LO2, 1851 1c EAGLE, EXTENSIVE SPECIALIZED COLLECTION, comprising of 43 covers + used & unused singles in quantity, cover highlights include Cincinnati usages (x7), Kensington usages (x3), Philadelphia usages (x15), Washington DC usages (x10), etc., includes several with clerk initials, red star cancels, several tied by towns, etc., stamps include plate strip of 4, plate block of 8, other multiples, many singles, several proofs, etc., also includes several LO3 & LO6 singles, Generally Very Fine throughout, ideal for specialist collector or dealer.

CV. 7,500-10,000

PRODIGIOUS WWII PATRIOTIC COVERS STOCK 1000s sleeved and priced in six file boxes with retail values generally to $40 with numerous $50+, incredible variety of cachets incl cartoons, personalities, events, slogans and propaganda, "headlines", photo, etc., generally F-VF, marked retail over $83,000

CV. 6,000-9,000

'"BETTER STAMPLESS COVERS, about 28 better stampless in holders, note; Water Town ""Paid III"" coin in circle; Magnetic Telegraph, Office Philadelphia oval handstamp; Black Rock NH boxed SL; overall illustrated Magnetic Telegraph cover; 1848 retaliatory rate to New York; Huntsville, Ala blue ""star""; Little Falls, NY SL; 1794 Albany SL; 1837 Liverpool Ship Letter boxed handstamp with red ""Hudson''s News Room Foreign Ship"" oval; red Hudson River Mail CDS; Lake Champlain Steamboat (Franklin); fancy boxed stars Saco Me.; Rogersville, NY SL; 1793 Albany SL; 1841 Wm H. Harrison printed letterhead (scarcer ""log cabin"" type); 1849 Irving House, red hotel oval; 1812 fancy Peeks-Kill double CDS; 1772 red Philadelphia SL; etc., expect some flaws but overall a very impressive group, Fine or better."'

CV. 3,000-4,000

WW II PATRIOTICS COLLECTION. 100s of premium covers (includes some FDC) in two file boxes, each individually sleeved and retail priced, includes eight Dec 7 1941 covers or cards (some with patriotic cachet), eleven Dec 8 1941 covers incl Linto and Crosby cachets, thirteen Dec 11 1941 cacheted covers, and so on throughout the war years culminating in VJ Day covers (84 nearly all different), post-war atom bomb tests, also note various sets of 909-20 cacheted FDC, F-VF, nice lot for continuation, marked retail exceeds $30,000 (see online scans)

CV. 3,000-4,000

1930s/50s PERIOD PATRIOTIC COVERS COLLECTION. 100s of mostly WW II patriotics in five cover albums (incl one for oversized) and with FDC noted, flipping through the volumes reveal Crosby photo cachets incl some double, Pent Arts cachets, 1937 Ferrell Anglo-American Goodwill Flight cover, 1956 Operation Deep Freeze cover signed by Adm Byrd, useful group of 49 Teixeira covers (few duplicates), 909-20 FDC Staehle, Chambers, Evening and Sunday Star cachets, some picture postcards, Linto patriotics, "Artists for Victory" label patriotics, FDR 1933 Inaugural and Apr 12 memorial covers, etc., F-VF, a delightful view (see online scans)

CV. 2,500-3,000

WW II HAND-PAINTED CACHET PATRIOTIC COVERS ASSORTMENT. approx 245 nearly all different covers with wide range of subjects and cachets and incl artists as Adler (140), Van Alsburg, LM Smith, LH Smith, McPeak, Price, Weigand (33), etc., F-VF (see online scans)

