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General Postal History by Year

LotNo.

Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

238

Extensive and Valuable Postal History Assortment, 1806-1950s, over 250 covers, cards, stationery items or fronts, ranging fro 1806 and 1832 stampless covers to Korean War-era APO covers; loads of better and interesting material, including First Flight Covers, Camel Express revival cover, 11 Puerto Rico stationery items, etc., the core of the holding in the Military-related items, with YMCA corner cards from WWI, "Soldiers Mail" and "Free" First Flight Covers, a two-country (US & India) franking, non-US covers to APO addresses, and US APO cancels from Thule (#858, rare), Kyoto (#301, plus Special Delivery and Postage Dues!), Canton Island, China, Papua New Guinea, and many more, with V-Mail, Naval Ship cancels and cachets, even one 1940 cover from a fourth grade student addressed to Admiral Byrd at the South Pole, forwarded to Boston (one stamp lost, but a heck of a redirect!); condition varies as usual, but a wealth of semi-specialized material to fill out any collection or to reward any savvy dealer, generally Fine to Very Fine, inspection invited. Shipping charges apply - weight 4.4 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $5,000-7,500
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239

Wide-Ranging Postal History, 1833-1950, 1,100 organized and ready for resale better exemples of postal history; 250 fresh mint Civil War Patriotics, many are multicolor and include Magnus fullcover artwork; autographs including R E Byrd, J Edgar Hoover, Earle Ovington, and Edith Roosevelt; Express companies including Wells Fargo, Mexico Wells Fargo (4), Denver & Rio Grande and Northern Pacific Express; 100+ US stampless with most from MA, NY, CT, KY, GA, and ME (as well as Steamboat and Railroad); individually sleeved and organized by subject including Corner Card, Expo, HPO, Inauguration, Patriotic (Spanish American, WWII), Postage Due, RPO, Registered, RFD, Service Suspended, Space, Territorial (AZ, Dakota, UT, WA), V E Day, V J Day, WWI, and more; expect carefully curated condition and ready for your discerning clients, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 13 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $4,000-6,000
SOLD for $4,750.00
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240

Wide-Ranging Postal History, 1860-1925, over 600, many better covers this specialist organized into 11 categories; 18 covers with #10, 11, 25 and 26; 54 envelopes with # 65; 92 Banknotes; 83 of just 3¢ Banknote; 10 Pictorial 3¢ (114); 14 Columbians; 30 Regular Issues (1890-1893); 50 "Better and Misc"; 20 late 19th century; 210 Advertising; and 84 postal stationery; each of these covers was picked up for a reason by this lifelong collector, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 14 lbs. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $2,600.00
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241

Worthwhile Postal History Lot, 1879-1946, 525+ better covers individually sleeved in glassines; includes States and Territorial cancels (150), Ship postmarks (89), V Mail (32), Inaugural (34) Patriotics (61), Expositions (26), Railroad and HPO (44), Postage Due (28), Fancy cancels (20), and WWI/WWII related (45); States including California, Dakota Territory, Guam, Hawaii, Arizona Territory, New Mexico Territory, and Samoa; Ships including USS Brant, USS Constitution, USS Indianapolis, USS Pennsylvania, USS Texas, as well as a few from Japan; V Mail envelopes, photographed letters, and hand written prior to being photographed, including a censored example from New Guinea marked "Not suitable for filming"; Inaugural including 1889 admission ticket, Herbert Hoover, FDR (2), Harry Truman (3), Eisenhower (13), JFK (2), Lyndon Johnson (3), and Nixon (5); Patriotics including Spanish American (4),Civil War (6), and WWII (51); Expositions including 1893 Columbian (2), 1901 Pan American (2), 1902 Perry's Victory, 1927 Eastern States, 1933 Century of Progress (5), 1935 San Diego (12), 1937 Chicago Charter Jubilee, 1958 Brussels, and 1965 NY World's Fair; Railroad/HPO including Pennsylvania Railroad, Erie Railroad, Great Northern, Union Pacific, Chicago and North Western, Western Pacific, New York Central, as well as numerous RPO, and multicored HPO first trips; Postage Due including Scott # J1, J2, J3, J5, Canada, China, France, Great Britain, Switzerland, Japan, and Italy; Fancy cancels including ship, flag, anchor, fireworks, turkey, witch, red fish, acorn, George Washington, ED, rhino, G, eagle and flag, 4th of July, drum and fife; WWI/WWII related includes YMCA corner cards, AEF censors, Red Cross with E8 Special Delivery, numerous APO (interesting letter from North Africa), APO 155 on British stationery, as well as 10 POW related items; bonus WWII war ration books and loose coupons as well as numerous partially completed Savings Bond books and Postal Savings cards (PS4); let the exploration begin, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 7.8 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $2,100.00
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242

"Another Place, Another Time" 19th Century Postal History Lot, 1840-98, Approximately 380 covers, about 100 of which are stampless and half of those privately carried without postal markings. Other highlights include #71 on cover from New Orleans to Paris, multiple covers with #9, one with cracked plate and another in a strip of three, #25 on an advertising cover, and #78 on a mourning cover to London. Numerous scans of this terrific lot are viewable online, generally Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 5 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

Estimate $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $2,600.00
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243

