Daniel F. Kelleher Auctions, LLC Sale: 754
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Sale No: 754
Lot No:6048 Symbol: AAMC PP470; $475. AAMC PP64; $675. Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500 (Image) Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500
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Lot No:6049 Symbol: Worldwide, Better worldwide airmail and autographs, 1924-1933, 1929 reprint of The New York Herald from 1879 about the electric lamp, three FDC (no cachet) blocks of 654 in Menlo Park, stunning autograph of Thos A Edison on #10 postmarked Orange NJ; legal-sized paquebot Byrd Antarctic mail dated 29 Nov 1929; first flight C10 blocks to Ecuador; five registered express covers from Stockholm; catapult mail from the SS Ile de France, another off the Bremen; Harry S. New PMG on airport dedication; commander of SS Karlsruhe Erwin Wassner and German sea raider during WWI Count Felix von Luckner (4 + an additional four on sepia portrait cards); Charles Holman and Arthur C Goebel on air race covers; IN Governor Harry G Leslie on better Georges Rogers Clark cover; T G M Settles Lt USN on balloon races envelope; Springfield IL postmaster William Conkin, pilot Walter Bragwell, and chief pilot (Lindbergh's replacement) Bud Gurney on event cover; Clarence Chamberlin on Syracuse aircraft show cover; Alfred E Smith on Democratic National Convention envelope (also unused ticket to the event), Republican National Convention cover autographed by Herbert Hoover (water smudge), and another by VP Charles Curtis; Bud Gurney and Heinie Steiner on event envelope; American Legion Chief Paul V McNutt on cover; first flight US to Winnipeg by Floyd Bennett, also dedication cover from Floyd Bennett field and scarce Nungesser - Coli fund envelope; Miami to Cristobal (FAM 5) carried by Lindbergh, Bolivian airmail carried by Jimmy Doolittle, Haiti to Cuba flown by Basil Rowe; commemorative envelopes honoring Amelia Earhart; magnificent early airmail from Latvia, Danzig, Russia, Denmark, Germany, Austria and Senegal; also London-Egypt-India via Imperial Airways; well worth a look. Shipping charges apply - weight 3 lbs. View a video of images for this lot Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500 (Image) Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500
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Lot No:6050 Symbol: Worldwide, Better flights and stamp sets on cover, 1924-1935, several examples of registered express Stockholm to New York (1929); first flight Galway to London (1929), 2 Karlsruhe steamer air mail (1929); Breman catapult postcard (1929); Warsaw to Gdansk (1925); express stamp on Torino to Rome card (1917); Denmark to Germany (1925); Imperial Airways first flight South Africa to England (1932); autogiro flight autographed by pilot in London (1934); 6 Danzig express envelopes (1923); 2 beautiful SCADTA Ecuador provisional overprints (1929); 16 early Swiss airmails (1925); 14 pioneer German air service (1926); Rangoon to Croydon (1931); significant catalog value; 120+ better covers. Shipping charges apply - weight 2.4 lbs. View PDF #1 of images for this lot View PDF #2 of images for this lot Suggested Bid $750-1,000 (Image) Suggested Bid $750-1,000
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Lot No:6051 Symbol: Worldwide, Early airmail from around the world, 1870-1940, two examples of Paris balloon mail (1870); two Hungarian balloon post (1915); Chile (1930); Austria (1924); Lithuania (1921); Mexico (1929); Syria (1923); Denmark (1926); Egypt (1921); Honduras (1930); Cuba (1928); Newfoundland (1929); Panama (1930); Papua (1930); Venezuela (1930); Uruguay (1925); Latvia (1925); Hungary (1930); Russia (1927); Austria (1927); Czechoslovakia (1925); Ecuador (1928); Poland (1921); Philippine Islands (1926); and Germany (1936); wonderful lot for the airmail specialist. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.6 lbs. View a PDF of images for this lot Suggested Bid $750-1,000 (Image) Suggested Bid $750-1,000
