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Public Auction #438

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COLLECTIONS, ACCUMULATIONS, AND STOCKS — General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
380O*A bread and butter stock in nine red boxes holding several thousand 102 size salescards. Most countries have issues running to the 1980’s with light or minimal duplication. More used in the early parts and more mint later. One box is dedicated to Germany and area, one partial box is all Sweden. Other countries of strength are Austria, Belgium, Greece, Hungary and Japan. Would be easy to put out on your bourse table just as they are for easy profits.Cat. Value: S.B. 1900.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
381**Approximately 120 stockcards containing mint NH sets with a few short sets. Geopolitically it’s dominated by British. Strong topical flavor dominated by birds and animals. Good compact value.Cat. Value: S.B. 1600.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00
382O*Old world collection in two 1913 Schaubek albums put away decades ago. Strong Germany especially States and Colonies. A serious used collection put together during the 1920s. Huge catalog mixed condition. Uses old German hinges and flour paste to hold the easily salvageable stamps in place. Includes Cape triangles, Norway #1, Great Britain #142, and plenty more. Was remaindered slightly for some unknown reason leaving the old albums minus a few pages. Dozens of the Germany and area pages were removed intact with their stamps and now reside in a small pizza sized box. Enjoy yourself while rediscovering an original World collection from two generations back.Cat. Value: S.B. 1500.00
Price Realized: $950.00
383**Several thousand mostly different on over three hundred cards. Appears to be all complete sets or souvenir sheets generally from the last few decades. Strong topical flavor especially birds. Should be all NH F-VF or better.Cat. Value: S.B. 1500.00
Price Realized: $1,350.00
384**New issue accumulation of apparently all different from 2001 to 2018. Includes a couple thousand mainly Europe with especially strong France. Also includes some Far East, ex Soviet states and Africa. All NH, VF with good topical content.Cat. Value: S.B. 1300.00
Price Realized: $1,100.00
385O*Four small unrelated country collections. All smallish stamp issuing entities which would be very helpful to the general collector. Worth a quick peek.Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $650.00
386O*One’s man’s accumulation of over 80 albums and binders in fifteen cartons from the Buckeye State where more was spent on the albums than on the stamps. Thousands of mostly common stamps that were stored in a basement resulting in so much mint being struck. Still useful and offered cheaply.Cat. Value: S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
387O*Worldwide A-Y stock in eight red boxes having approximately 5,000 #104 sale cards from various decades of the 20th Century in two cartons. Includes mint and used mainly common stamps sometimes in multiples. Already identified and cataloged but values are a decade old; so they should be used disregarded. Involves Austria, Cuba, Denmark, France, Germany, DDR, Italy, Sweden, etc. Inspection necessary to calculate a comfortable number.Cat. Value: S.B. 800.00
Price Realized: $750.00
388O*Fascinating stock in 35 counter books from 1860 to the 1980s from a long-closed South Side stamp store in one carton. Encompasses hundreds and hundreds of mixed mint and used stamps in full, partial sets, and singles in multiples having helpful backup. Involves France (9 books), Israel (8 books), Vatican (6 books) plus others. The majority of the stamps are priced but have older catalog values and thus should be only used as a guide. The condition of some of the classics will vary and viewing is recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $700.00
389O*Ten cartons of intriguing worldwide from the late 19th Century to the 1980s. Thousands and thousands of mixed mint and used stamps having useable backup in albums, several stockbooks, folder collections, small boxes, envelopes, glassines, several red boxes and loose. A profitable offering worthy of your attention.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $3,500.00
390O*Highly delightful selection from the “Europa” estate running from the 1930s to the 1990s in six cartons. Thousands of mint and used stamps having pleasant, useful backup in stockbooks, albums, binders, counter books, and small boxes. Includes twelve Canada year sets from 1985 to 2004, nineteen small counter books containing common Germany, several Western Europe hingeless albums and remaindered Scott albums, five red boxes of which four have mainly mint already identified, cataloged mint Europa and other material suitable for resale from the 1960s to 1990s as well as miscellany. Can be broken down nicely for instant profit.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $2,000.00
