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Switzerland
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
481 CVR   imageSwitzerland, 1840s/1970s, cover collection and accumulation, comprising about 420 items with strong post-WWII content, housed in two well-filled albums and spanning the stampless period through the 1970s, the material overwhelmingly commercial or personal correspondences, offering a cross-section of Swiss postal usage over more than a century; the first volume opening with three attractive stampless folded letters with contents from Basel, Zürich and Lenzburg, followed by covers bearing Standing Helvetia, Numeral, Tell and Crossbow definitives with a wide range of mixed and multiple frankings including foreign destinations, while the second volume shows strong representation of 1930s commemoratives, particularly registered and express combinations with high-value frankings, together with generous coverage of 1940s–1960s definitives grouped by issue, many covers addressed abroad to the United States, Western Europe and Australia, generally fine to very fine with typical handling on earlier items, a substantial and genuinely commercial accumulation. (Video) (Video 2) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for C$325.00
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482 CVR   imageSwitzerland, 1840s/1970s, cover and postal stationery collection and accumulation comprising about 300 items with strong semi-postal and Pro Juventute usages, housed in two overfilled albums and spanning the stampless period to the 1970s, the material overwhelmingly commercial and personal correspondences and thus an authentic representation of Swiss postal history; the first volume beginning with four stampless folded letters with contents from Geneva, Lausanne, Zürich and Unterseen, followed by a substantial run of early postal stationery covers and cards, many uprated for foreign destinations, and an excellent section of Pro Juventute postal cards including tête-bêche frankings, private charity labels, postage dues and airmail usages, together with strong semi-postals from the first 1913 issue (some with minor toning) through the 1940s illustrating evolving charity-issue usage on genuine mail, the volume closing with a diverse group of scenic and commemorative postcards; the second volume continuing with additional uprated postal stationery cards and wrappers, selected Official “Service” overprints and a notable group of multiply-franked parcel post cards showing varied rate combinations and less common destinations; condition fine to very fine with occasional light handling on earlier items, an engaging Swiss accumulation, and a natural companion to the larger Switzerland grouping also offered in this sale. (Video) (Video 2) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for C$250.00
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United States
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
483 CVR   imageUnited States, 1850s/1940s, postal stationery collection and accumulation comprising over 500 items in three stockbooks, showing envelopes, letter sheets, cards and wrappers with a strong predominance of 19th-century material and a smaller post-WWII tail, many uprated with adhesives and bearing interesting cancellations with a good proportion addressed overseas to Europe and Latin America alongside domestic uses; Volume 1 includes envelopes beginning with a Nesbitt entire and continuing through early Franklin and Washington 1c/2c/3c (and some 5c) issues, 2c Grant letter sheets and a solid range of Columbian entires (1c–5c), together with a notable group of ca.1915 5c Washington entires to Oruro, Bolivia each struck with Quickest Way instructional handstamp, an appealing postal-history vignette; Volume 2 comprises wrappers including early types, oversize stationery, selected Post Office/Official envelopes and Airmail stationery usages; and Volume 3 devoted to postal stationery cards from UX1 into the 1930s, reply cards and unused items, many showing advertising backs and numerous examples uprated for foreign destinations, condition generally sound with scattered edge wear and toning typical of a lot of this size and age, ideal for the collector seeking depth by type and usage or for dealer breakdown. (Video) (Video 2) (Video 3) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for C$400.00
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484 CVR   imageUnited States, early 1900s/1930s, military postcard collection, comprising over 250 items, showing a wide range of real photo cards, battle scenes, air and troop manoeuvres (“drops”), naval and transport ships, and military marches, noting numerous WWI A.E.F. censored cards from American soldiers in France together with a smaller group depicting German troops, as well as extensive representation of U.S. barracks and training camps including Camp Dix, Camp David S. Stanley, Camp Jackson, Camp Grant, Camp Merritt, Camp Stuart, Camp Doniphan and others, often with matching camp postmarks, plus YMCA and Red Cross issues and various patriotic and comic themes, the cards predominantly black and white with some colour lithographed examples, used and unused, condition generally sound with expected minor wear in places, a large and historically interesting lot and a useful study of U.S. military life and iconography from the early 20th century to the eve of the Second World War. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for C$750.00
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485 CVR   imageUnited States, 1830s/1840s, New York State stampless folded letter collection, alphabetically arranged by town, comprising over 100 items, showing a cohesive statewide study with each letter originating from a different New York town (explicitly excluding New York City), most retaining contents and displaying a wide range of dated circular datestamps, PAID and FREE handstamps, manuscript and hand-stamped rate markings, and manuscript office notations including several postmaster signatures, with strikes in black, red and blue, noting representative origins across the Hudson, Mohawk and Erie Canal corridors and the northern and western areas including Angelica, Auburn, Aurora, Batavia, Buffalo (distinct blue oval), Catskill, Chateaugay, Coxsackie, Geneva, Greenbush (Rensselaer), Homer, Lewiston, Lockport, Malone, Mohawk, New Rochelle, Owego, Oxford, Penn Yan, Phoenix, Piermont, Port Byron, Port Chester, Rushville, Saugerties, Sherburne, Union Springs, Waterloo, West Falls and White Plains among many others, with manuscript townmarks and small-office strikes providing further contrast, condition typical for the period with generally clear strikes and the preserved letters providing potential further research interest, an unusually broad and well-structured survey of New York State stampless mail and a useful foundation for rate, route or county studies. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for C$600.00
