SUPPLIES AND LITERATURE — Supplies |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 1 | | All the supplies (nearly 30 empty albums and such) from the backroom of an accomplished midwestern dealer. Fills five of our heaviest, largest cartons. Mint, basically never used albums from all over the world. No stamps. Huge new issue and replacement cost. Clean, most with the appropriate pages (a few just binders with slipcases). Includes: extensive US in the new type Scott binders and slipcases, Germany the same way, all areas. Scandinavia in mainly Davo Albums and slipcases, and plenty of others. Also includes a four volume topical Europa group in White Ace binders and pages, along with a handful of philatelic books and pamphlets (mainly Japan and Saudi Arabia). Enormous internet potential or start a new area. | Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00 Price Realized: $375.00 |
| 2 | O | Lighthouse; thirty expensive (Ersttagsblatt-Album mit 50 Klarsichthullen) albums almost all filled with semi sorted Ersttagsblatt cards (FDC cards). Reference #: CL ETB R (6 X 8 3/4 inches). The albums are clean with nary a blemish. Also includes well over 2,000 Ersttagsblatt cards to fill them all up which seem to go back to the early 1970s. In this category because each of the thirty albums is worth more ($30 each retail) than the cards they will hold. Ready for organization. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $350.00 |
| 3 | O | Two cartons of lightly used and mint supplies. Contents: over 125 new packs of Scott black mounts mainly in strips of various sizes (24mm through 111mm), an almost full carton of binders some filled with manila stock sheets, and three guillotine mount cutters. Useful for any custom collector who works with black mounts. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $300.00 |
| 4 | O | Supplies from the Village estate in three heavy cartons. Includes: stockbooks (some with Florida toning). empty lightly used binders, unused glassines, and of the most value the hundreds of unopened packs of Hawdid and Davo mounts. Along for the ride is a professional set of calipers to measure the distances on stamps accurately. Around 100 pounds of useful supplies. Consider the shipping costs when bidding. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00 Price Realized: $350.00 |
| 5 | O | More supplies from the Village estate in three heavy cartons. Includes: a few stockbooks (some with Florida toning). empty lightly used, and one new, binders all Lighthouse, unused glassines, and of the most value the hundreds of blank Lighthouse pages (mostly quadrille without mounts). Nearly 100 pounds of useful supplies. Consider the shipping costs when bidding. | Cat. Value: S.B. 240.00 Price Realized: $140.00 |
| 6 | O | All the mint and lightly used supplies from a recently closed brick and mortar East Coast store. Piles of manila stockcards, unopened packages of mounts, glassine envelopes, new and lightly used stockbooks and albums, all in six heavy cartons. A lifetime supplies for any collector or market them on the internet. | Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00 Price Realized: $280.00 |
| 7 | | Two full cartons of new supplies from a Twin Cities estate. Best part is eight deluxe stockbooks that have never seen stamps. Also encompasses two new albums, a dozen or so tools of the trade, a few packs of lightweight poly cover sleeves, and some never used binders. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00 Price Realized: $240.00 |
| 8 | O | Supplies from a large consignment grouped into two cartons. Mainly several hundred packs of Scott, Showguard and Prinz black mounts of various sizes. These are a mixture of open and not. Six empty with only the US Plate Blocks and the hingeless Schaubek US having any pages. A few packs of black stockpages, an open pack of skinny cover sleeves and a lone pack of hinges. Weight around 50 pounds. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $280.00 |
| 9 | | Small carton of usable like new supplies. Includes two boxes of mint 102 size cards and a full box (50 packs) of Cohn hinges. Not much else. Reasonable reserve. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $160.00 |
| 10 | | Four different almost brand new Scott Platinum Hingeless Albums (volume IV-VII) with pages and slip cases, plus an extra empty album and slip case. Offered at a greatly reduced price. | Cat. Value: S.B. 0.00 Price Realized: $210.00 |
