1893 (Jan 26) “Winchester Repeating Rifles” advertising cover with 1893Columbus 2c tied by Philadelphia duplex, further illustrated on reverse with a Rogersville 28.1.93 arrival cds, fine and attractive (Image)

1893 1c Columbian, TOP PLATE BLOCK OF 8 with ms and oval registry cancels, tied to 1907 reg’d legal size 4c entire with 1902 6c, sent from Chicago to New York, a very rare usage of a plate block, fine (Image)

1893 Columbian Exposition, complete set of 10 values from 1c to $5, mostly with original gum and without faults, some never hinged (Scott $14’505 for hinged) (the $4 with PF certificate) (Image)

1911-19, Airmails group of 3 covers incl. 1911 ppc of J. B. Mossiant in his plane, 1918 “Air Plane Stamp News” and 1919 envelope to Canada with “BY AIRPLANE MAIL” hs, fine (Image)

1912-45, Airmails group of 8 items incl. 2 copy photocards, 2 photographs, first flights, V-Mail cover, 1915 First Flight to Europe, 2 Imperial Airways covers and First Air Mail to SS Leviathan (Image)

1921 (Nov 14) William Penn Special Air Mail envelope with Washington 2c tied by special cancel, backflap missing, rare with only 100 carried (Image)

1926 (Nov 23) Virginia-Panama Canal Zone first non-stop flight with 4-line cachet, franked with airmail 10c tied by Norfolk duplex, hs “16” (out of only 58 carried), fine and very scarce (Image)

1926 International Philatelic Souvenir pane of 25, mint og, very fine (Scott $350) (Image)

1927-33, Airmail group of four covers incl. 1927 Chicago-Dallas first flight, 1930 first flight to French Guiana-Brazil and 1933 New York-Kaunus (Lithuania) flight (some soiling caused by gum), useful group (Image)

1933 Columbia Complimentary flight to Canada with US/Canada mixed franking signed by co-pilot Robert Lyon and 1939 Round the World flight with Hong Kong, GB and USA mixed franking, minor toning/soiling (Image)

1951 1 1/2c green with precancellation UNITED NATIONS NY, group of 25 examples, very fine (Image)

OFFICIALS: Group of 16 covers (plus 1 front) with better incl. Justice 6c pair (Scott $1’200++), Post Office 12c (Scott $1’000) and Treasury 10c (Scott $450), others incl. War, Interior and Navy depts (all but one franked), mixed condition, ex Burrus (Est. CHF 400/700) (Image)

1847-1930, Mint & used selection on old-time album pages and Collector’s Club sales pages from the 1930s, from N°1 issues onwards, replete with items with good catalogue value, exceptional group of officials, approval booklet with better items, quality is somewhat mixed to fine, a nice group of mostly classics and semi-classics (Est. CHF 2’400/4’000) (Image)

1851-1960, Postal History lot of a few hundred covers and cards showing a wide range of covers and frankings of USA and possessions, mostly commercial correspondence inlc. airmails incl. Zepps, parcel postage due, some interesting classics, scarce officials, Hawaii, Philippines village cancels, etc. (Est. CHF 1’200/2’000) (Image)

1851-2008, Outstanding stock, mint & used, with thousands of stamps in 4 stockbooks (3 of which are primarily face value), main value in book 1 with 1851 imperfs onwards, strong is 19th century perf. issues with 90c red Perry (6) and 90c blue Perry (3) as well as varying quantities of 1869s to 30c, used Columbians to $5 (no $4), Trans-Mississippi to $1 used and 50c mint, turn-of-the-century with plenty of good commemoratives and some limited back-of-the-book, etc., mixed condition (Est. CHF 9’000/12’000)

1870-1950, Many 100s of covers and cards, mostly postal stationery items, noted section of covers with special delivery stamps incl. bicycle and motorcycle definitives, also later covers (Est. CHF 500/800)

1920-55 CRASH MAIL collection of 47 covers/fragments written up on album pages for mostly different flights, several burnt, some cachets, ambulance envelopes, etc. (Est. CHF 400/600) (Image)

1924-38, AIRMAIL collection of 183 items neatly mounted in two albums, all appear different with special cachets and signatures, nice range of different frankings (Est. CHF 400/700) (Image)

1791 (Jul 30) Entire from Philadelphia to London, posted 2 August per “Dashwood” packet, ms rates, some soiling, fold splitting and peripheral wear (Image)

1844 Entire to England with red “BOSTON” handstamp applied by the British Packet Agent, “1/-” charge hs, reverse with oval “AMERICA / L” applied at Liverpool, horizontal file fold and wax seal removed, a fine example of this scarce Boston handstamp (Image)

1847 5c red brown showing large margins tied by blue bars in circle to 1848 cover from Bethel, blue Northern R.R Nov 24 cds, mansucript “Paid”, very fine, very rare (Image)

1847 5c red brown showing large margins and neighbour at bottom, tied by red grid to 1848 cover to Philadelphia, red New York Jul 15 cds, very fine, cert. Brettl (Image)

1847 10c black, large margins, tied by red grid to cover to Milwaukee, red New Haven 11 dec Ct cds, missing side backflaps, very fine, rare, signed Baudot (Image)

1869 Pictorials, complete set of 10 values from 1c to 90c (the 15c type II only), mostly without gum and without faults, a nice set of this popular issue (Scott $12’605 for no gum) (the 6c and 10c with PF certificates) (Image)

1870-80, 7c, 12c, 30c, 90c (probably reperf), mint, fine (Image)