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Public Auction #443

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SUPPLIES AND LITERATURE — Literature
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
1OAn impressive assortment of United States philatelic reference items from the library of a multi-generation Midwest stamp company. Includes 13 binders, 35 softbound and 32 hardbound. A fine grouping looking to educate the next generation. Shipping weight 145 lbs., by FEDEX GROUND ONLY, call or email for a rate quote.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $280.00
2OThe United States and General Foreign philatelic library from the Gator Estate. Encompassing a few dozen different items of both hard bound and soft bound types. Very nice variety and condition. Perfect group for the non-Google fan.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $230.00
3OAn old time philatelic library of over 50 items. Strong in “The United States Specialist” and a few older respected works.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $110.00
4O*Four heavy cartons of literature from the estate of a noted flyspecker. Includes dozens of books, a small group of an atlas and old maps, and a few out of print pamphlet style information packed pieces. Heavy. Examine.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $130.00
5OEncyclopedia of the Colors of United States Postage Stamps, Vols. I-V, by R.W. White. Two volume set with slip cases. Inside boarder show some animal wear but does not affect the pages. Very scarce item.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $270.00
6OA heavy carton of mainly philatelic literature along with a splash of numismatic literature for you reading pleasure.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $38.00
7OThree cartons of literature from the estate in the Northwest Suburbs Includes dozens of hard, soft cover books and pamphlets. Extremely heavy. Needs inspection.Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $90.00
8OTwo cartons of literature containing around forty hard cover, soft cover spiral books and pamphlets. Includes Canada, Canal Zone, Israel, street railway cancels from various US cities, United Nations, etc from a collector for had a passion for collecting these areas. Knowledge is golden and this lot will expand that knowledge.Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $30.00
9O*Three heavy cartons of books, periodicals and loose leaf anthologies dealing with cancellations on stamps. The best one concerns squared circle cancels from England and other countries.Cat. Value: S.B. 30.00
Price Realized: $50.00
10OSeven very heavy cartons of literature consisting of six having American Heritage hard and soft cover monthlies from 1954 to 1986 (duplication) and one carton of American Philatelic Research Library magazines from 1991 to 2008. Roughly 350 pounds shipping weight.Cat. Value: S.B. 20.00
Price Realized: $10.00
SUPPLIES AND LITERATURE — Supplies
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
11OFour cartons of supplies from the Northwest suburban accumulator. Includes stockbooks, some mounts, useful philatelic tools etc. Some appear to be have gently used. Offered appropriately.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $170.00
12OTwo Microscopes. A heavy duty Unitron boom Stereo scope model# M8F and a Cenco "green" stereo culture scope. A little antiquated, but still useful.. Very well taken care of needing just a good cleaning to bring them into serviceable shape. Heavy. OFFICE PICK UP ONLY.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $42.00
13*Three cartons of supplies. All never been used. Includes stock books and pages, 102 cards and red boxes, plus a few other things thrown in for a bonus.Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $160.00
14O*Four cartons of used and some new supplies from a dedicated collector’s desk. Includes an apparently new Lighthouse UV light, some unopened Showgard mounts, approval cards, glassines and way too many used binders in varying condition. Must be useful to somebody.Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $100.00
15OTwo cartons of very lightly used albums. Please bid as the funds will go to the APS as a donation.Cat. Value: S.B. 20.00
Price Realized: $85.00
SUPPLIES AND LITERATURE — Supplies and literature
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
16O*Five cartons full of all the leftover supplies and literature from the North Shore New Issue hoard. We have diligently removed as much packaging as we could leaving only the useable pieces. Includes: Hard cover reference and interest area books filling one carton. The other four contain: unused stockbooks, albums, binders, mounts and supplies. As a bonus includes a handful of opera LP record sets. A bit eclectic but all is useable and expensive to replace. What's it worth in the wholesale market?Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $210.00
COINS AND CURRENCY — Coins
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
17$United States coin accumulation. Consists of $79.50 face 90% silver in dimes, quarters, halves, and $36.50 face 40% silver clad halves in a wooden cigar box. Also includes thirty-two circulated Morgan, Peace silver dollars in brown envelopes and $47.00 face 90% silver halves in brown envelopes. Likewise involves twenty proof, mint sets from 1973-82, nine blue Ikes 1971-74, eight proof, uncirculated 1982 Washington halves and roughly $10.00 face circulated Wheat cents.Cat. Value: S.B. 1800.00
