Lot
1520 
1851-57 3¢ Issue on Cover Reference Balance, of over 150 covers in slips and stock book; includes over 50 #26 usages (plate 9e & 15) all plated by K. Taira, at least 10 #25-25a usages all plated, several #10 usages and the balance #11-11A usages with a number of items plated; condition mixed, a useful plating group. Scott Nos. 10//26 Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $450
Lot
1521
1861 3¢ Issue Better Usages, interesting group of 8 covers; including P.O.W. cover with choice "Prisoner's Letter, Johnsons Island, Examd., J. Berry" oval handstamp, corner card cover with blue Chicago Supplementary Mail cds tying, Cincinnati to St. Louis with "Uncalled For" in lozenge handstamp, N.Y. cover with" Anchor Line" illustrated steamship flap and ad, patriotic with General Burnside portrait, green West Killingly, Ct. cds and grid tying, fancy Lock of Cambridge, Mass. and Floral Geometric of Sangerfield, N.Y.; condition well above the norm. Scott Nos. 65 Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
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Lot
1522
2¢ Blackjack Issue Group, of five on cover usages and some other misc. items; covers all legal/oversized, with military imprints including Head-Quarters Twentieth U.S. Colored Troops, State Seal imprints including all over Indianapolis, miscellaneous including unused Jackson-Calhoun patriotic with multicolored eagle, snakes & flag design, couple fake patriotic usages and a single stamp with fake Chicago Supplementary mail cancel in red; condition mixed, inspect. Estimate $250 - 350.
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Realized: $375
Lot
1523
2¢ Blackjack Issue on Advertising Covers, little over 100 covers, mostly corner cards or text ads; with nice range of illustrated including ad showing water wheel, hardware, school furniture, seminary, building view, horse and carriage, G. Washington portrait (allover), safe, oak tree, etc., other from a wide range companies including insurance, photographer, college, government, tea companies, phrenological, telegraph, railroad, sanitary commission, horticultural, etc., most with single franking with the occasional double rate and a couple 1¢+2¢ combinations; condition a little varied. Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
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Realized: $3,250
Lot
1524
2¢ Blackjack Issue on Auxiliary Marking & Due Covers, group of 20+ covers; nice array of markings including Return to Writer, Unclaimed, Held for Postage, Unclaimed, Cannot Be Found, Forwarded and Not Called For, some combination marks, also various due marks including manuscript. Estimate $400 - 600.
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Realized: $425
Lot
1525
2¢ Blackjack Issue on Cover Balance, well over 150 covers on stockpages in two binders; include s a strong showing of single and double drop rate usages with an array of townmarks including some nice blue postmarks, printed matter including prices current usages, nice group of triple issues paying double rate postage and 1¢+2¢ combinations including a nice group of Blackjacks on 1¢ Star Die entires, some other interesting combination including 2¢+3¢ combinations, few imprint and corner card cover, miniature cover use; condition a little varied with many nice items throughout. Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
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Realized: $2,500
Lot
1526
2¢ Blackjack Issue on Fancy Cancel Covers, collection of a little under 100 covers, mostly an array of geometrics with a few other types; geometrics including segmented stylized leafs, circle of wedges and V's, crossroads, various segmented geometrics, waffle grids, rosettes, etc., others including targets, letters, stars, "Paid", also a nearly discernible Devil & Pitchfork of West Meriden, Ct., some strikes in blue; condition a bit varied. Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
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Realized: $2,600
Lot
1527
2¢ Blackjack Issue on Foreign Destination Covers, group of 27 covers mostly in combination with other issues; includes usages to Nova Scotia including solo ranking from Boston, five usages to Canada showing a nice mix of frankings, many usages to England and Germany including rare 2¢ pair + 10¢ + 24¢ combination franking, scarce usages to Norway & Brazil, printed matter rates to Spain and Mexico, Swiss bootleg cover dropped in Washington D.C., etc.; condition varies. Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
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Realized: $1,250
Lot
1528
American Art Cover Exchange Covers, about 500 cards and covers, many hand-drawn and colored, lots of humorous, topical, and/or satirical subjects, dogs, butterflies, military, comic strips, cartoons. patriotic, pro-Trump, anti-Trump, pro-Biden, anti-Biden, entertainers, holidays, beer, small town cancels, ship cancels, and many more, many are masterpieces of subtlety, others not so much, most are sleeved, seen in antique malls at $5 to $8 each. Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $280
Lot
1529 
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Better Classic Issue Group, of 18 items; includes 9X1TC2 in three different colors, 10X1 with full o.g., used #1-2 with additional right margin #1, large margin bottom margin #7 (pressed crease), used bottom margin very fine #17 (two certs), #11 o.g. (natural paper inclusion), four mint #26's including pair, mint #35 block of 4, mint #65 & 94 and n.h. 114 split grill with right margin (cert); Scott cat. $5,620 not including n.h. premium. Estimate $2,000 - 3,000.
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Realized: $1,600