Lot
1911 
Tennessee - R.P.O. Collection, several hundred covers and cards mostly identified on pages arranged in folders; mostly 20th century with a nice showing of 19th century items, routes including St. L. Carb & Memp., Wash. & Chatta., 1884 W. Spring & Knox., St. Louis & Memphis types, Salis & Chatta, Nash & St. Louis types, Nash & Atlanta, etc.; a nice assembly of Tennessee rail postmarks. Estimate $500 - 750.
Realized: $750
Lot
1912
Tennessee - Railway Post Office Cancels, good selection RPO cancels starting from the 1870's up through about 1940, some better items (we will let you look them up in Towle) with a few values to $25 or so, generally good condition with quite a few fine to very fine. Estimate $200 - 300.
Lot
1913
Tennessee - Registered Usages, about 40 examples mostly chosen for attractiveness or the rarity of the cancel (rarities to Helbock 4, 5, and even 6), better towns are Lincoln, Wilson Station, Acting, Balta, Lowe, Bellamy, Butler's Landing, Spain, High House with unusual agent handstamp, Highland Springs, Simcoe, Holly Leaf, Whitfield, Holloway, Tom's Creek, English, and one or two town's that do not show in Helbock; very few cheaper items with values to $50 or so, minimal conditions issues, with most in the fine to very fine range, many of such items can be found in the general Tennessee collection. Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $170
Lot
1914
Tennessee - Stampless Balance, about eighty such items, earliest item we saw dates from 1820, spotted good contents here and there such as a letter to the New York Herald "your advocacy of the Missouri Line of Compromise has made you thousands of friends in the south", one letter mentions a prisoner that escaped during trial and the sheriff wants him back, one incoming item from London, a letter delivered by slave, an 1821 Bean's Station, letter mentioning using slave traders as couriers of gold specie, early Nashvilles in different colors. Estimate $300 - 400.
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Realized: $650
Lot
1915
Tennessee - Stampless Group, 35 that have been chosen for interest and/or rarity; includes Nashville with various townmarks and rate, manuscript postmarks including ca 1824 Rogersville and 1838 Concordia, 1837 Lagrange cds, etc.; with many such items residing in the primary Tennessee collection, condition mixed. Estimate $200 - 300.
Realized: $325
Lot
1916
Tennessee Stampless Town Handstamps, group of 41 covers with range of town markings and ratings, towns comprise Bolivar, Brownsville, Chattanooga, Clarksville, Columbia with dashed cds's; Franklin blue double-circle date stamp, Gallatin, Jackson, Knoxville, Lawrenceburg, Memphis, Murfreesboro, Nashville including. 1816 crude oval and later blue fancy ratings, Somerville and Trenton; nice group, generally F.-V.F. or better. Estimate $300 - 400.
Realized: $300
Lot
1917
Tennessee - Town Cancel Collection, extensive collection of thousands arranged on pages alphabetically by town in folders housed in 10 large boxes, from early stampless to the 1940's with the majority of value in the 1850-1910's; a vast array of hundreds of towns represented including 1871 Bolivar to England, 188 Beys Creek manuscript on cover to Blains X Roads, Ten. with additional "A.X. Shields, Blaine, Tenn." receiving handstamps with one tying stamp, Scott #25 on cover with Beech Grove manuscript, 1880's Cog Hill registered usage with Feb 28 leap year cancel, 1883 Cusick X Roads manuscript, 1869 Collieville manuscript to La Grange bearing 2¢ Pictorial two singles, 1883 Careyville oval date stamp, 1836 Denmark believed to be the earliest usage from this town, 1882 Glenloch manuscript on uprated registered 3¢ entire, 1883 Hiber brown straight line, 1896 Idaville straight line and following manuscript cancels, 1841 Jackson green cds, 1886 Jearoldstown manuscript, 1873 Moffat Station usage to Switzerland, exceptional strikes of 1893 Ruth and 1895 Sandlick on registered covers, 1853 Shaw Plains manuscript, 1881 Summertown straight line, 1870's Winchester cover to Switzerland, early stampless includes ca. 1828 Bolivar cds and 1828 incoming folded letter posted in Philadelphia to Nashville, etc., later material 1940's WWII camp mail including Camp Forest with APO's from Europe and German POW incoming mails, also usages from Camp Tyson and Camp Campbell, 1940's section from Oakridge "Home of the Atomic Bomb", other later with R.D.F. and flag machine cancels with most of the cancel types identified; condition varies with most material of exhibit quality and much with original enclosures occasionally with interesting content, an wonderful collection a truly an excellent basis for further continuation. Estimate $10,000 - 15,000.
Realized: $5,250
Lot
1918
Tennessee - Unusual Place Names, 40 covers assembled as an annotated exhibit by the late Marjorie Outlaw - one of the luminaries of Tennessee postal history, items date from the stampless and/or manuscript cancel era up into the early 20th century, most are DPO's of which many are quite rare, includes Cherry Bottom Helbock SI 8, Elm Hill SI 7, Major SI 6 Cottage Home, House Mountain, Jersey, Jockey, Lavendar, Mouse Tail, Nebo, Venus, Wallace's X Roads, etc., all Helbock SI 5; most items are F-VF and exhibit quality. Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $375
Lot
1919
Texas Stampless Towns, 1849-1850s, group of 9 comprising 1849 "San Augustine Tx" ms. postmark, 1854 "Chambers' Creek Tex." unlisted ms. postmark, "Ben Franklin Tx" balloon-style cds, 1853 "Brushy Creek Txs" ms. postmark, "Montgomery Txs." red cds, "Marshall Txs. bold cds and "Paid" "10" handstamps, 1853 "Jefferson Tex." cds, "Nacogdoches Tex." cds and "Galveston Tex." cds; some mixed condition, F.-V.F. Estimate $300 - 400.
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Realized: $425
Lot
1920
Vermont Postal History Bearing the 1851-57 3¢ Issue, better group of 18 with several choice strikes including "Island Pond Vt. Jun 24" broken frame cds on #11A to St. Albans; perfect strike "East Wallingford Vt., Apr 30" oval datestamp on #11 to Londonderry; exceptional bold "Albany Vt." balloon-style cds on #11 cover to Ogdensbury N.Y.; #11A with blue White River Valley cds on Junction House ad cover; Waterbury cds on #26 on Geo. J. & E. A. Colby ad cover; additional towns of Mongomery Centre, Rutland, Bakersfield blue cds on #10A, Fayetteville, Fairlee, Brandon, Hinesburgh, Orwell, Jonesville, Greensboro etc. and one #24 (three) cover from Arlington (one 1¢ faulty), F.-V.F. Estimate $400 - 600.
Realized: $290