391O*CVRemainder "end of the line" group of seven heavy cartons from a large consignment. Highlights include: a better than usual UN collection to 1985 with lots of extra stuff, several beginner and better than beginner foreign collections, mint stamps from New Zealand, Channel Islands, and Malta in glassines and post office packs, stockbooks and small boxes of duplicates and unprocessed material, "gold replica" FDCs, and everything else that was lying around after lotting the single lots from this consignment. Plenty of value thousands and thousands of stamps.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
392O*Twelve page Lindner stockbook crammed full with "sorted into country groups" stamps. Mainly used. Many classics. Huge catalog value. Strongest in Cape of Good Hope and Austria, but good value in Cuba, India and States, Indo China, Hungary, and South America. Check out the webphotos.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $650.00
393O*Five heavy cartons of world wide material in various albums, stockbooks, glassines and 102 size cards. Best is a topical collection that is space related in two large binders, a couple of old beat up "Brownies" and a Switzerland collection in a Scott Specialty album hiding a mint NH PAX set.. Interesting mix of material and plenty of it.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $800.00
394O*Worldwide folder collections from the 1880s to the 1980s in two cartons. Comprises hundreds and hundreds of mixed mint and used stamps in full, partial sets, and singles on album pages in over twenty-five small three ring binders. Includes British, French colonies, Western, Eastern Europe, and Latin America. Ready to rock and roll as country unit sales.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $500.00
395O*Worldwide estate balance in 13 unsearched by us, banker's boxes. Includes albums (from empty to hundreds of stamps), stockbooks (dozens), approval books, stockpages, folder collections, cover groups, loose country collection pages, glassines, and just more unsorted stuff. Thousands of collectable stamps. Good variety of countries with an occasional interesting piece. Should be viewed in person to form an adequate estimate of value. Heavy.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $1,900.00
396O*Odd and unusual country groupings in two sixteen page stockbooks filling 21 pages. Includes sorted country groups of: Philippines, Bhutan, and Liberia. Mixed, but better than usual, condition. Light duplication. Everything has been meticulously catalogued with an owner's value of $6,866.60. Some sets and better singles (especially in Philippine Airs) included. Hundreds of collectible stamps.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $850.00
397O*Fifteen volume Scott international collection arranged alphabetically to about 1980. Most books are fairly sparse with an occasional heavy populated section. The pages are clean, the books are serviceable but beginning to collapse under their own weight.Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $550.00
398O*Seven six ring salesbooks with many hundreds randomly arranged. Includes many better values sprinkled in and around early 1980’s promotional errors, other Scott unlisted, plus items that need certificates or dubious at best. There is duplication but, it’s hard to determine how much because it’s spread out amongst the books. Worth figuring.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $700.00
399O*Worldwide collection in eighteen Minkus albums from the 1880s to the 1970s in four cartons from the Europa estate. Thousands of mixed mint and used stamps in full, partial sets, singles, and souvenir sheets. Albums run from moderately full to somewhat sparse but still plenty of value to make this an offering that might be hard to refuse. Take a lookCat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $750.00
400O*Five small boxes and four books in a large carton. The Hong Kong of NH sets and souvenir sheets is the best followed by the Germany in a stockbook. Also includes on and off paper etc.. Easy profit if sold as nine units at stamp shows or on the internet.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $375.00
401O*Intriguing worldwide selection in four cartons. Includes a mint Faroe Islands collection from 1975 to 2015 in two White Ace albums, 1980 Queen Mother, 1981 Royal Wedding collections, and a three binder collection containing mint and used stamps British colonies; a little messy on album pages or stock pages from the 1870s to the 1960s. Also involves mint British colonies in several binders and on black pages having full sets, singles, and souvenir sheets from the 1960s to 1980s, subscription items, a small selection of unused black stock pages plus miscellany. A well rounded holding.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $800.00
402O*Worldwide assortment of thousands from various decades of the 20th Century in two cartons. One carton consists of hundreds of mint sets semi-sorted into six pizza size boxes which includes British Asia and Far East material. The second carton includes a mish-mash from all corners of the globe. Viewing recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $550.00
403O*A carton of collections that did not make the cut as individual lots. Russia is the best having used and CTO sets and singles to 1964. Also, France, Indonesia, and Italy is specialty albums having mid-range stamps throughout. Includes a pizza-size box of unmounted France and a Crete collection loose on Scott pages. Needs to find a new home.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $375.00
404O*Worldwide collection in twenty-four Scott International albums from the early 1900s to roughly 1990 in seven cartons. Hundreds and hundreds of mint and used stamps in partial, full sets, and singles. The majority of the albums are sparsely populated offering the opportunity to start and to fill them up with stamps.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $450.00
405O*Eleven cartons of miscellaneous worldwide roughly from the 1880s to the 1980s from a long-closed South Side stamp store. Hundreds and hundreds of basically common mint and used stamps in partial, full, sets, singles, and souvenir sheets in multiples having ample amount of backup in stock, counter books, albums, manila envelopes etc. Includes Germany, Austria, Israel, and United Nations (in six of the cartons). Basic material easy to integrate into bourse bargain boxes.Cat. Value: S.B. 475.00
Price Realized: $750.00
406O*Worldwide assortment from the 1880s to the 1980s in six cartons. Thousands of basically common mint and used stamps having duplication in albums, binders, stockbooks, and approval books. About half is Germany and the other half from the usually encountered countries. Needs to find a new, caring home.Cat. Value: S.B. 475.00
Price Realized: $400.00
407O*CVFour cartons filled with mixed contents. Much useful such as a respectable France collection in a Scott specialty album, an Isle of Man collection in three Lindner hingeless albums with slipcases, stockbook of Cocos Is., two volume A to Z collection, several hundred philatelic and commercial covers. This is surrounded by the typical ballast that a general collector seems to accumulate.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $425.00
408O*Sixteen counterbooks with many hundreds randomly arranged. Includes many better values sprinkled in and around early 1980’s promotional errors, other Scott unlisted, plus items that need certificates or dubious at best. There is duplication but, it’s hard to determine how much because it’s spread out amongst the books. Needs inspection.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $450.00
409O*CVGrotesque ten volume World collection on old Minkus pages. Dirty, dusty, written in, and abused before it was rescued from a fire. Contains thousands and thousands of stamps 1850-1980. Not all are different, with lots of duplicates of common stamps shingled to roughly beef up the count of stamps. Pencil notations abound often confusing the collection. Probably some hidden gems, but we found only common packet stamps and a few commercial mail covers. Along for the ride is one carton of duplicates and the "to be put in" group that was jumbled together. Lots of common foreign stamps to be rescued into somebody's world albums.Cat. Value: S.B. 425.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
410O*The foreign portion from a primarily U.S. consignment in three cartons. Includes a respectable Canada collection in three White Ace albums, eight sparsely filled Scott specialty albums which are mainly Latin America, plus some other types and subscription offerings.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $475.00
411O*CVBetter than usual two country general foreign lot. Canada (sparse 1965-2000) contains better mint and used with parallel Bluenose singles and dollar value commemoratives along with a representative Provinces group. The Iceland has plenty of earlies along with a bunch of mint modern sets. A few covers enhance the prodigious catalog value. Easy to recycle.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $475.00
412O*CVPostage and first day covers from a medium sized estate. Postage is in three groups: Canada with a full carton of year sets (highest face), UN,, and US (lowest face), uncounted in year sets, post office folders, and scrap. The covers are from the same three areas with the hundreds of modern. Canada is the most striking while the same number of modern US are mainly uncacheted and unaddressed. A few stamp stragglers and foreign covers add to the total tonnage. Heavy (around 120 pounds) in four cartons.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $325.00
