BALLON MONTE France #33 tied on F/L by "35" in star cancel on Oct 14. 1870 flight of the Jean Bart I (BM12), endorsed "par ballon monte", Montauban & Clermont backstamps, signed Schoendorf, VF (Image)

Cat. $440 SE

JAPAN Group (21) flight related covers on dealer cards; in first flights Tokyo to Osaka 1919, Osaka to Dairen (China) 1926, Osaka to Seoul 1929, Osaka to Manchukuo 1929; (2) early 1930s PPC showing photos of pilots and airplane; regular airmail cover franked w/ #210, C3 to West Virginia; (10) 1951 Postal Week flights Tokyo - Osaka w/ various commemoratives; gen F-VF [Proceeds benefit APS] (Image)

Est. $200-300 LE

ASIA Interesting group of covers from East Asia, incl PPC from Japanese Formosa, several WWII soldier's letters from Japanese occupied areas (incl Indochina); China Peking to Chicago w/ PRC 3L81; PPC of Shanghai Bund to New York w/ US 1¢ Second Bureau tied by Shanghai Agency pmk; PPC postmarked Moukden, PPC from Japanese Offices in China; mail from Japanese Ryukyus (pre-WWII), document from Manchuria in Russian & Chinese, w/ revenue stamps; some Jap Occup of Philippines, unused Ryukyus postal cards, more; also a few stamps & S/S; gen F+ [Proceeds benefit APS] (Image)

Est. $350-450 B

CHINA Interesting accum w/ over (300) mainly diff PRC cacheted UA FDCs 1981 to 1992 incl #1671-76, 1679-84, 1764, 1765-72, 1792-97, 1864-71 plus some earlier China bearing Junks, Suns, ovpts, PRC Great Walls etc, cond varies gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $250-350 B

CHINA-PRC (1000s) FDC, postal cards, maxims all modern 1990-2010 era, some later, VF cond (Image)

Est. $300-500 L

DENMARK Accum (51) mostly Classic covers on pages, incl (4) stampless, (11) w/ first arms, used postal cards, a few more modern covers, mostly souvenir or show related, 1933 Chicago World's Fair PPC to Denmark w/ 10o postage due added; several interesting cancels or markings incl KDOP, Bahnhof Husum (now Germany), Fra Anholt or Bornholm, boxed Danemark, straightline Danemarck (1836), Paquebot; gen F+ (Image)

Est. $300-400 B

EUROPE Couple (100) covers incl comml, personal, FDC, several PPC (mailed & not), maximum cards, airmail, postal stationery; noted Monaco, Switz #376-77 FDC, West Germany, Italy, more; gen F-VF

Est. $150-250 B

GERMANY (54) cards in cover album, mostly Third Reich propaganda or similar w/ commemorative cancels, Feldpost, a couple older, incl complete set of (8) "Mit unseren Fahnen ist der Sieg" cards w/ pictorial postmarks; gen VF (Image)

Est. $125-150 B

GERMANY (58) covers 1900s-40s in sleeves, incl Germanias, Inflation, Bavaria, PPC, used postal stationery, Third Reich incl propaganda items; F+ (Image)

Est. $150-200 B

GERMANY Abt (650) mostly 20th Cent, mix of comml & FDC/events, few censored, few States & some DDR, plus dozens of unused postal cards, gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $150-200 B

GERMANY Group abt (125) covers 1890s-1960s with most from 1930s-50s noted comml, feldpost/POW, Nazi propaganda, meters, official, airmail, post-war commems, a few DDR, occupations, Inflations, couple banknotes, more; gen F+ (Image)

Est. $200-300 B

GERMANY All encompassing accum of a couple (1000) in a large ctn 19/20th Cent some to the 1990s incl Empire, Inflation,Third Reich, Occupations, Bund, Berlin, DDR etc w/ censored registered, Field Post, FDC, Parcel Post, PPC incl 1890s "Gruss Aus" & more, values to at least $25, mixed cond to much F-VF (Image)

