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First Day Covers

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2174

The Falmouth Stamp & Coin Shop's Massive Hoard of First Day and Modern Event Covers with lots of Gold Foil, our skilled describing team estimates that this lot contains upwards of 10,000 first day covers including about 1,000 gold foil cacheted (also includes a couple albums of gold foil stamps), and there could be more than 10,000 (us lowly describers will get unceremoniously fired if we count them), mostly 1960's-80's but a handful of earlier including eight 3c Baseball (Scott No. 855) with 7 different cachets including Holland, Grandy (2 different color schemes), Planty #93 in red and black, first Leatherstocking (2), Clifford, and one legal sized by Chalres A. Richardson with advertisement on both sides "Richardson Baseball Shoe Cleats", lot also includes a few full sheets on oversized FDCs including 14 priority mail envelopes with 12 different indicia, and some more interesting cachets than the usual cachets, plus there are a few thousand modern event commemorative covers from the mid 1970's to the 1990's including Bicentennial, Norman Rockwell, US Presidents, etc., an outstanding collection of the 1947 U.S.S. Frigate Constitution issue in 15 cover albums and a stuffed shoebox (with duplicates), a collection of maximum cards in albums, and a large quantity of souvenir pages, this is a very clean and well organized lot, overall Very Fine, Falmouth Stamp & Coin has been in business for over 40 years. Throughout that time, the shop purchased many stamp collections. These are the ones that were put away and never offered to the public. See the baseball and other contemporary FDCs online, ex Falmouth Stamp & Coin. Shipping charges apply - weight 1100 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Video3 for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $3,000.00
Will close during Public Auction

2175

Mounted FDC Collection 1929-1988, lifetime collection of mounted First Day Covers, year sets, souvenir cards, and more; 16 volumes of modern FDC mounted on pages relating to and annotated write ups of various topics; H E Harris Statesman album with a few 100 mostly used stamps; dozens of fresh UN presentation cards; 40 USPS year sets (some duplication); Fleetwood Bicentennial and Constitution collections; 38 small Lighthouse FDC binders (each hold 100 envelopes) with US or UN covers; 20 Fleetwood presentation folders on modern topics (all different); and a fresh White Ace Souvenir Card Album, 2 volumes and looks very complete; much more then there is room to name, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 253 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $750-1,000
SOLD for $550.00
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2176

First Day Covers and Collections, 1923-2000, calling all FDC lovers, lot contains well over a thousand First Day Covers in bound collections and loose; collections include Postal Commemorative Society American Patriotic Heros, Official Birds and Flowers, 1986 Presidential First Day Covers, Norman Rockwell (2 massive volumes of WW sheets), Official History of the US in Mint Stamps, Calhoun's Collectors Society 50 Golden Years of Commemoratives (Vol 1), Golden Replicas of US Stamps (22k gold foil is always popular with kids), White House Historical Society 1986 Presidential Maxim Collection, Westport Collectors Society Presidents of the United States (2), America's First Ladies, Fleetwood Pueblo Art, and ArtCraft American Bicentennial; not found in binders include Prexie Ferryman card blocks through 50¢, several handpainted by DK and Mac's Originals, all 35 Famous Americans on one cover (not a First Day); about 30 postcards carried on the Highway Post Office (HPO) First Trips; and First Days for Scott # 614, 615, 620, 621, 622, 627, 628, 629 (1st Plotz), 630 (Laupe), 645, 648 (Gorham), 654, 657 (Roessler), 680, 682, 683, 688 (Roessler), 689 (Ioor), 690, 702, 703 (1st Wethersfield C of C), C33 (Sanders); artists include George, Gandy, Crosby, House of Farnum, Holland, Railey, Anderson, Grimsland, Linprint, and more, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 103 lbs. (Image)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $350.00
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2177

Solid Selection of Souvenir Pages and First Day Covers, 8 binders of souvenir pages that start in 1970-2000 not complete, binders and 3 boxes of First Day covers, 3 Books of special events covers and panels, Binder of over 50 Collins hand painted First day Covers, over 30 Fluegel First Day Covers from 1954-1966, over 30 covers that celebrate the launching and commissioning of U.S. submarines, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 86 lbs. (Video for this lot) (Video2 for this lot) (Video3 for this lot) (Image)

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Estimate $500-750
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction