1851-57 3¢ Issue on Cover Reference Balance. Of over 150 covers in slips and stock book; includes over 50 #26 usages (plate 9e & 15) all plated by K. Taira, at least 10 #25-25a usages all plated, several #10 usages and the balance #11-11A usages with a number of items plated; condition mixed, a useful plating group. Scott Nos. 10//26; Estimate $400 - 600. US$400-600
Est. $400-600
Opening US$ 450.00
Sold...US$ 450.00
Closed..Dec-13-2023, 13:15:06 EST
Sold For 450
Sale No: 110
Lot No:1521
Symbol:Cat No:65
1861 3¢ Issue Better Usages. Interesting group of 8 covers; including P.O.W. cover with choice "Prisoner's Letter, Johnsons Island, Examd., J. Berry" oval handstamp, corner card cover with blue Chicago Supplementary Mail cds tying, Cincinnati to St. Louis with "Uncalled For" in lozenge handstamp, N.Y. cover with" Anchor Line" illustrated steamship flap and ad, patriotic with General Burnside portrait, green West Killingly, Ct. cds and grid tying, fancy Lock of Cambridge, Mass. and Floral Geometric of Sangerfield, N.Y.; condition well above the norm. Scott Nos. 65; Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
2¢ Blackjack Issue Group. Of five on cover usages and some other misc. items; covers all legal/oversized, with military imprints including Head-Quarters Twentieth U.S. Colored Troops, State Seal imprints including all over Indianapolis, miscellaneous including unused Jackson-Calhoun patriotic with multicolored eagle, snakes & flag design, couple fake patriotic usages and a single stamp with fake Chicago Supplementary mail cancel in red; condition mixed, inspect. Estimate; $250 - 350.
Sale No: 110
Lot No:1523
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2¢ Blackjack Issue on Advertising Covers. Little over 100 covers, mostly corner cards or text ads; with nice range of illustrated including ad showing water wheel, hardware, school furniture, seminary, building view, horse and carriage, G. Washington portrait (allover), safe, oak tree, etc., other from a wide range companies including insurance, photographer, college, government, tea companies, phrenological, telegraph, railroad, sanitary commission, horticultural, etc., most with single franking with the occasional double rate and a couple 1¢+2¢ combinations; condition a little varied. Estimate; $3,000 - 4,000.
2¢ Blackjack Issue on Auxiliary Marking & Due Covers. Group of 20+ covers; nice array of markings including Return to Writer, Unclaimed, Held for Postage, Unclaimed, Cannot Be Found, Forwarded and Not Called For, some combination marks, also various due marks including manuscript. Estimate; $400 - 600.
2¢ Blackjack Issue on Cover Balance. Well over 150 covers on stockpages in two binders; include s a strong showing of single and double drop rate usages with an array of townmarks including some nice blue postmarks, printed matter including prices current usages, nice group of triple issues paying double rate postage and 1¢+2¢ combinations including a nice group of Blackjacks on 1¢ Star Die entires, some other interesting combination including 2¢+3¢ combinations, few imprint and corner card cover, miniature cover use; condition a little varied with many nice items throughout. Estimate; $3,000 - 4,000.
2¢ Blackjack Issue on Fancy Cancel Covers. Collection of a little under 100 covers, mostly an array of geometrics with a few other types; geometrics including segmented stylized leafs, circle of wedges and V's, crossroads, various segmented geometrics, waffle grids, rosettes, etc., others including targets, letters, stars, "Paid", also a nearly discernible Devil & Pitchfork of West Meriden, Ct., some strikes in blue; condition a bit varied. Estimate; $3,000 - 4,000.
2¢ Blackjack Issue on Foreign Destination Covers. Group of 27 covers mostly in combination with other issues; includes usages to Nova Scotia including solo ranking from Boston, five usages to Canada showing a nice mix of frankings, many usages to England and Germany including rare 2¢ pair + 10¢ + 24¢ combination franking, scarce usages to Norway & Brazil, printed matter rates to Spain and Mexico, Swiss bootleg cover dropped in Washington D.C., etc.; condition varies. Estimate; $1,500 - 2,000.