413O*CVFour cartons of worldwide aggregation encompassing thousands of mint and used stamps having lots of backup. Stamps are mainly in stockbooks, binders, small, cigar boxes, folders, and envelopes appearing to run from the late 19th Century to the 1980s. Spotted some covers sprinkled throughout which appear to track from common to interesting postal history. Searching recommended to come up with a comfortable number.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $500.00
414O*Assortment of worldwide from the 1890s to the 1970s in four cartons. Entails hundreds and hundreds of mainly packet or approval mint and used stamps in partial, full sets, and singles in three each Citation and Harris albums that are full in spots but also sparse in other areas. Also includes several other albums, binders, glassines, and miscellany.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $1,450.00
415O*CVThought-provoking worldwide collection assortment in four cartons. Consists of eight Scott Specialty albums of which three are Eastern, Southern Europe, four are Central, South America both to 1972, and one for French Africa. Album are sparsely populated but useful. Also entails a binder collection on album pages having hundreds and hundreds of common mint and used stamps, a binder of golden replicas, and over 200 common US FDCs from the usual yearsCat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $600.00
416O*Fourteen Scott Specialty albums from the 1860s to the 1970s in four cartons. Hundreds of mint and used stamps in full, partial sets, and singles. Many of the albums are sparsely populated and two are completely devoid of stamps. Clean albums ready for filling with an old fashioned philatelic hinging partyCat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $400.00
417O*Two volume Scott International 1849-1960. One owner original collection. Mixed condition. Hinged. Clean, but pencil marked album pages make recataloging a breeze. Remaindered of almost all of the Italy and Area leaving the pages here almost devoid of stamps. Includes: used France #37 and mint Switzerland #B119 and B132. Easily continued expensive to replace albums off to a good start.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $750.00
418O*CVWorldwide collections in two cartons. Comprises three Scott International albums from the late 19th Century to the 1950s having hundreds and hundreds of mixed mint and used stamps in full, partial sets, and singles. Also includes a Japan collection in a Scott Specialty album to the 1970s and a binder containing Boy Scout topical material of stamps and U.S. and worldwide event covers and FDCs mainly from the 1950s to the 1980s. Worth checking out.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $350.00
419O*CVAll the viable stuff from a basement estate extraction in three cartons. Lots of stuff with hundreds of miscellaneous stamps. The best parts are the several dozen useful ephemera pieces including a New York Herald paper from April 15, 1865 that speaks of Lincoln's shooting, a couple hundred US and foreign covers only a few of which are better than dollar covers, and a hundred or so golden age PPCs mixed in with modern era cards. Offered as is. Condition varies.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $230.00
420O*Left overs and "not quite single lots" from the Aurora estate in one carton. Highlights include: Netherlands collection that is better than beginner in a clean hingeless Schaubek album to 1970 with a few surprises, world souvenir sheets (up to $80 cat each), and topical new issues from around the world in two small boxes. A few small presentation packs beef up the interest. Plenty to lot in a small lot like this.Cat. Value: S.B. 280.00
Price Realized: $325.00
421O*Small group of mostly mint better items. Strong in British.Cat. Value: S.B. 270.00
Price Realized: $290.00
422O*CVSix cartons holding the remains of the dregs of an old estate. Albums from sparse to empty, pulled and mishandled pages from others, stockbooks, shoeboxes, and cigar boxes full of loose stamps, and even an encapsulated coin from an old shipwreck are awaiting rediscovery. Don't get too excited for this is a lot you will go through once sorting out much of it for the "Groot Man's" recycling truck before enjoying the limited fruits of this labor.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $300.00
423**FDCTwo cartons of new issue material mostly from 2000 onwards having much from 2006. Entails mint full sets, souvenir sheets, FDCs, presentation packs, maxim cards, and booklets. from Great Britain, Ireland, Canada, Australia, New Zealand, US Trust Territories, UN, and a little bit of US. Good topicals. Offered at a fraction of original owner’s cost.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $230.00
