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| 1901 |
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 Tennessee - 19th Century Accumulation. Several hundred items, heavy on the usual big four of Nashville, Knoxville, Memphis and Chattanooga, but many small town also including 1848 manuscript Panther
Springs, earliest items from the 1820's through Civil War era into the nineties, better items such as U.S. #65+69 on domestic cover, 6¢ Banknote pair use, #65 x8 on 1863 cover Nashville to England, most items in the $5-$10 range, but
a very few values to $50 or so.
Estimate; $500 - 750. (Image1)
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Est. $500-750
SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1902 |
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Tennessee - 20th Century Balance. Several thousand cards and covers dating from the early 20th Century through modern times, expect most anything, with Washington-Franklins, real photo cards, commercial, airmail, personal, philatelic, etc.,
etc. Values here run all the way from dollar box material to $10 dollars or so max, expect fine to very fine, a bargain at estimate.
Estimate; $500 - 750.
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Est. $500-750
SOLD for $625.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1903 |
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 Tennessee - Advertising Cards and Covers. Several hundred with corner cards, same illustrated, 19th century, 20th century, rare, common, attractive, ugly, large towns, small towns, stamped, common cancels,
fancy cancels, and a wide diversity of advertising subjects; most are sleeved and many are priced, values from "use them as packaging stiffeners" to $35 or so.
Estimate; $750 - 1,000. (Image1)
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Est. $750-1,000
SOLD for $675.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1904 |
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Tennessee - Decherd. Our consignor's home town - hundred or so items, beginning with the Civil War era, up into the twenties and modern era, to include meter, permit and machine cancels and a bit of family correspondence and history, most
individual items of a fairly minimal value, but interesting as a group.
Estimate; $200 - 300.
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Est. $200-300
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1905 |
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 Tennessee - Incoming Mail. About 50 items where the address is within the state of Tennessee, from common U.S. origins, to better foreign items such as 1892 registered Switzerland, WWII censored from Great
Britain, India, Belgian Congo, Egypt; deserves a quick dig-through.
Estimate; $100 - 150. (Image1)
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Est. $100-150
SOLD for $220.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1906 |
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 Tennessee - Machine Cancel to Modern Collection, 1890-1990's. Massive holding of thousands on pages filling 10 large boxes; includes machine cancels from the 1890's on with the major cities
(Chattanooga, Knoxville, Memphis and Nashville) having sections of the various machine cancel types, majority of material identified by the collector as to the dial and killer types, modern material includes some handstamp duplex marks,
special event cancels, etc.; a truly extensive holding and an excellent study for further development.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.
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Est. $1,000-1,500
CLOSED
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1907 |
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 Tennessee - Manuscript Cancels. About 60 that have been chosen for obscurity or rarity; better examples are Laurel Gap, Miller's Cove, Brick Church, Enon Church, Jeremiah, Slide, Mill Wood, Gibbs,
Kinnards Store, and more; some mixed condition.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $600.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1908 |
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 Tennessee - Military and Related. Hundred or so covers relating to military and military service, beginning with several nice Civil War and Spanish-American patriotics, WWI and II Free mail, APO's and
censored, nice illustrated and/or cachets, and a small group of modern officials, values running from a dollar or two up to about $25.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $180.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1909 |
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Tennessee - Postal History Balance. Several hundred cards and covers, all which the collector purchased in recent years from one dealer - and then did not transfer to his main collection, everything is sleeved, carded and priced, wide range
of covers running from the stampless and/or manuscript era up through cards and covers of the 1940's, general price range from not very much up about $45 or so, better manuscripts includes 1851 New Market, 1854 Morgan Creek, 1826 Campbell
Station, 1850's Mouth of Sandy in ladies cover, 1850's Leniors P.M. free frank, 1847 White Hall, etc., town strikes including 1881 Summertown straight line with star killer; retail paid was $8,300, generally fine to very fine with very
minimal mixed condition.
