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Sparks Auctions Sale: 35

Canada
Canada

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1381
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Cat No: Literature

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image The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps, The Empire in North America, volume V by Robson Lowe, (1973, 760 pages). Hard bound with dust jacket, very fine. A must have for the enthusiast, loaded with stamp and postal history information not found elsewhere, with colour plates. (Image)

Est $ 50

Opening C$ 100.00
Sold...C$ 100.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:52:49 EST
Sold For 100

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1382
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Cat No: Literature

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image Group of 7 Useful and Interesting Deltiology Books, includes "Wish you were here" Life on Vancouver Island in Historical Postcards, by Peter Grant (2002), A History and Directory of Yukon Postcards 1897-1942, by Ken Elder (2012), Warwick Bros. & Rutter Postcard Gems 1903-1912, by MJ. Smith and W.O. Buchanan (2011), The J.W. Bald Picture Postcard Handbook 1905-1955, by Roy Sennett (2013), The W.G. MacFarlane Picture Postcard Handbook 1902-1910, by M.J. Smith (2006), The Stedman Bros. Picture Postcard Handbook 1906-1914, by Michael J. Smith (2011), Early Fredericton Postcards, by Gordon Brooks (1998) and Unique Canadian Postcards from the Edwardian Era 1900-1916, by Allan Anderson & Betty Tomlinson (1978). Also included is a brand new pack of 50 plastic postcard pages (4 pockets per page). Great condition and useful lot for the postcard collector or dealer. (Image)

Est $ 75

Opening C$ 250.00
Sold...C$ 250.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:53:42 EST
Sold For 250

Literature and Supplies
Worldwide

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1383
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Cat No: Literature

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image Fundamentals of Philately, by L.N. Williams, revised 1990 edition, 862 pages. This is a must have for serious collectors of any country, as it explains many facets of philately and the printing process in great detail, such as different types of printing, perforating, watermarks, embossing, gums, papers, and much more. Gently used, with dust jacket (tears). (Image)

Est $ 50

Opening C$ 90.00
Sold...C$ 90.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:54:16 EST
Sold For 90

Canada
Canada

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1384
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Cat No: Literature

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image Group of 10 Philatelic Books, includes The Postage stamps and Postal History of Canada by W.S. Boggs (1975), Stamps of British North America by Fred Jarrett (1975), Canadian Postage Stamps and Stationery by Clifton A. Howes (1974), Holme's Specialized Philatelic Catalogue of Canada and British North America by Ryerson Press (1968), American Air Mail Catalogue Volume Four by the American Airmail Society (1981),The Companion Guide to Muskoka District Post Offices 1861-1999 by S.M. Sheffield (2001), Canadian Fancy Cancellations of the Nineteen Century K.M. Day and E.A. Smythies (1981), The Canada Precancel Handbook by H.G. Walburn (1988), two copies of The Canadian Revenue Stamp Catalogue E.S.J. van Dam (1991, 2000). Also included is Canadian Military Postal Markings in 2 volumes with matching slipcase by W.J. Bailey and E.R. Toop (1996). Some tear on a few of the dust jackets, but overall great condition. (Image)

Est $ 50

Opening C$ 90.00
Sold...C$ 90.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:55:10 EST
Sold For 90

Literature and Supplies
Worldwide

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1385
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image Box of 16 Philatelic Books, includes Philatelic Gems complete set consisting of 5 volumes in matching slipcase (Linn's,1989), Stamps & Postal History of Vancouver Island and B.C. (Wellburn,1987), Worlds Greatest Stamp Collections in 2 volumes with matching slipcase, (Bierman,1990), Tales by Mail, with book 1-2, both signed, (Cartier, 2006), Inverted Jenny, Money, Mystery, Mania, (Scott, 1986), The Post, (Vie. Art. Cité, 1974), The Musson Stamp Dictionary (Douglas & Mary Patrick,1972), L'Almanach de la Philatélie Canadienne, Tome 1, (1992), Le Castor de Fleming, (Masse, 1993), Le Livre Guinness des Timbres, (Editions Philippines, 1983). A useful lot, in great condition. (Image)

Est $ 50

Opening C$ 70.00
Sold...C$ 70.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:55:39 EST
Sold For 70

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1386
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image Box of Mostly Philatelic Forgery Related Literature, with a set of "Album Weeds - How to Detect Forged Stamps" (complete volumes I to VIII), "Fundamentals of Philately Series" (sections 3 to 5), "Philatelic Forgers - Their Lives and Work" (Varro E. Tyler), "The Yucatan Affair - The Work of Raoul Ch. de Thuin Philatelic Counterfeiter" (APS) plus other general interest philatelic books, including a group of specialized early German books. (Image)

Est $ 50

Opening C$ 200.00
Sold...C$ 200.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:56:48 EST
Sold For 200

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1387
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image Postmarks of the Cape of Good Hope, by Robert Goldblatt (1984, 267 pages), covering the 1892 to 1910 period, hard bound with dust jacket, profusely illustrated, very fine (like new). (Image)

Est $ 50

Opening C$ 60.00
Sold...C$ 60.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:57:07 EST
Sold For 60

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1388
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image History of the East African Army Postal Service, by Stuart Rossiter and Edward Proud (circa 1982, 111 pages), hard bound with dust jacket (tiny tear), well illustrated, very fine. (Image)

Est $ 50

Opening C$ 40.00
Sold...C$ 40.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:57:23 EST
Sold For 40

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1389
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image Group of Interesting and Useful Philatelic Publications, Stanley Gibbons Commonwealth Catalogue (2010), The Admiral issue of Canada (Marler, 1982), Jenny! (1986), Stanley Gibbons Great Britain Concise Catalogue (2015), The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century (Robson Lowe, 1968), A Canadian Military Postal History Anthology (BNAPS, 1991), Atlantic Mails A History of the Mail Service Between Great Britain and Canada to 1889 (Jack Arnell, 1980), Canadian Military Postal Markings (Bailey and Toop, 1996), The Sandford Fleming 3 Pence Essay (Firby Auctions, 1996), Canadian fancy Cancellations of the Nineteenth Century (Day and Smythies, 1973).Stanley Gibbons Elizabethan Postage Stamp Catalogue (1965), The Erival Collection Catalogue (two volumes, one for United States and one is a lovely 192 page fully colour illustrated history of the collection and its sale at H.R. Harmer in 2019), Altdeutchland Spezial Katalog (volume 5, German States, by Hans Grobe, 1975) and last but not least, The Floyd E. Risvold Collection Catalogues (deluxe hard bound 3-volume set in a slipcase, profusely illustrated in full colour and featuring outstanding early and interesting United States postal history - best coffee-table books, ever). (Image)

Est $ 100

Opening C$ 110.00
Sold...C$ 110.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:57:46 EST
Sold For 110

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1390
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image The Postal History of Iraq, by Patrick C. Pearson and Edward Proud (1996, 262 pages), hard bound with dust jacket, well illustrated, very fine (like new). (Image)

Est $ 50

Opening C$ 40.00
Sold...C$ 40.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:58:14 EST
Sold For 40

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1391
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image Group of 5 Scarcer Older Air Mail Books, Théodore Champion "Catalogue historique et descriptif des timbres de la poste aérienne" (Paris, 1928), N.C. Baldwin "Bridging the Atlantic" - A chronological record of all projected, attempted and successful Atlantic flights until the inception of regular services and a priced catalogue of souvenirs (nearly 200 illustrations, 1945, the Aero Field handbook No. 7), Field and Baldwin "The Coronation Aerial Post" (1911, Aero Field handbook No. 3), Lissiuk "The Historical Air Mail Catalogue - an Authoritive catalogue of Air Mail stamps and Historical Covers (1930) and Dalwick and Harmer "Newfoundland Air Mails 1919-1939" (1953). All five are very fine and like-new, and some have clippings or other additional material included. (Image)

