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Public Auction #440

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COVER ACCUMULATIONS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
151CVFDCMae Weigand hand painted assortment from 1943 to 1947. Over fifty mostly FDCs including about twenty having themes of China, Korea, Four Freedoms, Bataan, Roosevelt, etc. and 34 appearing to be Weigand involving United Nations WW II Allies. An out of sight holding that WW II collectors will need to battle.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $1,050.00
152CVFDCRoughly 800 mainly WW II cacheted FDC and Event covers from 1943 to 1946. Includes some cachet maker Fluegel and Guthrie. Involves V-E, V-J Day and a potpourri of other events as they occurred on a daily basis. Not to be missed.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $2,700.00
153CVSeveral hundred First Day and various event covers almost all autographed by Major League baseball players. Many stars and the like. Some are personalized. All were part of the Elten Schiller collection and are backstamped as such. Many have Weisz COA.Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $600.00
154CVDoc’s Local Post of owner’s count of approximately 900 event covers mostly from the 1970s in three small boxes in one large carton. Variety of topics including Aviation, Lindberg, Dirigible, Christmas, States, Evil Knievel, Lighthouses, Nudes, Political. Mr. Zip, UFO, Military, Freedom Train, Tin Can Mail etc. Duplication runs slight to moderate. Mainly made in limited quality having numbering on their reverses.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $290.00
155FDCApproximately three thousand FDC’s running from 1923 to the mid 1980’s. they range from uncatched, addressed to cacheted, unaddressed generally appearing as such early to later. Includes mainly Artcraft catchets but does contain some better. Some duplication which can feature blocks or plate blocks. All nice and clean.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $300.00
156CVSeventeen autographed covers from 1941 to 1973. Includes Admiral Nimitz on a USS Arizona 1941 cancelled cover, General Wainwright, Vice President Wallace, Eleanor Roosevelt, Omar Bradley, Douglas MacArthur, and Gordan Cooper, Charles Conrad Jr both on 1965 cover. No COAs as from a period source.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $500.00
157CVIllinois mainly Rural Free Delivery (RFD) assortment from 1884 to 1912. Consists of approximately 75 postcards, postal cards, and commercial covers having roughly 80% from downstate counties. The remaining 20% are from Chicago which are not RFD. An interesting Illinoisan postal history offering.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $170.00
158CVThirty-six #855 First and Second Day covers all but two autographed by Major League baseball players. Many stars and the like: Luke Appling, Glenn Beckert, Ernie Banks, etc. All were part of the Elten Schiller collection and are backstamped as such.Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00
Price Realized: $450.00
159CVGroup of ten early Ohio postal history covers. Seven are free franks all having something to do with Ohio. Clear and interesting markings. The other three are old folded letters from Butler County (Darr Town) and the Cincinnati area. All ten are webphotoed.Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00
Price Realized: $90.00
160CVAll the cover albums from a small US estate. Nine albums with all the covers that the collector accumulated during his active years. Some old, some 1960s, Some postal stationery, some classics, around a couple hundred to get you attention. Many from the 1870s, some even include the correspondence. One is transcripted. Two groups of souvenir cards counted in the total. Valiant attempt at postal history with just a couple surprises.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $375.00
161CVFive large cartons filled with thousands covers. Includes FDCs with various cachets and some uncacheted, modern mint postal stationary, junk mail, and a tiny bit of foreign for added flavor. Lots a stuff to sift through. 140 lbs. shipping weight call or email for a rate quote.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $300.00
162CVOver forty folded letter covers mostly from the 1840s to 1850s. Involves cancels from Nashville, Mobile, Boston, New York, Lexington, KY etc. Interesting historical items.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $700.00
163CVSoldier Civil War correspondence consisting of eight covers and letters plus extra letters in a pizza size box. Written by John Gillespie to his father in New London, Pennsylvania while serving in the Union Army for year years. One letter is written to his mother. Cover condition varies but the historical contents are fascinating to read. A Civil War buff will really enjoy this lot.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $700.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — United States and General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
