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Sale No: 132
Lot No: 463
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Cat No: Collection
KARL LEWIS HANDPAINTED COVER COLLECTION OF 52 DIFFERENT, a most amazing collection of these scarce and extremely popular handpainted covers, virtually all are Japanese First Day covers and many have multiple frankings and several have stamps on the backs too, most are numerated with Karl Lewis' reference number or letter on the back, contained on black stock pages, all are addressed to Clas. J.J. Rupp in Allentown Pa., Rupp was a postmaster and close personal friend to Mr. Lewis and hence was able to get a significant number of covers of his works, the overall quality of this collection is simply pristine with each cover being in the "day it was born" quality, we have offered a few Lewis covers over the years and generally they trade in the $200-400 each range but there are several designs which are very scarce and they often fetch in the $1,000+ range, we noticed a few rare covers which sold at auction a couple years ago that brought $1,500 to $2,000 each and those designs are in the collection being offered here, we have scanned every page of this impressive collection so the bidders will be able to experience this rare group of covers in detail, those images are available on our web site, (ENV 7,500-10,000) (Image)
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Opening US$ 18,000.00
Sold...US$ 18,000.00
Closed..Mar-04-2023, 19:00:19 EST
Sold For 18000
Sale No: 132
Lot No: 464
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Cat No: Collection
KARL LEWIS HANDPAINTED COVER COLLECTION OF 45 VARIOUS, a nice collection of these scarce and extremely popular handpainted covers, virtually all are Japanese First Day covers and many have multiple frankings and several have stamps on the backs too, most are numerated with Karl Lewis' reference number or letter on the back, contained on black stock pages, all are addressed to Clas. J.J. Rupp in Allentown Pa., Rupp was a postmaster and close personal friend to Mr. Lewis and hence was able to get a significant number of covers of his works, the overall quality of this collection is simply pristine with each cover being in the "day it was born" quality, we have offered a few Lewis covers over the years and generally they trade in the $200-400 each range but there are several designs which are very scarce and they often fetch in the $1,000+ range, all the covers being offered here are duplicates of the other collection listed nearby and there are a few duplicates as part of the 45, we have scanned every page of this impressive collection so the bidders will be able to experience this rare group of covers in detail, those images are available on our web site, (ENV 4,000-4,500) (Image)
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Opening US$ 13,000.00
Sold...US$ 13,000.00
Closed..Mar-04-2023, 19:02:09 EST
Sold For 13000
Sale No: 132
Lot No: 465
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Cat No: Collection
KARL LEWIS HANDPAINTED POST CARDS AND CARD COLLECTION, includes 125 post cards, event cards and some covers, most are handpainted post cards and the balance are Karl Lewis related items, the overall quality is very clean with some scattered faults, some of the better post cards usually fetch in the $100-200 range, sorted onto black stock pages, we have scanned ever page and those images are on our website, (ENV 2,000-3,000) (Image)