United States, Pristine Postal Entires Reference Collection, 1854-1972. 450+ postal entires individually sleeved and annotated with remarkable precision including Issue year, Scott number, Thorp number, Die, Variety, Paper, Size, Knife, Watermark and UPSS remarks; very minimal duplication and little material post 1950; all but about 50 or so are mint and perhaps a third are large sized entires; better items include U209 ($180), U207 ($170), U204 ($120), U198 ($150), UC1 ($150), U12 ($250), U208 ($180), U207 ($170), U193 ($150), U181 ($200), U102 ($185), U93 ($240), U73 ($350), U71 ($200), U63 ($100), U62 ($185), U45 ($850), U44 ($625), U347 ($150), U11 ($250), U12 ($350), U39 ($210), U42 ($300), U43 ($575), U315 ($100), U476 ($500); includes better Hawaii, Cuba, Philippine Islands, Puerto Rico, Canal Zone, and more than a dozen Specimens; perfect for the dealer or advanced collector; prepare to be impressed, Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 8.6 lbs.
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Estimate $2,500-3,500

United States, Everything Stationery, 1873-2015. Consumate tour de force for the stationery collector in 15 volumes and a few manila envelopes; each binder is a new (pleasant) surprise from one with albinos and inking varieties to one with pristine, uncreased wrappers; binder with a terrific specialized US Grant study Scott Specialty albums with cases, White Ace binders with slip covers and looseleafs house a very fresh collection of cut squares, postal entires, Air Letter Sheets, Official envelopes, postal cards and more; my favorite pieces are two early 20th century post office broadsides from the Third Assistand Postmaster General circa 1906, Fine to Very Fine.
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Postal Stationery Accumulation, mostly from 1893-2000s. Many thousands of envelopes, mostly mint, much of which could easily be counted as hundreds of dollars worth of postage, but you will also find a nice little six-volume collection containing Scott $1,300 of better postal cards from the 1980s to early 2000s; additional material comprises stationery postage and some sections with an envelope containing approximately 100 #U348-U353 entires of various cuts and a mint sheet file containing folded letter sheet errors, with #U632c, UC39 die cutting reversed, UC50a (45), UC56 die cutting reversed entires (10), several stationery envelopes with partial colors omitted, generally Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 48.2 lbs.
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Estimate $1,000-1,500

United States, Advanced Postal Stationery Collection, 1873-1981. You know it's good when the first items are 1878 immaculate Brooks Postal Return Card Essays (red and brown on buff and the brown and green on tan); beautiful Roger's blue Postal Note sheetlet postmarked Jul 31, 1886; printed (unaddressed) essay of Ben Franklin without denomination; numerous UX1 and UX3 postally used with interesting cancels; U294S mint entire with Universal Postal Congress overprint; lovely UX25 to Paris; 1884 2c Brown with Advertising Collar; U350a Columbian 5c Slate Brown error; mint UX7; U176 unused full corner; an unused Mullready envelope?; set of 1860 6c and 10c reprint cut squares; two UXC1a (one signed Clark Stevens on reverse); very interesting examples for the stationery specialist, Fine to Very Fine.
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Estimate $1,000-1,500