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The Krupnick Collection continued...

Wake Island
LotNo. Symbol CatNo. Lot Description
217 cover 1934-65 imageWake Island cover accumulation, 61 covers, 1934/1965, better cancels including U.S.S. Chaumont (six, 1934/1936), U.S.S. Trenton, U.S.S. Henderson (two including one Crosby cachet), U.S.S. Wright, U.S.S. Marvin H. McIntyre cachet 1945, also including 1941 cover to U.S.S. Sepulga, cover with Wake Fish cachets on front and large cachet on back, two WWII patriotics, rest 1946 or later including 1946 Navy Dept. legal sized penalty envelope to San Francisco, some Naval related, handful of postcards and post 1970 covers (not counted), Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 4 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $150-200
SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction
218 cover 1935-41 imageWake Island Group, 1935-41, two picture postcards and fourteen covers, picture postcards 1938 with #C21 to NJ and 1939 #C7 canceled at Guam & #C21 to Manila, covers with variety of "Mailed at Wake Island Pacific Ocean" in five lines and Gooney Birds cachets in a variety of colors including black, blue, magenta, couple with other cachets including Wake Fish, Midway Is. and FAM 14 cachets, some cachets applied multiple times or in combination with other cachets on the same cover including one cover with five different cachets, better including unique cachet "Via Clipper Ship from Alameda Calif." applied twice to May 18 1937 cover to Wake Is., FAM 14 cover from Guam to Hong Kong with Wake Is. cachet, cover with all three Wake Is. cachets in magenta, variety of rates including rare 30¢ rate paid by three 10¢ Monroe (#642) from Guam to Manila, Very Fine. (PDF for this Lot) (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $750.00
Will close during Public Auction
219 cover 1936-41 image6 Wake Island Crosby cacheted covers with different cachets, five have Honolulu cancels and one has a U.S.S. Henderson Wake Island duplex cancel, addressed to California or Seattle, four franked with US 20¢ or 25¢ Transport issues (1936-38) and two with Presidential issue frankings and the original multiple page letters from the same correspondence (1941) -- one dated Oct. 10, 1941 and reads in part, "…A bomber took off the other day and hit a coral head which rip the bottom off but nobody got hurt…" and the other is dated Nov. 12 that reads in part, "…The formation of the island is all made up of coral which is pretty bad if you cut yourself with it. Because it send poison through your body…", Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 0.8 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction
220 cover 1938-63 imageWake Island accumulation of interesting odds & ends, comprising postcard sent by Japanese Navy enlisted man stationed on Wake Island, two unused Japanese propaganda picture postcards showing Japanese soldier putting American captives on a transport truck, three QSL cards, unused c. 1970's (Transocean Airlines) and used 1960 & 1963 Pan Am "Information Folders", 16 x 12 inch blueprint style survey with depths, and eight covers including four during the first week of December 1941 including one Dec. 5 with cachet from Ray Hanson (who would very soon be captured and taken prisoner by the Japanese), two 1938 cacheted covers both with pair of 20¢ Clipper (#C21) to mainland US, two 1941 legal sized Clipper flown Navy Dept. Penalty envelopes addressed to the Navy Yard at Pearl Harbor, one with strip of three 10¢ Remington (#888) paying the scarce unpublished 15¢ rate per 1/2 oz. tied by "U.S.S. William Ward Burrows Jan. 15 1940 Wake Island" duplex cancel and other wtih 15¢ Prexy wtih "Navy Department Army Barracks, First Defense Battalion FMF Wake Island Official Business" handstamp corner card, an eclectic group, the last one illustrated in Jon Krupnick's "Pan American's Pacific Pioneers The Rest of the Story" p. 423, Very Fine. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $150-200
SOLD for $950.00
Will close during Public Auction
221 cover 1940.09.26 imageWake Island Fish cacheted in blue on legal sized cover, prepared by G. Byers of the Navy Survey Party at Wake, probably to his mother in Oakland, franked with 15¢ & 20¢ Prexies (#820 & 825) tied by a "Honolulu Hawaii Sep. 26, 1940" slogan cancel,blue "Mailed at / Wake Island / Pacific Ocean" three line handstamp at top center, blue "Mailed at Wake Island / Pan American Airways System" handstamp cachet on reverse; slightly reduced at left, still Very Fine. (Image)

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Estimate $100-150
SOLD for $160.00
Will close during Public Auction
222 cover 1940.10.17 imageFAM14 with Wake Island Local, 1940, pair of Prexies pay the rate from Wake Island through Hawaii and on to the Mainland, has both 50mm circular PAA Wake rubber stamp in aqua as well a pair of the scarcer fish cachets, most unusual is a Wake Island Local Post applied Oct 15th, the Local is tied by both the Wake cachet and two days later by a Honolulu duplex, includes a relatively recent letter from family of addressee to the consignor, extrordinary, Fine to Very Fine. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $200-300
SOLD for $700.00
Will close during Public Auction
223 cover 1941 imageWake Island, four rare 1941 legal sized covers from contractors, with 15¢ and 30¢ postage paying the scarce unpublished 15¢ per half oz. rate, frankings including two with two 15¢ Map (#C8), one with 2¢ & 3¢ Prexy & 10¢ Map (#806, 807, C7) and one with 7¢ & 8¢ Prexy (#812 & 813), the covers are addressed to the Officer in Charge / Contract Noy-4173 at Pearl Harbor (similar to the one pictured in Ken Lawrence's articles in the March 2016 American Philatelist (pages 274-296) and the July 2017 US Specialist, plus two different Crosby cacheted covers to the mainland, a September 1935 entire with its original letter to Wake Island and two additional covers from Wake Island, Very Fine. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $300-400
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction
224 cover 1941.11.12 imageWake Island, two correspondences, Hudson C. Sutherland and Ray Hanson -- consisting of eight and two covers sent to them, respectively, on Wake Island between Nov. 12 and Dec. 5, 1941 that received a violet pointed hand return to sender marking (two different types) and April 20 or 22, 1942 backstamps, the delay in delivery was due to an interruption of service due to the Japanese attacks on Pearl Harbor and Wake Island on Dec. 7 or 8 1941, resulting in the Japanese capture of Wake Island on Dec. 23, also including nine covers sent by Sutherland mostly to his wife between Oct. 14 and Dec. 27, 1941, and 21 covers by Hanson to his wife and children between April 30 and Nov. 1 1941, the Sutherland covers do not have letters but most of the Hanson covers do (and there are a couple of extra letters without covers), the Hanson covers are in very mixed condition but there is one with a unique cachet, one with a U.S.S. Regulus cancel (rest Honolulu) and a wide variety of frankings, Hanson was a contractor in "Camp #2", Fine lot. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.2 lbs. (PDF for this Lot) (Image)

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Estimate $150-200
SOLD for $400.00
Will close during Public Auction
225 cover 1966.11.18 image"Wake Island Nov. 18 - PM 1966 Fight T.B. / Support your TB Association", machine slogan cancel ties 3¢ Liberty & 6¢ Airmail (#1035 & C67) on picture postcard of "Trans International" jet in flight addressed to Seattle, Very Fine, according to Bob Murphy's book, there are only two known examples of this machine cancel. (Image) (Image2)

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Estimate $75-100
SOLD for $80.00
Will close during Public Auction

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