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Public Auction #439

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Bids updated February 15, 2019 at 6:39pm (New York time)

COVER ACCUMULATIONS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
528CVFDCSelection of a several hundred US FDC Souvenir Pages that the owner has meticulously Cat.ed. What are they really worth in the secondary market?Cat. Value: Owner's Cat. 9300.00
Price Realized: $280.00
529CVFDCAnother outstanding selection of US FDCs (This time around13,000) from a large personal collection in five heavy cartons. Mainly 1980-2002. Organized by year, issue and cachet maker, mainly unaddressed and cacheted. Not your usual mix. All the goodies are included. Condition is better than usually found with a few handling marks, paperclip marks, and rubber band indentations. Gamm, Artcraft, Collins, Doris Gold, Ham, Tudor House, Mystic, Reader's Digest, Bazaar, Artmaster, Colorano, etc.. all included. Fun to view and recycle. Surprises to be found.Cat. Value: S.B. 1200.00
Price Realized: $5,000.00
530CVExtraordinary cover selection from the 1830s to the 1960s in a file drawer. Over 500 comprising categories of Stampless (around 40), Advertising, mint, used postal cards, Doanes, Canal Zone, First Flights, Military, Zeppelin Related, Rockets, and Space (also includes some worldwide). Most were saved for their exceptional condition. Nicely organized, sleeved, and priced. A cover afficando will love this lot. Check it out.Cat. Value: S.B. 950.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
531CVUseful group of approximately 300 priced, sleeved commercial and event covers, with a good number of postal cards. 1850 to 1991. Value is in postal history; includes quite a few common FDCs. Readily saleable.Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $750.00
532CVFDCAssortment of approximately 650 FDCs, first flight, event, commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards in eight binders or albums around from the 1870s to the 1992. Offers some fantastic postal history. Slow viewing recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $1,250.00
533CVFDCAnother selection of US FDCs (nearly 11,000) from a large personal collection in five heavy cartons. Mainly 1960-1999. Organized by year, issue and cachet maker, mainly unaddressed and cacheted. Pretty much common mix. Just a few goodies are included. Condition as usually found with handling marks, toning, paperclip marks, and rubber band indentations. Artmaster, Artcraft, Fleetwood, Collins,,Colorano, etc. included. Fun to view and recycle. Some interesting matched sets "Birds and Flowers" etc. Take a look.Cat. Value: S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $3,750.00
534CVOutstanding selection of US FDCs (nearly 7,000) from a large personal collection in five heavy cartons. Mainly 1960-1979. Organized by year, issue and cachet maker, mainly unaddressed and cacheted. Not your usual mix. All the goodies are included. Condition as usually found with handling marks, toning, paperclip marks, and rubber band indentations. Flugel, hand painted, Artcraft, Collins, Doris Gold, Farnum, Artmaster,Colorano, etc.. all included. Fun to view and recycle. Surprises to be found.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
535CVFDCOutstanding selection of US FDCs (nearly 6,500) from a large personal collection. Mainly 1940-1969. Organized by year, issue and cachet maker, mainly unaddressed and cacheted. Not your usual mix. Most all the goodies are included. Condition as usually found with handling marks, toning, paper clip marks, a few address labels, and rubber band indentations. Flugel, hand painted, Artcraft, Boll, Crosby, George, etc.. all included. Fun to view and recycle. Surprises abound.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $2,200.00
536FDCOver 7,500 common cacheted and noncacheted unaddressed, addressed FDCs and event covers starting in 1938 but having a strong concentration from the 1960s to 2011 in seven cartons. Mostly nicely organized in smaller boxes. Perfect candidates for selling in groups on the internet or for making bargain boxes.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $550.00
537CVFDCAll the leftovers from a large US FDC consignment. The good, bad, and ugly that would not fit easily in the other lots. Highlights include: a handful of East Coast auction lots that seemed to bring heavy bidding at some time in the past, at least a hundred or two Collins FDCs of various years, postal stationery, some postal history covers, US FDCs addressed and unaddressed 1965-2002, and all the unclassified and misclassified items from the consignment. One large carton with over 1,200 items. Should be looked at in person before bidding.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $800.00
538CVFDCSouthern United States accumulation in two large cartons. Owner’s count of approximately 3,600 FDCs, Event covers, and postal stationery having about have addressed from the 1940s to 1990s with a concentration in the 1960s to 1980s. Includes Virginia, West Virginia, Arkansas, Delaware, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maryland, Mississippi, North, South Carolina, Georgia, Alabama, Arkansas, and Washington DC. Great for a regional collector.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $250.00