| 11 | O | Three cartons of slightly used or like new albums and binders. Consists of two Palo albums and slipcases for Indonesia from 1961 to 1969 and Yemen from 1957 to 1967, Three Lighthouse hingeless albums having two for Germany from 1983 to 1997 and one for Berlin 1971 to 1982, and two Davo hingeless for Vatican from 1929 to 1980. Also includes ten 2 ˝” like new, slightly used Scott Specialty binders plus several miscellaneous albums. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $160.00 |
| 12 | O | Small supply offering as received. Includes a like new in the box Linder USB Digital Microscope, one box each of 102A cards and Style 4 dealer sheets plus an assortment of unused APS pages. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $160.00 |
SUPPLIES AND LITERATURE — Literature |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 13 | O | The best parts of an accomplished philatelist's library in eight cartons. Hundreds of individual titles not yet digitized including extensive selections of newsletters of Mexico and Vatican. Areas of his collecting interests include classic US, Confederate, and postal history along with Mexico and Vatican City. Heavy. OFFICE PICK UP RECOMMENDED. Shipping may be prohibitive (over 250 pounds). Call for a quote. Our extensive webphotos will help to show most of the value. | Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00 Price Realized: $250.00 |
| 14 | O | Specialized Germany reference books in one banker's box. Includes: a full 15 volume set (#0527) of Bohne's "Reference Manual of Forgeries 1977)" published by the GPS; and a 2015 Michel Specialized Germany vol. 2. A must have for any Germany specialist. | Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00 Price Realized: $190.00 |
| 15 | O | Literature lot consisting of fifteen hard and soft cover reference books mainly for United States material. You can never have enough knowledge; so this should be for you. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $70.00 |
| 16 | O | Philatelic literature mostly older, classic titles concentrated into one large carton. Around 40 pounds shipping. Almost twenty-five different titles covering all ranges of stamp collecting experience. See the web photos. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $55.00 |
| 17 | O | One carton of literature. About twenty books that mostly deal with postcards. Useful reference material. Take a look. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $120.00 |
COINS AND CURRENCY — Coins |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 18 | | Bust half collection from 1807 to 1839 in an old-style Whitman library album from the Elsie Estate. Consists of 33 halves ranging conservatively graded from very good to extra fine condition. Also includes seven extra halves consisting of two 1823 and one each 1819, 1822,1824, 1834, and 1835 in 2X2s or flips. Needs in person inspection and an Overton Catalog to search for any better varieties to come up with the right grade and number for each coin. These coins have not been on the market since the jitterbug was popular. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $4,000.00 |
| 19 | | Half dollar accumulation from 1894 to 1973 from the Elsie Estate. Consists of $41.00 face heavily circulated Walking Liberty to JFK in 2X2s in a check box and seven not full plastic pages of miscellaneous halves which includes better mintmarks in various circulated condition of 1896-S, 1900-S, 1913, 1914,1915 and a 1941 Proof Walker. Coming along to keep these halves company are three long boxes in 2X2s of Wheat Cents and one box of foreign tourist change from the 1960s and 1970s having no silver. Needs in person scrutiny to come up with the right grade and number. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $1,350.00 |
| 20 | | Liberty Seated Halves collection from 1839 to 1877 in two old-style Whitman library albums from the Elsie Estate. Comprises of 26 halves ranging conservatively graded from about good to very fine condition. Also includes five extra halves consisting of one each 1854-O, 1875, 1875-S, 1876-S, and 1877 in 2X2s. Needs in person examination to come up with the right grade and number for each coin. An unusual find. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $1,100.00 |