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486 CVR   imageUnited States, 1840s/2000s, large eclectic cover accumulation, comprising over 250 items in three albums, showing material from the stampless period through modern issues with numerous annotated display pages, noting in Volume 1 twenty-four stampless folded letters with PAID, FREE and rate markings and dated town datestamps from Boston, New York, Westchester PA, Lancaster PA, Rochester NY, Richmond VA, Detroit, Taunton MS and others, followed by twenty-five 3c Washington frankings of the 1850s–60s (imperf/perf types), then Bank Note, Bureau and later definitives into the 1930s including many foreign-destination covers and uncommon frankings such as uprated postal stationery cards, as well as Volume 2 material comprising meter-mail cut-outs and covers, uprated Official and Post Office penalty mail, airmail, censored and USS naval usages, First Flights, V-Mail, signed U.S. Congress covers, railway and special-event items, Endangered Species postal cards and a range of multi-franked routes with auxiliary markings, together with Volume 3 featuring two 10¢ Revenues on Phenix Fire Insurance documents, a substantial selection of Special Delivery covers, postage due usages on cards and covers, early Christmas seals and further 20th-century postal history, condition generally fine with typical mixed examples for a group of this breadth and helpful annotations throughout. (Video) (Video 2) (Video 3) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for C$1,000.00
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487 CVR   imageUnited States, 1920s/2000s, first flight, airmail and FDC collection comprising over 230 items, housed in two albums and with the great majority of material dated before 1950, the first volume containing 137 first flight covers from the 1920s including numerous CAM and FAM routes, international services, airport dedications, commemorative and meeting-related flights, several Lindbergh-themed items and a small group of early helicopter and space-related covers, while the second volume holds 96 cacheted airmail-stamp First Day Covers beginning with the 30c Winged Globe and continuing through later airmail issues into the 2000s, including an 80c Hawaii single on FDC and a block of four on FDC, with minimal duplication largely confined to differing cachets, generally superior condition throughout, all items clean, sound and fault-free, an impressive and wide-ranging assembly of U.S. first flight and airmail material. (Video) (Video 2) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for C$250.00
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488 CVR   imageUnited States, 1908/1960s, Christmas Seals postal history collection, comprising over 100 items, showing predominantly postcards with some covers housed attractively in a Lighthouse album with slipcase, noting material ranging from WX3 (two examples), WX5 and WX6 through to WX235, including numerous pre-1940 seals all neatly tied on postcards or covers, several items accompanied by original purchase receipts indicating individual prices of $10–$20 or higher, a fresh and very fine thematic lot of notable appeal and seldom encountered in such depth, ideal for the specialist collector; video available online. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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SOLD for C$425.00
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489 CVR   imageUnited States, 1850s/1930s, cover collection comprising just over 100 items, showing a well-composed range from classic 3c Washington issues through Air Post and First Flights, noting eight 3c Washingtons of the 1850s (imperf/perf, Type A10), five 3c Washingtons of the 1860s, a 3c 1869 Locomotive usage and several Bank Note frankings including a distinctive blue Meridian N.Y. cancellation and a bold FORWARDED handstamp, as well as strong 1920s/1930s material with numerous 2c Harding franking, with booklet singles, imperforates and varied usages including registered, advertising, mourning (President Harding) and uprated postal stationery, together with a 1926 First United States Overland Flight cover signed by Alan Cobham, and an airmail section featuring about thirty First Flight covers with 5¢ Beacon issues including the “Open Door” variety, three Special Delivery combinations, two “TOP” upper-margin imprint frankings, and three USS Akron airship and two Lindbergh flight covers, condition generally fresh and fine to very fine. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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SOLD for C$250.00
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490 CVR   imageUnited States, 1910s/1930s, postal stationery exhibit collection, comprising over 90 items, showing Washington circular embossed issues from ½c to 6c together with selected 1c Franklin stationery, mounted on homemade exhibit pages written in French, noting numerous uprated examples to European destinations on coloured papers, wrappers, small envelopes and larger “102” format envelopes, many with pre-printed commercial corner cards, as well as WWI military usages, WWII censored covers, surcharge types, mint and unused examples, and registered or express mail, together with an appealing group of transatlantic covers bearing named-ship auxiliary handstamps with ship illustrations, plus first-flight covers, fancy cancels and other interesting usages, a thoughtfully assembled exhibit with considerable scope for continuation or expansion. (Video) (Image 1)