539CVPostal card selection from the 1880s to the 1970s in two cartons. Hundreds and hundreds of postally used and unused cards in thirteen binders having backup. Organization includes Railway Post Office, Navy ship cancels, rate changes, foreign destination, varieties, and postal history. A fascinating and unusual offering for the postal card afficando.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $550.00
540CVFDCFour cartons having roughly 2,500 all unaddressed FDCs from the 1930s to 2004. The best is in two binders. Also includes Post Office Souvenir Pages from 1972 to 1996 having over 800 in ten binders. Includes most of the high value stamps with 1909a and golden replaces and subscription items. Very clean lot; ready for resale.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $500.00
541CVEnd of the line cover, postal stationery, and picture postcard group of around 120 different items. This bunch contains individual and small groups of items that did not make it as singles lots, had no apparent group to belong to, or were leftovers after lotting. Exciting, eclectic, and high Cat. group that will appeal to many bidders.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $900.00
542CVFDCOver 400 cacheted and noncacheted FDCs, ship cancelled, naval covers, and postcards mostly from the 1930s to 2009 in four cover albums. Runs from common to interesting. Nice selection and variety.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $325.00
543CVFDCVarious FDC’s, single stamps, plate number blocks, and blocks of four, 1929-1968. Two albums of 1938-1939 Presidential Issue, including coils and one-, two-, and five-dollar values, on FDC’s with or without cachets. Also has mint or used plate blocks of individual stamps. One album of 1940 Famous American Issues with MNH singles and FDC’s featuring blocks of four or plate blocks. Also has five albums of miscellaneous cacheted or uncacheted FDC’s, 1929-1968. Covers throughout are addressed or unaddressed. Over 600 covers, over 120 stamps. All albums are in great condition; most covers are clean and attractive; stamps are F-VF. Nicely set up for easy processing.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $400.00
544CVFDCSpace Manned assortment in a medium box. Owner’s approximate count of 470 cacheted covers of which 60% Apollo 8, 11-17, ASTP and 40% Skylab having backup. Involves Mission dates, FDCs, and Events from the 1960s to 1970s. Good for collection filler or for resale.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $150.00
545CVFDCCollecting postal history on a shoestring budget from the 1920s to the 1990s in seven cartons. Comprises hundreds and hundreds of common commercial, FDCs, and postcards having a topical theme organized in binders. Needs to be passed on to a new home.Cat. Value: S.B. 170.00
Price Realized: $170.00
546CVAccumulation of over 280 submarine covers mostly from the 1930’s and 1940’s along with about 380 machine cancel covers. Everything is sleeved, priced and identified ready to put out on your bourse table.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $550.00
547CVThree cartons of mainly postal stationery that were found in two trunks. Includes unused and postally used from the 1880s to the 1990s having still plenty of useful stationery to still used for your mail. Also involves some subscription items, event covers, personal mail from the owner, and miscellany. Offered to tempt you.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $110.00
548CVAround 70 mainly different university and some pro basketball coaches autographed FDCs mainly on 1991 Basketball Centennial covers. Includes Mike Krzyzewski, Duke, Joey Meyer, DePaul, John Thompson, Georgetown, Rick Piteno, Kentucky, Jerry Tarkinson, Nevada, Bobby Knight, Indiana, Larry Bird, Celtics, Phil Jackson, Bulls, Pat Riley, Knicks etc. All on pages having typed information identifying person and either university or pro connection. Some minor soiling from age or storage but an unusual holding.Cat. Value: S.B. 140.00
Price Realized: $150.00
549CVAround fifty covers and postal stationery from the 1850s to the 1930s. About fifteen covers are to William M Meredith an American lawyer and politician, having condition problems but still interesting postal history. Checking this lot out could make it especially for you.Cat. Value: S.B. 130.00
Price Realized: $140.00
550CVPowell Brothers Livestock Emporium Shadeland, Crawford County Pennsylvania cover selection in a medium pizza size box. Around twenty-five mainly advertising covers from the 1890s. Contains both mailed from and mailed to cover nicely mounted in a folder. Also comes with the 2007 published postal history soft cover book by Norman Cohen.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $110.00
551CVTwo banker boxes of postal stationery roughly from the 1880s to the late 20th Century. Comprises twelve binders of unused and postally used stationery having one containing some better. Get on your prospector gear to mine some of the nuggets that might be found. This lot could be specially for you.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $60.00
552CVFDCCivil War mostly cacheted FDCs, Event covers, and postcards in a medium box. Owner’s approximate count of 500 ranging from the 1930s to the 1980s having most form the 1950s to 1970s. Interesting topical.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $55.00