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Public Auction #443

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MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTABLES — Sterling Medals
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
101OSterling medals assortment from 1968 to 1971 in their original binders/boxes. Involves fifty American “Negro” Commemoratives Society, thirty-six First Edition, twenty National Commemorative Society and thirty-five mini Presidential medals to Nixon. Approximately seventy-five ounces of sterling silver.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $1,200.00
MISCELLANEOUS COLLECTABLES — Wrist Watch
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
102ODaniel Mink Swiss made men’s wristwatch in its original box. Great birthday or anniversary gift for that hard to buy person. Sold as is.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $140.00
POSTCARDS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
103CVUSA Picture Postcard Blowout from the Gator Estate. Over 3000 diverse postcards from the United States, early twentieth century to 1940's and later. Mixture of posted and unposted, pristine and worn, sleeved and unsleeved cards, including views of cities, towns, and landscapes; holidays; and miscellaneous topics. Probably no million-dollar cards, but loads of great material for bourses, club shows, and eBay lots.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $425.00
104CVExposition Postcard Lot. Over thirty postcards from the World’s Columbian Exposition 1893 and St. Louis World’s Fair 1904, most items identified and described. Posted and unposted, in-period use and late-usage cancels. Occasional minor imperfections. Various series and designs represented. Most cards sleeved. Attractive foundation for a specialized collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $250.00
105CVStock of Texas postcards. Consists of owner’s count of 2,300 mainly linen or chromes; sorted, sleeved, and priced. Good variety of Texan material ready to sell on the internet or at shows. Not to be missed.Cat. Value: S.B. 475.00
Price Realized: $270.00
106CVExposition Delicacies from the Gator Estate. A small album of twenty-six postcards and covers, 1876-1915. Loaded with desirable used and unused postcards, along with a small number of advertising cards and covers. Includes material from World’s Columbian Exposition, Pan-American Exposition, California Midwinter International Exposition, Jamestown Exposition, Cotton States and International Exposition, Philadelphia Centennial Exhibition, etc. Beautiful condition, with sharp colors and clear cancels. See photos for a sampling of highlights.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $550.00
107CVRailroad Cancels Galore. One box packed with over 700 postcards from throughout the U.S. with various R.P.O. cancels. Most chosen for clarity and condition. Organized alphabetically by first letter of cancel. Almost all items are sleeved; some are annotated with factual explanation or pricing information. Also includes a few postal cards, etc. Emphasis is on the first half of the twentieth century, with many cancels in the 1905-1940 range. Grand opportunity to acquire numerous and diverse R.P.O. cancels at one time. Listen to the clickety-clack of the train on the railroad track!Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $425.00
108CVUSS Florida dreadnought battleship pre-WW I real photo selection in a binder. Most taken by the official ship photographer Krueger and Otto to document their sea duty prior to the war. Owner’s count of 132 cards. An unusual offering not to be missed.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $450.00
109CVThe United States in Postmarks and Images! Two-box collection of picture postcards, all referencing destinations in the U.S., holidays celebrated in the U.S., humor valued in the U.S., or famous people from the U.S. Also includes some postal cards and small envelopes. Limited primarily to the first half of the twentieth century. Many items sleeved and marked with prices from the past. Organized alphabetically by state, with clear cancels and numerous funny, charming, or interesting messages. Mixed condition. Most states represented. A treasure for the knowledgeable postcard collector.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $400.00
110CVMany hundred cards from the golden age to chromes but mainly the linen period. They range from interesting and useful to inconsequential. Enough of the former to warrant a look.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $50.00
POSTCARDS — United States and General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
