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Symbol

CatNo.

Lot Description

1581

United States Collection, 1925-54. Beautifully fresh, nearly complete blocks of 4, mostly LH (2) - NH (2) blocks (nice 692-701, etc.); nice lot with a Scott catalog value of about $2000.
Estimate; $300 - 400.

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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $150.00
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1582

Mint Accumulation. Mix of modern sheets, strips, panes, section plate blocks including some high values, and a strong run of part sheets/sheets from 3¢ commemoratives on, some premium items; please review.
Estimate; $400 - 600.

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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $600.00
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1583

Farley Issues Collection, 1933-35. Of various positional pairs and blocks neatly arranged on stockpages in binder; starting with regular issue plate blocks #733 & 740-749, and Special Printings #752-55 mostly center/gutter positions and some plate blocks, Parks 756-765 with plate, center and arrow positions blocks complete as well as other additional positional items, later sheets with gutter pairs and blocks, special delivery issue, etc.; nice fresh material throughout.
Estimate; $300 - 400.

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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $475.00
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1584

United States plate block Collection, 1938-80. 7 volume collection on White Ace pages; face value thru $1 values, better includes #906 China, etc.; Never Hinged and nice; Face Value probably $300+.
Estimate; $150 - 200.

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Est. $150-200
SOLD for $200.00
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1585

Modern Sheet Group, 2000's. Includes sheet folder with mostly high value sheets and an additional 5 press sheets; total face $1,978.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000.

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Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $1,250.00
Will close during Public Auction

Back-of-the-Book Collections

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CatNo.

Lot Description

1586

Airmail Cover Group. 4 items, includes, C10a without top tab on cacheted FDC cover, later First flights and FDC.
Estimate; $150 - 200.

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Est. $150-200
SOLD for $110.00
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1587

C25//C39b

1941-49 Airmail Plate Blocks. A complete matched set collection, virtually all NH with scarce plate numbers and wet and dry printings from the Transport Airs through 1947-49 issues, very difficult to assemble! 2020 Durland cat. $3000, Fine to Very Fine or better.
Scott Nos. C25//C39b; Estimate $300 - 400.

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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $350.00
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1588

Local and Carrier Issue Accumulation. A mix of well over 300 item on stockpages; mostly local forgeries with much genuine material throughout, includes Blood issues including genuine #15L6, genuine $1 Pony Express issue, Swart's with some genuine issues, useful Boyd's & Hussey's, genuine scarce 5¢ Mercantile Library issue and a wide array of other emissions forgery, reprints and genuine; much material, worth careful review.
Estimate; $600 - 800.

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Est. $600-800
SOLD for $900.00
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1589

Wells, Fargo & Co. Newspaper & Steamship Issue Collection, 1860-76. Collection/accumulation on stock and album pages; starting with the scarce #143LP1 steamship issue with cert (flaws, cat $1,250), newspapers with faulty first issues with a nice run of later issues including multiples with 143LP3 block of 25, 143LP5 block of 8, 143LP6a, nice showing of other single items with several used, Publisher issues including used, some fakes, etc.; condition varies, worth review.
Estimate; $600 - 800.

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Est. $600-800
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1590

Official Mail Issue Exhibition Cover Collection & Hoard, 1980-2000's. Collection & massive accumulation filling four large boxes; most of which from Agriculture Dept. in Ohio, includes lots of legal size usages with various Official Mail issues, coils, letter series, and stamped envelopes, also one box filled with oversized usages with a host of rates; very scarce modern material with rare rates and usages possibly to found here, a nice group for the Official issue specialist.
Estimate; $300 - 400.

