| COVERS — United States |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
 | 435 |  | (1) 5˘ Franklin franked on a folded letter. Tied with a red grid cancel and Red Express Mail, Boston large circle cancel at right. Couple vertical creases in the cover. The left crease runs through the stamps. Fine | Cat. Value: Cat. 425.00
Price Realized: $230.00 |
 | 436 | | (184 x2) 3˘ green American Banknote on a lightly struck Attorney corner cover tied with a Port Townsend Wash. AUG 31 1881" double circle c.d.s. and “Kicking Mule” sock on the nose cancel to San Francisco Cal. Very Fine strike, small hinge remnants on the reverse. F-VF cover. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00
Price Realized: $250.00 |
 | 437 | | (C13) 65˘ 1930 Graf Zeppelin franked on a picture postcard. Tied with a wavy flag cancel. The card has a couple minor corner wrinkles, the stamp is centered Fine. | Cat. Value: Cat. 160.00
Price Realized: $130.00 |
   
12 TOTAL IMAGES | 438 | | (C20-C22) An impressive First Day Cover assembly the 1935, 1937 Clipper issues. Includes thirty C21-C22 matched sets and fourteen C21-C22 combination on the same cover, 119 covers in total. Duplication exists and condition is mixed. Good lot for the specialist. | Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00
Price Realized: $700.00 |
| 439 | | First Day Cover selection from 1979-2015 in three cartons. Between 2,000 to 2,500 Collins mostly different hand painted FDCs sleeved in ten shoeboxes organized in date order. | Cat. Value: S.B. 2000.00
Price Realized: $8,000.00 |
| 440 | | Over 1700 Collins First Day covers from 1978 up to 2000. Almost all are unaddressed with nice variety of cachets and a bit of duplication here and there. A solid offering of a very popular artist. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1700.00
Price Realized: $6,000.00 |
| 441 | | A group of special delivery covers that the collector was developing for an exhibit. Hotels, businesses and personal mailings are present, some with interesting auxiliary markings including register mail and RPO. The stamps start with E1 (four) and continue to the messenger on bicycle. One is at an 11 cent rate (drop rate). There are a few postal cards and a couple postal stationary to round out this selection. Thirty-four items to work into an exhibit or collect out of pure interest. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1200.00
Price Realized: $800.00 |
| 442 | | Over 10,000 U. S. first day covers, all with cachets, from the 1940’s to 2000’s in four boxes. About 60% unaddressed and one third have better cachets such as Fleetwood. Great for the internet and well worth checking out. | Cat. Value: S.B. 1000.00
Price Realized: $950.00 |
| 443 | | Covers from the 1850s to the 1930s with many interesting air mail related items including picture postcards, Century of Progress (C-18), first flight covers and more. Missives and advertising covers are also present. Take time to search this group to find the gems. | Cat. Value: S.B. 550.00
Price Realized: $700.00 |
| 444 | | An unusual and historical 1927 cover autographed by Richard Byrd who was attempting to win the Orteig Prize for making the first nonstop flight between the US and France. Written “Via United States Transatlantic Air Mail First Flight Commander Byrd Pilot of “America". Addressed to "Sheldon Whitehouse Counselor American Embassy, Paris, France. Please forward to Mr. John Muccia American Vice-Consul Hong Kong, China”. Comes with original letter from a John Miller on House of Representatives stationery talking about trying to send this letter with Byrd. There is no postmark or cancellation to indicate it was carried by Byrd or evidence that it was aboard the “America” when it crashed off the coast of France at the end of the oceanic flight. A historical Byrd postal history which would be a center piece of your collection. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00
Price Realized: $180.00 |
   
9 TOTAL IMAGES | 445 | | Accumulation from the 1840s to the early 1970s in one carton. Approximately 700 commercial covers, postal stationery, and postcards. Incorporates around twenty stampless as well as WW II Military, event, first flight, ship canceled, some advertising etc. Condition is a concern on some items; so, examination required. Still plenty of meat on the bone to be found in this holding. | Cat. Value: S.B. 450.00
Price Realized: $2,400.00 |
| 446 | | United States Duck Stamp related covers in two binders. Around 90 are FDCs for RW (duck) stamps 1981-1998 from various cachet makers. Several relatively common, but a bunch are hand painted and much in demand. Some duplication. Another nearly 40 deal with the FDCs of the 1991 Wood Duck and the 1984 Waterfowl stamp. Many different cachets here with at least a dozen signed and hand painted. Fun lot for the topicalist cachet collector or internet merchant. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $800.00 |
   
16 TOTAL IMAGES | 447 | | Small group of fifteen covers franked with C18. Two are First Day Covers while the rest are flights. Condition is quite mixed. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $500.00 |
| 448 | | A remainder accumulation of over 2000 First Day Covers from the contemporary to modern era. A wide selection of popular cachet artists. Some better earlier groups are Famous Americans, Army Navy, Overrun Nations, FDR, and a small batch of souvenir sheets. Combination of addressed unaddressed, some duplication, and condition varies. The perfect gift for the starting collector of this area. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00
Price Realized: $500.00 |
   
23 TOTAL IMAGES | 449 | | Catch all lot of well over fifteen hundred mostly 1930’s- 1950s’ First Day covers. Includes commemoratives, regular issues, airmails, and a bit of Back of the Book. Wide variety of cachets with both addressed and unaddressed present. Duplication exists and condition is mixed. Worthy of the general First Day Cover aficionado. | Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $1,700.00 |
| 450 | | A marvelous collection of over 275 U. S. Navy Submarine covers many are First Day from the year 2000 and includes a wealth of information. An additional seventy-five related submarine covers and a selection of about forty foreign covers complete this submarine cover collection. Look closely to find the hand painted ones. Take time to run silently into the depths of this material. | Cat. Value: S.B. 375.00
Price Realized: $250.00 |
| 451 | | “State, Sovereignty, National Union.” About 175 covers and cards postmarked in Illinois, the Prairie State. Cities and suburbs, villages and one-horse towns. Strong presence of Chicago. Everything sleeved, with many items priced and identified. Admirable condition, superb variety, and legible cancels. What more could the Illinois specialist ask for? | Cat. Value: S.B. 325.00
Price Realized: $220.00 |
| 452 | | An impressive modern collection of around twelve hundred 1976-2000 First Day Covers. Cachets included are Artcraft, Cachet Limited edition, Collins, Colorano Silk, Fleetwood, and House of Farnum. Unaddressed, and beautiful colors. Also includes a carton of brand-new supplies for expansion. Great topical possibilities. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $1,150.00 |
   
22 TOTAL IMAGES | 453 | | An artsy First Day Cover collection of over 800 items from 1935 to 1967 plus a few airmails. Most are cacheted with many different along with the corresponding stamp. Hard lot to duplicate. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $700.00 |
| 454 | | Accumulation of approximately eighty stampless covers from 1807 to the 1850s. Many fascinating postal history reading could be in future showing a “snapshot” of a bygone era in America. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00
Price Realized: $700.00 |
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