COVERS — United States and General Foreign |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
23 TOTAL IMAGES | 566 | | Covers in Abundance. Five large cartons filled with a wide array of material. Includes commercial and private correspondence, first flights, space-related creations, FDCs, documents with revenue stamps, and more. New and old, U.S. and foreign. Loads of topical and historical appeal. Thousands of covers. Mixed condition, but overall in collectable, enjoyable form. A fun, attractive lot for collectors and dealers alike. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00 Price Realized: $1,800.00 |
8 TOTAL IMAGES | 567 | | Worldwide Cover Selection. Five boxes of mixed covers with a total of around 5,000 items, 1920s to 1980s. We found postal stationery, personal and business correspondence, FDCs, special event covers, and picture postcards. Watch out for occasional surprises hiding among subscription-like bulk. Mixed condition, with most material in clean, collectable format. Could be a fount of joy for the right person. | Cat. Value: S.B. 500.00 Price Realized: $1,600.00 |
11 TOTAL IMAGES | 568 | FDC | United States and worldwide accumulation from the late 19th Century to the 1990s in three cartons. Around 1,500 FDC, event cover, mostly unused postal stationery, postcards, and several subscription items offering a cornucopia of countries and issues. Includes a US Bicentennial Official Commemorative sterling silver ingot in a 1974 FDC. Worth exploring. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00 Price Realized: $270.00 |
5 TOTAL IMAGES | 569 | FDC | Monster accumulation with a Worldwide flavor but weighted to US material. Some golden Replica material, but not overly so. Thousands and thousands of FDC, private and commercial uses, 2c reds, 3c purple era, really a wide-ranging accumulation. | Cat. Value: S.B. 400.00 Price Realized: $240.00 |
12 TOTAL IMAGES | 570 | | A banker’s box holding three smaller groupings totaling a few hundred covers. One box is primarily foreign, another is mainly U.S., and the third group is a small cover album with a dozen or so U.S. zeppelin flights. We spotted a group of covers addressed to a prisoner who, per the handwritten notations on the covers, escaped. While we didn’t see any high value covers, all of these were apparently accumulated for their postal history value. Well worth a review. | Cat. Value: S.B. 350.00 Price Realized: $1,150.00 |
14 TOTAL IMAGES | 571 | | Airmail Delight. Almost two hundred covers from around the world. Mainly first flights and special event covers, with some personal or business correspondence. 1930s to 1940s. Housed in a deluxe cover album. Oodles of postmarks, auxiliary markings, etc. to decipher and appreciate. Overall topnotch condition. Take a look. | Cat. Value: S.B. 300.00 Price Realized: $500.00 |
| 572 | | A cover accumulation with many well described. Mostly U.S. but Canada and other countries slipped into the mix. An interesting lot well worth a view. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $325.00 |
7 TOTAL IMAGES | 573 | FDC | United States and worldwide accumulation mainly from the 1930s to the 1990s in six cartons. Roughly a thousand or so FDCs. commercial covers, used unused postal stationery, subscription items, and eight albums of golden replicates. A few nuggets might be found. Priced accordingly. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00 Price Realized: $110.00 |