Estimate; $2,000 - 3,000.
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Est. $2,000-3,000
SOLD for $1,500.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1910 |
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Tennessee - Postal History Balance. Of several hundred items from early stampless to the 1940's; nice range of town marks and a few interesting usages, stampless with ca. 1825 Knoxville arch, 1837 Franklin cds, 1832 Shellyville manuscript
on folded letter to Ireland, some Civil War era material including patriotic covers, post-war with Southern Express label use from Memphis, also the correspondences including 1840's with usages from Nashville, 1830-40's Lawrenceburg
correspondence of over 95 folded letters.
Estimate; $1,000 - 1,500.
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Est. $1,000-1,500
SOLD for $800.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1911 |
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 Tennessee - R.P.O. Collection. Several hundred covers and cards mostly identified on pages arranged in folders; mostly 20th century with a nice showing of 19th century items, routes including St. L. Carb &
Memp., Wash. & Chatta., 1884 W. Spring & Knox., St. Louis & Memphis types, Salis & Chatta, Nash & St. Louis types, Nash & Atlanta, etc.; a nice assembly of Tennessee rail postmarks.
Estimate; $500 - 750. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $500-750
SOLD for $750.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1912 |
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 Tennessee - Railway Post Office Cancels. Good selection RPO cancels starting from the 1870's up through about 1940, some better items (we will let you look them up in Towle) with a few values
to $25 or so, generally good condition with quite a few fine to very fine.
Estimate; $200 - 300. (Image1)
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Est. $200-300
CLOSED
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| 1913 |
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Tennessee - Registered Usages. About 40 examples mostly chosen for attractiveness or the rarity of the cancel (rarities to Helbock 4, 5, and even 6), better towns are Lincoln, Wilson Station, Acting, Balta, Lowe, Bellamy, Butler's
Landing, Spain, High House with unusual agent handstamp, Highland Springs, Simcoe, Holly Leaf, Whitfield, Holloway, Tom's Creek, English, and one or two town's that do not show in Helbock; very few cheaper items with values to $50 or so,
minimal conditions issues, with most in the fine to very fine range, many of such items can be found in the general Tennessee collection.
Estimate; $300 - 400.
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $170.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1914 |
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 Tennessee - Stampless Balance. About eighty such items, earliest item we saw dates from 1820, spotted good contents here and there such as a letter to the New York Herald "your advocacy of the Missouri
Line of Compromise has made you thousands of friends in the south", one letter mentions a prisoner that escaped during trial and the sheriff wants him back, one incoming item from London, a letter delivered by slave, an 1821 Bean's Station,
letter mentioning using slave traders as couriers of gold specie, early Nashvilles in different colors.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $650.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1915 |
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 Tennessee - Stampless Group. 35 that have been chosen for interest and/or rarity; includes Nashville with various townmarks and rate, manuscript postmarks including ca 1824 Rogersville and 1838 Concordia,
1837 Lagrange cds, etc.; with many such items residing in the primary Tennessee collection, condition mixed.
Estimate; $200 - 300.
