Sale 115: The Westpex Sale

Lot 2051    

Confederacy, Better Cover Group, of 13 covers and two fronts; includes eight Postmaster Provisional usages including #16X1 x2, 52XU2, 56X2 x2 fronts including one on Davis Medallion patriotic front (both would cat $12,750 if on cover), 58X2 x2 and 61X2, regular issues including scarce #5a usage, interesting forwarding usage to railroad station, a #1 official roulette issue uncanceled on unused cover (with cert and photocopy of R. Weill letter), couple nice stampless covers, etc.; condition mixed mostly confined to scarce material, on cover provisional's alone cat $14,000 (See website for images).
Estimate    $2,000 - 3,000.



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Realized: $2,200

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Lot 2052    

Confederacy, Regular Issues on Cover Balance, of over 50 covers; includes #2 usage from Florida and three #2e singles on oversized document, eleven #4 usages including three pairs, nice array of towns, "telegram" endorsed, 3rd day of use, etc, nice #5 usage from Emory, Ala. (stamp lifted and placed back, C.S.A. cert.), over 25 #6-7 usages with many in pairs, including turned usage, "Monks Corner" local use, scarce Texas military use, #11-12 usages including "Strawberry Ferry" local endorsement, wallpaper usage, colored cancel, blockade content, etc.; condition varies with many nice items throughout (See website for images).
Estimate    $2,000 - 3,000.



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Realized: $3,000

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Lot 2053    

Confederacy, Regular Issues on Cover Group, balance of over 60 covers; includes #1 usage from Galveston (stamp nick), three #2 usages, one with manuscript Drewrysville, Va. postmark, four #4 usages with two in pairs, #5 usage from Mt Carmel, N.C., #9 usage faulty but genuine (cert), majority #6-7, 10-11 usages with a wide rang of townmarks, adversity, forwarded, etc.; condition varies, generally Fine or better.
Estimate    $1,500 - 2,000.

Realized: $2,500

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Lot 2054 /o/   

Confederacy, Collection, small binder with neat assemblage starting with an almost full set of stamps (but no "Frameline") on White Ace pages, including 1, 4, 5, 9 used, and 2, 3, 6-7-8, and 11-14 unused., then pages with additional stamps, including 11e used, 13 used with town cancel, another used 1, a 4a unused, and another 5 used plus a 62X2 unused, many stamps have faults and repairs and need careful inspection, total Scott catalog value of stamps is $4,400+, group of covers including 4 Union patriotics, 4 Texas CSA stampless covers, including Owensville, Tarrant, Mount Pleasant (2), 7 other CSA covers, including 2 #1's, one from Atlanta with 1863 letter, plus various 11's and 12's on cover, ends with 6 U.S. war-years covers, some from Union occupied Southern cities as Port Royal, S.C., Nashville, and Alexandria, Va; Covers are also in mixed condition with faults and repairs and should be inspected, some with interesting military addresses, still a nice old-time group put together years ago.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $1,050

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Lot 2055    

Confederacy, Cover Balance, mix of over 30 covers; includes Provisionals with 68XU1 & 56X2, albino embossed Douglas-Johnson campaign cover franked with #7 pair, some ad covers including Tallahassee stampless, rare Arkansas ad corner card cover (faulty), hand carried cover to Maysville, S.C. endorsed "Special Express", some O.B. imprint covers mostly unused or hand carried, etc.; condition varies (See website for images), generally Fine or better.
Estimate    $400 - 600.



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Realized: $700

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Lot 2056    

Confederacy, Civil War Postal History Group, of five covers all bearing U.S. frankings; includes two U.S. used in C.S.A, usages including uprated 3¢ Star Dir entire from Savannah, Ga. and a 3¢ Star Die entire from Galveston, Tex., Johnson Island P.O.W. cover and two covers from correspondence with one smuggled thru the lines; nice overall condition (See website for images).
Estimate    $300 - 400.



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Realized: $280

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Lot 2057    

Confederacy, Cover Balance, small group of 7 covers and a couple used stamps; includes #1 use from Richmond, #6 pair from Clarksville, Va. and other nice 4-margin #11-12 usage including two to Jefferson Davis, off cover including nice U.S. 2¢ Blackjack, Very Fine.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $325

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Lot 2058    

Confederacy, Postal History Collection, a two volume collection giving a wonderful overview to the CSA Postal History, virtually all covers, but a few off cover stamps are included, the Postal History includes Handstamped Paids & Dues, a few Patriotic and Adversity covers are noted, plus some multiple/mixed frankings, one of the two albums (smaller) is devoted to Independent State Usages and United States in the Confederacy, condition is mixed, but the is a fine lot worth careful inspection (See website for images).
Estimate    $1,500 - 2,000.



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Realized: $2,100

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Lot 2059    

Confederacy, Cover Balance, of 18 items; includes many adversity covers including a couple turned cover usages, wallpaper cover, #13c (C.S.A. cert stating no opinion), couple Union usages and a encased postage coin; worth review (See website for images).
Estimate    $500 - 750.



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Realized: $600

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Lot 2060    

Confederacy, Civil War Postal History Consignor's Balance, group of 14 covers, some prisoner of war covers and related, plus a few interesting CSA manuscript postmarks, mixed condition but an interesting group, please inspect (See website for images).
Estimate    $400 - 600.



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Realized: $575

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