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SOLD for C$150.00
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Worldwide
LotNo. Symbol Cat No. Lot Description
491 CVR   imageAvis de Réception (AR), 1900s/2000s, postal history collection, comprising over 120 covers and AR-related forms,showing predominantly pre-1940s material arranged alphabetically by country in plastic pages within a large three-ring binder, noting early strength in Ceylon, India and the Malayan States with numerous registered envelopes, multiple frankings and a wide range of AR handstamps, as well as representation from British Commonwealth and worldwide areas including seldom-seen Andorra, Palestine, Algeria, Argentina, Costa Rica, France, various independent African states, Romania and others, together with United States examples completing the assembly, typical tropical toning present on many Southeast Asian covers with overall mixed condition and a few fronts included, a particularly interesting and seldom offered subject and a useful study for the knowledgeable collector or dealer seeking potential discoveries. (Video) (Image 1)

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SOLD for C$500.00
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492 CVR   imageWorldwide, 1890s/1940s, mint postal stationery collection in album, comprising over 400 items, showing postal stationery cards, envelopes, letter cards and wrappers across the principal formats of the period, noting a British Commonwealth section beginning with early Australian States and continuing through Canada, India, South Africa and the United Kingdom with additional representation from smaller territories such as Samoa and North Borneo, as well as a worldwide portion including Austria, Denmark, France and Colonies, Germany, Italy and Switzerland together with smaller groups from Japan, Liberia, Russia, Romania, Sweden and Tunisia, and a particularly strong section of Central and South America featuring early Mexico alongside Argentina, Bolivia, Brazil, Chile, Guatemala, Honduras, Nicaragua, Peru, El Salvador and Venezuela, many items showing ornate typographic, lithographic or engraved designs typical of late 19th- and early 20th-century production, condition generally sound and fresh with mild ageing in places, a substantial and wide-ranging lot and a useful foundation for further expansion or focused study. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for C$300.00
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493 CVR   imageWorldwide, early photography topical postal history collection, 1900s/1930s, comprising just over 100 items, showing covers and postal cards selected for their relevance to early photographic practice, noting corner cards of photographic studios and manufacturers of photographic materials, some illustrated or with printed references, together with varied frankings and cancellations from the United States, United Kingdom, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Bavaria and especially Germany, all forming part of a correspondence sent to an optical products manufacturer in Alsace-Lorraine, a fascinating and uncommon topical lot with strong potential for expansion or exhibit development. (Video) (Image 1)

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SOLD for C$150.00
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494 CVR   imageWorldwide, early 1900s, eclectic thematic postcard collection, comprising just over 200 items, showing a wide variety of mostly unused cards housed in plastic holders, noting twenty-five embossed holiday postcards with animals, eight Cyrano de Bergerac scenes, fourteen scenes from D’Annunzio’s Gioconda film, twenty unsigned artistic cards, thirty-five from the Netherlands, fifty-five Italian topographical city views, thirteen Salon de Paris cards, seventeen Quo Vadis – Mastroianni designs, and twenty-five depicting French Missions in Africa, a colourful and appealing lot ideal for the collector or dealer alike and readily divisible into attractive themed groups. (Video) (Image 1)

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495 CVR   imageWorldwide, 1900s/1930s, pioneer aviation, pilots and airplanes postcard collection comprising over 90 items, housed in a postcard album and featuring a varied holding of early aviation-themed cards from the pioneering decades of flight, including numerous real photo postcards depicting early aircraft, aviators and air events, with notably strong representation from France together with examples from the United States, Germany and the United Kingdom, including aviation scenes, caricature and humour types, plus early airline advertising and greeting designs, the majority postally used and offering added postal and historical interest, generally sound with a few typical faults seen in early material, a desirable and varied group from the formative era of aviation. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4)

