Lot
3479 
United States, Cover Group, 1805-69. 40 covers on album pages; couple early 19th century with 1805 Robert Smith free frank (Secretary of Navy) and 1812 military express, 1851 usages including 4-margin #10's, #11's with Steamboat handstamps and a Fremont campaign cover, 4-margin #14, 1857 issues with #22 single on cover, 3¢ usages with ad covers including all over shaded & patriotic, various 10¢ usages including to Cuba and Mexico, S.F. to N.Y., 1861 mostly 3¢ usages including ad corner cards, patriotic and 2¢ Blackjack + 3¢ rose in pairs on cover to Nova Scotia, Boise City, Ida territory cover with corner card, etc., 1869 usages from 1¢ local usage to 12¢ on cover to England; condition varies, worth careful evaluation. Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
Realized: $1,600
Lot
3480
United States, Cover Group, 1877-1923. 27 cover mounted on album pages; Banknote period with New Orleans & N.Y. foreign mail fancy cancels, Centennial entires including uprated foreign usages, 15¢ single to Cape of Good Hope, Columbian entires including World's Fair duplex and uprated usages to Hawaii, Germany and Columbia S.A., small bureau registered 1904 Rampart, Alaska to the Philippines, 1¢-8¢ Trans-Miss issues on cover including foreign, combination and register usages, etc.; worth inspection. Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $1,050
Lot
3481
United States, Cover Group, 1890-1932. 9 covers; including #216 strip of 6 to France, Philippines and China office usages, good small banknote usages including 4-color frankings to Hungary, etc.; condition varies, inspect. Estimate $250 - 350.
Realized: $500
Lot
3482 
United States, Disaster Picture Post Cards. Group of 31 cards, many picturing the "Great New England Hurricane of 1938", the great "Ohio Flood of 1913", plus others of various fires and disasters; including a few real photo, condition generally good, please inspect. Estimate $100 - 150.
Realized: $80
Lot
3483
United States, Early First Day and Flight Covers. Group of approximately 400 covers including. early first day and flights, many addressed to Oregon, and some Postmaster signed, other interesting items throughout including. Officials and Long View-Rainier Columbia river bridge first mail, generally F.-V.F. Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $250
Lot
3484
United States, Express Company Ephemera. Interesting assortment of labels, receipts, cards, Southern Express Company "Express Service" covers, one with nice Petersburg, Va. duplex star in circle cancel on 3¢ green Bank Note, another with R.P.O. cancel, U.S. Express cds on #11, U.S. Express cover with corner card, etc., please inspect. Estimate $100 - 150.
Realized: $210
Lot
3485
United States, Fancy Cancel Entires, 1850's-1880's. Interesting group of 39 covers, Nesbitt to Banknote entires, wide range of cancel types, including geometric, shield, star, letter, numeral, leaf, grid, etc; note Burlington, Ia. & Carthage, Ill. shields; East Lebanon, N.H. negative starburst; 3 different blue Rutland, Vt. very fancy geometrics; several checkerboard; Star of David; Rutland, Vt. "U.S."; etc. Condition generally Fine to Very Fine or better, please inspect. Estimate $600 - 800.
Realized: $400
Lot
3486
United States, Fancy Cancels on Postal Cards, 1865-1906. 50 items, wide array of geometric, negative numbers & letters, few scarce towns, Boston 1876 Leavitt Type 2 machine, Ashland, O. fancy "U.S.", Forbestown, Cal., "kicking mule", etc; generally F-VF or better, please inspect. Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $375
Lot
3487
United States, First Day Cover Collection, 1927-1960. Approximately 1100 covers, strongest being the 1930's period with many attractive and some scarce cachets, including excellent showing of Torkel Gundel with Famous Americans complete; note another complete F.A.set, Parks couple sets, Farley imperf Parks set complete, Prexies electric eye varieties seemingly complete; good Airmails including several sets of Transport; 1932 Washington Bicentennials complete on Y. Souren covers; some earlier 2¢ reds not cacheted, as well as some later; nevertheless the strong showing from 1930's makes this a very desirable lot and worth careful evaluation. Estimate $500 - 750.
Realized: $525
Lot
3488
United States, First Day Cover Collection, 1928-1975. Over 700 fresh clean FDC's, a few 2¢ Reds, all with cachets after about 1933, virtually all unaddressed with some better designs into the 1940's, thereafter mostly Fleetwood, better include $5 Hamilton; VF lot. Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $170