1845 5c Washington Postmaster's Provisional Sperati Forgery, a rare stamp with four large margins and "ACM" initials in red, tied to small piece by two forged "PAID" cancels in red plus small "Copie" handstamp (with second strike on back). The piece is also signed "Jean de Sperati" in pencil
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1847 5c and 10c Imperforate Issues, both used with grid cancels in red, fresh and fine.
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Group of 5 Different Mint Columbia Exposition Issues, with a 1c (NH but very slightly disturbed gum), 2c (NH) plus 8c, 10c and 30c, each with gum disturbances. The 8c has an adherence at upper right corner, else a mostly very fine group.
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Group of 8 Used Columbia Exposition Issues, with 1c, 2c (two different shades, one has a straight edge), 4c, 5c (vertical crease), 8c (one straight edge), 10c and $1 (with J.F. Brun expert handstamp). Overall fine, the 10c is accompanied by a 2002 APS certificate.
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1901 1c to 10c Pan-American Exposition Set, all mint, the 1c has a plate tab at bottom (NH but short gum, so catalogued as hinged), 2c and 10c are hinged, rest are NH and overall fine to very fine.
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1873 1c to 90c Green State Department Set, used, except for mint hinged #s O58, 59, 60, 64 and 66, overall fine. Accompanied by a set of four high value forgeries of the same set (not counted in c.v.).
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Mint and Used Hawaii Collection on a Double Sided Stock Sheet, starts off with early issues such as used #s 5 (c.v. $1,900), 6 ($1,700), 15 (unused, $650), 21 ($700), 28 ($325), 32 (mint, $175) 69 (mint, $350), and more. There is a mix of mint hinged, unused (no gum) and used, and we noted fa
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Accumulation of Several Thousand United States Private Perfins, in roughly 900 glassines, with each glassine organized alphabetically. We note many different patterns, with each glassine holding 3 to 5 stamps per type on average. A spot check indicates the majority of stamps range from post-1
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Collection of Mint United States Back of the Book Issues, the Airmails start off with C1 (x2), C2 (x2, incl. a PF graded cert), C3, and pretty much complete from there to the end (no #C13-15), in 2011, with duplication of some of the early issues, sometimes in the form of a block of four or b
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Dealer Stock of Mint and Never Hinged United States, 1920s-1996, consisting of a few thousand stamps in 5 stockbooks, with singles, blocks (including many plate blocks), panes and sheetlets. We note a few better sets including Scott #s: 658-668 Kansas overprints (m.h., c.v. $216 total), 669-6
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Collection / Accumulation of United States Revenues in 16 Stock Pages, with an assortment of many hundreds of revenues, including Foreign Exchange, Conveyance, Manifest, Documentary, along with Proprietary, Stock Transfer, Silver Tax, Potato Tax, etc. A spot check indicated better stamps incl
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Several Collections of United States Back of the Book Material, consisting of many hundreds of mint and used stamps in several stock book pages. We note: Airmails, Postage Dues, United States Possessions, Special Delivery, Officials, United States Parcel Post, Special Handling, Confederate st
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Collection / Accumulation of Mint and Used United States, 1852-1938, consisting of many hundreds of stamps, along with a few covers, in three stockbooks. The lot begins with a stockbook of used early classics (including notations from the owner), including Scott #s 9, 11A (x11, c.v. $165 tota
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US and UN Collection in Springback Albums, the US consists of blocks and plate blocks from 1959 to 1970, mostly all mint and includes Airmails and four USPS mint set books from the 1980s. The UN is a mint NH collection from the 1950s o the 1980s. Overall very fine, a few UN stamps have toning
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Valuable Mint and Used Collection in a Stockbook, from the early imperforates to the 1940s, mostly used but includes some mint as well. We note many better items including #s 240-242, 292, 630 (pane of 25 is hinged in margin only), complete sets, back of the book, including plate proofs of #s
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Mint and Used United States and Area Collection, 1850s to 1960s, on Minkus pages with a high proportion of pre-cancels. This collection includes United States Scott #s 25 (c.v. used $190), 68 (used $60), 69 (used $95), 73 (used $65), 76 (used $125), 77 (used $175), 78 (used $400), 87 (used $2
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Valuable, Mostly Mint Collection, from Classics to the 1990s, in six nice and clean White Ace albums plus a mint sheet file. This large collection consists of used classics and becomes generally mint from about the year 1905. From about 1905 to the 1960s the collection is a mix of mint hinged
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Large United States Cover and Postage Lot, from Classics to 2019. This group includes two very large volumes of the Golden Replicas of United States Stamps with FDCs from 1993 to 1995, featuring gold-plated medallions of the stamp mounted inside each (140 pcs.). Also included are annual stamp
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Large Mint and Used United States Stock in Catalogue Order, 1920s to the 2000s in two medium-sized stockbooks plus over 50 stock pages, with much of the material with catalogue prices on chits made by the owner. This group is predominantly mint, with up to about six or eight of any given issu
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Accumulation of Roughly 2,000 United States Pre-Cancels, in glassines and envelopes, and generally sorted by state. The majority of stamps appear to range from the 1920s to the 1950s with better representation from Texas, Michigan, Massachusetts, Ohio, Pennsylvania, along some examples from N
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Collection / Accumulation of Mint and Used United States, 1851-2018, consisting of primarily used stamps pre-1930, with a mixture of mint and used up to the 1970s, with the strength of the collection being mint never hinge stamps from the 1980s onward. The collection begins with a mint used c
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Collection of About 175 Mint Plate Number Definitive Singles, 1917 to 1931, all displayed on six stock pages, appears to be mostly different plate numbers, but did see some light duplication. A random check of about 30 stamps revealed about half and half hinged and never hinged. Overall VG to
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Group of 185 Mint and Signed Hunting Permit Stamps, 1934-2003, in four double sided Vario-style pages. The lot is organized chronologically to roughly 1958 and note Scott #s: RW1 (x4, mint no gum, c.v. $700), RW2 (x9, 2 no gum, 7 signed, $1,470 total), RW3 (x6, 4 no gum, 2 signed, $560 total)
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