MASSIVE COVER HOARD. many, many hundreds of covers, cards and postal stationery mostly in albums or stock books, there are classic, modern, first days, mint stationery, what ever came this hoarder and part time dealer way, no way to describe but there are many stampless and early items, mixed conditin, most are F-VF.

CV. 750-1,000

19TH AND EARLY 20TH CENTURY COVER ACCUMULATION,of 48 covers, with several better covers incl: some Blood's locals, 93 on small cover, 77 on cover to France with PSE cert, 214 single on domestic use cover, 78 on cover from St. Louis to England, several no. 11s on small embossed ladies covers, 68/76 on folded letter to Bordeaux, 65 on early 1863 Oregon cover, from Scottsburg, OR to Roseburg, OR, 32 on cover to San Francisco, California, 112 on local use cover, 68 on cover from Worchester, Mass to C.W. (Canada West), 87 on cover from Winchester, Mass to Henia, Ohio, several banknote usages, 3c banknote on cover with "Treasury Department, Second Auditor's Office" corner card and 3c banknote postage due, 15c banknote on cover from Boston to Natal, South Africa, 30c Banknote pair on large registered piece from New York to New Haven, Conn. Condition ranges from VG-VF with occasional fault to be expected. Well worth a careful inspection.

CV. 500-750

CIVIL WAR NAVAL COLLECTION,of a 30 cover correspondence from a Union Naval officer aboard the steam frigates "Wabash" and "Augusta", from the blockade of the Chesapeake Bay to the attacks on South Carolina, as well as a couple post-war covers from the captain's clerk (Xanthus Smith) to the captain's wife "Mrs. Admiral DuPont". The captain of the Wabash was the famous Civil War Naval Officer Samuel Francis Du Pont (from the famous Du Pont family) who took the initiative to send a fleet to the Chesapeake Bay to protect the landing of the Union troops at Annapolis, MD. Du Pont was appointed Commander of the South Atlantic Blockading Squadron, the largest fleet ever commanded by an American officer. On November 7, Du Pont led successful attacks on Port Royal Harbor in South Carolina which led to the capture of the waters of Georgia and Florida. Several covers have toning and a few have some wrinkling from improper storage, still an amazing historical correspondence.

CV. 500-750