Worldwide Postal History and Postmarks continued...
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| 1201 |
CVR |
Switzerland |
 Switzerland Group of 140 Covers and Cards, includes covers, mourning covers, bag tags, stationery covers and cards and picture post cards, also noted a few registered, first day covers, and more. Frankings range from singles to
sets, including Pro Juventute issues, etc. Owner has priced them according to Zumstein at 1,470 Swiss franks (today $2,130 Canadian). A very nice lot, in overall very fine condition, save for a few small tears or creases. Scans only show a small
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Zumstein CHF 1,470
SOLD for C$275.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1202 |
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Tibet |
 Tibet
1909 Registered Stampless Cover to Kathmandu (Backstamp), with an ornate seal of the Kuti Court of Tibet on back, carried by runner to the Nepalese Post Office at Tatapani (manuscript backstamp). Has a bit of insect damage on the flap only, still
scarce and very fine. Ex. Kenneth Kershaw and Sparks Auctions Sale #10, June 2012, lot 1309. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 200
SOLD for C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1203 |
CVR |
Tibet |
 Tibet
1904 Registered Stampless Cover to Kathmandu (Backstamp), with an ornate seal of the Kerong Court in Tibet on back, cover was carried by runner to the Nepalese Post Office at Rasuwa (manuscript c.d.s. on back) partial Trisuli negative hand dated
transit back stamp. Some edge wear, still a nice routing and great strike of the Kerong seal. Ex. Kenneth Kershaw and Sparks Auctions Sale #10 June 2012, lot 1308. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 250
SOLD for C$60.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1204 |
PC |
Tristan da Cunha |
 Tristan
da Cunha to England, Circa 1905, a front of a U.P.U. reply card originally mailed from England, being returned there from Tristan da Cunha with the usual 3-ring handstamp, taxed on arrival with a 1d handstamp, very fine and scarce.
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Est $ 100
SOLD for C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1205 |
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Tristan da Cunha |
 Tristan
da Cunha Group of Two Covers, 1962-63, first has a cachet XI on blue envelope franked with South Africa #194 from Volcanic Exploratory Expedition, per S.S. Transvaal, with additional Cape Town FEB.7.1962 Paquebot c.d.s.. Second with cachet XII on
stampless cover to England with octagonal postage due marking, obliterated several times with a killer. There is an additional Cape Town MAY.14.1963 Paquebot c.d.s. and "M.V. Boissevan" straightline at bottom left. This represents a rare,
non-philatelic usage from the "return to the island" period. A very fine duo. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 100
SOLD for C$20.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1206 |
CVR |
United Nations |
 United
Nations Group of 66 Large Size First Day Covers, from 1992-97 with a catalogue value as used stamps of $735. Also includes another 35 smaller, mostly first day covers. Very fine.
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Est $ 100
SOLD for C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1207 |
CVR |
United States |
 United
States Group of 9 Better Covers, includes the outer page of a stampless folded letter from New York (FEB.23.1858) to Paris France, a #68 on an 1868 Trans-Atlantic cover to Germany via Bremen, a #115 on an 1869 cover to Nova Scotia with "Yarmouth
N.S. / Domn of Canada" backstamp (cover trimmed at right, stamp cats $240 for used). Also a cut down US SCATDTA cover with #2 EU overprint stamps for use in the United States, mailed in New York JUN.24.1925. An APO 721 US Forces in the Cook Islands
1943 cover (cat. in Forte and Helbock is $125). Also two return to sender / service suspended covers. A 1940 cover to France and a 1944 cover to Italy. Lastly two US first day covers, JUN.10.1927 #C10 cacheted cover (cat $175) on a cut down #10
envelope and a #1909, the $9.35 Express mail issue AUG.12.1983 issue on a Colorano silk cachet cover (cat. $210). Except where noted, overall fine to very fine group. (Scan
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Est $ 300
SOLD for C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1208 |
CVR |
United States |
 United
States Group of 13 Incoming Ship Letters, 1824-1871, includes two Charleston, SC ship letters, one from Cuba and the other from Mexico going to Philadelphia. Also one folded letter from Argentina and two more from Cuba to New York. The other
eight are all from Great Britain, with 4 to New York, 2 to Philadelphia and 2 to Boston. Good variety of handstamps and manuscript markings. Some with extra folds, creases or stains still overall fine-very fine. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 250
SOLD for C$225.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1209 |
CVR |
United States |
 United
States 1867 10c Washington on Cover to Nova Scotia, mailed from Philadelphia, PA on JAN.16.1867 to Wallace, Nova Scotia, through Amherst (JAN.26), Pugwash, then arrived in Wallace on JAN.28.The cover is franked with a 10c yellow green Washington
(Scott #68) and the backflap has an embossed advertizing for "A. & R. Armstrong / Tobacco / Commission Merchants / 51 South Front St. / Philadelphia". A few small tears on backflap do not detract, very fine. From the same newly discovered family
correspondence as the cover in our British Columbia postal history section. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 150
SOLD for C$90.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1210 |
CVR |
United States |
 United
States Group of 75 Royal Train 1939 Covers, all displayed in a cover album, with an excellent array of better cachets, including three different rare L.W. Staehle cacheted covers. Other cachets by W. Crosby, A. Felice, Ioor, etc., and we note
varieties or variations of some cachets. Very fine and seldom offered. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 750
SOLD for C$400.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1211 |
CVR |
United States |
 United
States Group of 8 Different APOs in Canada Alaska Highway Opening Covers, all with almost identical handpainted cachets. Includes 2 covers from US Army Postal Service Seattle SEP.23.1943 to APOs 722 (Edmonton) and 724 (along the Alaska Highway).