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Lot No:6052 Symbol: Worldwide, Airmail balance lot, 1921-1935, German airmail postcard (1921); Dresden N25 (several postcards), Danzig registered (1923); Switzerland (1926); oversized 1927 continental airmail in Germany and onto Chicago; Latvia (1924); Cuba (1928); Haiti (1927); Canada (1928); also box with 100+ FAMS (most late 1920's); bonus 6 unlisted New York to Rome non-stop transatlantic flight on hotel stationery (franked with 3 C10s), and 2 "Too Late" to accompany Adm Byrd on 1927 transatlantic flight. Shipping charges apply - weight 2.6 lbs. View a video of images for this lot Suggested Bid $500-750 (Image) Suggested Bid $500-750
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Lot No:6229 Symbol: Worldwide, Large Balance of the Zeppelin Collection, More than 200 covers or cards, more than half of which are LZ 127 "Graf Zeppelin" flights, most of them German frankings; including a number in quantities of 3-15 each, at least six of which are priced at €200 and up by Michel, including South America Flight and Polar Flight covers franked with the appropriate Zeppelin stamps; also included is a group of Zeppelin collateral which is made up of mint Zeppelin postcards, vintage newspaper clippings, advertising, etc; and another group of 50 or so non-Zeppelin airmail covers, both inter-European and Transatlantic, most, but not all of which are German; a fascinating lot with nice value scattered throughout. Shipping charges apply - weight 3.4 lbs. Suggested Bid $2,500-3,500 (Image) Suggested Bid $2,500-3,500
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Lot No:6230 Symbol: Worldwide, Collection of 75 different Zeppelin covers, 1924-36, LZ 126 through LZ 129, cards or covers - sometimes one of each for the same flight; no rare flights but some nice frankings including nine South America Flight and three Polar Flight Zeppelins; virtually all clean and F-VF. Shipping charges apply - weight 2.2 lbs. Michel €11,500 ($12,890) Suggested Bid $1,500-2,000 (Image)
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Lot No:6231 Symbol: Worldwide, 18 different Zeppelin covers, 1929-32, cards or covers - sometimes one of each for the same flight; no rare flights but some nice frankings including five South America Flight and two Polar Flight Zeppelins; virtually all clean and F-VF. Michel €5,250 ($5,880) Suggested Bid $800-1,200 (Image)
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Lot No:6232 Symbol: Worldwide, Zeppelin flight covers, 1930-32, group of 15 different, from Germany, Austria and several South American countries, nice variety, Fine to Very Fine. Suggested Bid $500-750 (Image) Suggested Bid $500-750
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Lot No:6233 Symbol: Worldwide, balance lot, 1909-1930, delicious remainder including better catapult, Zeppelin mail and autographs; oversized photograph of 1909 airship with inset of Count Zeppelin, reverse autographed Hans Kargelein Chicago 1 Mar 1935; copper colored souvenir medallion with Count Ferd V Zepellin on the face and the airship and the year 1909 on the reverse; drop mail 11 Oct 1928 of unfranked postcard over Friedrichshafen; 4 picture postally used photo postcards of Graf Zeppelin in flight over Germany; three meter advertising postcards (3pf) promoting engine oil used in the LZ 127; two LZ 127 postally used postcards signed by LZ 39 (WWI) commander Dr Lempertz; three flown Graf Zeppelin cards (with 2RM Zeppelin stamps) from Friedrichshafen to Lakehurst 10 Oct 1928; H E Shoemaker, Capt US Navy on Lakehurst NAS stationary (cut square) with official envelope; three examples of William A Moffett Rear Admiral, US Navy, two on the back of commemorative envelopes and one TLS on 1929 official stationary; Maurice Pierce, who had both sub and airship wings and commanded USS Shenandoah in 1924 is found on a cut square, the reverse of two commemorative envelopes, and the 1928 first flight of the Graf Zeppelin from the US to Germany (1928), also on the cover are autographs of Navy Lts Charles Bauch and T G M Settle (who were involved in a car accident in which Bauch died and Settle severely injured); legal size airmail envelope US to Germany; two additional LZ 127 envelopes to Germany, one signed by John C Ingram, the Hearst