111CVWorldwide Postcard Hoard. Two cartons filled with over 1500 posted and unposted, ordinary and unusual, domestic and foreign, like-new and somewhat worn postcards. Great representation of assorted printing processes, including chromes, real photos, etc. Contains cards from throughout the twentieth century. Wide range of images, e.g., topical and thematic focuses, landscapes, buildings, famous and not-so-famous people, and more. Material is disorganized and in need of attention, but very clean and ready for immediate resale or addition to a private collection.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $150.00
112CVWorldwide QSL Bounty. One carton filled with over 1000 like-new and somewhat worn QSL cards. Includes posted and unposted, ordinary and unusual, domestic and foreign cards. Great representation of assorted printing processes and packed with various pictorial representations. Material is disorganized and in need of attention, but very clean and ready for immediate resale or addition to a private collectionCat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $250.00
113CVWorldwide Postcard and Postal Stationery Hodgepodge. One box of mixed postcards and postal cards from various foreign countries and the United States. Includes over 400 unused and used cards from the late nineteenth century to the 1930’s and 1940’s, with a few modern items thrown in for good measure. Some cards feature attractive cancels and other markings. Completely unorganized and perfect for many hours of entertaining study.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $55.00
POSTCARDS — Canal Zone
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
114CVEverything You Ever Wanted to Know about the Canal Zone. Two-volume collection of over 160 items from the Canal Zone, mounted on cover pages and running from the early twentieth century to the 1960’s. Includes some FDC’s and postal stationery. Noteworthy for its city-date cancels and overall top-notch condition. Features various styles of matter-of-fact or playful postcards providing a comprehensive overview of the construction, challenges, and operation of the Panama Canal. Seldom available in such quality and quantity.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $550.00
POSTCARDS — General Foreign
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
115CVPre-1930 Postcard Collection. Neat and clean accumulation of nearly 200 postcards from assorted countries, assembled by a collector in Milwaukee. Mostly mounted, a few loose cards toward the back of the album. Includes items from Italy, France, Germany, Scandinavia, Austria, Eastern Europe, Benelux, Spain, Asia, colonial Africa, etc. Most cards have gone through the mail and show varying degrees of wear; a few are unposted and in like-new condition. All cards have one or more stamps affixed to the front and tied by a regional cancel. Some cancels are clear; others smudged or faint. Many different types of cards, with diverse topics and images. Unusual lot offering a portrait of select corners of the world between wars.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $450.00
116CVGeneral Foreign Postcard and Stationery Lot. Over 125 postcards and 190 covers, including postal stationery, commercial covers, and special event covers. Mainly nineteenth and early twentieth century. Contains some material from the United States. Posted and unposted, assorted auxiliary markings, unusual views, noteworthy destinations, etc. Excellent condition. Attractive assemblage for the lover of postcards and covers of many types.Cat. Value: S.B. 230.00
Price Realized: $210.00
POSTCARDS — Germany
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
117CVTurn-of-the-century Elegance. Over fifty lovely postcards from Germany, late nineteenth century to 1940’s. Multi-colored, black-and-white, or photographic. Above-average to like-new condition, with fresh colors and sharp images. Topics include early philatelic organizations, classic stamp designs from German states, patriotism, Olympics, and royalty. Mixture of posted and unposted cards. Take a few moments to view the postcards, their stamps, cancels, and auxiliary markings.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $220.00
118CVJust over 25 postcards (24 posted) from various German Offices and colonies mainly small yachts. All saved for a reason and removed from the pages of a highly specialized German Area collection. Interesting frankings and destinations. Mixed condition with many to savor.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $375.00
119CVEleven different Picture Postcards each sporting a different "royal flag" cancel. All saved for a reason and removed from the pages of a highly specialized German Area collection. Interesting points of origin. Ranges from 1902-1912, with all but one 1902-1904. All are shown in the webphotos. Scarce group.Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00
Price Realized: $50.00