CV. 2,500-3,000

SPLENDID ASSORTMENT OF WWII PERIOD FDC, INAUGURAL and PATRIOTIC COVERS. 100+ premium covers in an album highlighted by group of Linto Occupied Nation FDC (scarce) andpatriotics, 899-901 handpainted FDC, 930-33 Fluegel unaddressed FDC, 940 1st Bolton handpainted FDC (2),956 assortment of handpainted FDC incl 1st Ira Bennett, Wright, 969 Dedek handpainted FDC, Inaugurals incl FDR 1941 (also incl few death covers), Truman 1945, a VJ Day cover signed by George Marshall, handful of picture postcards, etc., F-VF (see online scans)

CV. 2,000-2,500

C24 30c WINGED GLOBE, SPECIALIZED COVER COLLECTION, over 200 covers in two binders, amazing diversity, includes rates, combinations, destinations, censor markings & tapes, , military, aux. markings, POW, etc., Generally Very Fine, an impressive collection.

CV. 2,000-2,500

EARLY EXPOSITION COLLECTION, 1893-1904, about 120 items in binders, include ephemera; pins, pamplets, Columbus Day silk, etc., bulk of material used and unused official post & postal cards, some with Expo cancels, advertising, include several multi-colored Pan-American, letter with first hand account of McKinley shooting, etc, an impressive collection.

CV. 1,500-2,000

UNITED STATES POSTAL HISTORY, cornucopia lot of about 750 items covering just about every aspect of U.S. postal history from the 1850»s stampless to about the early 1950»s, primarily early to pre-WWII, with many better RPOs, some DPOs, territorial usages (Utah), better registered, mixed frankings, postage dues, a chunk of 1920»s imperf blocks commercially used on registered company letters, airmail, DOX, Zeppelin, advertising, presidential/White House, better mint and used postal stationery, ppcs, and just a lot of unusual material, like early bureaus used to Sumatra, mixed in with some of the more standard variety. Not likely to find any rarities, but the type of lot that holds a lot of value and diversity that will pay dividends with careful viewing, F-VF.

CV. 1,500-2,000

1890-98 COVER COLLECTION, about 80 covers in binder, mostly 1st Bureau issues in various combinations, rates destinations, registry, advertising, wrappers, dues, etc, generally Very Fine and much of interest, ideal for specialist.

CV. 1,500-2,000

1893-1904 EARLY COMMEMORATIVE COVERS, wonderfull assortment of about 100 covers/cards in binder, a wealth of interesting and unusal, nearly all contemporaneous to dates of issue with very few being late uses, includes combinations, rates, foreign destinations, multi-colored, many with $100 or more retails, generally Very Fine covers.

CV. 1,500-2,000

CARRIER & LOCAL COLLECTION, 18 mostly covers with a couple interesting single stamps in binder, covers include: 6LB10 x2, 15L13, 15L14, 18L2, 20L8, 20L14, 20L16, 28L5, 36L14, etc., generally Fine or better, mostly attractive and useful.

CV. 1,500-2,000

½c-3c PREXIES, COVER COLLECTION, about 210 items in binder, mostly various combinations and rates, destinations, aux. markings, unusual, generally Very Fine.

CV. 1,250-1,500

C1 TO MODERN, AIRMAIL COVER COLLECTION, about 200 covers in two binders, all selected for rates, destinations, aux. markings, various First Flights, censor markings, etc., note C1 FFC (Coleman, year date obscured as almost always), additional excellent showing of C1-6, including C1 to Holland, C1 first trip Cuba, couple "crash" covers, Zeppelin flights, etc., generally Very Fine, all attractive and unusual.

CV. 1,200-1,800

1909-29 COMMEMORATIVE COVERS, about 120 covers in binder, excellent mix of issues and combinations, registry, destinations, airmails, advertising, aux. marking, few dues, etc, mostly non-philatelic, generally Very Fine, much of interest.

