S.B. 650
Price Realized: $1,200.00
121O*CVDealer downsizing accumulation of labor intensive bunches in ten heavy cartons. Anything and everything that needed more work including: uncataloged accumulations and basic collections, stockbooks of used US, old "new issues", shoeboxes of miscellaneous, organized covers in albums, and anything else that was laying about including a mint UN #38. Tremendous amounts of fun breaking down a lot like this, if you have the time and inclination. Good profit potential offered at ground level.Cat. Value: S.B. 650
Price Realized: $900.00
122O*CVUnited States and worldwide selection in five cartons. Entails Landing on the Moon, Space, JFK, and Moscow Olympics topical collections not fully complete on White Ace or stock pages in binders. Nicely organized having hundreds and hundreds of mainly mint stamps in full, partial sets, singles, and souvenir and mini sheets. The US offering consists of 11 files of mint sheets filled with definitives (no high values), commemorative, airmail 3 cents to 25 cents, 5 counter books of plate blocks from 3 cents to 22 cents, four 1968 year sets plus several 1971, four shoeboxes of common cacheted FDCs from the early 1960s, and one Fleetwood original box containing hundreds of the same 1969 Richard Nixon Inauguration covers. Also includes a file of Canada 5 cent sheets, several Australia 1977 gutter sheets for Queen Elizabeth’s Silver Jubilee, as well as miscellaneous foreign and US mainly mint stamps.Cat. Value: S.B. 650
Price Realized: $1,000.00
123O*CVUnited States and mainly Canada selection in three cartons. Consists three plastic tubs of neatly organized in sequential order owner’s count of 333 US Coast Guard Cutter Events from 1934 to 2004 and 843 Canada cacheted FDCs from 1935 to 2004 having duplicates. Also includes Canada with owner’s count of 346 mint and used stamps collection from 1851 to 1977 on Minkus pages, US mint Commemoratives with face of $50.11 in multiples from 1933 to 1953 and a Scott International Junior album with 809 mint and used stamps from 1840 to mid-1940. Likewise entails nine Canada mint sets mostly still sealed from 1987 to 2003.Cat. Value: S.B. 650
Price Realized: $750.00
124O*Several thousand different in nine Scott internationals. Runs up to the early 1970’s of mainly used or CTO but with plenty of mint. Owner’s count on the 1st volume is over 3000. Many sets including some likeable China, Russia, Bhutan, etc.. Great lot for stamp club picking as many countries and time periods are involved.Cat. Value: S.B. 550
Price Realized: $1,050.00
125O*Three cartons containing the last part of an original general collection. The Europe as well as the Latin America is offered elsewhere in this sale. Highlights include: an intermediate US collection, four Scott specialty albums and pages for Great Britain and colonies and Asia, a couple of old International Juniors one that is better than the others, a few remaindered folder collections, and a couple of shoeboxes of duplicates. All as consigned with thousands of correctly placed stamps from the owner's less favorite places around the world.Cat. Value: S.B. 500
Price Realized: $1,100.00
126O*Freshly arrived on the philatelic market, United States and worldwide selection from the 1900 to the 1980s in one carton. Around 900 #102 sales cards in two red boxes containing mostly cataloged by the owner in singles, full and partial sets with beneficial backup. Averages $4.00 to $20.00 with an occasional card from $30.00 and up. Worldwide involves mainly Western Europe. Useful for internet sales.Cat. Value: S.B. 500
Price Realized: $850.00
127O*CVAccumulation offered as received. Includes mostly modern elementary collections of singles, coils, booklet panes and a bit of airmails and Back of the Book. Sifting further down we spotted some scrap postage and sheets to count, a handful of FDC’s with a few cacheted of the 1930’s commemoratives. The foreign is made up of some modern Australia, Canada, Great Britain, a cute Rotary collection, and a Regency International album thrown in for a bonus. Lots of material to play with and just right for a stamp club to dig through.Cat. Value: S.B. 500
Price Realized: $650.00
128O*CVConsignment as received from the “Buckeye” State in ten cartons. Contains hundreds and hundreds mint and used stamps from various decades of the 20th Century in binders, albums, stockbooks, and large envelopes having amply amount of backup to keep you occupied for some time. Includes US and worldwide topicals in mainly in binders lovely assembled by the owner. Also includes mostly US FDCs from the 1930s to 1990s as well as US and foreign commercial covers, postal stationery and supplies. Examination recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 500
Price Realized: $1,365.00
129O*Thousands of stamps mounted on old approval type pages many years ago and recently put into twenty-eight new three ring binders. Beneficial duplication for shades and cancels. Old catalog totals over $7800. Each book’s catalog value has been written on the inside front which makes this an easy money maker to sell at bourses by the book.Cat. Value: S.B. 450
Price Realized: $1,000.00
130O*CVSelection in seven cartons. Contains mostly FDCs, covers, postcards, and postal stationery as well as hundreds and hundreds of mint and used stamps having plenty of backup in binders, small boxes, and cover albums. Includes Czechoslovakia assortment holding a tin of bundle ware as well as some interesting WW I covers from Kalamazoo. Searching this offering is recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 450
Price Realized: $1,000.00
131CVFDCUnited States and worldwide cover accumulation in nine cartons. Thousands of common cachet FDCs, commercial covers, and postal stationery mostly from the 1940s to 1990s. Has a lifetime supply of Netherlands and United Nations FDCs mainly from the late 1980s to 1990s. A candidate for a resourceful market maker.Cat. Value: S.B. 450
Price Realized: $850.00
132O*CVConsignment remainder grouping from the Alfred Boerger estate. Includes some mint and used lower values on stamp club auction pages, contemporary tagging and precancels in sheets, plate strips and scrap, a 29¢ legends of the West Error sheet in official USPS packing, some miscellaneous philatelic ephemera, Kennedy Memorial paper stuff. The foreign is anchored with miscellaneous lower to medium values, some of dubious nature, Italian archival material, and paper money thrown in for a bonus. Great lot for the savvy marketer.Cat. Value: S.B. 375
Price Realized: $400.00
133O*Assortment in two cartons. Most of the value is in the US face having an owner’s count of $819.21 of mainly plateblocks starting with three cents in four binders. Also includes common worldwide mint and used stamps in sleeves or baggies and a wee bit of US and worldwide postal stationery.Cat. Value: S.B. 375
Price Realized: $475.00
134O*Estate remainder in four large heavy cartons includes a pedestrian US single collection to 1972 along with a five volume US plate block collection through eight centers. Plus all the covers (US and foreign) found in the estate. A tad bit stinky from poor storage, but with all the face to be counted is easily overlooked. Not much foreign in this interesting but heavy lot.Cat. Value: S.B. 350
Price Realized: $750.00
135OUnited States and worldwide assortment in seven cartons. Consists of 26 binders of U.S. and 12 binders of worldwide to the 1980s of common used stamps in extreme multiples. Also includes seven boxes of U.S. and one of foreign in glassines having similar common material around 800 subscription covers, some inexpensive collections, and Christmas seals. Useful selection for someone.Cat. Value: S.B. 350
Price Realized: $400.00
136O*CVCollection "once removed" from a postage dealer where every scrap of useable US face (6 cent and up) has been liberated leaving everything else. Three cartons of US remainders including a couple better than beginner collections, two cartons of foreign collections and disheveled remainders, and a heavy carton of UN mainly from 1964-1980. Anything could be in here as only the postage was removed previously. Offered intact to please the next recycler who with the right amount of philatelic knowledge can profitably boil down this 200 pound project.Cat. Value: S.B. 325
Price Realized: $500.00
137OCollection of a couple thousand in three, three ring binders, hinged on school lined paper. All used going up to around the millennium. Includes US, Japan and a little UN. This was assembled by buying accumulations and extensively trading. Everything was meticulously cataloged totaling $3610. New albums would be nice.Cat. Value: S.B. 300
Price Realized: $375.00
138O*Consignment as received in eight large cartons. Includes FDC’s, common used US in stockbooks, Neanderthal collections of worldwide and US, picture postcards, subscription offerings, etc.. good bulk eBay offering.Cat. Value: S.B. 300
Price Realized: $1,250.00