164CVWell over 13,000 covers (probable low estimate) in fifteen full cover cartons. Accumulated over the years by a local dealer for the summer APS show where it was to be his dollar cover table. When he could not attend these became expendable. Decent enough dollar cover group with enough surprises to be viable. Mostly clean and not bourse worn. Fresh. Go through it and take out what you need for stock then dollar it to the end line. Many will sell at this price threshold. Offered very inexpensively for it is clogging the owners storage capacity. The work is already done, its ready to go!Cat. Value: S.B. 2000.00
Price Realized: $1,500.00
165CVFDCThousand upon thousands of covers broomed out of the back rooms of a classic stamp store. These mostly long forgotten covers are heavy in all kinds of 1st days from the U.S. and from various other countries. All is weighted down by gaudy subscription albums along with the rest of the commercial and philatelic covers. Parts are well organized and some are just heaped into boxes. Barely looked at by us, the only viewing was during repacking. Needs inspection.Cat. Value: S.B. 1400.00
Price Realized: $750.00
166CVFDCSeven carton accumulation from the 1870s to the 1990s. Comprises over 3,000 FDCs, commercial, event covers, and postal stationary. Includes nuggets of roughly 350 sleeved/priced US cacheted and noncacheted FDCs from 1925 to 1945 having some fascinating cachets from an old dealer stock in storage for several decades. Also entails over 30 British Royalty FDCs from 1972-1981 having coins and Crowns in their cachets, and. two binders of Detroit River Mail from 1962 to 2017. Plenty of useable postal history to tickle your fancy and sell on the internet. Needs examination to come up with a correct number but not buying this lot might make you sad.Cat. Value: S.B. 950.00
Price Realized: $2,600.00
167CVCover assortment from the 1870s to the 1990s in fifteen cartons. Thousands and thousands of mainly US commercial, event covers, and FDCs running the gambit of common to moderately interesting either loose or in binders. Two cartons are subscription items consisting of mostly golden replicates. Enough worldwide to tempt you. Candidates for a dollar table.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $800.00
168CVFDCSixteen of our largest cover cartons containing roughly 16,000 well traveled common FDCs, commercial, event covers, and postal history from various places and times, of the last one hundred and thirty years. Plenty of material to staff a fifty cents table or for building bourse bargain lots. Pound for pound a fun lot.Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $850.00
169CVTwo cartons from the early 1900s to the 1990s having a concentration from the 1950s to the end from the Belgian in the Carolinas estate. Hundreds and hundreds of mainly commercial covers and postal stationery having a strong presence from Germany and Belgium. Good lot for a dollar table or a donation to a religious order.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
170CVTwo cartons of commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards in binders. Includes mainly United States and Western Europe from the late 19th Century to the 1960s. Appears no nuggets by some interesting common postal history. Super for selling at a fifty cents table.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $425.00
171CVFDCAccumulation in two medium cartons. Entails nearly 400 FDCs, commercial, event covers, and postcards from the early 1900s to 2012. Involves a selection of Hungarian postcards, several US First Flights, a binder of US Inauguration covers from Eisenhower to Obama and miscellaneous interesting items.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $850.00
172CVAround fifty mainly worldwide cover accumulation from 1859 to 1954. Contains Great Britain and colonies, a few US including one Confederate, and Western Europe. Examination required as condition is a factor on several items. Postal history extravagance.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $500.00
173CVCover, postcard, and ephemera selection from 1865 to 1944 in a pizza-size box. Comprises twenty postal history items including US C18 cacheted First Flight, a 1904 St Louis World’s Fair used postcard, and four British Transatlantic folded letter covers from 1856 to 1862 nicely annotated on pages. Also involves ten document ephemera items including a Tennessee 1837 document, several Southern Express Co receipts from the 1890s, and railway bonds.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $375.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — Confederate States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
174CVAccumulation of 34 postal history selected cover from the Southern States 1834-1865. Most are Civil War era and are in mainly average condition. A few are Southern Stampless covers pre Civil War. Most scarce is Confederate states #9 on cover where both the stamp and the cover are in "beat up" condition. Civil War history buffs should give this on a look.Cat. Value: S.B. 425.00
Price Realized: $1,350.00
175CVGroup of four Confederate States covers from the Civil War. Many cover faults. All are shown in the webphotos.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $160.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — United Nations
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
