50 USA COVERS & CARDS 1845-1902, includes 4 stampless domestic folded letters with original contents 1845-1855, an 1846 stampless rate from New York to Canada, 5 early 1870's trade cards with advertising for cocoanuts, shoe polish, and cigars, 50 are First Bureau Issue 1896-1902 covers to and from Highland-Park-ILL with good range of cork cancels, flag cancels, and noting 19 are mourning covers, many covers with the original contents, 3 New York 1868 cheques printed on #RNB1 revenue paper ++, 3 are legal size covers, retails over $420, F-VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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1400 USA STATIONERY COVERS & CARDS 1852-1980's, includes 700 mint stationery envelopes, 100 mint postal cards, and 100 mint airmail stationery envelopes in quantities of 1-50 of each, lot includes 350 used postal cards noting 150 are #UX5 with most addressed to Canada at the 1¢ rate after FEB1,1875, also 200 used stationery envelopes with lots of unchecked duplex cancels and a few early manuscript town cancels, retails over $800, F-VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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420 USA COVERS & CARDS 1902-1980's, includes 25 registered 1936-1985 noting better rates to Chile, Colombia, and Canada, lots of Special delivery and insured mail to Canada, 9 returned covers during the 1974-1975 Canada mail strike, 9 Presidential Inauguration covers between 1953 Eisenhower to 1973 Nixon, also RPO's, postage dues, Pembina-ND to Winnipeg 1975 local carrier post, censored prison mail, returned "EMBARGO" prohibited mail to Canada, Official seals, perfins, stamp dealer covers 1926-1976 ++, retails over $1000, mostly VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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294 USA & WORLDWIDE COVERS 1908-1979 (a few later), includes USA cachet first flight and event covers, lots of good rates to Canada, USA airmail rates to Switzerland, South Africa, Germany, 1908 UPU rate to Bohemia, some registered and express, express to England, 21 cachet USA FDC's and 108 USA souvenir first day pages 1974-1979, lot includes a few worldwide covers noting Canada rates to USA, 5 are WWII Italy censored covers to USA ++, retails over $740, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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