Advertising and Illustrated Covers, 1850s-80s. Better group of 40 covers including "Gibbs Brothers, Canton Oh. all-over green ad cover 3¢ #65 showing factory buildings, W.A. Platt City Cab and Livery ad showing horse-drawn carriage 2¢ #210 cover; Worrall & Co. Saw Manufactory and Foundry illustrated ad cover, Murray & Baker, Chicago tent ad, etc.
Estimate; $400 - 600.

Complete Images. Est. $400-600 (Image)

Est. $400-600

Advertising/Illustrated Cover Group. Of five items including two foreign; with early 1850's Amherst Picture Gallery illustrated ad showing early camera, two 1880-1900 piano ad covers (one from Victoria), 1898 Beer ad on 1¢ postal card and a Japan postal card to China with hand illustrated view.
Estimate; $150 - 200.

Complete Images. Est. $150-200 (Image)

Est. $150-200

Cameo and Style Advertising. Group of 18 including illustrated designs, note Wm. M. Ellis & Bro. Steam Engines & Machinery, Washington D.C. showing eagle; Geo. W. Sutherland Wholesale & Retail Dealer black cameo style showing barrels and goods; Carter & Gifford Toledo Carriage Factory blue cameo-style showing carriages; Lawrence Hotel, Rochester N.Y. showing building; J.F. Reigart's Patent Agency, Washington City showing steamship; etc.; some mixed condition.
Estimate; $300 - 400.

Complete Images. Est. $300-400 (Image)

Est. $300-400

United States Exposition Covers. United States Exposition Covers, quality collection of over 400 items, beginning with the 1876 Philadelphia Expo and running through Louisiana 1984, including such items as New Orleans NO85-02, Columbian 10ct Envelope (Bomar C93-04) (but missing stamp), Nashville N97-01, Philadelphia National Export P99-01, P99-02 and others, the much-sought nattily-dressed Pan-Am Buffalo tipping his hat, South Carolina C02-01, and C02-02, Seattle 1909 Expo USS Pennsylvania, San Francisco SF15-16B (Portland), SF15-25I (LA), San Diego SD16-01. Louisiana Purchase ST.LO-04-08A nice registered usage on 10ct & 3ct, Lewis & Clark Portland PO5-04, some mixed condition in earlier issues, later issues with minimal issues and often with attractive cachets, ship cancels, or other usages.
Estimate; $2,500 - 3,500. Est. $2,500-3,500

Est. $2,500-3,500

Grocery Related Advertising Covers. Group of approximately 140 covers, some illustrated; includes tea and coffee ads, an assortment of Proctor & Gamble corner card covers showing trademark, etc.; condition mixed, F.-V.F. overall.
Estimate; $300 - 400. Est. $300-400

Est. $300-400

Illustrated Advertising Covers. Group of 30 different including 1882 Danville Oh. Undertaker ad, 1880s Charles F. Orvis "Fishing Rods & Reels" of Manchester Vt., 1901 Remington Guns and Sporting Rifles; 1892 Gendron Iron Wheel Co. "Bicycles", 1882 Grand Hotel, Summit Mountain; etc., F.-V.F.
Estimate; $400 - 600.

Complete Images. Est. $400-600 (Image)

Est. $400-600

State and County Fairs and Expositions. Group of over 100 covers and post cards from mostly the 20th century showing fair related advertising or postmark slogans, etc., F.-V.F.
Estimate; $200 - 300. Est. $200-300

Est. $200-300

Airmail Cachet Covers, 1928-1991. Group of 55 covers; includes three C18 covers with Goldberg painted cachets, eighteen Airmail FDC's hand painted by Jack Follow, and sixteen early air mail first day covers C7 through C19.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000. Est. $750-1,000

Est. $750-1,000

Airmail Cover Balance, 1918-33. Of 19 better covers and cards; includes two #C2 First Flights covers (cat $1,600 for both), #C3 First Flight cover (cat $750), C4-C6 FDC's (cat $1,800), three C15 flights covers ($1,725), six C18 covers ($480), two C14 covers ($750) and two C13 usages ($320), also autograph of Orville Wright; total cat $6,675+.
Estimate; $1,500 - 2,000. Est. $1,500-2,000

