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LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
2361 cover   image1912 (February 24), the unique 5-line Washington Special Delivery Section machine cancel on mail, 1c McKinley postal stationery card, uprated with 2c Washington and affixed with 1911 10c Special Delivery, tied by Washington D.C. duplex, violet Washington "FEE CLAIMED" circular handstamp, and five-line "POST OFFICE / WASHINGTON D.C. / FEB 24 10:12PM 1912 / SPECIAL DELIVERY / SECTION, a fine-very fine and unusual marking, reported as unique on a mail item; ex Beech. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction
2362 cover   image1913 (circa), complete 43c Parcel Post Postage Due set on oversized "Horses and Mules" auction cover, 1c, 2c, 5c, 10c, and 25c values, pen cancelled, the 25c with plate number "6248" in bottom selvedge, illustrated corner card of Bradstreet & Clemens Co., Grand Island, Nebraska, featuring a detailed 1913 auction calendar, an unusual philatelic franking very fine. (Scott #JQ1–JQ5), (Image 1)



Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
2363 cover   image1913 (December 23), San Francisco precancelled 1c green Parcel Post Postage Due on postcard, Christmas greeting card used locally within San Francisco, processed with a San Francisco "World's Panama-Pacific Exposition" slogan cancellation, struck with violet "Due 1 Cent" handstamp, deficiency collected by the precancelled Parcel Post Postage Due affixed, a scarce example of this stamp on postcard, very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$70.00
Will close during Public Auction
2364 cover   image1914 (March 4), 2c green Parcel Post postage due cover, on legal-sized cover from the Los Angeles County Sheriff's Office, to an attorney in Ventura, California, franked with a 2c carmine Washington tied by a Los Angeles, Cal. machine cancel (4 Mar), determined short-paid and marked with a violet "Postage Due 2 Cents" straight-line handstamp, the deficiency collected by the 2c Parcel Post stamp, an unusual use given its intended exclusively for underpaid parcel post packages, uncommonly found on letter mail, some light wrinkles and small stain at upper right, fine-very fine. (Image 1)



Currently...C$70.00
Will close during Public Auction
2365 cover   imageOccupation of Veracruz, Mexico, 1914 (June 23), Special Delivery cover to New York, franked with 2c Panama Canal and 1911 10c Special Delivery, tied by VERACRUZ, MEX / U.S.M.A.C. duplex, to New York, some small edge tears and fragile along vertical fold, back flap largely removed, but rare; only three Special Delivery covers are recorded from the U.S. Mail Agency at Veracruz.

In 1914, American forces occupied Veracruz, Mexico. On April 25, 1914, the Postmaster General advised the Navy Department that an order had been given to establish a U.S. Mail Agency there. The Superintendent of Railway Mail Service was instructed to take charge, and arrived with his asssitants and stamp supplies in early May. The cover bears no Special Delivery markings, suggesting that it was carried by the regular mail carrier, which was the New York City practice at the time. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction
2366 cover   image1914 (July 3), postage due registered cover from Nogales, Sonora to Los Angeles, California, franked with a 5c green and a pair of 20c brown Mexican definitives tied by a Nogales / Son. c.d.s. (3 Jul), determined upon arrival to be short-paid, initial "Due 14 Cents" struck through and revised to "Due 20 Cents," with the deficiency collected by the application of 10c green Parcel Post Postage Due, and two pairs of 2c deep claret Postage Due, cancelled in Los Angeles, reverse with Nogales, Ariz. transit (6 Jul) and Los Angeles, Cal. arrival (7 Jul) backstamps, some creasing and light edge toning, but the use of the 10c Parcel Post Postage Due being quite unusual. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$100.00
Will close during Public Auction
2367 cover   image1914 (October 5), Special Delivery Duties Performed on hotel advertising cover, franked with 2c Washington and 1902 10c Special Delivery, tied by McCloud, California duplex, on Hotel McCloud illustrated advertising cover, to Alameda, with same-day c.d.s. arrival backstamp, attractive and very fine, and a rare special delivery marking, with only three examples recorded, used only by the Postmaster at Alameda; ex Beech. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
2368 cover   image1917 (January), incoming special delivery cover from Venezuela, franked with 50c definitive, tied by Maracaibo c.d.s., with 1914 10c Special Delivery issue affixed at lower left and cancelled with New York oval, New York N.Y RECD c.d.s. arrival backstamp (30 Jan), violet FEE CLAIMED handstamp on front indicating successful service, repaired tear at top right clear of stamp, else fine, a scarce origin. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction
2369 cover   image1918 (June 3), Boston to New York first flight cover, Boston extension flight return leg, 1c postal stationery cover uprated with 24c Jenny Air Post tied by Boston / First Trip c.d.s., typed "by Aeroplane Mail" endorsement, scarce, fine-very fine; ex Heinmuller, with his handstamp.

The proposed extension to Boston was cancelled after this flight, as the Post Office decided to concentrade on the New York - Philadelphia - Washington route. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$120.00
Will close during Public Auction
2370 cover   image1918 (May 21), Washington to Philadelphia first flight cover, franked with 24c Jenny Air Post, tied by "Air Mail Service Wash. N.Y. - Phila / Washington" datestamp, paying the 14c airmail postage and 10c special delivery fee, the flight from Washington to New York with an intermediate stop of Philadelphia, fine-very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
2371 cover   image1918 (September 5), 16c Air Post on experimental army flight cover, postmarked Cleveland (5 Sep), paying the combined 16c air mail and special delivery rate, carried on an experimental flight by army pilots, to Chicago, with next-day arrival backstamp alongside oval MAIL DELAYED / TRAIN LATE handstamp, very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
2372 cover   image1918 (November 6), stampless naval cover from U.S. Naval Base Brest, France to Paris, on the printed corner card stationery of The Farmers' Loan and Trust Company, Paris, with manuscript sender identification "T. Mac Isaac, U.S.N. Forces Oper. in European Waters," struck with a U.S. Naval Base Brest c.d.s. (6 Nov 1918) with matching duplex and blue circular Passed By Censor / U.S.N. / 37 anchor handstamp, open three sides with vertical crease, fine, sent from the primary port of debarkation for American forces in France, only five days before the Armistice. (Image 1)



Currently...C$40.00
Will close during Public Auction
2373 cover   image1920 (circa), stampless naval cover from U.S.S. Reuben James to Springfield, Ohio, bearing a violet two-line U.S. Naval Forces, / European Waters handstamp at upper right, manuscript corner card "Leo Fraser / U.S.S. Reuben James" at upper left, some edge creasing, else fine-very fine.

U.S.S. Reuben James (DD-245) was a Clemson-class destroyer commissioned in 1920 and immediately assigned to U.S. Naval Forces in European Waters, where she performed post-war duties including patrol in the Adriatic and Mediterranean and assistance with refugee relief in the Near East. She was later immortalised in song after her sinking in 1941. (Image 1)



Currently...C$40.00
Will close during Public Auction
2374 cover   image1920 (May 27), first Los Angeles to San Francisco flight, franked with 15c Air Post, paying the combined 6c airmail rate and 10c Special Delivery fee, tied by Los Angeles slogan cancel, handstruck cachet "First L.A. - S.F. / AERIAL MAIL / AVION 5/27-20", and SPECIAL DELIVERY, on Roessler cover to New Jersey, carried by the Aero Transportation Co. via Bakersfield and Fresno, very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
2375 cover   image1921 (November 7), registered transatlantic cover from Astoria, Oregon, to Hamburg, Germany, returned to sender, 2c carmine Washington postal stationery envelope uprated with 12c claret Franklin and 1c green Washington, purple REGISTERED boxed handstamp and purple Zurück 6 (Return) handstamp on front, white German Currency seal label affixed to left edge, resealed with circular Postamt Hamburg seals after inspection, reverse heavily backstamped with over a dozen transit marks including several NEW YORK / FOREIGN (25 Nov) and NEW YORK / REGY. (19 Nov) strikes uncovered from beneath labels, striking and very fine. (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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Currently...C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction
2376 cover   image1922 (July 12), 10c Special Delivery first day cover, franked with 10c Special Delivery and 2c Washington tied by Washington, D.C. slogan cancel, to Millburn, New Jersey, one of an estimated 80–100 examples, and the first Special Delivery issue to have had FDCs created as such, fresh and very fine. (Sc. E12, $500 as FDC). (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
2377 cover   image1924 (July 2), registered naval cover from U.S.S. California to Los Angeles, California, on the printed stationery of the Bank of Italy, Los Angeles Branch, franked with a single 12c brown-carmine Washington, tied by oval U.S.S. California c.d.s. (2 Jul), with violet Registered / No. 17 box handstamp, reverse with three U.S.S. California registered transit strikes (2 Jul) and Los Angeles registered arrival backstamp (8 Jul), very fine.

The U.S.S. California was serving as flagship of the Battle Fleet at the time this cover was mailed, the 12c franking correctly paying the 2c domestic letter rate plus the 10c registration fee. She was sunk at Pearl Harbor on 7 Dec 1941 by two torpedoes and a bomb, with the loss of 100 crew members. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction
2378 cover   image1925 (April 4), ½c Side Plate block of six on first day cover, Washington, D.C., 1½c Washington postal stationery cover, uprated with a ½c olive brown Nathan Hale issue, side plate block of six, tied by Washington, D.C. duplex cancel, no markings on reverse, a rare First Day Cover usage of this issue in plate block format. (Sc. 551). (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$40.00
Will close during Public Auction
2379 cover   image1927 (October 11), underpaid special delivery cover from Chicago to Louisenthal, Saar, franked with 2c Washington, 3c Lincoln, 10c Air Post, and 1922 10c Special Delivery tied by Chicago duplex, German express label affixed over scalloped violet Express handstamp, reverse with New York transit (11 Oct) and Louisenthal c.d.s. receiver (27 Oct), underpaid as the international special delivery fee should have been 20c, yet accepted and delivered with German express service as indicated by the label, some light creasing at corners, fine; a rare destination. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction
2380 cover   image1931 (January 3), pilot signed First Transatlantic Commercial Flight, New York-Paris, 1c Jefferson postal card from East Orange, New Jersey, via Bermuda to the Azores, outbound leg tied by East Orange, N.J. machine cancellation (3 Jan), onward leg franked with a Bermuda ½d green Ship adhesive tied by St. Georges, Bermuda c.d.s. (8 Jan), face with green illustrated cachets depicting pilots MacLaren and Mrs. Beryl Hart and their projected route, reverse with two Hamilton, Bermuda slogan machine marks (8 Jan) and typewritten message hand-signed by MacLaren (AAMC #1145), Bermuda stamp affixed slightly overtop of card, very fine.

MacLaren's signed message to publisher A. C. Roessler states that the final jump to Paris would be "easy"; the seaplane vanished over the Atlantic on 10 Jan 1931. This card was among the mail offloaded in Bermuda before the final takeoff. (Image 1) (Image 2)

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Currently...C$80.00
Will close during Public Auction

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