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Germany and German Colonies Postal Stationery Featuring the Bradley Horton Col Postal Cards - Collections
Sale No: 81
Lot No: 1137
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Cat No: UX5
1875, 1¢ Black on Buff, Mounted Collection. Unwatermarked. Collection of 55 pages including freaks (albino and wild miscut), card stock variations on unused and used, damaged and recut plates, usage including territorials, RPOs, auxiliary markings, fancy cancels including shields, "US" monogram, geometrics, colors, crosses, stars, letters and numerals, Leavitt machine cancels, Waterbury cancels, Worcester fancies, address lines added, printed borders, reward card with pasted photo and 3¢ uprating, and better illustrated ads, F.-V.F. Scott No. UX5; Estimate $750 - 1,000. Est. $750-1,000 (Image)
Est. $750-1,000
Opening US$ 800.00
Sold...US$ 800.00
Closed..Oct-13-2018, 23:10:27 EST
Sold For 800
Sale No: 81
Lot No: 1142
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Cat No: UX12, UX14
1894-1897, 1¢ Black on Buff, E. Louis Smith Counterfeit Exhibit Collection. Mounted exhibit collection mounted on 19 pages telling the story of E. Louis Smith from the first person, the exhibit starts with Smith's coating business and examples of his coated ads, the two recorded UX12 counterfeits are present, a mint example defaced with red manuscript. "Counterfeit" by Inspector Cochran and a faulty used example with silver coating over previous address, and 11 UX14 counterfeits comprising 5 unused and 6 used, the four known plates are shown with mint or used examples plus an example that does not fit the other four plate and noted by Brad as a new fifth plate, includes the two UX14s confiscated by Inspector Cochran and marked in red manuscript. "Counterfeit", also includes the original mailing by Cochran of his confiscated cards to Victory Mills N.Y.; accompanied by additional back up material and research on the subject., Very Fine. Scott No. UX12, UX14; Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
A REMARKABLE AND UNIQUE EXHIBIT COLLECTION OF THE E. LOUIS SMITH COUNTERFEITS.
This is a study of E. Louis Smith's postal card coating and printing business from 1895 until 1902, when he was sentenced to prison for two years for counterfeiting $100 of U.S. postal cards with 1894 and 1897 Jefferson designs. Postal Inspector W.E. Cochran discovered that Smith had been counterfeiting cards when he made a surprise visit. He had come to inspect the size of Smith's stock of unusable postal cards and already coated cards and to tell him that coated cards had been invalidated three weeks earlier. The Post Office Department had long redeemed unusable stamped envelopes and was going to being to redeem unusuable postal cards. The inspector noticed that Smith had blank card stock cut to size and a counterfeit plate mounted in his small press. Smith confessed to counterfeiting and was arrest on April 24th 1902.
Single examples of the UX14 counterfeit have hammered for between $375 and $750 in our past sales. The UX12 counterfeits have never been offered at public auction. Est. $3,000-4,000 (Image)
Est. $3,000-4,000
Opening US$ 3,500.00
Sold...US$ 3,500.00
Closed..Oct-13-2018, 23:13:39 EST
Sold For 3500
Sale No: 81
Lot No: 1146
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Cat No: UX14
1897, 1¢ Black on Buff, Pioneer View Cards. Large mint and used group of 47 postal cards with pioneer views including multicolor designs, includes Lookout Mountain Tenn. by Kropp (2 mint and 1 used), Brooklyn Bridge (Kreh) multicolor, Greater New York Souvenir by H.A. Rost group of 3 mint and 8 used, plus H.A. Rost Niagara Falls used to Germany, couple different Greetings from Galveston (Ferd Ohlendorf), couple Chicago "Hotel Restaurant Bismark", and one with foreign Kyoto view, etc., F.-V.F. and scarce group of pioneer cards. Scott No. UX14; Estimate $750 - 1,000. Est. $750-1,000 (Image)