| 21 | | United States coin accumulation in a small box. Consists of 31 Morgan Silver Dollars from 1878 to 1921 having no scarce dates or mintmarks in various grades of circulation (some have been cleaned) needing inspection to determine each coin's grade. Also consists of four one ounce .999 silver rounds, two colorized silver eagles, eight circulated Walking Liberty silver halves, and five NGC “slab” MS-65 Eisenhower Dollars from the “Big Sky Hoard." Likewise, in cigar box are an assortment of marked or not marked .999 fine silver CLAD proof rounds (not real silver) that mostly look like Morgan Silver Dollars. Offered appropriately. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $650.00 |
| 22 | | United States and Ukraine/USSR coin assortment from the 1970s to the 1990s. Consists of seven Blue Ikes from 1971-72, 1976 three-piece Bicentennial set all in their original envelopes, four Ukraine sterling silver proof coins from 1995 to 1999 in their original holders with COAs, and around eight pounds of Ukraine and USSR mainly copper nickel regular and commemorative coins basically from the 1980s and 1990s. Also includes a small selection of circulated worldwide banknotes from the 1920s to the 1990s plus miscellany. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $170.00 |
| 23 | | United States and foreign coin accumulation. Consists of three binders having mostly foreign tourist change in 2X2s and some U. S. silver coins which have been stored in a humid climate resulting in PVC problems. Also entails a cigar box of miscellaneous U.S. having some silver and bankable coins, four Proof commemorative silver dollars in their original boxes from 1984 to 1988 and Whitman folders for Lincoln, Jefferson, Buffalo, Roosevelt and Washington coins sparsely filled. Viewing required. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $260.00 |
COINS AND CURRENCY — Currency |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 24 | | United States accumulation in a wooden humidor. Comprise around $110.00 face 90% silver coins mainly in half dollars, about ninety circulated Eisenhower dollars plus miscellany. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $1,100.00 |
| 25 | | Three Confederate States of America 1864 currency. Consists of a 10 Dollars in uncirculated condition and 100 Dollars in almost uncirculated condition (both have reverse soiling) and a 50 Dollars in circulated condition. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $170.00 |
| 26 | | Colonial Currency 12 shillings note from New Jersey dated December 31, 1763. Note is in circulated condition. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $130.00 |
| 27 | | Continental Currency 30 Dollars from dated May 20, 1777 at Philadelphia. This example of early American currency is in circulated condition. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $140.00 |
| 28 | | Continental Currency 40 Dollars from dated September 26, 1778 at Philadelphia. This neat example of early American currency is in circulated condition. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $170.00 |
| 29 | | United States $20.00 National Currency 1929 Type I note from the Federal Reserve Bank of St. Louis. Looks like in uncirculated condition to us. | Cat. Value: S.B. ----- Price Realized: $120.00 |
POSTAGE — Sheets |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 30 | | (906) Complete sheet of 50 of the Lincoln, Sun Yat-sen issue. NH, centered F-VF. | Cat. Value: Catalog 206.00 Price Realized: $190.00 |
| 31 | | (4873a, 4927a, 5040a, 5041a) Four different high face value imperf sheets of ten, EXF. | Cat. Value: Catalog 2200.00 Price Realized: $350.00 |
| 32 | | (4697c//5057a) Group of 73 different imperf full panes Forever issues of the various sizes, VF. | Cat. Value: Face 660.00 Price Realized: $550.00 |
| 33 | | (4694a//5057a) Group of 105 different imperf full panes of Forever and the other values of the various sizes, VF. | Cat. Value: Face 1026.00 Price Realized: $850.00 |
| 34 | | A large accumulation of Forever issues with light duplication. | Cat. Value: Face 1500.00 Price Realized: $1,150.00 |
| 35 | | Mint sheet accumulation. Vast majority of the value is 37˘ to 44˘ values. | Cat. Value: Face 1760.00 Price Realized: $1,000.00 |
| 36 | | Forever mint sheet accumulation. | Cat. Value: Face 1015.00 Price Realized: $700.00 |
POSTAGE — Postage |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 37 | | A plethora of postage. Includes sheets, booklets, and plate blocks. It’s an owner’s face count who ran tapes on every unit. We spot checked for accuracy and found them quite reliable. An easy lot to figure. | Cat. Value: Face 6471.00 Price Realized: $3,250.00 |