139O*Consignment as received consolidated into one large carton. Most of the value is in the mint modern US postage mainly in sheets in to sheet holders at the top of the carton (over $150 face). Also includes: a few intermediate mint US singles, US used on paper and off paper (pounds), useful France, small country groups of Japan, China, Spain and Portugal. Thousands of stamps altogether with a high aggregate catalog value. Lots of duplicates. Real gambler lot from an original collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 200
Price Realized: $270.00
140O*Consignment as received from a longtime stamp saver in three cartons. Basically, common material mounted on various pages in seventeen binders, sorted into envelopes and baggies. The most redeeming parts are the modern ducks, U.S. postage and the thousands of stamps. Worth a quick peek as you might get a good buy.Cat. Value: S.B. 200
Price Realized: $425.00
141O*The totality of a casual collector's estate in three of our largest weighty cartons. Highlights include: several country albums on home made pages mostly British, shoeboxes and plastic tubs of miscellaneous to be processed stamps mostly on paper mixes, various bundles of duplicates, and just a little US postage to count. As received and reboxed to make searching a pleasure.Cat. Value: S.B. 150
Price Realized: $280.00
142OAn on and off paper holding consisting of approximately 69 lbs. on paper, 15 lbs. off paper of US, 17 lbs. of worldwide on paper plus a large carton of packets.Cat. Value: S.B. 150
Price Realized: $110.00
143O*CVConsignment as received in three large cartons. Very clean throughout. Includes nice little topical collections that encompass stamps, first days, picture postcards and ephemera. Also unused supplies, postage and four worlds fair tickets. Good eBay lot.Cat. Value: S.B. 150
Price Realized: $250.00
144O*Two cartons of stuff. The large carton has thousands of common US stamps off paper in huge multiples both in envelopes and loose. The second carton has several useful but mainly empty worldwide albums, an Israel collection on White Ace pages missing the keys as well as additional stuff.Cat. Value: S.B. 120
Price Realized: $90.00
145O*Consignment balance in three cartons. Includes low worldwide in glassines, common U.S. mounted on approval pages, a bit of postage plus some miscellaneous. Lots to play with.Cat. Value: S.B. 100
Price Realized: $350.00
146O*Consignment as received in one large carton. Includes two Scott internationals with part one the best item in the lot. Also three other starter collections, a bit of postage and various other stamps in envelopes and glassines.Cat. Value: S.B. 95
Price Realized: $230.00
147O*CVConsignment remainder assembly of near empty Scott minuteman and a Scott International part 1 albums, a couple binders of cheap mint and used miscellaneous on and off paper. Some foreign currency thrown in for a bonus. Good lot for a youth booth.Cat. Value: S.B. 50
Price Realized: $42.00
148OA meter accumulation weighing over 100 pounds. Includes cut squares, strips, tapes, and entires from the 1920’s to the 1960’s with examples of PB, NCR, Flying Eagles, with a good number of slogans meter impressions like railroads, Christmas, etc. About 20% of the bulk is foreign with some WWII censored. This is the remains of the holding of Herman Wasmer, a prominent Chicago meter collector and officer of the Philometer Society. Condition ranges from clean to extremely dusty from the half century of storage.Cat. Value: S.B. ----- 0
Price Realized: $150.00
COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — Topicals
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
149O*CVFull carton of a few thousand different mainly used revenues where the bulk of the value is in Great Britain revenues from 1837-1900. Lots of obscure revenue stamps and embossed paper including: Foreign Bill, Court of Justice, Television License, Dog License, Excise, Medicine Stamp Duty, and many more. Also includes all the other revenues and Cinderellas that were found in the same estate 1820-1976. France, Latin America, and Ireland are best. Perfect for the revenue collector or dealer.Cat. Value: S.B. 750
Price Realized: $950.00
150O*UPU 1974 comprehensive mainly mint collection in five like new White Ace albums on White Ace pages. Quite a bit of catalog. Was purchased through new issue sources A-Z. Includes imperf pairs and other more obscure types making this an unusual find. Excellent hinged condition in these hundreds of stamps on one topic. Will make a UPU collector very happy.Cat. Value: S.B. 450
Price Realized: $400.00

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