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Sale 26: The Westpex Sale

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Philatelic Literature

Lots 4405-4414 Lots 4415-4424 Lots 4425-4434 Lots 4435-4444 Lots 4445-4454 Lots 4455-4457

Lot 4425

Cole, Ezra. Unpublished 150 page typewritten sometimes rambling autobiography by one of America's greatest philatelic dealers written in 1979 period. Transcribed from tapes covering Bissel correspondence, ice house cover, dealings with Caspary, Newbury, Morgenthau, Herst, original finds and sale of rarities.
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.

Realized: $475

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Lot 4426

Dale, Louise B. Dale and Alfred F. Lichtenstien Collections; The BNA Sales. Harmer N.Y., 1968-71, all 4 sales, hardbound (house), 927 lots, like new.
Estimate    $100 - 150.

Realized: $50

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Lot 4427

Deats, Hiram. Six sales consisting of US Revenues Parts I-II (SSC'00-01); Superb Collection of US and Rare US on Original Covers (NEC'05-06); Match-Medicine and Revenues Parts I-II (FPB'09). Maintained in black solander with gold stamping and includes Deats biography by SMB and Deats' personal wooden calling card. Includes 1946-58 typewritten copies of correspondence from Deats to Philip Ward regarding amongst other things Tin Foil stamps. Undoubtedly unique.
Estimate    $2,500 - 3,000.

Realized: $1,600

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Lot 4428

D'etoilles, M. Erard Le Roy. Jules Bernichon. Paris. Timbres Poste Rare Anciens. Sales #1//8 (1906-07) less sale #4. Bound in full brown leather solander with raised spines and gold stamping. Crawford #11. Constitutes one of the largest rare philatelic offerings prior to Ferrary sale. Delicate and fragile catalogues, a few of which are professionally repaired.
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.

Realized: $500

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Lot 4429

Eagle, Clarence. Eight sales consisting of US Revenues (BLD'22); Superb US On and Off Cover (JCM'23); United States (JCB'22); Superb 1869 Pictorials (JCM'23); Match and Medicine (PDG'23); US (K&S'23); US (MO'23); US Revenues (JCB'24). Maintained in blue folding solander with gold stamping along with Eagle biography by SMB. Undoubtedly unique grouping and including greatest US Pictorial collection ever assembled. This is the dispersal of unsold material given that the Eagle Revenues presently reside in the Smithsonian Institution.
Estimate    $2,500 - 3,000.

Realized: $1,900

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Lot 4430

Earee, R., Album Weeds, How to Detect Forged Stamps - Vols I-VIII. (1906) 3rd reprint, softbound, 8 volumes, 1299pgs, minor use.
Estimate    $60 - 80.

Realized: $75

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Lot 4431

Emerson, Judge Robert. Run of 24 sales including US 1847 to 1888 on Original Cover (DFK#394 of'37); Stamps of BNA On and Off Cover (DFK#395 of'37); United States Items (PGD#297 of'37); Western Franks-Pony Express and Mississippi Packets (DFK#396 of'38); Foreign Stamps on Cover (PGD#301'38); Selected US Covers (DFK#399 of'38); US and Foreign (DFK#400 of'38); US Postmasters, General Issues, Carriers and Locals on Original Cover (DFK#402 of ('39); US Original Covers (DFK#405 of '39); Stamps of RSE (PGD#313 of'39); US and Foreign (DFK#408 of'39); US (DFK#411 of'40); US Envelopes (DFK#413 of'40); US Envelopes and Foreign Covers (DFK#416 of'41); US and Revenues (DFK#417 of'41); US and Foreign (DFK#419 of'42); US General Issues (DFK#421 of'42); 5c New York's and General Issues of 1847 from the Delux Collection Formed by RSE (DFK#438 of'46); Stamps of 1851-57 Delux Collection (DFK#439/'47); Stamps of 1857 Delux Collection (DFK#441/'47); Issues of 1861-1867 Delux Collection (DFK#443/'48); Issues of 1869-1871 Delux Collection (DFK#445 of'49); US 1873-88 Delux Collection Formed by Judge RSE (DFK#450/'51); US Revenues (HRC'#225). Amongst the finest US collections ever assembled and undoubtedly one of the rarest name run extant. Maintained in magnificent red solander with raised spines and gold stamping.
Estimate    $4,000 - 5,000.

Realized: $4,000

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Lot 4432

Faberge, Agathon. Eight sales consisting of Argentine-Mexico (RL'39); Japan and Shanghai (RL'39); Finland and Poland (HL'39); Russia (HL'39); Russian Levant (HL'40); Russian Rural Stamps Issued by the Zemstvo (HL'40); Finland 1860-1935 (CEP'40); Swiss Cantonals Rarities (HNY'41). Bound in red buckram with some pr's including recent biography Individual Faberge auctions sold for 200SF each at Huys-Berlingen'03.
Estimate    $2,000 - 2,500.

Realized: $1,300

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Lot 4433

Ferrari, De La Renotiere. Broquelet, M.A. and Gilbert, M.G.(Paris). Ferrari Reprint (1987) by Joachim Erhart (Stuttgart) of sales #1-14 cmplt in single HB edition. Includes Napier Index. Appended is E. LUDER EDELMANN (Zurich) sale #12 (1929) of Ferrari Greece with pr's. Forward by Prof. Dr. Carlrichard Bruhl.
Estimate    $400 - 500.

Realized: $1,000

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Lot 4434

Gibson, Henry. Six sales including Foreign Postage Stamps Issued Before 1860 (EK'23); US 19th-20th Century, Presidential Franks, Revenues (PHW'41); Classic Foreign Covers. The First Twenty Years 1840-1860 (EK'44); US Postage Stamps on Original Covers (PHW'44); US, Confederate States,and Covers (CRL'84). One of the finest postal history collections ever assembled.
Estimate    $600 - 750.

Realized: $400

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