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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $375.00
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1591

Postal Stationery Wrapper Usage Collection. Balance of exhibit collection written up on pages, with well over 200 items starting with Pre-Stationery Wrappers including postmaster free frank and a Blood's local usage, 1861-63 Nesbitt issues including 1¢ issue with free franking and Confederate use outside of mail usages, 2¢ with the 1863 rate increase including the later "Post" issues, Reay issues with 2¢ items including pre-printed, foreign usages including to Nova Scotia, 1874-88 Plimpton issues including 1¢ use S.F. to Chile, due usages including "Short Paid", couple scarce illustrated ad usages, etc., the 2¢ issues with various brown Jackson dies and a usage to London, similar 2¢ vermilion issue including foreign usages to Denmark Finland, England, France and Russia, also a usage Montana territory, the 2¢ Washington issue again with good foreign destinations including Belgium, Sweden, Turkey, Argentina and Peru, territorial use from Fort Wingate A.T., nice section of 1886-98 Plimpton & Morgan issues with 1¢ entires including domestic usages including territorial and printed ads including illustrated, foreign use including India, Egypt and South Africa, postal usages with railway, auxiliary, forwarding including domestic Postage Due usages and uprated foreign, Finland censorship, scarce special delivery use, etc., similar 2¢ entires including illustrated fair ad, better foreign usage including Russia with Odessa censor, ad wrapper to Fiji, Japan and Austria with "Too Late" marking, foreign and domestic forwarding usages, postage due, the 1899-1903 Plimpton & Morgan issue with nice 1¢ wrappers including Honolulu usages, foreign destination including Africa, Brazil, Scotland, China with Shanghai Local Post backstamp, Agana Island of Guam, Philippines, auxiliary including uprated to England with boxed "Found in Inland Station without contents", 2¢ foreign usages including Turks Islands and domestic with nice illustrated travel trunk ad, scarce 4¢ wrapper usages including domestic and a uprated registered usage to Ireland, 1903-07 Hartford issue with 1¢ wrappers including interesting attempted illegal use (1942) with "Contains Writing" and "Do not use this envelope or wrapper again" handstamps, foreign with usages to Australia, Africa, Azores, illustrated ad to Austria, etc., 2¢ with uprated registered and foreign to Chile, Turkey, uprated 7x rate to Germany, etc., 1917-15 Mercantile & 1915-34 M.W.S. Co. issues includes various printing, forwarding, censor, dues, ads, rate increase, airmail and precancel; a wonderful extensive collection of these scarcer stationery items.
Estimate; $3,000 - 4,000.

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Est. $3,000-4,000
SOLD for $2,100.00
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1592

Postal Stationery Collection. Mostly mint full stamp envelope entires housed in four albums and stockbox; useful to good issues with early mostly used issues identified in box from early Nesbitts and some good mint with 1¢ Star Die and later 2¢ Jackson */o, with nice showing of later from 1874 with strong completion in modern to 1990's, good representation in airmail & official entires; nice fresh material throughout.
Estimate; $400 - 600.

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Est. $400-600
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1593

Postal Stationery Error Group. Well over 150 stamped envelope entires mostly mint and mainly from the early 20th century on; includes a wide range of albino and partial colored indicia entires, misplaced indicia entires including couple unusual used, inking errors, entire within entire and triple so, piece with double indicia impression with additional offset on portion of backflap, surcharge varieties, etc.; a nice group for the specialist.
Estimate; $500 - 750.

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Est. $500-750
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1594

Fancy Cancels on Postal Cards Collection, 1870-80's. Over 100 card most identified and written-up on display pages; nice array of fancy postmarks with better, including pictorials with 1886 Kicking Mule of Port Townsend, Wash., Horse Head of Ravena, O. and Northampton, Mass., Masks of Chillicothe, Mo. (in blue), Ludington, Mich. and Canton, O., Clover of Chicago, Ill. (in blue) and Pittsburgh, Pa., Swan of Northampton, Mass., Skull & Crossbones of Waverly, N.Y., Greenfield, Mass., Coleville, Pa. (in violet) and West Gardiner, Mass. (duplexed with shield postmark), Top Hat of Culpepper, Va. and Danbury, Ct. (two different), Bell of Concord, N.H. and Enfield Center, N.H. (both in blue), Heart of Mt. Pleasant, Ioa. and many others including stylized leafs, clovers, shields, star and crescent, pumpkin heads, Masonic including trowel, compass & keystone, etc.; a wonderful collection for both postal card and fancy cancel specialist.
Estimate; $1,500 - 2,000.