Both have SEP.26 receivers. Also a SEP.22 APO 722 cover and a SEP.23 APO 724 cover, both to Seattle, with SEP.26 receivers. Also a NOV.27 APO 722 cover to APO 938 (Fairbanks Alaska) received DEC.2, a DEC.1 Seattle cover to APO 938 received DEC.2, and
two DEC.2 APO 938 covers to APO722 (received DEC.8) and to Seattle (rec'd DEC.4). Set of covers were all sent under a separate cover to George Herring, the Chief Superintendent of land and Air Mail Services at the Ottawa Post Office Department. One
cover has a paperclip rust stain and others show some level of envelope glue staining, else a very fine group, all from the Herring estate. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 200
SOLD for C$110.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1212 |
CVR |
United States |
 United
States Group of 6 Different APOs in Canada Alaska Highway Opening Covers, all with almost identical handpainted cachets. Includes 2 covers from US Army postal Services Seattle to APO 722 (Edmonton) and APO 724 (along Alaska Highway) received
SEP.26 and SEP.28. Also a SEP.22 APO 722 cover to Seattle and a SEP.23 APO 724 cover to Seattle, both received SEP.26. Final 2 covers are both from APO 938 (Fairbanks Alaska) to APO 722, received DEC.8 and to Seattle received DEC.4. Covers were all
sent under a separate cover to George Herring, the Chief Superintendent of Land and Air Mail Services of the Ottawa Post Office Department. Some minor creases top left from a paper clip, and some envelope glue staining, otherwise a very fine and
scarce group. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 150
SOLD for C$30.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1213 |
CVR |
United States |
 United
States Lot of First Day Covers, consisting of approximately 500 covers from the 1950s to the late 1970s, filling one small carton. We noted a quantity of United Nations issues as well as some duplication up to 8 of each for some. Also included
are commercially used covers from the U.S. and Canada, as well as a group of approximately 60 Canada first day covers in various sizes (1970s to 1980s) and miscellaneous ephemera. Clean lot. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 100
SOLD for C$110.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1214 |
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United States |
 United
States Old Time Collection of Postal Stationery, all mounted on pages long ago, with a large range of material including 2 early covers and hundreds of cut squares. One of the covers was mailed to Cuba and re-directed in 1881, the cut squares are
totally unchecked by us, see scans for an overview, as many are identified by catalogue number and a few are priced as well. A nice collection to expand upon, or to add to an existing collection. Also includes a page full of various tobacco stamps.
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Est $ 200
SOLD for C$70.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1215 |
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United States |
 United
States Group of 50 Bank Tags, Mostly 1958 to 1962, with a good variety of high denomination frankings, mostly registered, overall very fine, see photo for an idea
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Est $ 100
SOLD for C$50.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1216 |
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Worldwide |
 Worldwide Group of 4 Better Items, with a Venezuela #45 on the picture side of a post card to the USA, with manuscript cancel (Scott $200 on cover). Also a 1942 Brazil cover to California with a Type C1.1.4 censor handstamp (cat.
500 PTS, very, very scarce in Broderick) missing its backlflap. A 1937 Costa Rica air mail cover to Germany (cut down at top) and a 1930 Belgian Congo registered air mail cover to England (vertical fold and other minor faults). A scarce group. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 100
SOLD for C$30.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1217 |
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Worldwide |
 Worldwide Group of 5 "O.A.T." and "A.V.2" Handstamped Covers, 1945-1951, with a 1945 air letter from Kenya to Canada, a 1945 cover from Switzerland to Canada and what appears to be a 1948 cover from Palestine to the USA, all with
O.A.T. handstamps applied in London. Also two Tripolitania covers from 1949 and 1951 with A.V.2 handstamps applied in Tripoli, one to Canada and one to the USA. Vertical folds on the Swiss and Palestine covers, minor edge faults faults on others. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 200
SOLD for C$150.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1218 |
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Worldwide |
 Worldwide Lot of 2,000 Covers, FDCs, and Post Cards, all neatly sorted in two 29 inch cardboard file drawers. One contains mostly Switzerland FDC, covers and early post cards (many are in priced sleeves), Hungary FDC plus covers
with lots of souvenir sheets and one complete imperforate set, and United States. The second contains Canada FDC with a wide variety of private cachet makers, noting JCL cover with $1 Fish, China FDC and British Africa sets of FDC. Viewing is
recommended to better appreciate this one.
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Est $ 400
SOLD for C$475.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1219 |
CVR |
Worldwide |
 Worldwide Group of 200 Better Covers and First Day Covers, all in a deluxe cover album with slipcase, an excellent assortment from many different countries, with better frankings, FDC cachets, etc, too many interesting items to
enumerate here. This lot also has a good assortment of various Europa issue FDC, many examples can be seen in our online scans. Overall very fine with a few minor faults.
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Est $ 250
SOLD for C$275.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1220 |
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Worldwide |
 Worldwide Assortment of About 130 Covers and Post Cards, from a variety of countries but mostly from Canada, includes stationery, picture postcards, note some Admiral C.O.D. cards, meter postage (including advertising meters). Also
includes a further 145 early Dutch picture post cards, many with large double circle datestamps and a very nice variety of picture subjects. (Scan 1)
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Est $ 150
SOLD for C$300.00
Will close during Public Auction |
