COVERS — United States |
| Lot | Condition | Description | Value/Bidding |
7 TOTAL IMAGES | 523 | FDC | Hodgepodge of United States assortment in six cartons. Incorporates FDCs, commercial covers, and subscription items roughly from the 1950s to the 1980s. Variety for the cover aficionado. | Cat. Value: S.B. 250.00 Price Realized: $280.00 |
9 TOTAL IMAGES | 524 | | United States original collector selection from the 1860s to 1977 in a medium box. Approximately 250 postcards, commercial covers, and postal stationery identified and documented by a knowledgeable collector. Saved for various reasons including cancels, destinations, and appeal. Spotted some tied Christmas seals and other seals. The majority are postcards. A super lot and well worth our suggested bid. | Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00 Price Realized: $550.00 |
13 TOTAL IMAGES | 525 | | United States “Columbians” selection from the 1890s in a small box. Consists of thirty-five covers and postal stationery having a variety of frankings and many to foreign destinations. Must for the Columbian collector or postal historian. | Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00 Price Realized: $425.00 |
12 TOTAL IMAGES | 526 | | United States stampless covers holding from the 1830s-1850s in a small box. Comprises around sixty covers having about ½ are from Maryland and the rest are mainly from New Jersey and Washington DC. Already priced, identified, and sleeved and ready to sell at a percentage. Condition will vary so examination required. | Cat. Value: S.B. 220.00 Price Realized: $300.00 |
| 527 | | Interesting Naval cover accumulation from mid-1930’s to mid-1970’s, with bulk of the material 1950 and later. Auxiliaries, surface combatants, submarines, etc. Lots of variety. A few items are heavily duplicated, but duplication in the bulk of the collection is minimal to acceptable. Must be many hundred different in here. Includes pre-war cancels from USS Maryland and California, among others. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $170.00 |
13 TOTAL IMAGES | 528 | | United States roughly forty advertising covers from 1883-1933. Involves a variety of topics. Copious photos tell their story as well as the varying conditions. Super for show stock or internet sales. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $260.00 |
9 TOTAL IMAGES | 529 | | Covers many with cachets, postal stationary, early postal cards, first day covers and a few foreign. A wide assortment from nineteenth century to recently. The early postal cards should attract attention as well as others. Worth your time to view. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $425.00 |
| 530 | | Ten Washington D.C. covers for the postal historian. Tacoma Park, D.C., Tennallytown, D.C., and Alexandria, D.C. makes for interesting research opportunities. Make time to view these early items. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $100.00 |
11 TOTAL IMAGES | 531 | | United States forty-six stampless covers from the 1840s-1850s. Incorporates eighteen from Illinois (one front) and the remainder are from Michigan, Indiana, and Wisconsin. Variety of town cancels but also condition varies. Well worth a careful look. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $375.00 |
| 532 | FDC | Pair of bankers boxes stuffed with well over 3000 largely cacheted unaddressed first day covers. Enjoy the hours spent sorting through these. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $260.00 |
| 533 | | U.S. Postal Stationery Mixture. Over sixty mainly mint envelopes and cards from the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Features color and printing varieties, with minimal duplication. Many items are identified and priced. Numerous light pencil notations and some old mounting remnants detected, but overall a clean and attractive lot. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $260.00 |
10 TOTAL IMAGES | 534 | | Mixed Nuts. One box of over one hundred covers of all sorts mailed in the United States and intended for national and international locations, nineteenth century to 1960s. We noted postal stationery, special event covers, postcards, Civil War wallpaper covers, personal and business correspondence, FDCs, and DPOs. Foreign destinations include Germany, Belgium, Norway, Switzerland, and the Netherlands. Mixed condition, with some tears, creases, bends, worn corners, etc. Noteworthy for variety and worth a look. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $260.00 |
12 TOTAL IMAGES | 535 | | About 150 APO’s from Alaska and Western Canada during WWII and shortly after. Mounted and identified on pages, censor markings, a couple V-mail, and other interesting items are here. If APO’s are your thing, this is a less often seen area and deserves further study. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $210.00 |
6 TOTAL IMAGES | 536 | | Assorted U.S. Covers and Postal Stationery. Box of over 140 mint and used envelopes and cards, nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. Includes foreign usages. Good sampling of rates, postmarks, and auxiliary markings. Nice source of varieties. Some duplication. Clean, collectable condition. | Cat. Value: S.B. 200.00 Price Realized: $110.00 |
8 TOTAL IMAGES | 537 | | United States accumulation from the 1860s to the 1880s in a pizza size box. Involves roughly thirty-five covers having about fifteen that are “banknotes” and the others are the 1861 three cent issue. Already priced, identified, and sleeved. Ready to sell at a percentage of the marked price. Condition will always vary so assessment recommended. Could be a nugget or two for the postal history aficionado. | Cat. Value: S.B. 170.00 Price Realized: $450.00 |