Price Realized: $2,400.00
18$Three United States five-dollar gold coins. Consists of an 1882 Liberty “slabbed” by NGC graded unc. details improperly cleaned. Also, two 1999 George Washington Bicentennial commemorative uncirculated and proof coins in original mint box and COA.Cat. Value: S.B. 900.00
Price Realized: $950.00
19$United States accumulation in a banker box. Consists of around fifty mainly mint and some proof sets from 1962/2002 having duplication. Also includes twelve Engelhard one ounce .999 silver rounds in original cello but having heavy carbon spotting and twenty-five Canada 1967 silver proof sets in original RCM envelopes plus miscellany.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $750.00
20$United States coin assortment. Comprises roughly $62.00 face 90% silver dimes, quarters, halves and eleven circulated Morgan and Peace dollars mainly in Whitman folders plus miscellany.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $1,000.00
21$United States “slab” assortment of fifty-seven NGC coins graded Ms65/67 from 1938 to 2005. Consists of nine Jefferson nickels from 1938 to 1944, thirteen Mercury dimes, twenty Roosevelt dimes from 1947 to 1964, nine others from 1966 to 2003, five Silver Eagles, and four commemorative silver dollars 2003-2005. Also includes some foreign tourist change and bankable US coins.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $1,350.00
22$Selection of United States and worldwide coins. Consists of three Morgan Silver dollars which appear to have be cleaned or polished, 1923 Monroe Doctrine. 1954 half dollar 1954 Booker T. Washington, 1982 George Washington commemorative halves, three 3 cent nickels, one two cent pieces, and twenty-six brass Presidential medals. Also includes 1905 Philippines Peso, and two Mexico 1799, 1802 “shipwreck" eight reales,Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $240.00
23$Banker’s box about half filled having many different base metal medallions, tokens, wooden “coinage”, etc. sorting into plastic baggies. A cornucopia of Americana. Worth checking out.Cat. Value: S.B. 30.00
Price Realized: $44.00
24$Small German States silver coin selection 1684 to 1913. Entails a Prussia 1913 two marks ANA graded (cleaned), 1874 five marks, six minor coins from various States, and a 1751 thaler which appears to be a fake.Cat. Value: S.B. 95.00
Price Realized: $210.00
25$El Cazador 1783 Shipwreck Spanish Colonial 8 Reales Silver Coin Mexico Mint FF MO. Mexico Mint FF MO. Has its certificate of authenticity. Found in a shipwreck off the Louisiana coast in the 1990’s. A real piece of history as Thomas Jefferson bought the Louisiana Purchase after this ship and its treasure from Mexico failed to reach port.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $210.00
26$Worldwide coin accumulation in three banker boxes. Contains base metal mint and proof set from the 1970s to the early 2000s having a majority concentration from Israel and Great Britain. Also includes around twenty Germany 10DM, 10 Euros silver coins, four Israel 50% silver coins, and two sets of two Russia silver space medals from the early 1990s plus a box of nonsilver medals that must be useful to someone.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $850.00
COINS AND CURRENCY — Currency
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
27$Not your typical worldwide currency accumulation from the early 1900s to the 1990s in one medium carton. From a collector who has a passion of collecting diverse currencies from all corners of the world. Includes about fifty better or fascinating items that have an older Krause Catalog pricing in sleeves or in an expensive binder and slipcase including several engraver autographed. Likewise comprises roughly 850 loose circulated and uncirculated currency having duplication in two small boxes that mostly had to be extracted from the collector’s storage #10 envelopes. Entails British colonies,/Commonwealth, French colonies/Community, Europe, Latin America, Asia, Africa, and Oceania. A collector or dealer should not let this one slip away.Cat. Value: S.B. 950.00
Price Realized: $1,900.00
28$An original notgeld accumulation. Comprises roughly between 700-800 mainly uncirculated notgeld which is a mixture of Germany and Austria from the early 1920s. There are many issues in multiples. A fascinating, historical holding.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $300.00
29$Eclectic selection of mainly United States coins and currency in a box. Contains one each 1878-S, 1897, and 1904-0 uncirculated Morgan Silver dollars using late 1980s grading standards with papers, fifty-five face one dollar and two-dollar currency from 1935 to 1976 ranging from heavily circulated and uncirculated condition. Also involves a gold crown plus miscellany. Offered to tempt you.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $290.00
30$Three Mount Vernon Bank Providence, Rhode Island 1857-1858 obsolete currencies comprising of one each one dollar, five dollars, and ten dollars in super circulated condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $160.00
