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Phil. 277+U30 |
 1919 Ft. Wm. McKinley, Philippines to Vladivostock, Siberia. Incoming Philippines 1908, 2¢ Rizal entire uprated with 1914, 4¢ carmine (s.e.), tied by "Ft. Wm. McKinley, Rizal, P.I.,
Jan 19" duplex postmark, purple censor handstamp and Manila transit backstamp, cover forwarded to Cameron Mills, N.Y. with "U.S. Postal Agency, Siberia, Feb 14, 1919" duplex postmark; cover slightly reduced at left, otherwise Very
Fine, a very rare usage from the Philippine Island and forwarded from Siberia.
Scott No. Phil. 277+U30; Estimate $400 - 600. (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $675.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1202 |
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UY8r |
 U.S. Postal Agency, Siberia, Feb 26, 1919. Clear duplex postmark canceling on 1918, 2¢ red reply postal card to Hartford, Ct., with large boxed "A.E.F. Siberia, Censored" handstamp, signed and
card sent by the U.S. Postal Agent S.A. Cisler, Very Fine, believed to be the only 2¢ postal reply card sent from Siberia.
Scott No. UY8r; Estimate $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $850.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1203 |
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 U.S. Postal Agency, Siberia, Jun 7, 1919. Duplex postmark on printed P.O.W. "Hungary / Austria" designation card to Budapest, Hungary, without censor handstamp, Very Fine, an extremely rare
prisoner card and possibly unique.
Estimate; $400 - 600. (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 U.S. Postal Agency, Siberia, Aug 5, 1919. Duplex postmark on thin printed P.O.W. card endorsed "American Prison Camp., Vladivostock, Siberia" from Austrian prisoner to Austria, with oval
"Am. E.F. Siberia, Passed as Censored, Base Censor" handstamp, Very Fine, very few cards are known from this P.O.W. camp.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $550.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 U.S. Postal Agency, Siberia, Aug 25, 1919. Duplex postmark on P.O.W. card endorsed "American Prison camp" from German prisoner to Altona, Germany, with oval "Am. E.F. Siberia, Passed as
Censored, Base Censor" handstamp, Very Fine, very few cards are known from this P.O.W. camp.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 U.S. Postal Agency, Siberia, Oct 10, 1919. Duplex postmark on P.O.W. card endorsed "American Prison camp" from German prisoner to Fallersleben, Germany, with boxed "A.E.F. Siberia,
Passed as Censored, Base Censor" handstamp, Very Fine, very few cards are known from this P.O.W. camp.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
(Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1207 |
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UX27 |
 U.S. Postal Agency, Siberia, Dec 15, 1919. Duplex postmark canceling on 1914, 1¢ Jefferson postal card to East Orange, N.J., with blue boxed "A.E.F. Siberia, Passed as Censored, Base" Censor
handstamp, reverse with Red Cross "Furnished Free By, Canteen Service, San Francisco Chapter" imprint and message from soldier in the 27th Infantry heading to Russia, Very Fine and choice, ex-Thrower.
Scott No. UX27;
Estimate $500 - 750.
ONE OF THREE KNOWN SIBERIA CANCELLATIONS ON A 1¢ JEFFERSON POSTAL CARD.
Message written on board the troopship S.S. "Great Northern". Soldiers were sent to Russia to help rescue the
Czechoslovak Army, to maintain the railroads and run a P.O.W. camp for German and Austrian prisoners. (Image1)
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Est. $500-750
SOLD for $1,150.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1208 |
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 U.S. Postal Agency, Siberia, Jan 15, 1920. Duplex postmark on printed "Base Prison Camp" P.O.W. card to Cleveland, O. with both Germany & Austria crossed out below, light box censor handstamp at
bottom left; card creases, Fine, an extremely rare prisoner card and unique to the U.S. as most of the P.O.W.'s where of German or Austrian origin, illustrated in Van Dam (pg. 184).
