1921 ADMIRAL 2¢ COIL #124 FRANKING, pays the USA postcard rate from Montreal on DEC31-1921 to North-Lawrence-NY, Unitrade cat $100, F-VF est ($35+US) (Image)

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1931 VANCOUVER PART AIRMAIL to PUERTO-RICO, colorful #143(x2),149 franking pays the USA Possessions 7¢ airmail rate on cover from Vancouver-BC on MAY26-1931, routing via New York + ship to San Juan, VF est ($50+US) (Image)

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1897 CHARLOTTOWN-PEI 8¢ REGISTERED to USA, single franking #44 pays the USA 3¢ letter rate + 5¢ registration fee on cover dated JUN30-1897 to Kennett-Square-PA, routing via St-John-NB and Boston, VF est ($35+US) (Image)

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4 GERMAN OCCUPATION COVERS 1950-1955, all with better frankings on airmail covers to USA, note a cover with #693(x2),B337(x2), also cover with #B314,B315(x2), a cover with #B44-B347, and a registered cover with #9N75-9N79, retails over $550, VF est ($75+US) (Image)

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4 GERMAN OCCUPATION COVERS 1951-1954, all with better frankings on airmail covers to USA, note a cover with #B306,B308(x2), a cover with B332 (x2),B333(x2), cover with #B315, and a registered cover with #9N87,9N92,9N94-9N98, retails over $565, VF est ($75+US) (Image)

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73 GERMAN COVERS 1945-1980's, mostly better airmail rates to USA noting 34 are Allied occupation 1945-1953 covers with good provisional frankings, 13 of these are from the Russian Zone, 4 are legal size covers, retails over $650, mostly VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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110 BRITISH EMPIRE COVERS & CARDS 1895-1979, mostly good UPU an airmail rates to USA, lots of better registration, 61 mostly different mint and used Aerogrammes, WWII censored, unchecked early stationery covers and cards, retails over $660, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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42 MILITARY WWI COVERS & CARDS 1915-1919, includes 28 German POW covers and cards from all different Russian internment camps, also 3 POW covers routed via the Red Cross office in Copenhagen, 10 are Austrian soldier Feldpost cards, also note a 1915 Bulgarian censored cover to USA ++, retails over $450, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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13 USA WWI PATRIOTIC HUMOR COVERS & CARDS 1915-1919, a well annotated mtd collection of 3 covers and 8 postcards, also a letter signed by the well known army cartoonist Walt McDougall, a partial Ralph Barton humor brochure "A Concise History of the Great War" ++, retails over $220, VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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15 USA WWI SOLDIERS LETTERS 1918, a mounted collection with interesting enclosures dated from JUN,1918 to DEC,1918, most are self censored letters from officers with great stories including capturing German Officers at a St-Mihiel dance, also German atrocities noting soldiers chained to their machine guns to prevent retreat, one from a soldier that predicted his own death ++, 10 letters are transcribed and 13 letters have the original covers, scarce items retailing over $300, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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115 USA WWI PATRIOTIC LABELS 1918, the lot includes the NOV,1918 and DEC,1918 issues of the "Ladies Home Journal" that each contained a different page of War Theme labels, intended as patriotic troop support but very few were used since the war ended on NOV11,1918, a full sheet of 45 labels is intact in the NOV issue and the sheet from the DEC issue was removed for display, the lot includes 24 single labels plus a rare NOV27,1918 soldiers letter with a label attached, a total of 114 different labels retailing over $400, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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79 USA WAR RATION BOOKS 1942-1954 (a few British), includes 74 USA 1942-1943 WWII books #1,2,3,4 in quantities of 12-30 books of each, also 5 British 1951-1954 ration books from the Korean War, retails over $500, F-VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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60 USA MILITARY ELECTION BALLOTS 1944-1970, includes 17 envelopes for the 1944 Presidential election (9 different types) and 52 cards for the 1968-1970 election (6 different), a nice specialist study lot retails over $700, F-VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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3 USA WWII HISTORICAL NEWSPAPERS 1945-1946, includes the New York Times FEB13,1945 entire detailing the Roosevelt-Churchill-Stalin meeting, also the Philadelphia Evening Bulletin 1946 historical supplement containing the 57 most important front pages during the war, and the "IwoJima" story published in 1995 for the 50th anniversary retails over $200, VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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1933 ST.J. & P.A.B. RPO NEWF'D, Gray UNLISTED Saint-John's and Port-aux-Basques Express-2 cds on 5¢ franked Way-Mail dated JUL16-1933, posted on arrival of the British battleship HMS NORFOLK and addressed to USA, VF est ($100+US) (Image)

