Lot 3750
Mint postal stationery & air letter accumulation, 1895-2000. Large box filled with hundreds of items including postal cards and stationery and a worthwhile group of air letters. Some scarce items throughout. High face value, generally Very Fine.Estimate $250 - 350.
Realized: $200
Lot 3751
Navy ship covers, 1893-1947. 16 covers and two cards; nice range including 1907 Guantanamo Bay scene card and 1931 U.S.S. Pennsylvania backstamp, 1935 U.S.S. Submarine Argonaut, 1937 commercial forward cover with three ship transit backstamps, Flagship, 1893 U.S. Asiatic fleet corner card cover from Philippines, etc.Estimate $150 - 200.
Realized: $75
Lot 3752
Post card accumulation. Approximately 600 cards mostly used, many multicolored, much California including postmarks.Estimate $350 - 500.
Realized: $325
Lot 3753
Prisoner of war covers, 1918-45. 101 WWI & WWII covers; mostly WWII including 1945 Japanese camp incoming and outgoing lettersheets, 1940's POW correspondence to camps in Taiwan and Malaya, Red Cross covers, 1946 German cover to Canadian camps, 1942 Shanghai, China, 1940's U.S. internee mails from N. Dakota & Mississippi, etc., many other better usages throughout, well worth careful inspection.Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $2,400
Lot 3754
Registered cover group with historical significance, 1920-1940. Incredible accumulation of nearly 300 Registered covers from Chinese businesses in Western and Eastern cities. Mostly all addressed to Bock Toa Hong Co. or Wing Tai Lung Co. both in San Francisco. We speculate that cash was being sent via this registered mail. Many covers with Chinese markings and advertising corners. A significant and interesting holding, generally F.-V.F.Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
Realized: $1,450
Lot 3755
Seapost cover group, 1893-39. 10 covers; nice range of material including 1905 Boston Steamship corner card usage in Philippines, 1880's Pittsburgh and Cincinnati Packet Line corner card, U.S. German Seapost's, flat bottom steamer illustration corner cards, etc.Estimate $150 - 200.
Realized: $200
Lot 3756
Space covers with many autographs. 3 volume collection of about 200 covers written-up on pages, with 1961 Project Mercury through to 1980's Challenger and Spacelab flights, includes 1961 cover signed by Alan B Shepard on the day of the first Project Mercury flight, Vietnam FDC of the Liberty Bell test flight of 1961, cover signed by the pilot Grissom, robot and chimp-manned test flights, 1962 Sigma 7 signed Wally Schirra, second orbit flight signed Carpenter, Project Mercury FDC signed John Glenn, 1963 Tiros VIII rocket flight signed, 1966 Gemini two-man flights signed Scott and Armstrong, Apollo III signed by Shepard, Apollo 4, Moon Landing FDC's signed Armstrong and Aldrin, etc., some possible autopens but the vast majority original, please inspect.Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
Realized: $1,500
Lot 3757
Special delivery cover collection, 1888-1952. 21 covers, almost every issue for the period including shades, including #E7, nice group.Estimate $250 - 350.
Realized: $180
Lot 3758
Wells, Fargo Express covers, 1850-1880's. 18 different; nice range of handstamps including 1860's Auburn, 1850's Stockton, 1870's Oakland with San Jose receiving backstamp, Sac. Messenger, etc., some interesting usages including paste-up's, many nice strikes throughout.Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $725
Lot 3759
WWII related covers, 1936-1950. Features APO's, censored covers, military mail etc, with Canal Zone, Hawaii and some foreign, generally F.-V.F.Estimate $150 - 250.
Realized: $145