Newspaper representative; Capt E S Jackson, Commander Naval Air Station Lakehurst on commemorative cover; lastly, are five better catapult covers including a gorgeous registered (with great franking) large envelope from stamp dealer Theodore Champion in Paris to a collector in Boston on the very first flight (a good one to have), also three with $1 value stamps paying transit on S S Ile de France, lastly a commemorative envelope on the ship but not flown; 33 items in total; lots of "meat" for the right specialist; significant crease across top of photograph. View a PDF of images for this lot Suggested Bid $500-750 (Image) Suggested Bid $500-750
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Lot No:6234 Symbol: Worldwide, Graf Zeppelin and USS Los Angeles, 1925-1933, Los Angeles Lakehurst to Bermuda (126-9a); Los Angeles Mayaguez to New York (126-10a); Graf Zeppelin German-American Group of Chicago official cachet legal size envelope with Baby Zep at Century of Progress Chicago to Akron (4); Graf Zeppelin 1932 South American flight, 10 stamps on piece (cat over $100); Irish postcard postmarked on first anniversary of Bremen fliers, autographed by William T Cosgrave, President of the Irish Free States; Lawrence Richey (Secretary to the President) signature on Whit House stationary dated 1929; 11 photo postcards, most postmarked in Germany 18 Jun 1929; bonus, 4 black and white photos (3x5) embossed I K Reiser with annotations about the 25 Sep 1929 Havana to Key West flight of Edwin Musick; catalog is excess of $780. Frost 127-197; $70. Frost 126-10a; $400. Suggested Bid $400-600 (Image) Suggested Bid $400-600
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Lot No:6239 Symbol: Worldwide, balloon collection, extensive mounted thematic holding in 7 three-ring binders plus a misc box with about 100 loose covers; Maxim cards, Fellows handpainted, numerous proofs, flown at regional and national races, Brasil SC#C22 stamp with three different color plate proofs on watermarked paper; French colonies coin de dat, compete sets throughout of both perf and imperf. Shipping charges apply - weight 36.4 lbs. View a PDF of images for this lot Suggested Bid $800-1,200 (Image) Suggested Bid $800-1,200
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Lot No:6242 Symbol: Worldwide, Motherload of Bremen and Europa catapult flights, 1928-1935, extremely clean collection of catapult mail with very little duplication; the contemporaneous scrapbook has wonderful ephemera including vacation brochures, travel schedules and pictures of the ships; while there are several commemorative envelopes, the vast majority are beautifully documented flown consisting of 67 Bremen and 20 Europa catapult covers; bonus, dinner program from 12 May 1928 from the Chicago Chamber of Commerce honoring the Bremen Fliers, the drawing in the front (suitable for framing) is beautifully signed Baron von Huenefeld, James Fitzmaurice and Hermann Koehl; let the bidding begin. Shipping charges apply - weight 5.6 lbs. View a video of images for this lot Suggested Bid $3,000-4,000 (Image) Suggested Bid $3,000-4,000
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Lot No:6243 Symbol: Worldwide, Catapult, DoX and more, 1928-1947, 42 better items; Bremen 15 Aug 1929 flight, 15 Aug 1929 (3); "Flying Family" transatlantic flight signed by Lt Col George R Hutchison with both British and US stamps; folded Zeppelin advertising card from Hermann Sieger; action photo postcard of ship on fire from Uruguay to Chicago; Cleveland Air Races (1931) autographed by German Ace Ernst Udet (2); folded legal sized airmail card from 1927 Eastern States Exposition; 5x9 cardboard postcards autographed by the pilot, four different, L Scroggins, E Couples, H Sieners and D L Noyes; NYRBA registered airmail from Uruguay, cover from Peruvian Airways and another from the American Chamber of Commerce in Mexico; legal sized cover for Bremen Day in Milwaukee, also a postcard autographed by Wolfgang von Gronau, Franz Hack and another; Ernst Udet on postcard at National Air Races; C4 on Illinois State Fair envelope; attractive FAM 9 envelope to Valparaiso, Chile; Lindbergh flown FAM 5 expansion from Canal Zone to Miami, better "Home of Abraham Lincoln" cachet on Lindbergh's first flight on CAM 2 from Springfield to Chicago; Sgt Jack Cope signature on cover for 1928 record parachute jump; B B Lipsner on elaborate 25th anniversary of flight (2); Lindbergh FAM 6 San Juan to Port of Spain; Reynolds polar round the world flight signed by Milton Reynolds (2); Amundsen transpolar flight postmarked in Norway; and several more interesting items; come look. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.4 lbs. AAMC PP39a; $75. AAMC PP220a1; $120. Suggested Bid $500-750 (Image) Suggested Bid $500-750