176CVUN specialized collection, covers, and aerogram group that was once part of an award winning exhibit. Three cartons embracing hundreds and hundreds from the very first to around 1975-1980. Lots of scarce aerogrammes excellently written up in exhibit form. The exhibit is no longer together, but its chronicle is included for reassembly. The collection and covers are run of the mill, but hundreds and hundreds of different. The collection is not highly specialized, but the aerogram section is rife with proofs, specimens, errors and the like. Needs a new "thoughtful philatelist" to rewrite and show.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $375.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — Topicals
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
177CVApollo-Soyuz and Space Treaty American astronaut, support staff, politicians, other personalities related to Space etc.organized binder from 1972 to 1975. Approximately 125 Space covers having many with multiple signatures. Includes four Gerald Ford and one Richard Nixon autographs. A totally awesome selection.Cat. Value: S.B. 1000.00
Price Realized: $1,700.00
178CVMainly Russian cosmonauts autographed covers organized in a binder from 1964 to the 1980s. Around 100 Space covers having an excellent variety. Book some time to view this lot as well as its cousins in this auction.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $500.00
179CVApollo-Soyuz astronaut, cosmonaut, and support staff autographed space covers and several photographs in a binder in a pizza-size box. Nearly 50 items offering an excellent variety for the collector of this flight. Check out the other awesome lots from this fantastic space collection. Recommended viewingCat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $550.00
180CVVostok I, II, III, IV, and Voschod II cosmonaut autographed Space covers in a Lindner binder from 1961 to 1965. Roughly 50 covers nicely annotated on pages and having stamps compliment them. Includes signatures by Gagarin, Tereshkova, Titov etc. Check out the other lots from this collection throughout this auction. Viewing recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $650.00
181CVMostly US astronauts, crew, and support staff autographed covers organized in two binders from 1970 to 1997. Approximately 80 Space covers including MIR and Space Shuttle as well as some unautographed extras offering the space afficando an eclectic mixture. Check out the other lots in this auction of this fantastic collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $900.00
182CVT-1-15 and TM1-12 Russian cosmonaut autographed and signed covers in a Lindner binder from 1979 to 1990. Around 80 Space covers neatly annotated on their pages. Looking for the other lots from this collection in this auction will bring a spring in your step. An out of this world selection.Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $550.00
183CVSoyuz 1 to 28 Russian cosmonaut autographed covers in a Lindner binder from 1967 to 1978. Roughly 60 Space covers nicely annotated on their pages. Please search for the other lots from this collection in this auction. An outstanding offering.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $550.00
184CVTM13 to 31 Russian cosmonaut autographed and signed covers in a Lindner binder from 1991 to 1999. About 50 Space covers neatly annotated on their pages. Viewing the other lots from this superb collection in this auction will bring joy to your heart. An out of sight selection.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $400.00
185CVSoyuz 29 to 40 Russian cosmonaut autographed Space covers in a Lindner binder from 1978 to 1981. Nearly 50 covers nicely annotated on their pages. Searching for the other lots from this collection in this auction will bring a smile on your face. An extraordinary holdingCat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $325.00
186CVEight binders of Space Event covers in one carton. Roughly 950 covers mainly from Apollo-Soyuz in 1975 but also including around 50 Soviet autographed covers from 1970 to 1990. Nice clean lot having some useful backup from an awesome Space collection that can be found throughout this auction.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $375.00
187CVAn accumulation of almost 300 most all different Christmas or tuberculosis related items (mostly covers). Areas of concentration are Emily Bissell, Santa Claus Indiana, and FDC’s of the Christmas issues. Great verity and many never seen before pieces. A great addition to a collection of this popular topic.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $260.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — British
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
188CVFDCAssortment of thirty 1935 British colonies Omnibus King George V Silver Jubilee mainly FDCs and one 1911 Coronation postcard. Includes Ascension, Basutoland, Barbados, Bechuanaland Protectorate, British Guiana, British Honduras, Ceylon, Gilbert-Ellice Islands, Gold Coast, KUT, Leeward Islands, Mauritius, Newfoundland, Nigeria, St. Christopher, St. Helena, St. Vincent, Seychelles, Sierra Leone, Somaliland Protectorate, Strait Settlement, Swaziland, and Virgin Islands. Also entails New Zealand, Australia, Southern Rhodesia, and India. Always popular and unusual to find a diverse selection. Do not miss out.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $650.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