424O*Collector cleaning house accumulation in a medium carton. Embraces hundreds and hundreds of mint and used stamps from the 1880s to the 1980s having plenty of useful backup on album, stock, counter pages, glassines, sale cards and a stockbook. Includes French colonies spotting Antarctic Territory, Lebanon, St Pierre et Miquelon, Latin America and from various corners of the globe. A fun lot to sort, hinge what you need for your collection, and then recycle the rest. Examination required.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $350.00
425O*CVWorldwide small assortment in a pizza-size box. Involves a hundred or so mint stamps from Poland from the 9120s to 1970s including #251 (gum problems), B29, and B29C, some Polish and worldwide covers plus miscellany. A very eclectic lot.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $400.00
426O*CVFinal gasp of the Sun kissed holding in six cartons. Three are non descript covers. The other three are the leftovers, stuff that did not fit into other lots, and a few things that were just too small for other groups. Some value in the couple thousand covers mainly FDCs and foreign mail. The stamps and there are thousands are in Florida fresh mixed conditions probably put away in a garage for at least the last dozen years. Few if any surprises, but look for yourself.Cat. Value: S.B. 240.00
Price Realized: $500.00
427O*Small worldwide lot of fakes, forgeries, short sets, heavy hinged sets, damaged, misidentified, and lonely mid value singles that were not quite good enough to make single lots. Surprising worldwide coverage. Plenty of appeal for the nondiscriminating collector.Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00
Price Realized: $230.00
428O*CVEight cartons of hundreds and hundreds of common mint and used worldwide stamps from a general collector who loved creating individual collections using printed album pages in three ring binders. Basically, low end material but still plenty of stamps to satisfy your philatelic tastes. Three cartons consist of mostly common US covers from the late 19th Century to the 1990s. Offered appropriately.Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00
Price Realized: $475.00
429O*End of the line caboose lot form the sun “kissed” estate in twelve cartons. Encompasses thousands of common mixed mint and used stamps in sparse albums, stockbooks, binders, folders, envelopes etc. having plenty of backup mainly from the early 1900s to various latter decades of the 20th Century. All aboard and happy trails.Cat. Value: S.B. 210.00
Price Realized: $550.00
430O*Worldwide assortment consisting of roughly 225 folders from the late 19th Century to the 1970s in our largest carton. Thousands of basically common mint and used stamps mostly on stock pages in the folders having more backup that you can shake a stock at. The majority are from Germany, Austria, Canada, Great Britain, Austria, and Hungary. The folders have older catalog prices which should be disregard when you calculate a bid. Moneymaker either selling by the folder or at a nickel table.Cat. Value: S.B. 180.00
Price Realized: $400.00
431O*Last minute arrival/find in a pizza size box. Spotted British colonies and Western Europe. Searching will be fun as we did not have the time to thoroughly examine. A gambler’s lot.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $550.00
432O*Compact selection in a medium carton. Hundreds of mint and used stamps having backup consisting of a Philippines stockbook from the 1880s to the 1970s, Germany almost complete used collection in a Lindner hingeless album and slipcase from 1987 to 1994 and around forty souvenir sheets or large pieces from the 1950s to 1980s plus miscellany.Cat. Value: S.B. 140.00
Price Realized: $150.00
433O*Worldwide revenue accumulation from the late 19th Century to the 1940s in a medium box. Comprises a grouping of Great Britain on documents, album pages and loose, another grouping of Hungary mainly on documents between the two world wars and two cigar boxes of miscellaneous worldwide. A fun lot to sort and for the bidders to come up with a comfortable bid.Cat. Value: S.B. 140.00
Price Realized: $230.00
434OWorldwide on paper mixture in seven cartons. Thousands of used stamps having ample backup assorted in business size envelopes and mostly in #10 size boxes. Stamps were sorted by the owner by catalog number and by country. Generally, from the 1970s to early 1990s. Involves Germany/Berlin, Switzerland, Faroe Islands, Finland, Iceland, Austria, Great Britain, Luxembourg, Netherlands, and Norway plus miscellany. Become an instant nickel table dealer.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $375.00