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Lot No:6396 Symbol: Worldwide, Powerful rocket mail collection, 1932-1938, surprisingly strong examples from around the globe from early experimenters; Germany wonderful unlisted Tiling postcard of rocket in flight dated 13 Nov 1932, Zucker 6C1 with perf labels and another without, striking 2C1b, stock book with 31 tête-bêche 1934 rocket label pairs, plus 31 modern; Switzerland 2C1; Italy 1C1b; Belgium 4C1a; Holland 1C1 (with burn marks from explosion), 4C1, 5C1, 7C1a, 10C1, 11C1, 11C1a, 53C1, 54C1; United States 5A1, 5A1a, 6C1, 8C1 plus 14 modern; France 4C2; and Luxembourg 1C1; a truly impressive lot. Shipping charges apply - weight 1 lbs. Ellington-Zwisler 2C1b; $175. Ellington-Zwisler 2C1; $150. Suggested Bid $1,500-2,000 (Image) Suggested Bid $1,500-2,000
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Lot No:6889 Symbol: Worldwide, Principal Stock From Lifelong Dealer, 1970-2015, numerous file cabinet drawers has translated into 12 large boxes of modern worldwide covers principally sorted by topic; Oman 20 glorious years gold stamps with gold colored medallion (3), Russian local overprints postally used; postally used aerogrammes from Ethiopia, Mauritania, Abu Dhabi, Thailand,Malaysia, Zambia; Lietuva, Antillen (50 better FDCs), British Colonies, Italy, French Colonies; Alcohol, Basketball, Balloons, Butterflies, Cats & Dogs, Caves, Concorde, Coffee, Columbus, Circus, Christmas, Chess, Dinosaurs, Easter, Europa, Firefighting, Frogs, Fossils, Flowers, Fish, Golf, Gandhi, Insects, Judaica, Lenin, Lighthouses, Lion's Club, Malaria, Marconi, Mining & Minerals, Motorcycles, Mushrooms (you get the idea); Disney S/S FDC from Sierra Leone and Bhutan,World expo 89 Disney souvenir card sets from Maldives, Grenada, St Vincent, Antigua, The Gambia and Grenada (6 complete sets), set of 5 Upper Volta deluxe proofs, oversized Mongolia 9 stamp mini sheet FDC (2), entire sheet of Japan observatory on cover, extensive Korean Kepler on massive covers perf (7), S/S (7), large S/S (7), imperf single (3), small S/S imperf (3), large S/S imperf (3), Vatican S/S on cover, DDR sundial mini sheet of 8 on cover (5), Central Africa Columbus series of 6 on cover (6), Ecuatorial Guinea copper and gold Copernicus S/S on cover (38), 20th anniversary of first Moon landing from Nevis stamps (10) S/S (10), Samoa stamps (3) S/S (3), St. Kitts stamps (4) S/S (4), Ascension Island stamps (3) S/S (3), and similar for Bahamas, Belize, Kiribati, Liberia, Seychelles, Solomon Islands, Vanuatu and Zil Elwannyen; dozens of French Colonies S/S on oversized covers; Ecuador numbered S/S perf and imperf on cover, Jules Verne pictorial cancels, Iceland FDC (10), Jersey Europa series on cover (7), Monaco, Mali, Mauritania Challenger oversized stamps perf & imperf and S/S perf & imperf (30), Tristan da Cunha zodiac set on cover, Man in Space Suriname issues on card signed by the designer, Central African gold S/S on cover, Guyana sheets (25 stamps) with overprints on cover, three different issues (9), Togo Ap-11 series of 6 on cover (10), S/S (4), Togo Ap 11-13 S/S on cover (17), Togo shuttle series of 6 on cover (13), Upper Volta Mars series of 5 perf on cover (5), perf S/S (5), UPU series of 6 (7), satellite S/S (6), ASTP series of 5 (3), ASTP S/S (3), Rwanda Ap-11 with Ap-14 overprint (13); well over 10,000 examples of really nice stuff; if you have a customer base this is the lot you need. Shipping charges apply - weight 168.2 lbs. Suggested Bid $3,000-4,000 (Image) Suggested Bid $3,000-4,000
