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Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1263
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Bridges, stamp and postal history topical collection, assembled over many years by a dedicated collector, neatly arranged and generally in excellent condition, the postcards predominantly post-1960s, with earlier examples noted, and stamps are largely mint unused with some used stamps from the same issues, overall a sizeable 13-volume holding occupying two cartons, of which 11 volumes contain bridge postcards, organised by country and by structural type, including covered bridges and suspension bridges, with a total of approximately 500 cards, further supplemented by about 400 additional postcards grouped in bundles; offered with two volumes of stamps and covers relating to bridges, neatly organised by country, providing strong supporting material across both philatelic and deltiological formats, mostly fine-very fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate $ 150
Opening C$ 90.00
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Communications
Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1264
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Cat No: Collection
Communications, extensive exhibit collection, 18th century to 2000s, entitled "The Medium is the Message", comprising thousands of items from more than 30 countries, including stamps, souvenir sheets, documents, covers (commercial and FDC), and ephemeral material, covering spoken word, non-verbal signals, the printed word, newspapers, Braille, and electronic communications, all in binders containing researched, written-up pages telling the story of human communication from the ages to modern times and four additional stock books of material to continue the project overall fine or better and sure to provide many days of fun for the exhibitor or topical collector, with examination of our online images encouraged to best appreciate the diversity and extensive treatment of this subject. (Image1)
Estimate $ 500
Opening C$ 250.00
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Firefighting
Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1265
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Firefighting and Fire Protection, topical collection in one carton, comprising three annotated volumes of stamps and covers, one volume of approximately 60 postcards depicting firemen and equipment, and four volumes of illustrated advertising or corner card covers featuring fire trucks, insurance companies, and municipal fire departments, supplemented by a stockbook of duplicates and approximately 70 used Canadian #10 envelopes with fire-related corner cards, with stamps being largely mint and postcards predominantly post-1960s, all neatly arranged and mostly very fine, a charming collection. (Image1)
Estimate $ 150
Opening C$ 80.00
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Lighthouses
Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1266
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Cat No: Collection
Lighthouses, Australia & New Zealand collection, comprising a sizeable holding housed in one carton across ten volumes, featuring seven volumes of stamps and covers alongside three volumes of postcards; the stamp material includes one volume of Australian stamps and ephemera, a mixed Australia and New Zealand volume, and a specialized volume of New Zealand issues (1880s–1980s) all used and neatly mounted on quadrilled pages, complemented by a stockbook of collector’s duplicates. The postcard section consists of two binders of Australian and one binder of New Zealand lighthouse cards, which are predominantly post-1960s but include some earlier examples, while the stamps are mainly mint unused with some used counterparts; the entire collection was assembled over many years with a focus on excellent quality and remains in fine or better condition throughout. (Image1)
Estimate $ 200
Opening C$ 100.00
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Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1267
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Lighthouses, Caribbean & Latin American topical collection, neatly arranged across six volumes and generally very fine throughout, the postcards predominantly post-1960s, with some earlier examples noted, the stamps are mainly mint, with some used examples noted, four volumes comprise stamps and covers with the balance being postcards all organised by country, together showing a broad range of lighthouse-related material, including complete booklets, mint and used stamps, first day covers, stamps on cover, slogan cancels, and commercial postal usages, with strength noted in Barbados, Bermuda, Cuba, Greenland, Iceland, Saint Pierre & Miquelon, Mexico, and Uruguay, overall quite fresh and fine-very fine. (Image1)
Estimate $ 50
Opening C$ 50.00
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Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1268
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Lighthouses, German stamp, postcard, and postal history collection, comprising two volumes of mostly mint stamps, labels, cinderellas, postmarks, booklet panes, and illustrated meter cancels with strong DDR coverage, alongside two volumes containing approximately 250 postcards featuring a wide representation of German coastal views, all neatly arranged and in generally fine or better. (Image1)
Estimate $ 100
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Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1269
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Cat No: Collection
Lighthouses, Great Britain stamp and postcard collection in two cartons, comprising 15 volumes with eight dedicated to postcards and seven to stamps and covers, including specialized volumes for Great Britain, Ireland, the Isle of Man, Jersey (featuring German Occupation issues), and Guernsey, with a broad array of PHQ cards, FDCs, presentation packs, aerogrammes, and slogan cancels alongside eight binders of country-organized postcards featuring many earlier examples, all neatly arranged in fine or better condition. (Image1)
Estimate $ 100
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Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1270
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Lighthouses, Middle East and Africa topical collection in one carton, comprising nine volumes with seven dedicated to an organized and well-annotated collection of stamps and covers showing particular strength in Israel, Japan, Malaysia, South Africa, and Syria, alongside two volumes of postcards featuring lighthouse views and early pre-1939 material with a focus on Egypt and South Africa, all neatly arranged in fine or better condition. (Image1)
Estimate $ 100
Opening C$ 50.00
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Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1271
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Cat No: Collection
Lighthouses, United States topical collection in two cartons, comprising 18 binders of approximately 2,300 postcards systematically organized by region including the Great Lakes and Gulf of Mexico, alongside two additional volumes of stamps and covers featuring relevant thematic issues, duck stamps, and cinderellas, with stamps largely mint unused and postcards predominantly post-1960s, all neatly arranged in fine or better condition, an extensive and impressive collection. (Image1)
Estimate $ 200
Opening C$ 100.00
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Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1272
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Lighthouses, Western Europe topical collection, in one carton, comprising 12 volumes with seven dedicated to stamps and covers and five containing over 400 postcards, featuring specialized French material with mint and used sets, FDCs, and slogan cancels; a Scandinavia volume covering Sweden, Denmark, Åland, Finland, Faroe Islands, and Norway; a broad European volume spanning Greece, Italy, Vatican City, Spain, Portugal, Cape Verde, Gibraltar, Malta, Cyprus, Netherlands, and Belgium; and five binders of postcards representing diverse coastal views from across the continent, all neatly arranged in fine or better condition. (Image1)
Estimate $ 50
Opening C$ 50.00
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Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1273
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Cat No: Collection
Lighthouses, balance of topical collection in one carton, comprising the balance of a large specialized holding featuring three volumes of lighthouse stamps and covers from the Baltic States, Russia, and Poland, alongside one volume and a shoebox of approximately 300 bundled postcards from various countries; the lot is further bolstered by four stockbooks of worldwide and lighthouse duplicates, providing significant potential for sorting and expansion, rendered a most eclectic assembly by the inclusion of a charming two-volume topical collection of hedgehogs featuring stamps, covers, and a total of 45 additional postcards, slightly mixed condition, generally fine-very fine. (Image1)
Estimate $ 100
Opening C$ 50.00
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Medical & Dental
Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1274
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Cat No: Collection
Optometry and Dental, 1880s–1990s, topical collection primarily of postal history, featuring a substantial dental section with hundreds of advertising covers, postmarks, and machine cancels, alongside a smaller optometric collection of stamps and covers including a notable block of four of Canada's "Weeping Princess" variety, two thematic areas not often encountered, all in fine or better condition and ideal for continuation. (Image1)
Estimate $ 400
Opening C$ 200.00
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Owls
Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1275
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Cat No: Collection
Owls, 1890s–1990s, award-winning international-level exhibit and collection, comprising four frames of National and International exhibition pages plus significant supplementary material featuring thousands of stamps, covers, postmarks, and cachets, with a sophisticated range of items from proofs and specimens to booklets and specialized machine cancels, accompanied by a box of additional covers and a large file of research material for future expansion, very well presented and in fine to very fine condition, a lovely and thoughtfully-prepared exhibit with tremendous visual appeal, ideal for expansion; ex Charlotte Verge. (Image1)
Estimate $ 300
Opening C$ 150.00
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Shakespeare
Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1276
