1923 COOK-ISLANDS REGISTERED to USA, nice franking #39-42 pays the 5d UPU registered rate from Rarotonga on OCT22-1923 to Dorrance-Kans with 27 day routing via San-Francisco on NOV 19th, stamps alone cat $80, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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195(5) USA AIRMAIL to BRITISH-GUIANA, a legal size US airmail stationery cover to Georgetown then cut to letter size, turned, and sewing machine sealed, sent to another USA addressee in Olympia-Wash at the UPU printed matter 2c rate, original printed enclosures from a Georgetown stamp dealer, scarce and VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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1947 PAN-AM ROUND THE WORLD FLIGHT, a nice 49y Japan franking on a first flight cachet cover for the Japan to Hawaii leg of the flight (OCT 2nd to Oct 3rd), a scarce flight FAM-14-49a cat $300 US, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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30 USA FIRST FLIGHT COVERS 1929-2000, all are cachet covers noting 21 are pre-1931 CAM flights, 2 are Airmail week covers and one is a Canal Zone cover to Curacao, retails over $180, VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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2000 USA FIRST FLIGHT COVERS 1932-1980's (a few later), all are cachet covers with the majority Art Craft, also note better cachets by Crosby, Boll, HF, colourful Fleetwood cachets ++, many block frankings and booklet panes, a few legal size and larger covers not counted, retails over $5000, VF est ($300+ US) (Image)

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1911 INNISFAIL MAIN STREET, a superb real photo card showing 13 buggies, a delivery wagon, more than 50 people dressed in their Sunday best, and lots of readable signs, postally used on JAN30-1911 to USA, the finest Innisfail card we have seen to date, VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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6 GERMAN I922 INFLATION RATES to USA, all better mixed franking rates with up to $75 items sleeved and priced 20 years ago, includes a 200pf rate, 400pf, two 600pf, an 800pf registered rate, and a 20m rate, listed retail price $370, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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6 GERMAN I923 INFLATION RATES to USA, all better mixed franking rates with up to $75 items sleeved and priced 20 years ago, includes quite scarce 180m and 1800m postcard rates, also rates of 150m, 800m, registered 4000m, and a 1,200,000m, listed retail price $430, VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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5 GERMAN I923 INFLATION RATES to USA, all better single and multiple franked covers with up to $75 items sleeved and priced 20 years ago, includes two covers with 300m single frankings #201, a 300m multiple franking #229 (x3), a 3000m multiple franking #231 (x10) on front and back of cover with the original letter enclosed, and a 3,000,000m last day of rate multiple franking #265 (x6), listed retail price $310, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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450 GREAT BRITAIN & EMPIRE COVERS 1871-1980's, all letter size covers with mostly good UPU and airmail rates to USA, lots of registered, express, postage dues, PAQUEBOT, WWI and WWII censored, printed matter rates ++, retails over $840, F-VF est ($150+ US) (Image)

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4 GREAT BRITAIN RATES to USA 1880-1900, all better up to $150 items sleeved and priced 20 years ago, includes an 1880 registered 13d quadruple UPU rate with C&S Lumber perfins #112, 115, 119 on a 2½d stationery cover (4 page letter enclosure), also an 1891 Queen's Hotel advertising cover with UPU 2½d rate, an 1897 Newspaper wrapper with 2d UPU double rate, a 1900 PAQUEBOT cover rated paid 2½d and mailed on board a Cunard ship from Liverpool then posted on arrival at Dublin, listed retail price $400, VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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650 GREAT BRITAIN FDC's 1986-2017, choice group of cachet covers with mostly set frankings, includes many souvenir sheets and booklet panes, all with typed addresses to USA, fabulous topical value, retails over $3000, VF est ($225+ US) (Image)