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Est. $1,500-2,000
SOLD for $1,000.00
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1595

Postal Card Collection, 1873-2000's. Mostly mint housed in 8 albums and neatly arranged in two stock boxes; main collection with strong run of mint cards from UX2 on mainly missing only the scarcer to rarer cards and some parallel used, completion in later and modern issues including additional early (mostly used) to modern stock, airmail issues including the scarce UXC1a deep red mint, some paid reply material, computer vending, officials, etc.; a nice foundation for continuation.
Estimate; $500 - 750.

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Est. $500-750
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1596

Advertising & Illustrated Postal Card Collection, 1870-1960's. Over 180 cards mostly used displayed on pages; wide range of ad types including UX1 with illustrated "Cash Paid For Land Warrants" showing barnyard scene, multicolored Blue Label Chili Sauce ad on face of 1¢ Jefferson card with additional multicolored multiple ad on reverse, 1876 bicolor G. Lengert & Son Wagon Builders showing horse drawn wagon in yellow, 1897 Standard Oil showing multicolored barrels, a host of other illustrated ads with subjects including plow, corset, axe head, steam engines, paint can, pocket watch, boiler, Iroquois Indian portrait, shoes, etc., some unserved paid reply ad cards including razor blade, cigar, gladiolus, alligator, etc., many caricature design, stamp/philatelic related including "Puck" card design, J. & H. Stolow, Viking Stamp Co. and a 1938 notice for the First Bermuda Mail Flight; nice group for the specialist.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000.

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Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $475.00
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1597

Postal Card Collection, 1873-2007. Displayed on quadrille pages; includes used collection from UX1 on mostly complete lacking the rarer items, includes a nice scarce UX4 (cat $350, APS cert), UX13 to Holland, UX27C & UX27D, later with some interesting foreign usages, etc., section of paid reply & airmail cards, perhaps the best is a special section of better usages including message reply card from Russia and other good destination cards, scarce group of 12 Columbian World's Fair Expo Cards and 2 Trans-Mississippi Expo cards, WWII usages including usages from U.S. internment camp for aliens and from Tule Lake Camp for Japanese Americans (with multicolored Japanese illustration), "Service Suspended" usages, Censored, etc., early gold back cards, reward & missing person cards, crash card, special delivery usages, early attached photos, hand illustrated, etc.; inspection highly recommended.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.

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Est. $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $1,250.00
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1598

Illustrated Postal Card Group, 1893-1930. 70 items including strong section of 1893 World Columbian Expo including some scarcer cards used including overseas uprated, souvenir cards from various cities; condition varies, inspect.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000.

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Est. $750-1,000
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1599

Revenue First-Third Issue Quality Balance, 1862-72. Of 13 mostly better issues; includes #R77c, R79c, R80c, R82a, R98c x2, R101c, R122 (cut cancel), R128 & R149, all with nice to gem centering with only a couple with flaws; also includes #R9a, R13c & R48c each with wide preprinting paper fold; choice group, Scott cat $1,940+.
Estimate; $500 - 750.

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Est. $500-750
SOLD for $325.00
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1600

Revenue Collection, 1862-74. A useful collection of U.S.A. revenues 1862-74, mainly better items from the first three issues plus a few proprietary, we note #R77c, S.O.N. CD's, 87c, 98c, 100c, 105, 110, 116, 117, 124-5, 134, 136, 139, 141-2, 145, 148-9, attractive group mounted on Scott pages with several nice socked-on-the-nose cancels with no significant faults noted; owner's Scott cat $3,080.
Estimate; $400 - 600.

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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $210.00
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