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Shakespeare, 1790s to modern, stamp & postal history accumulation, comprising upwards of one hundred covers together with dozens of related stamps, a balanced mix of commercial and philatelic material including first day covers, philatelic exhibition covers, Shakespeare Festival and quotation slogan cancellations, and 1815 British indenture, special event cancels, material linked to actors in Shakespearean productions, air letters, letter cards, paquebot and censored mail, advertising and “Dear Doctor” usages, and several dozen postcards depicting Stratford and Shakespearean productions, the geographical scope wide-ranging with material from Paraguay, Great Britain, Greece, Curaçao, Bechuanaland, France, Italy, the United States, Canada, Sierra Leone, Ghana, Dominica, Hungary, Germany, Montserrat and the Virgin Islands, though predominantly of Canadian, United States and British origin, accompanied by useful reference material including philatelic journal extracts and works such as The Philatelic Shakespeare by Albert Spencer, Theatre Philatelic by Shiffler, and Who’s Who and What’s What in Shakespeare by O’Connor, online images provide a representative sample, overall fine to very fine, an engaging and well-rounded holding ideal for expansion by the Shakespeare enthusiast. (Image1)
Estimate $ 200
Opening C$ 100.00
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Topicals (Mixed)
Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1277
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Cat No: Collection
Various topical collections, 1857/1990s, smaller holdings of philatelic material on a trio of subjects, comprising painter Henri Toulouse-Lautrec, polymath Dr. Albert Schweitzer and place names including "Ottawa" or "Ontario", with both mint and used stamps, souvenir sheets, booklets, commercial and commemorative covers, ephemera and articles about these subjects from numerous countries, noting an early (1857) postmarked City of Ottawa cover from The Ottawa Citizen, an interesting group from which to continue collecting, overall fine to very fine. (Image1)
Estimate $ 200
Opening C$ 100.00
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Waterskiing
Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1278
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Cat No: Collection
Waterskiing, 1960s/1980s, mint and used collection, on stock pages in two binders, an engaging thematic group featuring imperforate issues, multiples, plate blocks, plate proofs and progressive die proofs, together with First Day Covers, maximum cards, meter slogans, event covers, commercial usages, cinderellas and poster stamps, with notable strength in France and French Polynesia, Afar & Issas, Greece, Grenada, St. Vincent, Israel, Jordan, and Lebanon, among others, some duplication as expected, overall fine or better, and an excellent foundation for developing a topical exhibit of this visually appealing theme. (Image1)
Estimate $ 600
Opening C$ 475.00
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Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1279
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Waterskiing, 1963/2008, proofs and specialised topical group, an engaging selection drawn from a waterskiing exhibit, beginning with France’s 1963 30c World Waterskiing Championships issue including the signed artist’s proof by designer-engraver Pierre Gandon, a deluxe proof, an imperforate margin block of four, an imperforate strip of five showing trial colours, complemented by French Polynesia 1971 deluxe proofs comprising the 10f–40f three-stamp composite and a separate 40f proof, as well as stamps and covers from San Marino (1971), Luxembourg (1975), Italy (1981), Cyprus (1993), and the People’s Republic of China (2008), overall fine-very fine or better, and an attractive specialised holding of many attractive items. (Image1)
Estimate $ 200
Opening C$ 140.00
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Windmills & Water
Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1280
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Cat No: Collection
Windmills, Water Wheels, and Water Towers, topical collection in one carton, comprising eight volumes and two stockbooks featuring approximately 280 windmill postcards, two volumes of water wheel postcards and covers, and a specialized volume of water tower postcards and covers, complemented by a range of predominantly mint unused stamps with occasional used examples, all neatly organized over many years in generally fine or better condition. (Image1)
Estimate $ 150
Opening C$ 60.00
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Zeppelins
Sale No: 55
Lot No: 1281
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Zeppelin and Early Flight, 1962–1980, extensive topical collection, housed in six Lindner Zeppelin specialty albums within a single box; this broad-ranging holding features a vast array of stamp sets including regular, semi-postal, airmail, and local post issues, alongside numerous souvenir sheets and a substantial group of cacheted event covers, first day covers, and anniversary covers, further enriched by thematic postcards and aerogrammes with representation spanning a wide global array of countries such as Germany, the United States, Russia, Italy, Japan, Hungary, and Czechoslovakia, as well as various Commonwealth and international territories from Antigua & Barbuda to Wallis & Futuna, tremendous visual appeal, and comprehensive assembly offering significant variety for the aerophilately specialist. (Image1)
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