120CVGermany and the World in the Fifties, Sixties, and Later. Over 500 colorful, topical postcards from Germany, with a good number of cards from the US and various Western European countries. Almost everything has been posted and features commemorative stamps, cancels, and messages in abundance. Fun lot to view.Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00
Price Realized: $55.00
121CVGerman propaganda PPC for the march into Sudetenland. This one in black and white is posted in Asch using a overprinted Czechoslovakian stamp announcing to the world "Asch ist frei! 21.9.1938". In "through the mail" condition with some old glue spots on front and back. See the webphotos.Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00
Price Realized: $36.00
COVER ACCUMULATIONS — United States
LotConditionDescriptionValue/Bidding
122CVAssortment of sixty-five Michigan mostly commercial covers from the 1850s to 1948. Some cancels are Marshall, Kalamazoo, Tecumseh, Aurelius, Holland, Ferry, Paw Paw, Chesaning, Ann Arbor etc. Condition varies so inspection recommended.Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $190.00
123CVApollo 16 Space assortment of owner’s count of approximately 10,000 mainly unaddressed covers in two large cartons. Lots of varieties including dates, cancel cities, #1435-35 Space Achievement Decade. Heavy duplication particularly Moon Landing and Splashdown. Many are sleeved.Cat. Value: S.B. 1500.00
Price Realized: $750.00
124CVApollo 11 C76 FDC holding having owner’s count of approximately 3,700 unaddressed in four cartons. Contains Sarzin one hundred FDCs having ten varieties of mission milestones, Apollo 8 oversized postcards with C76 roughly eighty with faint to missing cancels. Also, Sarzin oversized metallic facsimile of around 150 for the Moon Landing, Schoen around 250, a few anniversaries, and 700 Space City Cover Society three varieties C76 Armstrong, Aldrin, Collins. Roughly 2,400 are NASA Manned Spacecraft Stamp Club having some anniversaries. Likewise includes an additional 2,600 unissued envelopes having about 1,100 from the NASA Manned Club, 550 Apollo from the Lunar Post Office Swanson, 500 Apollo Schoen/Space City Cover Society and 500 miscellaneous.Cat. Value: S.B. 1500.00
Price Realized: $500.00
125CVAn amazing postal history accumulation from the Gator Estate. Around 200 diverse examples of stampless, registered, trans-Atlantic, rates, auxiliary marks, etc. Condition is mixed. A worthy group that must be seen to be appreciated.Cat. Value: S.B. 1400.00
Price Realized: $2,700.00
126CVExpert cancel collector's hoard of US covers and cards in 39 binders on heavy plastic pages filling eight heavy cartons. The previous owner had a variety of interests and everything that made it to these albums was saved for a reason. Almost everything in this group is post 1895. Somewhere near 4.000 pieces that include picture postcards, postal stationery and covers. Topics include: Modern postal history embracing rates, destinations, and usages. If you look close a number of scarce and valuable pieces are included. Colorado, New Mexico, Arizona, Nevada postal history with obscure towns, territorial markings, and destinations. AMF and RPO usages. Commercial mail to and from Canal Zone, Hawaii, and Puerto Rico. Postal card and postal stationery in period usages. And odd and unusual definitive issue usages. All the knowledge necessary to amass such a holding should not be lost so offered intact as received. A bargain at the suggested bid.Cat. Value: S.B. 1300.00
Price Realized: $1,800.00
127CVApollo 17 Space selection of owner's count of approximately 5,600 mostly unaddressed covers in two large cartons. Contains all cachets roughly 95% Manned Spaceflight covers having lots of dates with #1434-35 Space Achievement Decade, cancel cities with heavy duplication on Launch, Moon Landing, Splashdown. About 1% are miscellaneous Mission cachets, 1% Tracking Stations, 3% Sarzin Metallic Dates (over 160) in nine issues. Many are sleeved.Cat. Value: S.B. 1000.00
Price Realized: $500.00
128CVAssortment from the 1860s to the 1930s in two large cartons. Owner’s count of 2,472 commercial covers, postcards, and postal stationery. Includes 826 Doanes mainly postcards from Kentucky (306), Tennessee (120), Indiana (308), and South Carolina (92) involving several DPOs, 347 town cancels mainly pre-1920 four bars having some Doanes, around 300 flag cancels majority on cover etc. Good variety. Needs to find the right Ebayer to market.Cat. Value: S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $950.00
129CVAccumulation of United States roughly from the 1830s to the 1950s in one large carton. Between 800 to 1,000 items approximately evenly divided between commercial and airmail covers as well as some postal stationery and postcards. Spotted an interesting grouping of stampless. Condition varies. A soup to nuts offering.Cat. Value: S.B. 850.00
Price Realized: $2,200.00
130CVAccumulation in eight cartons. Roughly 5,000 United States mostly cacheted FDCs and Event covers from the 1930s to the early 2000s. Includes souvenir pages from the 1970s to 1980s as well as about 10% are Civil War Event covers from the 1960s. Searching will reveal some interesting items that might be especially for you.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $650.00
131CVSatellite and Rocket assortment having the owner’s count of approximately 5,500 Space cacheted covers from the 1960s to 1990s having a concentration in the 1960s-1970s in three cartons. Contains several different programs including Echo I (400 FDCs, #1173 FIRST cachet from Aerojet Stamps & Coin), Poker Flats Alaska, Big Bird, Aurora, Big shot, Bio, Bomarc, Aerobee, Atlas, ATS, Landsat, Nike, GPS, Hubble, IMP, Comsat, ERTS, ESSA, Inmarsat, Intelsat, OSS, Explorer, ITOS, Skyspy, Telstar, THOR, TIROS, Pogp, Quicklock, SAMOS, Secret, Tita, Tomahawk, Trident, Vela, and Westar. Duplication exists. Resale potential.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $500.00
132CVPlanets and Mission assortment having the owner’s count of approximately 6,400 Space mainly unaddressed cacheted covers and FDCs from the 1960s to the 1990s in four cartons. Most are Mission covers including Mars (Mariner, Viking, Observer, Pathfinder, Polar Lander, PAET), Jupiter (Pioneer), Venus (Express, Pioneer), Sun (HEOS, Ulysses), Moon (Clementine), Lunar Explorer, Lunar Orbiter, Lunar Prospector, and Ranger (Surveyor, Cassini, Pioneer). Remaining are FDCs from Space City Cover Society having heavy duplication, #1556 Pioneer Jupiter (roughly 250, eight varieties), #1557 Marnier 10 Mercury (roughly 1,750, some blocks fourteen varieties), #1759 Mars Viking (around 500, some blocks, thirteen varieties), #2568-77 Space Exploration, (around 900, our planets including Moon and Pluto). Needs to find a new home.Cat. Value: S.B. 750.00
Price Realized: $650.00
133CVAn inspiring assembly of well over 90 advertising covers from the Gator Estate. Mainly 1880’s to 1920’s. Contains a wide variety of themes and subject of the time, including a few multi-color types. Condition is mixed. Good way to wet your whistle while trying to find a direction to your liking.Cat. Value: S.B. 700.00
Price Realized: $1,350.00
134CVCollection/assortment roughly from the 1850s to the 1950s in two cartons. Contains hundreds and hundreds of United States mainly RPO commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards organized and identified in eight binders. Has several interesting cancels to view. Spotted a wide range of railroads. All aboard!Cat. Value: S.B. 650.00
Price Realized: $600.00
135CVArkansas collection from the 1870s to the 1990s in three cartons. Hundreds and hundreds of commercial, Event covers, FDCs, postal stationery, and postcards in sixteen binders. Comprises RPO, doane, flag cancels, US Ships, First Flights, 100th Anniversary Statehood 1936 selection that would make any Arkansan native or specialist smile.Cat. Value: S.B. 600.00
Price Realized: $375.00
136CVForever Ohio! Important opportunity for lovers of Ohio postal history, late nineteenth century through 1990’s. Six binders of roughly organized commercial and philatelic covers, postcards, postal cards, etc., each featuring a clear postmark from a town or city in Ohio. Some covers celebrate Ohio’s statehood; others focus on the state’s great counties (e.g., Seneca); several highlight the state’s noteworthy municipalities (e.g., Tiffin); and many commemorate special events in the state’s history. The lot needs a loving, knowledgeable hand to cull and reorganize the mass of material. Contains the foundation of an Ohio-focused exhibit.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $700.00
137CVAn incredible horde of almost entirely First day Covers in 12 bulbous cartons. Nested mainly in neatly presented uniquely manufactured binders. Mainly acquired from an overpriced subscription promoter. Combination of addressed and unaddressed, very clean. Also includes a dealer’s stock sorted by Scott number thrown in for a bonus. Great way to fill up your selves for a fraction of the original cost. Shipping weight approx. 260lbs, call or email for a rate quote.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $325.00
138CVApollo 8 Space assortment of owner’s count of approximately 2,500 mostly unaddressed FDCs in two large cartons. Includes around 400 Sarzin having nine varieties showing mission milestones. Roughly 650 duplicates involving Artcraft Artmaster, Fleetwood, Space Cover Society Approximately 1,450 are Premier and Premier varieties. Heavy duplication.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $250.00