Est. $1,500-2,000

Space Flight Astronaut Cover Balance, 1965-72. Of over 180 signed covers, includes a run of covers from the astronauts on the Apollo missions, Project Gemini and an additional 55 signed covers - includes Apollo 8 mission with Frank Borman and Jim Lovell signed, Apollo 17 with Gene Cernan, Harrison Schmitt and Ronald Evans signed, others including Don Peterson, John Bull, Alan Bean, James McDivitt, etc., section of 10 Skylab covers, also Apollo-Soyuz signed (some additional unsigned), also a collateral balance in two binders; seven signed photos with astronauts including Don Peterson, Joseph Allen, Dale Gardner, Vance Brand, James Hoften, and Guion Bluford Jr., over 20 other NASA photos, a section of First Day and commemorative stamped & postmarked sheets and photos including space shuttle items, and a run of FDC's; better signatures (Shepard, Aldrin & Armstrong) which have not been expertised for genuine or autopen and collection to be sold "as is" which inspection a must.
Estimate; $2,000 - 3,000. Est. $2,000-3,000

Est. $2,000-3,000

1922, 10¢ Special Delivery Cover Group. Collection of 100 with a wide range of domestic usages and frankings, auxiliary markings including "Take Out", "Fee Paid", "Return to Writer" etc., airmail including multiple zones, registered, postage due, ad covers etc.; good basis for expansion, generally F.-V.F., ex-Markovits.
Scott No. E12; Estimate $400 - 600.

Complete Images. Est. $400-600

Est. $400-600

1927, 10¢ Special Delivery Cover Group. Collection of approximately 180 with a wide range of domestic usages and frankings, auxiliary markings, territorial uses including Puerto Rico, airmail, registered, one used from Canada with Canadian 3¢ franking, one use to Canada, several postage due uses including some with due stamps, use on post card, RPO covers, ad covers etc., F.-V.F., great basis for exhibit.
Scott No. E15; Estimate $400 - 600.

Complete Images. Est. $400-600 (Image)

Est. $400-600

Registered Covers. Cover album full of approximately 95 registered covers from the late 19th century to about 1950, many interesting items present including Dept. of the Interior official business penalty covers franked with 10¢ Banknote and used mainly from Denver, mixed condition and a number of legal size cover present.
Estimate; $300 - 400. Est. $300-400

Est. $300-400

Registered Mail Collection, 1840s-1900s. Collection of over 150 covers ranging from stampless to 20th century including small towns, range of uses and frankings including Stampless, 1870-88 Bank Note Issue, 1893 Columbians, 1895 Bureaus, 1898 Trans-Mississippi, 1908-25 Washington-Franklins, etc, largely domestic destinations but some foreign as well with exchange labels, some mixed condition but great collection.
Estimate; $1,500 - 2,000.

Complete Images. Est. $1,500-2,000

Est. $1,500-2,000

Postage Due Covers. Accumulation of over 340 covers franked with postage due stamps up to the $5 value including many legal-size commercial uses, range of frankings mostly 1920s-1940s including registered, airmail, incoming from Canada, paid business reply uses including solo $5 use, etc., plus a stack of postage due bills; some faults.
Estimate; $300 - 400. Est. $300-400

Est. $300-400

Offices in China Cover Collection, 1894-1935. Of 20 covers (mostly U.S. entires) and 11 postal cards housed in cover pages in binder; mostly Offices in Shanghai, China usages, includes regular entires with 1892, 5¢ Columbian entire to U.S., 1908 uprated entire to Germany with "Shanghai, Br. P.O." transit, 1917 usage to U.S. with censor tape, later usages including two Philippines entire usages, nice selection of postal cards from 1906 on including uprated UX18 card to England, later usages to Switzerland and Holland, couple incoming items with receiving handstamp (different types on postal card & entire), other related covers including naval O.B.'s, Marine mail, etc.; worth careful inspection.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500. Est. $1,000-1,500 (Image)