189CVOne carton load of foreign covers from a would be bourse dealer that never got it all together. All 800 or so covers are sleeved and priced albeit with "hopeful" prices. Marked retail of over $13,000.00. Ready to sell at a small fraction of this total. Looks like a mixture of $1-$20 covers to us. What do you think?Cat. Value: S.B. 1000.00
Price Realized: $700.00
190CVEleven Zeppelin flight covers, 10 Germany , 1 Italy, all scanned. Over $2,000.00 marked retail. Average condition. Also includes a commercial book with all the particulars of LZ129.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $650.00
191CVFDCAccumulation of over 600 covers and FDCs in one carton. Roughly 80% are Greenland FDCs and Events from 1957 to 1993 and the remainder are either Canada, Newfoundland, US and miscellaneous worldwide from the 1870s to 1940s. An unusual offering.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $210.00
192CVFDCAccumulation mainly from the 1920s to the 1980s. Contains. around 500 commercial covers, FDCs, postal stationery, and postcards. Spotted unusual Great Britain, Cuba, Canada, and Jamaica covers from the 1930s having Chinese writing on their fronts but also heavily toned and foxed from storage in a humid climate. Ready to rocket to a dollar table.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $325.00
193CVFDCNearly 400 FDCs and commercial covers from the 1880s to 1990 Contains common to interesting material having a few nuggets to find, Happy searching.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $220.00
194CVNine mainly Zeppelin covers from 1925 to 1938. Comprises five Germany of which one is a Bremen catapult, two 1929 having four marks (folded vertically through both stamps), one each Spain 1930 (small tear bottom edge,) two Brazil, (one a little rough) and one US Los Angles to Bermuda.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $180.00
195CVSeven different Lindbergh Circle flown Caribbean 1928 First Flight cacheted covers. Includes Canal Zone, Dominican Republic, Haiti, and Cuba.Cat. Value: S.B. 75.00
Price Realized: $130.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — Austria
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
196CVHistorically interesting small assortment consisting of nearly twenty covers and original letters both censored from 1947-1950. Sent from a stamp collector to another collector several letters discuss the living conditions in Vienna. Also includes around ten covers from the 1960s.Cat. Value: S.B. 40.00
Price Realized: $46.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — Prince Edward Island
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
197CVPhenomenal railroad former exhibit of nearly 90 postcards, postal cards, and covers from 1877 to 1968 in two binders. Outstanding presentation of how mail was moved about the Island on trains, and off the Island on boats, ferries, and ice boats. Entails railway and ship cancels and markings along with a few scarce clerk’s cachets. Highlights include the only two emergency strike #E56 known, Winter mail service cancel less than five known, several mail clerk hand stamps, less than five known each Charlottetown & Moncton RPO less than five known, and Charlottetown & Summerside RPO less than five known. Also involves two binders of some extra material plus information not used in the exhibit. A totally awesome selection than you will be hard pressed to find anywhere else. Check out the web photos.Cat. Value: S.B. 3750.00
Price Realized: $2,900.00
198CVOutstanding fifteen cover selection from 1860 to 1872. Includes a stampless from Souris with red paid hand stamp with a back stamp to Georgetown dated April 28, 1860, a #5a tied to grid 13 from Charlottetown 5a with yellowish paper tied by 13 grid from Charlottetown April 21, 1868 to Woods Island, and a #6 tied with a PEI cancel dated August 14, 1868 to St Johns NB, #7 Feb. 18, 1866 to Mount Pleasant. Also involves a #13 tied by a 10 bar grid from Georgetown April 1872 to Rollo Bay, a #7 perf 11 ¾ Charlottetown June 28, 1871 to Nova Scotia, and a #14 tied Charlottetown July 12, 1872 to Montreal. All covers have web photos. A tremendous selection difficult to find in this quality.Cat. Value: S.B. 3000.00
Price Realized: $2,600.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — China
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
199CVAccumulation of seven China covers from 1927 to 1947 and twelve PRC (fronts only) from around 1950. Condition varies but viewing will be a pleasure.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $375.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — Colombia
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
200CVSCADTA selection consisting of twelve covers mainly from 1924-26 and fifteen used stamps from 1928 to 1931. Covers were mostly mailed internally to Bogota and Medellin as well as to London and New York City. They have some foxing and toning which does not distract from their historical importance.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $180.00

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