Correspondance and Commercial Mail, 1833-1945, about 800 of non-philatelic material; 20 or so stampless folded letters from the period 1830-1847; a few Wells Fargo (mint and postally used); a few hundred letters with envelopes from the WWI-WWII era; great selection of attached mint Postal Reply including Scott # UY1, UY2, UY4, UY9, and UY11 as well as Hawaiian examples of UY2 and UY3; mint 1943 Esquire series of 10 large postcards done by Vargas of pin ups; selection of Territorial mail, RPO, Ship cancels, attractive 1845 Boyd's Express, Advertising covers, and more; bonus are 4 US Passports issued to a teacher in 1951, 1958, 1962, and 1967; her travel (often with tied Revenue stamps included Germany, England, Belgium, Austria, Greece, Lebanon, United Arab Republic (beautiful cancel on stamp), Syria, Netherlands, Libya, Jordan, Uganda, Republic of South Africa, Senegal, Ghana, Suriname, Columbia, Hong Kong, Japan, Zanzabar, Thailand, Australia, New Zealand, Fiji, Spain, France, Southern Rhodesia, Nigeria, Portugal, India, Egypt, Argentina, Bolivia, Finland, Singapore, Malaysia, Iran, Philippines, Afghanistan, Brunei, Nepal, Indonesia, Burma, Cambodia, Pakistan, and the Soviet Union (Wow!), Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 13 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
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244

High Quality Postal History, 1811-1950, amid the common fancy cancels and run of the mill Banknotes are some interesting catagories; a few dozen business-size Advertising envelopes including Raymond Massey in Black Limelight (with "Dead Men Tell No Tales" on the reverse), Wagoner Refining, Colo Reco Gasoline, 200 Lap Indianapolis Type Race, Remember Your Boy Over-There (WWI), Ski-Skooter, Maas & Steffen Furs, and many more; FDR mail from the President's collection originally from Canada, Poland, Belgium, France, Mexico, Germany, Great Britain, China, and British Honduras; penny postcards canceled at places with names of Presidents or patriotic names and another with colors, numbers, and double names; 1925 1¢ bisect (no ½¢ stamps available) with 1929 photocopy concern the use; at least 45 stampless folded letters, 5 are from Mississippi River steamboat captain in the 1840s with great content; 1904 USPOD Registered Package envelope canceled in Ward CO; 15 different Air Letter First Day Covers from Western Airlines, Burlington Northern, and American Express; Free Frank Lyndon Johnson on Office of the Vice President letterhead, missionary lettter (1910) to Hong Kong with pagoda receiving mark, "Damaged in Handling" postcard badly burned, catapult mail on SS Bremen, NY World's Fair RPO, Highway Post Office, Missouri Moline Plow collar cover; pair of Blood's locals and a Boyd's front, Spanish American War Printed Matter to Haiti, 1852 Express Mail, Scott # 20 on front with blue Chicago postmark, 68 to Nova Scotia, 73 on ladies cover in New York, and much more, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 19 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $2,500.00
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245

Deliciously Varied Postal History, 1851-1960, thousands of better items (as well as a box of pedestrian material) with most in glassines and marked by year and topic for easy organizing; 450 commercial (mostly Banknotes) from Scott # 26 and 65 on through Banknotes and 4th Bureau, nothing fancy but might be interest to Marcophalist or fancy cancel collector, Fine to Very Fine. (Image)

Estimate $1,500-2,000
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246

Wide-Ranging Postal History, 1865-1946, 550 covers from many interesting subjects individually sleeved annotated with the year and subject; Autographs included John Havlicek (on basketball FDC), Eleanor Roosevelt (White House stationery), Johann Strauss (grandson of composer), Margaret Chase Smith (Senator), Charles W Bell (Congressman), W G Crosby, and William Stephens (Congressman); bicycle mail, Marine Detatchment (Antigua, British Guiana, Guantanamo Bay, Iceland, Jamaica, Newfoundland, and St Lucia); censored mail; Mourning covers (including from Jacqueline Kennedy); National Air Mail Week; Contract Air Mail (CAM), Air Mail (AM) routes, and Foreign Air Mail (FAM); slogan cancels, 7 Wells Fargo envelopes (one has the letter), Ringling Brothers corner cards, several Paquebot envelopes, and obviously more; care has been taken to avoid roughly opened examples, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 6.6 lbs. (Image)

Estimate $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $800.00
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247

Rich Postal History Collection, 1852-1929, 350 better envelopes from Scott # 10//770 plus some great BOB on cover; each is individually sleeved in glassines and annotated with year and catalog number of the franking; includes 10, 11, 26, 64, 65, 114, 150, 205, 233, 305, 306, 307, 328-330, 400A, 614-616, 617-619, C4, C5, C10, CE2, E5, E8, F1, J1, J16, Q1, Q2, Q3, and more; also has nice selection of postal stationery including U35, U59, U80, U163, U293 (series 2-4, 6, and 7), U330, U436g (error), U448 (double surcharge with one inverted), U348-U350, U377, U436 (albino), U536 (reversed envelope), U540 freak surcharge, UX6, UX8, UX11, UX12, UX16, UX18 double print and a pair with plate flaw in oval left side, UX39 surcharge on reverse only, UX40 inverted surcharge, UX46a error, UY4, and many more; useful lot, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 4 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $1,200-1,800
SOLD for $1,800.00
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248

Covers, Postal Stationery & Revenues on Documents, 1861-1970s, Hundreds of covers, some better FDCs including many specially issued sets from Fleetwood, some used & unused postal stationery, picture postcards, and, perhaps the highlight of this lot, hundreds of documents with revenue stamps, some with both federal and the State of New York, a good portion of it stock transfers. Some of the better 19th century covers, include #24 and 185 on separate covers and a sprinkling of foreign, like a few Hindenburg covers. As a bonus, a shoebox with 1000's upon 1000's of trading stamps including a couple dozen savings books, generally Fine to Very Fine, additional images online. Shipping charges apply - weight 20 lbs. (Image) (Image2) (Image3) (Image4) (Image5)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $375.00
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