Est. $1,000-1,500

Official Stamps on Cover. Group of 35 covers plus penalty uses, etc, includes O17 on a Fish and Fisheries imprint cover, O18 cover, O98 on Aberdeen Dak. Terr. cover, O98 on a Huron, Dakota Terr. use; O114 wrapper use, three O72 covers, O74 pairs used on two covers including one with "Returned to Sender" handstamp, O75 use, several O85 uses including one with "Forwarded" handstamp, O86 with "Returned to Sender" handstamp, O86 pair used on cover, O99 cover, O116 on Ariz. Terr. cover, three Postal Savings Official uses, etc.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.

Complete Images. Est. $1,000-1,500

Est. $1,000-1,500

Carriers and Locals. Group of 19 covers and entires plus 5 off-cover express labels, covers include American Letter Mail Boyd's 20LU44 used entire, Boyd's 20LU14 use entire, 15L14 tied with #11A Philadelphia to Cincinnati Oh.; two Hale & Co. New Bedford uses with black and red ovals; etc. some faults, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $300 - 400.

Complete Images. Est. $300-400 (Image)

Est. $300-400

Local Post Reference Collection Balance. Useful group of well over 400 stamps on pages; includes genuine Pomeroy issues, Hussey letterbox reprint sheets, Blood's with early genuine #15L5-15L6 with a good showing of later forgery types, Boyd's genuine/forgery including multiples, Brooklyn with genuine used, Chicago Penny Post reprint & forgery types, Floyd's & Gordon's, others including some full forgery sheet; worth review.
Estimate; $500 - 750. Est. $500-750

Est. $500-750

Railroad Local Post Covers, 1967-96. Group of 103 cacheted covers mostly from the 1980-90's; nice array cachets and service fee endorsement, includes many Alaska Railway items, most posted in Jamaica, N.Y., some unused entires; a nice group for the Train topical collector.
Estimate; $150 - 200. Est. $150-200

Est. $150-200

Westtown Local Cover Group. Collection of 17 covers bearing Westtown Locals 145L1 & L2, 7 on face of cover, 10 on reverse, most sleeved with descriptions, earlier franked by Scott #11, 26 tied by West Chester PA postmarks and balance with Street Road PA, also included 1845 stampless and cover bearing Scott 26 addressed to West Town B. School, 6 covers/card with Street Road cancels, with literature, letter transcriptions and a mint 145L2 type VI; a very interesting postal history group, please inspect, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000.

Complete Images. Est. $750-1,000 (Image)

Est. $750-1,000

United States Postal Stationery Used In Vera Cruz, Mexico, 1914. Collection of 12 entires; includes three 1910-11 1¢ McKinley cards (UX22, UX24) including uprated 1¢ red card to Germany, other 2¢ postal entires including two used within Mexico and due 10c, one to Havana, Cuba undeliverable and an uprated registered usage.
Estimate; $300 - 400. Est. $300-400

Est. $300-400

Wrapper & Stationery Postal History. Mix of mostly stationery items, includes newspaper with two 1¢ Franklins to Germany, 1920's franked wrappers with original newspapers, etc.
Estimate; $200 - 300. Est. $200-300 (Image)

Est. $200-300

Postal Card, 1902-1910 McKinley Postal Card Accumulation. Mint and used accumulation of a few hundred in carton including postmarks, RPOs, machines, cancellations, advertising, UX18, UX21 mint, etc., also includes some other better items including Philippines & Puerto Rico usages, specimen and essay, etc.
Scott No. UX18, UX21-22; Estimate $400 - 600. Est. $400-600

Est. $400-600

Dube Hand-Painted Cachet Duck Stamp FDC Collection, 1991-2001. Of 32 Duck stamp related and 8 other regular issues FDC's; most are limited to 10 to 25 of each design, there are approximately 40 covers, these cost the owner $100 a cover at time of purchase.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500. Est. $1,000-1,500

Est. $1,000-1,500