Sale No: 776
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Cat No: 112//121
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1869 Issue, Phenomenal Collection (Scott 112//121), this collection opens with used stamps including #112-122 with colored geometric cancels including #114 with green cancel (1996 PFC), #116 with purple star, #119 with dark red rosette & #130 with "sun of bars" cancel of Castroville Texas (SE-GE-P56), then come the proofs and essays including a #112P4-122P4 with original envelope, #113P1 and 40 essays, next come the cancelation studies by issue including #112 (53 including two strips of three; cancels include shield and hollow five point star, plus four covers), #113 (123 including strip of four; many fancy cancels, plus ten covers including front of printed circular or newspaper to France and a no gum single with a preprinted paperfold), #114 many hundreds with strength in cancels including hands, "seeing eye", mask, beer mug, "US" in heart, skull and crossbones with "KKK" (3), skull, skull & crossbones (3), "Kleagle mask", "shoo-fly" (2), inverted & reversed negative "PAID", padlock, compas, heart in arrow, "shoe & fly", "MB", eagle and shield, "K", crescent moon and star, anchor (ten different), top hat, "76" in shield, "PD", pinwheel, "KKK", leaves, hearts, eight different shields, loads of stars, green cancels (eight plus cover) also noteworthy is a used strip of nine and three used blocks of four, two used with preprinted paperfolds, over 20 grey paper varieties, many grill varieties, a diagonal bisect on cover, cover with stamp tied by "1870" of Watkins NY, three singles & #96 to Canada, two singles & #98 on domestic cover, pair with "3" cancels to Canada, blue large fly, #115 (42 including preprinted paperfold, shield, stars (5), diamond (on pair on piece), "U" in star and circle, Hiogo Japan, leaf, negative five point star, two red, three blue, cover to England, with 3c on domestic cover, #116 (45 including 2 Hiogo Japan, 3 NY Steamship, two negative five point stars, 9 blue including hollow five point star and 10 red, and single on 1870 wrapper from Yokohama to France via San Francisco, #117 (38 mostly colored cancels red (10), orange, brown, magenta, purple (5; one with PSE), 3 blue, #118 (8) #119 (21; one with APS cert), #120 (8), #121 (13), #123 (2), #133 (2), also includes #112-114 o.g. blocks of four (#112 bottom pair & #114 Never Hinged), plus other items we didn't note here, some fakes not counted, few faults to be expected, centering varies from fine to extremely fine, enormous Scott catalog value, see this phenomenal collection in its entirety online, ex-Gatsby. Shipping charges apply - weight 6.8 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (PDF2 for this Lot) (Image)
Estimate $30,000-40,000
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Opening US$ 29,000.00
Closed..Nov-06-2022, 15:29:03 EST
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