139CVApollo 12 Space selection of owner’s count of approximately 2,000 unaddressed Mission covers in two cartons. Entails roughly 300 having Sarzin, Folio Print, Nichol, Orbit, Space City Cover Society, and Recovery Vessels. The Manned Spaceflight Cover society encompasses around 450 Mission dates and a variety of Mission dated postcards having duplication both heavier on the Moon Landing.Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $250.00
140CVThe kitchen sink cover accumulation over 60 items from the Gator Estate. Includes Possessions, Xmas seals, navals, Inaugurations (the biggest group), stampless, etc. Condition is mixed. An appropriate group for the general accumulator.Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $750.00
141CVA five part medley sorted by cancel types consisting of RPO’s (about 300), pre 1870 (<75), Upper Midwest (<200), Northeast (about 400) and Western (about 300). Includes these on picture postcards, commercial as well as philatelic. Nothing scarce just a good bread and butter group with eBay potential.Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $425.00
142CVAssortment from the 1960s to the 1980s in six cartons. Roughly 3,000 FDCs, Space, and Event covers organized nicely in White Ace binders. Coming along for the ride is a selection of postage needing to be counted.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $450.00
143CVA virgin holding of an estimated 1500 covers. Exhaustively commercial in nature with almost half business #10’s. wide range of town cancels, frankings and corner advertising. Large percentage of airmail usages adds to the desirability. ebayers take note.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $250.00
144CVAround 200 United States assortment of commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards from the 1850s to the 1960s. Spotted some interesting postal history but condition is mixed and needs examination to come up with a comfortable number. Recommended inspection.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $750.00
145CVAccumulation in five cartons roughly from the late 19th Century to the 1940s. Over 3,500 commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards. Spotted a concentration of covers with their original letters mainly from Kentucky and Texas from the early 1900s and1905-1915 correspondence. Quite a mix condition; so examination required to come up to a comfortable number.Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00
Price Realized: $375.00
146CVA likable aviation related cover accumulation of over 30 items from the Gator Estate. Includes Zepp flights, early Government flights, early first flights, a couple crash covers, etc. Condition is mixed. Great lot if this kind of stuff floats your boat.Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $475.00
147CVWisconsin Flag Cancels. Consignment as received consisting of hundreds of postcards and covers in two boxes, late nineteenth century to 1930's. The owner focused his attention on the address side of all material and organized his items alphabetically by the city or town named in the flag cancel. Well-known Wisconsin cities such as Milwaukee or Superior, as well as lesser-known communities like Bayfield or Seymour, are represented proudly in this assemblage. Cancels are clear; the condition of everything is generally strong. Seasoned with plenty of lovely postcards to delight your eyes and filled with useful auxiliary markings of many types. This holding needs a new owner to turn it from a promising stock of postal history into an appropriately displayed collection worthy of admiration.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $160.00
148CVU.S. Postcard and Postal Card Lot. Intriguing accumulation of over 350 cards. Includes large selection of advertising postcards and postal cards. Most addressed and canceled. Mainly twentieth century. Features a wide variety of businesses and commercial establishments and many styles of printing and design. Also contains assorted run-of-the-mill picture postcards depicting buildings, landscapes, and military scenes. Mixed condition. Worth the few minutes needed for viewing.Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $220.00
149CVUnited States selection in one carton. Owner’s count off approximately 1,400 cacheted FDCs consisting of Ellis Animated 1971-90 roughly 25%, Aristocrat 1970s-90 about 25%, Anderson 1955-61, addressed about 5%, and remaining 40% are mixed cachet makers from the 1970s to 1980s. Duplication exits.Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $325.00
150CVMedal of Honor recipients autographed/signed on 1982-86 FDCs in a pizza size box. Over sixty mostly different signatures making this a very desirable selection. For the patriot who wishes to honor these brave soldiers by viewing and biding on this lot. Difficult to replicate.Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00
Price Realized: $220.00

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