| 38 | | Accumulation of mostly 29˘//37˘ mint sheets. Also includes a few 5˘ and 6˘, some odd values and a bit of scrap with a reliable face count. | Cat. Value: Face 4950.00 Price Realized: $2,700.00 |
| 39 | | Face value part of a large US consignment concentrated in sheets, booklets, booklet panes and souvenir sheets. Generally 4 cents face through Forevers with the emphasis on sheets 1985-2010. Moderate duplication all mounted in heavy plastic pages making the estimation of face ($3,800.00) difficult. Will benefit from a clean count which will give the advantage here to the calculator savvy. | Cat. Value: Face 3800.00 Price Realized: $2,400.00 |
| 40 | | A pretty pile of postage in collection, sheet, and scrap form. We quit counting at $8000.00 with plenty more to figure. | Cat. Value: S.B. 3000.00 Price Realized: $4,500.00 |
| 41 | | An assortment of postage. All accurately sorted and counted by denomination. Easy lot to process. | Cat. Value: Face 2800.00 Price Realized: $1,400.00 |
| 42 | | Carefully counted useable US postage. After a long look the heirs decided it was a good idea to take back the postage for their count. After eliminating all the unusable fractional, special delivery, postage due, etc., they returned it for auction inclusion with their count of $2,726.93 which looks correct to us. Lots of booklets, self stick, sheets, and others with most stamps over 25 cents face each. No forever stamps (those they kept), just a compact, but heavy pizza sized box fill with useable counted postage. | Cat. Value: Face 2700.00 Price Realized: $1,350.00 |
| 43 | | Accumulated postage from the estate of an accomplished old time collector who did most of his philatelic shopping at the post office. Just over $2,100.00 face in booklets, sheets, scrap, and year sets. Collected this way from 1972 through 2002. Bends, Creases, perf separations from rough storage. An impaired Recalled Legends sheet along to sweeten this run of the mill postage group. Would probably benefit from a precise count. Will mail quite a few letters if there's room for all the stamps. | Cat. Value: Face 2100.00 Price Realized: $1,100.00 |
| 44 | | A big gob of postage in various forms. Face values range from 1˘ to Forevers and beyond. Only a strong willed patient postage counter will prevail. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1800.00 Price Realized: $2,700.00 |
| 45 | | A postage potpourri of pleasing proportions. Includes sheets, booklets, panes, plate strips, plate blocks, and just plain scrap. A pen, pencil, paper, and a lot of patience awaits a postage purveyor. | Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00 Price Realized: $900.00 |
| 46 | | Postage consisting of mainly three, four, and five cents in blocks in massive quality in glassines and loose in two large apple boxes. Inspection required since from long time storage some stamps appear to have become wedged together. Happy counting! | Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00 Price Realized: $375.00 |
| 47 | | Postage (all able to be mailed) discovered in the Cornwall Creek estate filling a banker's box. Part one is carefully counted plate blocks, blocks and singles in glassines of 100 of like denominations. Over $2,000.00 face in these. Second is a stack of 75 (3 bundles of 25) Bicentennial Souvenir sheets in original envelopes. Then lastly a large pizza sized box containing uncounted plate blocks, a handful of unopened Government sealed year sets, and two stockbooks of miscellaneous singles. Mainly 18 cent through 44 cents face. Conservative estimate of face is $2,550. Would probably benefit from a hard count. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1200.00 Price Realized: $1,500.00 |
POSTAGE — Canada |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 48 | | Canada carefully counted face postage in two small pizza size boxes. 1960 - 2002 in blocks, singles, Government packs, and multiples all good for mailing from Canada. All the work is done. Easy to figure. | Cat. Value: Face 1020.00 Price Realized: $375.00 |
| 49 | | Canada Year sets in their post office books from 1981 to 2015. Concentration is from the 1990s to the end offering postage to count. | Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00 Price Realized: $280.00 |
POSTAGE — Great Britain & Canada |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
| 50 | | Great Britain and Canada Year Book selection in one carton. Comprises nineteen British from 1984 to 1999 and five Canadian from the 1990s to 2000. As issued by both postal authorities. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $210.00 |