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695 USA RAILROAD CANCELS 1879-1980's, on 390 covers and 275 postcards noting DAY-LINES, NIGHT-LINES, ROYAL TRAIN ++, a completely unchecked specialist lot for mostly the 1910-1940's period, 70 covers are legal size, retails over $3000, F-VF est ($225+ US) (Image)

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100 USA RAILROAD CANCELS 1884-1950's (a few later), all are readable cancels on covers, postcards, facing slips, and registration receipts, 7 are duplicate "Last Day" cancels on JUN30,1977 for the NY & WASH RPO, retails over $600, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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"THE USA 2¢ RED-BROWN 1883-1887", the 2 volume set with dust covers by Edward Willard, 328 pages hardbound published by Lindquist in 1970, a detail study of the plates, plate flaws, papers, and usages in Volume-1, a study of the cancels in Volume-2, VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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900 USA NAVY COVERS 1930-1949, includes Sailor and Marine letters from a wide range of ships noting Aircraft Carriers, Destroyers, Submarines ++, also soldier covers from USA training camps and hospitals, some Coast Guard and Medical Corps covers, many covers with the original letter contents, 150 are Navy Department legal size covers, retails over $3000, F-VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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144 USA SHIP COVERS 1933-1985, includes 19 Submarine keel laying and maiden voyage cachet covers in 1881, 124 US Navy ship 1962-1985 keel laying, launching, and shake-down cruise cachet covers, Operation Deep Freeze covers 1971-1989, two "SS UNITED STATES" maiden voyage 1952 cachet covers, PAQUEBOT covers received at Seattle and the Canal Zone ++, 6 covers are legal size and note a few duplicates, retails over $500, F-VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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450 USA SHIP CANCELS 1946-1950, all on postcards noting most are sent to a common addressee in Dover-NJ, includes all different patriotic and Navy Day cachets plus a good range of operational cachets, nice lot retailing over $1500, VF est ($100+ US) (Image)

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260 USA NAVAL SHIP CANCELS 1950-2005 (a few later), 100 cancels are on pre-1984 Official Navy correspondence and includes Navy Day cachets, first nuclear powered ship launchings, ship commission first days ++, 160 are post 1995 cachet covers for port visits, overhaul completions, command changes, ship commissioning and decommissioning events ++, 55 are legal size covers with a few duplicates, retails over $750, VF est ($75+ US) (Image)

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1910 USA PRESIDENT GROVER CLEVELAND, embossed and gold trimmed flag patriotic postcard, unposted and VF est ($25+US) (Image)

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110 TOPICAL POSTCARDS 1905-1950's, includes better humor cards, political satire, greetings, Library of Congress art cards, real photo social history cards, over 80 ship postcards with lots of USA WWII Naval Ships, advertising cards, novelty leather cards, also note early cigarette and thread trade cards, retails over $500, F-VF est ($50+ US) (Image)

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1926-1952 USA AIRMAIL RATE COVERS (x4), all better including a 1926 first flight Seattle to Los Angeles, 1932 Los Angeles to Canada, 1949 USA to Germany, and 1952 registered to Sweden, VF est ($75+US) (Image)

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