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Lot No:6890 Symbol: Worldwide, Space themed cancels arranged by region in 10 binders, Official cancels european, Sweden, Italy, Netherlands, Belgium, about 80 envelopes; Official cancels So Amer-Asia, Vietnam, Trucial States, extensive Japanese unused postal cards, Brazil, Paraguay, Argentina; Official Austria better 1933-36 labels on show covers, overall covers attractive; Official France, numerous Araine and ESA envelopes, around 100 covers; Official Czech, surprisingly nice Gagarin overprints on cover, many registered envelopes; Official W Germany, colorful but pedestrian, perhaps 90 envelopes; Official E Germany, 75-100 envelopes, a few registered; Official E German (2), nice series of cachets honoring space pioneers, attractive commemorative postmarks; Official cancels W Germany (2), Nebel autograph, 1962-69 predominates; Official cancels Cuba, best binder in the lot, 1st anniversary of Cuban rocket mail, 37 "primitive" milestones in space cachets, autographed crew cover. Shipping charges apply - weight 51.6 lbs. View PDF #1 of images for this lot View PDF #2 of images for this lot View PDF #3 of images for this lot Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500 (Image) Suggested Bid $1,000-1,500
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Lot No:6891 Symbol: Worldwide, Last chance for 86 years, 1970-2016, 2500+ covers, wonderful global selection of FDCs and meter pictorials focused on Halley's Comet; dozens of US pictorial cancels in quantities of 4-8; Skyline rocket mail (10); extensive Australian series with numerous cachets; several French pictorial cancels (about 10 each); Czech meters (12), lovely DDR cards tracking passage, 03/06 (2), 03/09 (3), 06/11 (6), 06/15 (7), 12/15 (10) and 12/21 (3); Sweden Europa FDC (7 embossed); Poland registered with pictorial cancel (10); spectacular Cook Island sets on cover, 5 stamp series (2), hurricaine relief overprint (1), $4 S/S (3), S/S with 6 stamps (3); Bolivia Challenger S/S (3); Sri Lanka set of 4 on cover (9); Comores 8 stamp set (4), S/S (5); dual S/S on cover (4); Guinea set of 6 stamps (6), S/S perf (6), S/S imperf (1), dual perf S/S on cover (9), imperf S/S (3), gold stamp (3), gold S/S (4), imperf gold S/S (3); Mauritania 4 stamp set (8), S/S (24 total of several designs), imperf set on cover (2), imperf S/S (8), British Colonies (several for each issue); Brazil return of Halley (20); Japan (16); Hong Kong; Botswana; Fiji; 2500+ flawless envelopes packaged for the enterprising dealer; numerous oversized covers with complete sets. Shipping charges apply - weight 34.2 lbs. Suggested Bid $750-1,000 (Image) Suggested Bid $750-1,000
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Lot No:6892 Symbol: View PDF #1 of images for this lot View PDF #2 of images for this lot View PDF #3 of images for this lot Suggested Bid $500-750 (Image) Suggested Bid $500-750
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Lot No:6894 Symbol: Suggested Bid $400-600
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Lot No:6895 Symbol: Suggested Bid $350-500
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Lot No:6896 Symbol: Suggested Bid $300-400
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Lot No:6897 Symbol: Worldwide, Oversized space-themed assortment, appears predominently related to the Moon landings(1969-72); duplication is light; would show nicely for dealers and internet sales; about 500 pieces. Shipping charges apply - weight 14.2 lbs. Suggested Bid $300-400 (Image) Suggested Bid $300-400
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Lot No:6898 Symbol: Suggested Bid $300-400
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Lot No:6899 Symbol: Worldwide, Oversized space-related hoard, the prettiest covers, often franked with compete sets, are BIG; Maldives, Guiana, Palau, Dominica, Mongolia, Tasmania; all with big, colorful sets that highlight the exploration of space; expect 400-500 items all in excellent condition. Shipping charges apply - weight 11.8 lbs. Suggested Bid $300-400 (Image) Suggested Bid $300-400
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