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Public Auction #440

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Bids updated May 18, 2019 at 6:21pm (New York time)

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