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SOLD for C$475.00
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496 CVR   imageWorldwide, 1910s/1940s, military and censored mail collection, comprising over 110 items, showing a wide range of First and Second World War military, prisoner-of-war and censored correspondence, noting several WWI POW covers from German camps and a 1933 registered cover addressed to Chancellor Adolf Hitler, as well as WWII material including a POW cover from Camp Andalusia (South Africa), a 1940 Portuguese India cover from Mapuca to the United States, a 1944 censored cover from Belgian Congo to a soldier in Rhodesia, and a 1943 Addressee Returned to Canada cover to an R.C.A.F. L.A.C., together with a 1940 German cover to a POW at Camp F (Fort Henry, Kingston, Ontario) and a 1934 Colombian airmail cover to Washington, D.C., ex Franklin D. Roosevelt Collection, condition generally sound with minor faults typical of wartime mail, a compelling and diverse lot, ideal for the specialist or dealer. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for C$325.00
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497 CVR   imageWorldwide, 1920s/2000s, airship, dirigible, blimp and Zeppelin cover collection comprising just over 100 items,spanning early-period material through modern commemorative issues and housed as a cohesive thematic group, the earlier section including six United States USS Akron flight covers from the 1930s together with Zeppelin postcards and several original period photographs, including an image of Captain Sir Hubert Wilkins aboard the Graf Zeppelin, as well as two stereoscopic photo cards and a richly illustrated forty-page contemporary German Zeppelin magazine, the balance consisting chiefly of 1970s–1980s cacheted anniversary and commemorative covers mailed to varied destinations, several bearing autographs of individuals associated with Zeppelin and airship history, generally fine to very fine, ideal for the dealer or specialist. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3) (Image 4) (Image 5) (Image 6)

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SOLD for C$225.00
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498 CVR   imageWorldwide, 1930s/1980s, first flight and flight-event cover collection comprising about 180 items with strong Latin American content, neatly housed in two albums and focused on aviation-themed material, principally cacheted First Flight covers and special-event airmail commemorations, with notable concentration in Latin and South American routes including Argentina, Mexico and Cuba, alongside solid representation from Czechoslovakia, Australia, the United States, Japan, Malaysia, the Philippines and former British African colonies, the Latin American section particularly appealing for its colourful multi-franked covers, many addressed to Cuba, with cachets marking early Pan American Airways and Aeropostal routes, European and Asian material includes cacheted flights from both Eastern and Western Europe together with post-war inaugurations from Japan, Malaysia and the Philippines, cachets generally official or airline-issued with clear cancellations often paired with matching route or aircraft vignettes, condition fine to very fine with crisp strikes and minimal faults, an attractive holding. (Video) (Video 2) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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499 CVR   imageWorldwide, 1939/1945, censored mail accumulation, comprising about 200 items, showing covers and cards overwhelmingly from the Second World War with a small admixture of WWI and post-war civil censorship, all bearing tapes, seals or handstamps and housed in a Lighthouse album, noting origins and destinations from Argentina, Australia, Brazil, Canada, Colombia, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Guadeloupe, Guatemala, Hungary, Ireland, Italy, Jamaica, Japan, Luxembourg, Malta, Newfoundland, New Zealand, Norway, Peru, South Africa, Spain, Sudan, Sweden and Tunisia, with particular strength in Belgium, the United Kingdom, India, Switzerland and the United States, as well as a wide range of Allied, neutral-to-belligerent and intercontinental routes including mail to Ireland, Canada, the United States and across Europe, noting a strong variety of censor seals and markings, mixes of airmail, registered and ordinary letters with auxiliary markings and rate notations, condition typical for censored mail with opening wear or edge faults though strikes generally clear, minor duplication only, a useful lot for the dealer or collector. (Video) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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SOLD for C$600.00
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500 CVR   imageWorldwide, 1940s/1980s, first flight and flight-related cover collection comprising about 230 items, housed in two albums and spanning routes from Europe, the United States, India, Japan, Hong Kong, the Scandinavian countries and numerous former British colonies, with particular strength in 1960s Lufthansa flights, the material largely consisting of official or semi-official cacheted First Flight covers complemented by special-event mail marking airline inaugurations, new routes and aviation anniversaries, showing clear airmail markings, attractive multi-country frankings and bright cachets often tied by matching cancellations, with several registered or express examples and others bearing auxiliary markings from major international hubs, overall fine to very fine with strong visual appeal. (Video) (Video 2) (Image 1) (Image 2) (Image 3)

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