9 TOTAL IMAGES | 538 | | Postal stationary and covers with many unused items. Airmail flight covers, postal cards, and three first day covers merit mentioning. A few foreign covers snuck into the mix. Enjoy digging through these. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00 Price Realized: $110.00 |
7 TOTAL IMAGES | 539 | | United States fifteen advertising covers from 1894 to 1937 in a cigar box. Variety of topics. Scans show the items you are bidding on. Condition varies so examination recommended. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00 Price Realized: $250.00 |
6 TOTAL IMAGES | 540 | | United States nine advertising covers from 1897-1917. Entails Hazard Power Shells, Pepsin Sticks Chewing Gum, St Louis World’s Fair, Pam Am Expo 1901 and New Jersey Car Springs. Condition will vary so inspection required. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00 Price Realized: $0.00 |
7 TOTAL IMAGES | 541 | | United States twelve advertising covers from 1895-1936. Involves Stickney Poor’s Mustard, Nehi Bottling, St. Louis Lager Beer, Granite Flour, KC Baking Powder, Knox Gelatine, and Snider Preserve. Inspection recommended as condition varies. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00 Price Realized: $280.00 |
9 TOTAL IMAGES | 542 | | United States fifteen advertising covers from 1874-1910. Includes Hamburg Plow Works, Elks Minstrel Show Waterbury Conn, Monarch Cycle Co, Diamond Point Pen Co, Happy Thought Chewing Tobacco, and Star Wagon Works, Ocala FL. Examination recommended as condition varies. A delightful group. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00 Price Realized: $150.00 |
13 TOTAL IMAGES | 543 | | United States accumulation from the 1890s. Comprises roughly forty-five “small bank notes” covers having many to Western European destinations. Already priced and sleeved. Ready to sell at a percentage of the marked price. Condition will always differ, so evaluation recommended. Inspect and enjoy. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00 Price Realized: $160.00 |
5 TOTAL IMAGES | 544 | | United States assortment from the 1860s consisting of sixteen early advertising covers. Includes cancels from Grand Rapids, MI, Troy, NY, Macomb, IL, St. Louis, and Richmond, VA. Interesting postal history, Condition varies. | Cat. Value: S.B. 150.00 Price Realized: $140.00 |
15 TOTAL IMAGES | 545 | | Wonderful group of World War II covers including used and unused. Typical topics are Army, Navy humor, anti-Axis, mail requests, and a Remember Pearl Harbor. An attractive group well worth viewing. | Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00 Price Realized: $80.00 |
| 546 | | Collection of unused stationary from the 1970’s to 1990’s. Includes postcards, entires, specials and others. Many still in their P.O. packaging. Opportunity to fill in this segment of a collection at a fraction of original cost. | Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00 Price Realized: $60.00 |
| 547 | | Hear Ye, Hear Ye. Nine folded newsletters or newspapers mailed during the stampless period of the 1800s. Mostly from New York to Holland. With old purchase prices of EUR45 each. Mixed condition. Well preserved, but still some wear and tear and occasional minor damage. Great conversation pieces. | Cat. Value: S.B. 120.00 Price Realized: $65.00 |
6 TOTAL IMAGES | 548 | | United States Patriotic covers selection from 1861-2001. Consist of two Civil War, three Spanish American War and two 9-11 hand painted. Readily saleable. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00 Price Realized: $90.00 |
7 TOTAL IMAGES | 549 | | United States selection from the 1910s// to 1950s in a medium box. Roughly ninety-five covers and postcards consisting of 75% naval including ship cancels, and 25% for the Marines. Popular topic not to be missed. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00 Price Realized: $55.00 |
18 TOTAL IMAGES | 550 | | United States “Postal Usage of the One Cent Blue First Bureau Issue of 1890” former exhibit in a pizza size box. Incorporates twenty-eight covers nicely annotated and arranged on pages in a binder. All pages have been scanned. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00 Price Realized: $95.00 |
7 TOTAL IMAGES | 551 | | United States Northern and Upper Peninsula Michigan DPO from 1888-1971 in a small box. Contains around thirty covers, postal stationery and postcards. Some towns consist of Bay Mills, Bayview, Blount, Cedar River, Sigma, Spencer, Provement ,Roselawn, Redridge, Schaffer, Clam River, Tri Mountain, etc. If you like Michigan DPO, this lot is especially for you. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00 Price Realized: $110.00 |
| 552 | | United States “cross border” assortment from the 1850s. Involves nine covers mainly to Montreal and Toronto Canada. All covers have been scanned. | Cat. Value: S.B. 100.00 Price Realized: $70.00 |
11 TOTAL IMAGES | 553 | FDC | Over 65 generally better first day covers. “Better” means early (such as 717 catcheted and several 751 sheets or part sheets catcheted) or it means bright and colorful with several handpainted. View the photos or view in person at this nifty little lot. | Cat. Value: S.B. 75.00 Price Realized: $260.00 |
| 554 | | United States consisting of a single carton of postal stationary, mint, around a thousand, mostly modern. | Cat. Value: S.B. 50.00 Price Realized: $30.00 |