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Est. $200-300
SOLD for $325.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1916 |
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 Tennessee Stampless Town Handstamps. Group of 41 covers with range of town markings and ratings, towns comprise Bolivar, Brownsville, Chattanooga, Clarksville, Columbia with dashed cds's;
Franklin blue double-circle date stamp, Gallatin, Jackson, Knoxville, Lawrenceburg, Memphis, Murfreesboro, Nashville including. 1816 crude oval and later blue fancy ratings, Somerville and Trenton; nice group, generally F.-V.F. or better.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $300.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1917 |
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 Tennessee - Town Cancel Collection. Extensive collection of thousands arranged on pages alphabetically by town in folders housed in 10 large boxes, from early stampless to the 1940's with the majority
of value in the 1850-1910's; a vast array of hundreds of towns represented including 1871 Bolivar to England, 188 Beys Creek manuscript on cover to Blains X Roads, Ten. with additional "A.X. Shields, Blaine, Tenn." receiving handstamps
with one tying stamp, Scott #25 on cover with Beech Grove manuscript, 1880's Cog Hill registered usage with Feb 28 leap year cancel, 1883 Cusick X Roads manuscript, 1869 Collieville manuscript to La Grange bearing 2¢ Pictorial two singles,
1883 Careyville oval date stamp, 1836 Denmark believed to be the earliest usage from this town, 1882 Glenloch manuscript on uprated registered 3¢ entire, 1883 Hiber brown straight line, 1896 Idaville straight line and following manuscript
cancels, 1841 Jackson green cds, 1886 Jearoldstown manuscript, 1873 Moffat Station usage to Switzerland, exceptional strikes of 1893 Ruth and 1895 Sandlick on registered covers, 1853 Shaw Plains manuscript, 1881 Summertown straight line, 1870's
Winchester cover to Switzerland, early stampless includes ca. 1828 Bolivar cds and 1828 incoming folded letter posted in Philadelphia to Nashville, etc., later material 1940's WWII camp mail including Camp Forest with APO's from Europe and
German POW incoming mails, also usages from Camp Tyson and Camp Campbell, 1940's section from Oakridge "Home of the Atomic Bomb", other later with R.D.F. and flag machine cancels with most of the cancel types identified; condition varies
with most material of exhibit quality and much with original enclosures occasionally with interesting content, an wonderful collection a truly an excellent basis for further continuation.
Estimate; $10,000 - 15,000. (Image1) (Image2)
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Est. $10,000-15,000
SOLD for $5,250.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1918 |
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 Tennessee - Unusual Place Names. 40 covers assembled as an annotated exhibit by the late Marjorie Outlaw - one of the luminaries of Tennessee postal history, items date from the stampless and/or manuscript
cancel era up into the early 20th century, most are DPO's of which many are quite rare, includes Cherry Bottom Helbock SI 8, Elm Hill SI 7, Major SI 6 Cottage Home, House Mountain, Jersey, Jockey, Lavendar, Mouse Tail, Nebo, Venus, Wallace's
X Roads, etc., all Helbock SI 5; most items are F-VF and exhibit quality.
Estimate; $400 - 600. (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $375.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1919 |
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 Texas Stampless Towns, 1849-1850s. Group of 9 comprising 1849 "San Augustine Tx" ms. postmark, 1854 "Chambers' Creek Tex." unlisted ms. postmark, "Ben Franklin Tx"
balloon-style cds, 1853 "Brushy Creek Txs" ms. postmark, "Montgomery Txs." red cds, "Marshall Txs. bold cds and "Paid" "10" handstamps, 1853 "Jefferson Tex." cds, "Nacogdoches Tex." cds and
"Galveston Tex." cds; some mixed condition, F.-V.F.
Estimate; $300 - 400. (Image1)
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Est. $300-400
SOLD for $425.00
Will close during Public Auction |
| 1920 |
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 Vermont Postal History Bearing the 1851-57 3¢ Issue. Better group of 18 with several choice strikes including "Island Pond Vt. Jun 24" broken frame cds on #11A to St. Albans; perfect
strike "East Wallingford Vt., Apr 30" oval datestamp on #11 to Londonderry; exceptional bold "Albany Vt." balloon-style cds on #11 cover to Ogdensbury N.Y.; #11A with blue White River Valley cds on Junction House ad cover; Waterbury
cds on #26 on Geo. J. & E. A. Colby ad cover; additional towns of Mongomery Centre, Rutland, Bakersfield blue cds on #10A, Fayetteville, Fairlee, Brandon, Hinesburgh, Orwell, Jonesville, Greensboro etc. and one #24 (three) cover from
Arlington (one 1¢ faulty), F.-V.F.
Estimate; $400 - 600. (Image1)
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Est. $400-600
SOLD for $290.00
Will close during Public Auction |
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