Est $ 100

Opening C$ 60.00
Sold...C$ 60.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:58:38 EST
Sold For 60

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1392
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image Collection of Zeppelin and Airship Post Literature, with 26 different monographs or catalogues, plus a number of Zeppelin related newsletter runs, and other related ephemera including newspapers, advertising, etc. The monographs are too numerous to list here, but we noted historical accounts, auction catalogues, coffee-table style books, various flight catalogues, a lovely circa 1933 "Zeppelin-Weltfahrten" book loaded with high quality flight photographs, etc. Some of the books are in German, and many specialize in specific flights and are quite advanced, and the newsletters include "Buoyant Flight", "Zeppelin Brief", "The Zeppelin Collector" (the most issues). A great lot for the specialist, see photos for an idea. (Image)

Est $ 200

Opening C$ 130.00
Sold...C$ 170.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 13:59:33 EST
Sold For 170

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1393
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image Group of 16 Philatelic Reference Books, with Penny Red Stars 1855-1862 (Part I and II), Free French Invasion: The St Pierre & Miquelon Affaire of 1941 (Anglin), Great Britain the Varieties and Characteristics of the 1d Line Engraved Stamps, 1841-1864 (Stanton), British Post Office Numbers 1844-1906 (Brumell), British Army Field Post offices 1939-1950 (Crouch and Hill), Channel Islands Stamps and Postal History (Stanley Gibbons specialized catalogue), Out-Foxing the Fakers (Jean-François Brun), Robson Lowe Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps (part II - Canada), The Evolution of British Stamped Postcards & Letter Cards (Dagnall), The British Postage Stamp of the Nineteenth Century (Robson Lowe), and a few other titles, including a complete run of 45 newsletters of the Pitcairn Islands Study Group "The Pitcairn Log" from Sep. 1989 to Dec. 2000. (Image)

Est $ 75

Opening C$ 70.00
Sold...C$ 70.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 14:00:10 EST
Sold For 70

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1394
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image Group of 28 Philatelic Reference Books and Pamphlets, with The Postmarks of Great Britain and Ireland with supplements (Alcock and Holland), three pamphlets on the Hawaiian Grinnell Missionary stamps, A History of British Postage Stamps (Todd), Robson Lowe's The Encyclopaedia of British Empire Postage Stamps - Part III The Maritime Provinces, British Post Offices Abroad - The Glassco Collection (Robson Lowe), Three Centuries of Scottish Posts (Haldane), Scots Local Cancellations Illustrated 1854-1860 (Alcock), Squared Circle Postmarks (Stitt Dibden), London Fancy Geometric Postmarks (Maurice Barette), The Great Britain and Commonwealth Catalogue of Great British Errors (B. Alan Ltd.), and more. (Image)

Est $ 75

Opening C$ 30.00
Sold...C$ 80.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 14:00:45 EST
Sold For 80

Canada
Canada Collections

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1395
Symbol: O
Cat No: Collection

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image Stock of Used and Off-Paper Mix, starting with many thousands of stamps from 1940s to 2001, sorted by issue, in a few hundred glassines. We noted many nice postmarks throughout including on about thirty Year of the Snake souvenir sheets. Followed by tens of thousands of unsorted used stamps, mostly from the 1950s to mid 1990s, filling one medium size plastic container. A cursory look revealed a mixture of commemoratives and definitives, with some back of the book such as airmails, postage dues, also some federal revenues, Newfoundland issues and the odd worldwide stamp presence. The whole lot of off paper (including the container) weighs in at 9.8 pounds. (Image)

Est $ 150

Opening C$ 325.00
Sold...C$ 350.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 14:08:19 EST
Sold For 350

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1396
Symbol: O/*/*
Cat No: Collection