CV. 1,200-1,800

WW II PATRIOTICS and FDC COLLECTION. enthralling collection of 100s of WW II patriotic and period FDC in three binders (one being for oversized envelopes), majority handpainted "of the period", flipping through note artists as Weigand, Martin, Temple, Hadley, Meyer, Stoll, group of Dannells comic-type, Temple, etc. also note 5c Flag set on FDC with assorted cachets, group of double Crosby cachet covers incl 906 plate block FDC, assortment of VJ Day covers, etc., F-VF, a pleasurable view (see online scans)

CV. 1,000-1,500

1943-45 LINTO CACHETED WW II PATRIOTIC COVER COLLECTION. approx 310 different covers in three well filled cover albums, full range of patriotic themes incl "news of the day" headlines, armed forces personnel, various slogans, etc., F-VF (see online scans)

CV. 1,000-1,500

1851-68 COVER ACCUMULATION, about 95 covers in binder, nearly all unusual or interesting, includes forwarded, destinations, military, "POW", sanitary, small towns, advertising, wrappers, 1861 issues to 24c value, grills to foreign destinations, fancy cancels, single stamps include 10c 1869 issue (x2, one with "Steamship" cancel), couple fractional currency, Western Express, couple with certificates, etc., generally Fine, something for everyone, especially the historian or cover dealer.

CV. 1,000-1,500

1870-89 BANKNOTE COVER ACCUMULATION, about 80 covers in binder, mostly selected for the unusual, includes combinations, destinations, small towns, aux. markings, dues, fancy cancels, etc., not overall advertising (Nation Against Nation), etc, generally Fine and attractive group.

CV. 1,000-1,500

1851-57 1c//12c ISSUES ON COVER, about 40 covers + some used stamps, several attractive small towns, aux. markings (steamboat, steam, both on covers), Scott #1 used on 1922 turned cover, 10c perforated strip of 3 with Downieville "star", 3c + 12c perforated to France, 1c strip/3 + 3c (imperf), paying double rate, couple drop or printed circular rates, "Way" (x2, off cover), mixed condition but many a presentable Fine.

CV. 1,000-1,500

US POSTAL HISTORY ASSORTMENT. over 125 mostly late 19th / early 20th century covers incl assorted advertising, machine cancels, destinations, postage due, some postcards, etc., generally F-VF (see online scans)

CV. 900-1,200

'"PRESIDENTIAL ""NAME"" CANCELS ON COVER COLLECTION. 495 covers (all posted in 1948) with each a cds of a President''s first or last name, e.g., JAMES in GA., MISS., and TEX., plus MONROE in 23 different states from ARK. to WASH., etc., etc., all self-addressed franked with Presidential 3c, virtually all different, all Presidents from Washington to Franklin Roosevelt represented, extraordinary and enjoyable assemblage, F-VF (see online scans)"' (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6) (Image 7) (Image 8) (Image 9) (Image 10) (Image 11) (Image 12) (Image 13) (Image 14) (Image 15) (Image 16) (Image 17) (Image 18) (Image 19) (Image 20) (Image 21) (Image 22) (Image 23) (Image 24) (Image 25) (Image 26) (Image 27) (Image 28) (Image 29) (Image 30) (Image 31) (Image 32) (Image 33) (Image 34) (Image 35) (Image 36) (Image)

CV. 500-750

'"U.S. POSTAL HISTORY, ten large cartons, about 25,000 covers/cards, circa 1900 onward, huge mix, note FDC''s, correspondence, events, airs, towns in need of further research, etc., generally Fine or better throughout,a lengthy project or specialisr, ebay/bourse dealer."'

CV. 750-1,000

'"STAMPLESS COVER COLLECTION, 1798-1847, about 45 FLS''s or covers, all selected for being unusual or interesting, includes blue Baltimore 1c ""Drop""; letter dated 2/1/15 with 2/3 ms cancel (18-3/4 ""War Rate""); couple trans-atlantic; several telegraph covers; red ""Railroad Car""; 1799 free frank; couple advertising; 1798 Boston SL; San Francisco ""40"" rate; Express Mail; ""Undercharged"", ""Unpaid""; Mexican War related; etc., some mixed condition but many worthwhile."'

CV. 750-1,000