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1209 |
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 U.S. Postal Agency, Siberia, Jan 20, 1920. Duplex postmark on printed "Base Prison Camp" P.O.W. card to Altona, German, light box censor handstamp at bottom left, Very Fine, an extremely
rare prisoner card with only a few known.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $850.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1210 |
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 U.S. Postal Agency, Siberia, Feb 7, 1920. Duplex postmark on "War Department, Headquarters American Expeditionary Forces, Siberia" corner card soldier's cover to Pacific Grove, Cal., purple box
"A.E.F. Siberia, Censored" handstamp; cover slightly reduced at right; cover fold and light toning at right, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction |
World War II
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| 1211 |
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 1941 (Dec. 6) Lake George N.Y. to Tokyo, Japan missing the Anzac Clipper to Honolulu. Cover bearing 50¢ Clipper (C22) and 20¢ Airmail (C29) tied by "Lake George N.Y.,
Dec 6, 1941" duplexes on air mail cover endorsed "By Trans-Pacific", censor tape at left and "Passed by Censor" circular handstamp, purple "Returned to Sender, Service Suspended" two-line handstamp, sender's note on
reverse "Returned on March 18, 1942, Lake George N.Y."; accompanied by original letter in Japanese characters and Customs Declaration parcel card for 6lb 6oz. package with same purple "Returned to Sender, Service Suspended" two-line
handstamp, Very Fine.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000. (Image1)
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Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $4,250.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1212 |
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 U.S. Sub. Pearl Harbor Br., Honolulu T.H. Dec 6, 9:30AM, 1941. Duplex ties 3¢ defense (901) on cover to Wrentham Mass., endorsed "Mailed from Pearl harbor, December 6. 1941, Save" at
left; some tiny tone spots, otherwise Very Fine and scarce use the day prior to Pearl Harbor.
Estimate; $500 - 750. (Image1)
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Est. $500-750
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Sixth Defense Bat., Fleet Marine Force, Dec 6 A.M., 1941. Duplex with "Midway Islands" slogan ties 1¢ Prexie (804) strip of three on cover to Seattle Wash., Very Fine and
scarce civilian use from Midway Island the day prior to Pearl Harbor.
Estimate; $500 - 750. (Image1)
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Est. $500-750
SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 1941 (Dec. 7) U.S.S. Chester and U.S.S. Enterprise. Two covers comprising "U.S.S. Enterprise, 7 Nov, 9 AM, 1941" duplex on legal-size Navy
Department Official Business penalty envelope to the Commandant of the Eleventh Naval District at San Diego Cal., flap tear; and "U.S.S. Chester, Dec 7, A.M., 1941" duplex ties 3¢ defense (901) on Navy Department Penalty envelope
with "Official Business" and imprint crossed out as used for private correspondence to J. Robert Byrd at Manhattan Beach Cal., "Paid by Naval Censor" handstamp; wear and creasing, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $5,000 - 7,500.
A RARE PAIR OF COVERS FROM THE TASK FORCE 8 THAT WAS PROVIDENTIALLY DELAYED OUT OF HARMS WAY WHILE THE JAPANESE BOMBED PEARL HARBOR, ARRIVING THE FOLLOWING DAY TO WITNESS THE CARNAGE AND OFF-LOAD MAILS AT PEARL HARBOR.
Task Force
8, consisting of the aircraft carrier USS Enterprise, commanded by Admiral William F. Halsey Jr., and its escorts, departed Pearl Harbor on 28 November 1941 for Wake Island. The cruiser USS Chester was an escort ship on this trip. The
task force had been scheduled to return to Pearl Harbor late on December 6, but had been delayed by inclement weather, providentially keeping the carrier Enterprise and its escorts out of harm's way when Japanese attack forces torpedoed and
bombed American ships berthed in port. The USS Chester cover (an official Penalty Mail envelope used for private correspondence, so it required postage) was canceled December 7th, the date of the Japanese attack, when Task Force 8 was
about 200 miles west of Hawaii on its return to Pearl Harbor. After searching in vain for the Japanese attack force, Enterprise and the rest of Task Force 8 arrived back at Pearl Harbor amid the smoldering carnage late Monday December 8th,
when the ships' mail was put ashore. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $5,000-7,500
CLOSED
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| 1215 |
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 Anzac Clipper to Honolulu, Dec. 7, 1941 -- The Day of Infamy. Red and blue "Via Airmail" cover with purple "American Hard Rubber Co." corner card handstamp bearing "New York N.Y., Dec.
4 '41" Pitney Bowes meter strip of 10¢ and three 20¢ stamps paying the 70¢ per half ounce rate to Hong Kong, carried on the Anzac Clipper from San Francisco on December 6th to Honolulu arriving during the morning of the
Pearl Harbor attacks, the flight was less than an hour away from Honolulu when word of the attacks was radioed and it was then diverted to Hilo, reverse with "RELEASED/BY I.C.B." (Information Control Branch) and "190" Hawaii
censorship examiner backstamps struck across the sealing tape, "Honolulu, Hawaii, Feb 25, 1942" machine backstamp, purple "Return to Sender / Service Suspended" two-line handstamp struck twice, original letter foreboding of war:
"…We believe that unless something unforeseen occurs, this will be sufficient to cover the merchandise, freight and insurance, including war risk, to Hong Kong…In view of the extremely tense situation that has arisen in the Far
East, the American Lines have cancelled all sailings to Hongkong and it may be that all other lines will follow suit…", fresh and Very Fine.
