Sale 45: The Winter Sale

Lot 2706    

U.S. Covers & Cancel Studies, 1875-1925. Collection of several hundred covers, including 2¢ & 3¢ Bank Notes cancels on & off cover, eclectic balance items, much miscellaneous well worth digging through, some advertising covers, please inspect.
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.

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Lot 2707    

U.S. Covers, 1850-1938. Selection of broad range of items, perhaps most notable a group of Railroad items, including lovely 1864 cameo advertisement for Huntingdon and Broad Top Rail Road Company on back flap of cover with Saxton, Pa., postmark; ornate corner card for Grand Trunk R.R. of Mobile, Ala; illustrated corner card for So Carolina R.R. showing train at full speed; many R.P.O. postmarks; nice 1875 "Passenger / Steamer R.E. Lee " corner card with Vicksburg, Miss. postmark; 1900 Charleston, S.C. flag cancel "South Carolina/Inter-State and /West Indian Exposition / 1901-1902"; several Charleston allover advertising covers; 3¢ Nesbitt with Charleston 1857 cds and "Charleston Hotel" circular corner card handstamp; 1841 stampless folded letter with "Greenville C.H., S.C." and handstamp "Paid", manuscript "12½", addressed to A. H. Stephens (later Confederate Vice President), Crawfordville, Ga.; several official covers; several solder's letter endorsements including "Washington, D.C." cds with oval "Soldier's Letter" handstamp, with contents; circular "Examined / Camp Chase" on 1862(?) cover to Maryland; also a dozen or so 1930's naval cancels with cachets, and including 7 with notations of "sunk" by Japanese warships; a closer look will be rewarded.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $600

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Lot 2708    

U.S. Covers, 1851-1945. Small box of over 100 mainly 19th Century items, along with some miscellaneous cancelled checks mainly from western banks, including one signed by Zayne Gray, and other ephemera; interesting group of territorial covers from New Mexico and Arizona; couple Confederate covers including wallpaper; many other interesting postmarks worth sorting through; Santa Barbara earthquake post cards; few airmail covers; and much more of interest, please inspect.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $725

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Lot 2709    

U.S. Covers, 1857-1930. Medium box stuffed with several 100's of covers, many better frankings and usages, with some better entires, early airmails, 1920's commemoratives, note J1 & J2 on cover uncancelled; much interesting cancels, etc; lots of surprises here, please inspect.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $325

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Lot 2710    

U.S. Covers, 1860-1940. Interesting mix, including Civil War and other 19th Century, Western usages with Wells Fargo, Nevada, California originations with San Francisco cogs "via Panama"; 1873 Central Pacific Rail Road; Bank Note's; interesting group of Arctic covers including Wilkins-Ellsworth; 1940 U.S.S. Bear "Palmer Land" with "U.S. Antarctic Expedition East Base" handstamp with penguin; also Russia 1938 Polar set; surprises to be found here, please inspect.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $350

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Lot 2711    

U.S. Covers, 1900-1950. Small carton with several hundreds, including FDC's, also containing bunch of WWI poster stamps, wildlife stamps, and much more; please inspect.
Estimate    $100 - 150.

Realized: $55

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Lot 2712    

U.S. First Day Covers, 1925-1985. Two large cartons, containing 1,000's of cacheted covers, neatly packed, with particular strength in 1930's, 1940's & earlier 1950's issues; wide variety of cachets not usually seen in such lots, relatively few Artcraft & Artmaster types, large number of unaddressed, plate blocks, better issues like Prexies, Famous Americans, Parks, Army Navy, etc; needs to be examined by the FDC specialist.
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.

Realized: $450

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Lot 2713    

U.S. Naval Ships Postmarks. About 200 from 1910's to cacheted 1950's, note China ports and a couple of subs; inspect.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $220

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Lot 2714    

U.S. Spanish American War Patriotic Covers. 35 mostly flag designs, nice range of designs including 7 allover designs, "I.R." revenue use, few postal cards, mostly commercial; condition a little varied, worth inspection.
Estimate    $250 - 350.

Realized: $400

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Lot 2715    

U.S.A. Zeppelin, Macon & Classic FDC's. 64 covers, including three C18 usages, with Miami 10/23 printed cachet, Chicago 10/26 on German-American Dr.Eckener #10 size to Friedrichshafen with green receiver on reverse; various Zepp & Akron covers with cachets related to Century of Progress; Piccard's Balloon Ascent; first day covers including 1926 Sesquicentennial forward to about 1938, most with nice cachets; also couple foreign; well worth a closer evaluation by the specialist.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $525

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