31$United States five-dollar 1914 Federal Reserve currency graded by PMG About Uncirculated 55. Fr#854 Burke/Houston signatures.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $190.00
32$Selection of ten United States obsolete currency mostly from the 1850s. Comprises Bank of the Republic, Providence five dollars, Fort Stanwix Bank Rome, New York five dollars, Commercial Bank Glen Falls, NY two dollars, Farmer Bank, Gloucester, RI five dollars, Essex County Bank Keeseville, NY three dollars, Merchants’ Exchange Bank, Anacostia DC one dollar, State of New York one dollar (tape), Canal Bank, Albany, NY Essex County, Keeseville, NY two dollars, and Bank of Whitehall, New York three dollars (damage) Condition varies from currency to currency.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $200.00
33$The Farmer’s Bank of Rome, New York 1838 ten dollar obsolete currency in nice circulated condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $50.00
34$Three Mt. Clemens, Michigan Bank of Macomb County 1858 obsolete currencies comprising of one 1 dollar (unissued), and two 2 dollars in circulated condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 80.00
Price Realized: $50.00
35$Five State Bank of New Brunswick, New Jersey unissued 185? obsolete currencies including of one each one, two, five, ten, and twenty dollars.Cat. Value: S.B. 70.00
Price Realized: $120.00
36$Two Mechanics Bank of Memphis 1854 obsolete currencies comprising of one each three dollars and five dollars in circulated condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 60.00
Price Realized: $55.00
37$Two Continental Currency consisting of one each 1776 half dollar and eight dollars. Both in circulated condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $425.00
38$Merchants’ Bank one dollar 1852 obsolete currency Washington DC in circulated condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $42.00
39$Two 1864 Confederate States currency consisting of a ten and one hundred dollars (stains) both in circulated condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 40.00
Price Realized: $55.00
40$Confederates States one hundred dollars currency dated June 20, 1862 in circulated condition. Coming along for the ride is a twenty-five cents State of Georgia currency in “poor” condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $60.00
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42$Worldwide currency selection roughly from the early 20th Century to the 1990s. Around 400 notes having ¼ in a binder and ¾ loose in a small box in various degrees of circulated to uncirculated condition. Includes a cornucopia of banking history offering a variety of issuing countries. Involves Western Europe, Germany, Russia, South America, and Asia. Offers a sometimes-sad reminders of upheaval created by the aftermath of two World Wars that destroyed some country’s economies.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $375.00
COINS AND CURRENCY — Fractional Currency
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
43$Three United States 1862 First Issue fractional currency 10 cents Washington both perforated and straight edge. Condition appears to be better than usually. Viewing necessary as you will be the judge on condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $290.00
44$Three United States 1862 First Issue fractional currency 5 cents Jefferson both perforated and straight edge. Condition appears to be better than usually. Viewing necessary as you will be the judge on condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $250.00
45$Three United States 1862 First Issue fractional currency 25 cents Jefferson both perforated and straight edge. Condition appears to be better than usually. Viewing necessary as you will be the judge on conditionCat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $260.00
46$Three United States 1862 First Issue fractional currency 50 cents Washington both perforated and straight edge. Condition appears to be better than usually. Viewing necessary as you will be the judge on condition.Cat. Value: S.B. 90.00
Price Realized: $250.00
POSTAGE — Postage
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
47**A powerful pile of postage from ½¢ to “Forever” issues in sheets, booklets, self-adhsive booklet sheetlets, and scrap. Also include a few higher values scattered about. Be sure to bring a sandwich. It’s going to take you a while to count this bad boy up.Cat. Value: S.B. 9000.00
Price Realized: $12,000.00
48**An assembly “Forever” issues either in commemorative sheets or regular issue coil strips.Cat. Value: Face 6112.00
Price Realized: $4,250.00
49**Postage potpourri of mainly 8¢ to 32¢ sheets and booklet panes. Also includes a few 3¢ to 6¢ values.Cat. Value: Face 5310.00
Price Realized: $2,700.00
50**Compact one carton postage lot. Carefully counted high face values in a stockbook ($2498.00), carefully counted stack of sheets ($1,278.00), carefully counted plate blocks, strips, multiples and scrap ($503.00) and an uncounted pile of year sets and scrap. The counted bunch amounts to over $4,250.00 with the rest probably adding at least $250 to the deal over half being a dollar and up face. Great for mailing and filling holes in stock and collections. See the webphotos.Cat. Value: Face 4500.00
Price Realized: $3,000.00

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