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1942 RODI (RHODES) AIRMAIL POSTCARD to USA, a 30c Italian postal card with fabulous philatelic 7.30 Lire franking of Aegean Island Rodi airmail stamps #C1a-C4a added, mailed from the Aegean Island of Sporadi on JUN10-1942 and addressed to New-York with routing via Rodi on JUN 20th, #C4 cat $350 US on cover, VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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1932-1939 SOUTH AFRICA REGISTERED RATES to USA (x2), includes a 7d franking on a JUL6-1932 cover from Pietermaritzburg to Colma-Cal (UPU 3d + 4d registration), also a #B9-B11 (in pairs) for a 6d franking with an undetected ½d short-paid (UPU 2½d + 4d registration), on cover from Pretoria on JUL17-1939 to Reedley-Cal, sleeved and priced 20 years ago at $150, VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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1816 USA TRIPLE WAR RATE, a prepaid SFL from New-York on JAN29-1816 to Albany-NY with the War of 1812 triple tax rate of 76½¢ still in effect (3 x 25½¢ per ½ oz), sleeved and priced 20 years ago at $200, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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1899 BOER WAR "MAIL SUSPENDED", a USA 5¢ UPU rated cover from Bennett-PA on OCT2-1899 and addressed to the Simmer-Jack Mining Company in Boer controlled Germantown (South-Africa Republic), redirected to Cape-Town on FEB13-1900 with a purple MAIL SERVICE SUSPENDED handstamp was applied and returned to sender via the Washington-DC Foreign-Division-DLO on APR 21st, arrived back in Bennett on APR 23rd, a rare 200 day routing sleeved and priced 20 years ago at $300, VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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1950 USA NAVAL BATTLE PAINTING FOLIO (x26), fabulous 16" x 20" color reproductions of the famous naval battles from the 1876 War of Independence, the War of 1812, the 1862 Civil War, 1898 Spanish-American War, WWI, WWII, and the Korean War, reproductions from the US Maritime Museum, US Naval Academy, Department of the Navy, the Roosevelt Collection, US Navy Combat Art Collection ++, a lovely frame-able group in extra-fine condition, in the original mailing package, retails over $300, VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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1945 CANADIAN POW in JAPAN, airmail letter from Sargent J.B. Thompson of the Canadian Royal Rifles captured at Hong-Kong in DEC-1941, the letter was mailed after he was released and posted on OCT1-1945 from the US Naval Hospital-103 in Guam, airmail rated to Vancouver-BC, cover is roughly opened RHS, sleeved and priced 20 years ago at $300, rare and F-VF est ($150+ US) (Image)

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1700 WORLDWIDE COVERS 1946-1990's, great lot of mostly European airmail rates to USA, strength in German rates, also some better Latin America, Asia, and British Empire covers, 500 are legal size and larger with good multiple rates, retails over $750, F-VF est ($150+ US) (Image)

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1100 WORLDWIDE COVERS 1935-1990's, great lot of mostly European airmail rates to USA, strength in German covers, also some better Latin America, Asia, and British Empire covers, 400 are legal size and larger with good multiple rates, retails over $550, F-VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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950 WORLDWIDE COVERS 1950-1990's, the majority are good European airmail rates to USA, note lots of better registered, express, printed matter ++, 400 are letter size covers, 550 are legal size and larger covers with goo multiple rates, retails over $2000, F-VF est ($150+ US) (Image)

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20 USA NEWSPAPERS 1820-1945 (3 are British), includes an entire DEC29-1859 Philadelphia Public Ledger, and APR5-1865 New York Herald, a MAY25-1941 Seattle Sunday Times (photo section showing war pictures), the AUG14-1944 St-Hillier-NJ Evening Post, the APR13-1945 St-Joseph-MO Gazette (announcing Roosevelt death), 10 are front pages from a range of USA newspapers, lot includes 3 British newspaper entires noting MAY20-1820 London Courier, MAY14-1862 Northampton Free Press, NOV11-1854 Illustrated London News, retails over $600, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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13 USA & BRITISH MAGAZINES 1883-1994, includes an 1891 Granite State Philatelist, 1891 Post Office Monthly, 1918 Illustrated Review, 1937 King George-VI Coronation Program (worth the estimate alone), 1959 Life Magazine with "The World's Prettiest Stamps", 1954 Life Magazine with "The Worlds Rarest Stamps", 1927 US Postage Stamps (POD), 1958 Weekly Philatelic Gossip ++, retails over $300, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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USA OFFICIAL POSTAL GUIDE JULY 1941, part-1 for domestic services published by the US Government Printing Office (Washington-DC), 990 pages hardbound, includes postal regulations for all classes of domestic mail, rates, rural delivery, airmail, registered, C.O.D., money orders, savings bonds, insured mail, post office listing by State and County, discontinued post offices 1937-1941, army + navy + marine corps post offices ++, this was the last postal guide before WWII, well used with a reinforced cover and some page faults, VG-F est ($20 US) (Image)

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UNITED STATES 19th CENTURY POSTAGE STAMPS, by Lester G. Brookman, 1947 first edition in 2 volumes published by Henry Lindquist (NY), 625 pages hardbound with original dust covers, the definitive reference for US stamps 1847-1898 covering proofs, essays, printing quantities, plates, papers, grills varieties ++, volume 2 has clipped pages that does not affect the text or illustrations, a scarce first edition that retails over $150, VG-F est ($20+ US) (Image)

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