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image Lot of Mostly Used Stock from Early 1900s to Late 1980s, consisting generally of singles, but also includes coils, blocks, and plate blocks, all housed in 7 stockbooks and one album, starting with used (or otherwise stated) earlier issues such as Edwards (up to 50c), Québecs (up to 10c), Admirals (to $1), Scrolls including 6 50c Bluenoses and 7 $1 Parliaments etc. Duplication can go up to 80 of each for many of the definitives. We noted many nice postmarks, some private perfins, and a group of over 120 mint stamps displayed in black Vario sheets. Also included is a collection of about 60 mostly used BNA stamps, housed in a small album, and a worldwide collection housed in a partially filled Harris Statesman album and one stockbook. Our online scans show a small but impressive example of this lot. (Image)

Est $ 400

Opening C$ 675.00
Sold...C$ 675.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 14:08:42 EST
Sold For 675

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1397
Symbol: */**
Cat No: Collection

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image Early Mint Selection, consisting of 52 stamps housed in 1 Vario stock sheet. We noted some better mint never hinged, such as #43 (6c SQ), #52 (2c Jubilee), #106a (2c Admiral booklet pane of 6), and more. Very light duplication. Overall fine to very fine and all are scanned online. Useful lot for a dealer. (Image)

Scott $ 1,042

Opening C$ 150.00
Sold...C$ 150.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 14:09:16 EST
Sold For 150

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1398
Symbol: O/*/*
Cat No: Collection

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image Lot of Various Mint and Used on Stock Cards, 102 Cards, Glassines, etc. includes a mint and used collection of Canada regular issues on pages (Unitrade as fine-very fine is $3,589), group of pin perf revenues, group of "SE" revenues, group of provinces stamps, group of mint Canada singles, sets, etc (Unitrade $689), group of mint never hinged postage dues (mostly better plate blocks, Unitrade $995) and a group of Unitrade-listed varieties (mostly MNH, includes plate blocks, cracked plates, paste-up coils, strips, etc.). A nice quality lot, with a total owner's Unitrade value (for f-vf) of $5,712, plus a van Dam total value of $437. (Image)

Est $ 400

Opening C$ 500.00
Sold...C$ 575.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 14:09:55 EST
Sold For 575

Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1399
Symbol: O/Cvr
Cat No: Collection

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image Lot of On Paper, Off-Paper and Commercially Used Covers, housed in two cartons. The kiloware with a weight of 4.2 kg (not including the box), is a mixture of commemoratives and definitives, earlies up to the 1990s, with about 60 % from Canada and 40% worldwide. Includes hundreds of worldwide off paper issues in glassines or envelopes, and about 150 commercially used covers from Canada and worldwide in various sizes. (Image)

Est $ 100

Opening C$ 120.00
Sold...C$ 120.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 14:10:19 EST
Sold For 120
Sale No: 35
Lot No: 1400
Symbol: O/*
Cat No: Collection

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image Page of Better Mostly Used Issues, with a total of 34 items, all used except where noted, with #s 1 (tiny tear in margin, no visible laid lines), 14, 15 (x3), 22, 23 (lovely 2-ring 5 postmark), 25, 26, 27 (appears unused), 28 (x2), 29 (faded but nice crown cancel), 44 (mint hinged), 45a (unused with thin), 46, 47, 74 (precancel), 50, 55 (x2), 57 (x2), 58 (x2), 60, 62 (unused), 81 (9 copies on a piece with 1903 House of Assembly Ontario c.d.s.), 90A (used marginal pair on piece), 105 (precancelled lathework pair), 158 (very fine 50c Bluenose with 1936 Calgary postmark), E1, E2 and F1. Huge catalogue value here and overall fine or better. (Image)

Est $ 800

Opening C$ 600.00
Sold...C$ 600.00


Closed..Feb-18-2021, 14:11:43 EST
Sold For 600

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