Est. $200-300 L

GERMANY (38) better covers from 1946-57, incl Local (12pf Runderoth), French and Soviet Zones, #664a, 665-66, B301, B308, Bezirk, DDR, West Berlin, many multi-frankings, mixed frankings, airmail to US, censor, Notopfer, more; gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $250-350 B

GERMANY 1946 Bunde Provisional violet handstamp on cream paper slip, w/ manuscript "0.84" inside triangle at center; red control mark 5/21/46, two days before end of validity period; stapled to cover, red registration label, Munich 5/27 receiver on back; someone has traced over address in darker ink, slightly roughly opened at top (Michel #2); F-VF (Image)

EURO1,000 SE

GERMANY Group of (44) post-war covers from French Zones, Berlin and DDR; incl commems such as Mao set, Goethe, Oder-Neisse, UPU, 5mk Dove, Berlin ovpts, more; owner's est Michel CV €5000; F+ (Image)

Est. $600-800 B

GERMANY Group of (224) propaganda cards, souvenir covers & cards, cachets, PPC and more, mostly from Third Reich w/ a few earlier; each sleeved, some postally used, couple duplicates, gen F-VF+ (Image)

Est. $600-800 B

INDIA (5) Classic covers plus a cut square collection; covers incl #2, #2a (both from Masulipatam), #5 pair India Paid crescent, Madras to London; #6F cut-to-shape plus two 1a reds; #28 from Rawulpindee; cut square collection on homemade pages, (93) in mounts incl unused and postally used, from entires, wrappers, postal cards and airmail from Victoria to KGV, couple are parallel */O and some cancellation type examples (incl Aden); gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $400-500 LE

ISRAEL Abt (400) in dealer annotated sleeves, mostly early 1950s to late 1960s, variety of defins, commems and airmails, some tabs, a few early issues & one Forerunner; mostly personal & comml to US or Europe, some special events; some flap marks in earlies, gen F-VF (Image)

Est. $300-400 B

JAPAN #2 100m blue Plate I tied to native cover by SON ring cancel, red seal handstamp, pencil marks on back, light soiling; F-VF [Proceeds benefit APS] (Image)

Est. $100-125 SE

JAPAN c.1936 Native cover franked w/ 3s rose (#131b), postmarked Palau, which was under Japanese control from 1914-44; w/ 2-page enclosure, soiling, F+ [Proceeds benefit APS] (Image)

Est. $150-200 SE

JAPAN Abt (500) covers from late 19th to late 20th Cent, incl native (long, rectangular) covers, stampless, military, modern comml, 1920s-30s correspondence, a few PPC, postal stationery (mostly used), several better on dealer cards w/ interesting, scarce or military cancels (some IDed, some not), souvenir covers w/ pictorial cancels, more; gen F+ [Proceeds benefit APS]

Est. $500-600 L

JAPAN Grouping of covers originating in the Ryukyu Islands, pre-WWII while part of Japan; most identified by postmark of origin, many are wartime soldier's mail, also some PPC, couple documents w/ stamps used as revenues, 1935 first flight Hakata to Naha, New Year's postal cards, more; retail prices from knowledgeable dealers marked well over $3000! Great specialized material, gen F-VF [Proceeds benefit APS] (Image)

Est. $800-1,000 HWC-B

KARL LEWIS 1939 handpainted cover w/ sunrise & palms, two strikes red ship pictorial cancel, datelined Yokohama, F-VF+ (Image)

Est. $100-150 SE

KARL LEWIS 1934 handpainted cover showing the Great Buddha at Kamakura, also shown in the red commemorative postmarks tying #135, 214; Christmas Seal on back; VF (Image)

Est. $125-175 SE

KARL LEWIS 1935 handpainted cover from Taihoku, Formosa (Taipei, Taiwan), pictorial cancels, design shows mountain, tree and farmer w/ ox; foxing due to previous scrapbook mounting (Image)

Est. $80-100 SE