Sale No: 110
Lot No:1528
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American Art Cover Exchange Covers. About 500 cards and covers, many hand-drawn and colored, lots of humorous, topical, and/or satirical subjects, dogs, butterflies, military, comic strips, cartoons. patriotic, pro-Trump, anti-Trump, pro-Biden, anti-Biden, entertainers, holidays, beer, small town cancels, ship cancels, and many more, many are masterpieces of subtlety, others not so much, most are sleeved, seen in antique malls at $5 to $8 each. Estimate; $200 - 300. US$200-300
Est. $200-300
Opening US$ 280.00
Sold...US$ 280.00
Closed..Dec-13-2023, 13:19:16 EST
Sold For 280
Sale No: 110
Lot No:1529
Symbol:Cat No:Collection
Better Classic Issue Group. Of 18 items; includes 9X1TC2 in three different colors, 10X1 with full o.g., used #1-2 with additional right margin #1, large margin bottom margin #7 (pressed crease), used bottom margin very fine #17 (two certs), #11 o.g. (natural paper inclusion), four mint #26's including pair, mint #35 block of 4, mint #65 & 94 and n.h. 114 split grill with right margin (cert); Scott cat. $5,620 not including n.h. premium. Estimate; $2,000 - 3,000.
Sale No: 110
Lot No:1530
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Cover & Ephemera Balance. Mix of many hundreds with an emphasis on Ohio postal history; covers including early stampless to WWII era, includes Civil War with patriotic & prisoner of war usages, cover endorsed "Burnside Expedition", some nice illustrated covers including Spanish American war with allover flag usage, Ohio Centennial cover including stamp collar, ephemera including post office documents, letters including patroitic design letterhead items, etc.; inspection should prove rewarding. Estimate; $750 - 1,000. US$750-1,000
Est. $750-1,000
Opening US$ 1,450.00
Sold...US$ 1,450.00
Closed..Dec-13-2023, 13:20:13 EST
Sold For 1450
Sale No: 110
Lot No:1531
Symbol:Cat No:Collection
Cover & Post Card Accumulation. Large filled with mostly useful covers and cards from a little early stampless to mostly 20th century, some better including early aeroplane including a couple real photo, nice selection of ad covers including multicolored ad including DuPont Smokeless gun-related (registered usages), some nice other turn of century registry usages, little ephemera and foreign, etc.; worth a look. Estimate; $400 - 600. US$400-600
Est. $400-600
Opening US$ 500.00
Sold...US$ 500.00
Closed..Dec-13-2023, 13:20:35 EST
Sold For 500
Sale No: 110
Lot No:1532
Symbol:Cat No:Collection
Cover Balance. Mix of several dozen covers; includes five different Wells, Fargo & Co. frank entire usages (each with cert.) with handstamps including Stockn. Messenger, Santa Rosa, Los Angeles, Sacramento Mess. and Pioche, Nev., interesting philatelic special delivery cover with unusual franking, multicolored Knox Gelatine illustrated ad cover, and a study of Schermack type III covers in mixed condition, also unused Hawaii UY2-UY4 cards unsevered and folded; worth review. Estimate; $300 - 400. US$300-400
Est. $300-400
Opening US$ 300.00
Sold...US$ 300.00
Closed..Dec-13-2023, 13:21:47 EST
Sold For 300
Sale No: 110
Lot No:1533
Symbol:Cat No:Collection
First Day Cover Accumulation. Housed in three large boxes; couple thousand or so FDC's from the 1940-2000's including 1940 Famous American set in blocks, 1976 50 States issue with Medallion cachets and many other sets present, later mostly Art Craft and other commercial cachets, etc. Estimate; $500 - 750. US$500-750
Est. $500-750
Opening US$ 375.00
Closed..Dec-14-2023, 03:00:00 EST
Sold For 0
Sale No: 110
Lot No:1534
Symbol:Cat No:Collection
First Day Cover Accumulation, 1927-88. Well over 500 covers from the 1927 2¢ Burgoyne issue through to the 1980's; most of the early items uncacheted including a run Prexies in block format up to the 12¢, late items with more commercial type cachets; condition a little varied, with earlier covers cataloged over $600 alone, inspect. Estimate; $200 - 300. US$200-300
Est. $200-300
Opening US$ 210.00
Sold...US$ 210.00
Closed..Dec-13-2023, 13:27:57 EST
Sold For 210
Sale No: 110
Lot No:1535
Symbol:
United States Cover Balance. Of 22 covers; includes early "Steam" straight line handstamp from St. Louis, Baltimore & New Orleans, fancy star cancels from Bowdoin Centre, Me. & Union Springs, N.Y., C.S.A. usage, illustrated items including 7 nice Pan Am covers (4 different multicolored), etc.; with condition above the norm, worth review. Estimate; $400 - 600.
United States Cover Balance. Mix of cover from classic to modern; includes selection Schermack type III perf issues on cover including three scarce control perfin usages, 2¢ Harding imperf bisect in Nickels FDC, early 1850's Rail Road cds usages including "Chemung R.R., N.Y." x2, interesting Elmira, N.Y. prison guard letter on large illustrated Lincoln and Cabinet portrait patriotic design (some interesting content), collection of early stampless ladies' covers with some nice town and rate strikes, handful of modern coin/gold replica FDC's, etc.; worth review. Estimate; $500 - 750. US$500-750