Estimate; $2,000 - 3,000.
A HISTORIC FLIGHT COVER FROM SAN FRANCISCO TO
HONOLULU ON THE ANZAC CLIPPER, ARRIVING IN HAWAII LATE ENOUGH ON DECEMBER 7, 1941 FOR DIVERSION TO HILO AS THE BOMBS FELL.
Ken Lawrence has written extensively on WWII postal history and the Pearl Harbor Day flight of the Anzac Clipper. In
his Linn's article, "International airmail covers recall the 'Day of Infamy' ", he writes how the Pan American Airways FAM 14 Anzac Clipper, a Boeing B-314A flying boat, registration No. NC 18611 had taken took off from San
Francisco late on the afternoon of December 5 but experienced mechanical trouble 400 miles out and had to return for repairs. "After being repaired, she had been rescheduled to leave at 2 p.m. California time on Dec. 6, but the veteran pilot,
Capt. H. Lanier Turner, had been granted a brief postponement of the departure time, about half an hour, so he could attend his daughter's first piano recital at Oakland. At 8 a.m. the next morning, Anzac Clipper was less than an hour away from
Honolulu when its radio officer received a coded flash warning that Pearl Harbor was under Japanese air attack. Turner's providentially late departure from San Francisco had delayed his approach just long enough to have kept his vulnerable
aircraft out of harms way. Turner's "Plan A" secret instructions in the event of war rerouted Anzac Clipper to Hilo, 220 miles southwest of the combat zone. Gen. Walter C. Short, the military governor of Hawaii, had immediately declared
martial law in the islands and had ordered the newly created Information Control Board, headquartered beside the Honolulu post office, to open and examine all transit and outbound civil mail."
The Anzac Clipper's mail was forwarded
from Hilo to Honolulu for censorship, denoted by the handstamped RELEASED BY I.C.B. marking in black ink over the cellophane tape seal on the cover offered here. Mail to destinations in Hawaii was delivered, while flights farther west ceased. Mail to
Japanese-occupied places was of course returned to sender, as was the case with the cover offered here. Mail to other places was rerouted for transatlantic transport to the destinations. (Image1)
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Est. $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $1,600.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Japanese Internment Camp Covers, 1942-45. Of 10 covers from seven camps; includes Amache (Colo.) (2), Heart Mountain (Wyo.) (2), Minidoka (Hunt, Idaho), Poston
(Ariz.) (2), Rivers (Ariz.), Topaz (Utah) and Tule Lake (Cal.), with four address to Heat Mountain relocation camp, Very Fine.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
Complete Images. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $475.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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 Tule Lake Relocation Center - Japanese Internment Camp, 1942. Cover addressed to the North Portland Assembly Center in Oregon, franked with 1¢ Defense, three singles tied by "Tule Lake,
Calif., Aug 10, 42" machine postmark; slightly reduced at left, Very Fine, covers to or from the North Portland Assembly Center are rare with only a few known, The Portland Assembly Center operated from May 1 to September 10, 1942.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $350.00
Will close during Public Auction |
Advertising & Illustrated Covers
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| 1218 |
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 (Anti-Slavery) God Hath Made of One Blood All Nations of Men. British allover J. Valentine propaganda cover to Concord, N.H., with red "Oneida Depot, N.Y., May 21" origin cds with matching
Paid rate handstamps, Very Fine, a scarce British propaganda cover used in the U.S.
Estimate; $250 - 350. (Image1)
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Est. $250-350
SOLD for $1,150.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1219 |
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 (Brewery) Bartels Brewing Co. Multicolor illustrated ad design showing Bartels bottle and Factory view on private post card bearing 2¢ shield (319), top guide line s.e., tied by
"Cazenovia N.Y. Jul 24, 1906" duplex with handstamp address to Bartels Brewing Co. at Syracuse N.Y., reverse with part printed order form filled out; central spindle hole, otherwise Very Fine and choice brewery advertising post card.
Estimate; $400 - 600. (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $625.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1220 |
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 (Cameo) Draper & Cole, Ornamental Iron Railing Works, Syracuse N.Y. Illustrated blue cameo corner card showing iron works on orange cover bearing 3¢ rose (65), well centered with wide
margins, tied by "Syracuse N.Y., Jun 8" duplex with four-ring target cancel to Binghamton N.Y., Extremely Fine and choice.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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