Sale 88: The Sescal Sale

Lot 1989    

Cover Balance, of over 25 items; some nice domestic usages including 2¢ Blackjack on violet colored valentine (with enclosure), a run of mostly #11's single usage with a variety of choice town strikes, green York, Pa. cds tying #11, couple scarce unused patriotic covers including "Prince of Wales", bold Omaha City, N.T. cds on 3¢ Nesbitt, illustrated telegraph cover, ad cover with illustrated 1879 Seventh Cincinnati Industrial Exposition design, etc.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $625

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Lot 1990    

Cover Balance, of almost 20 items; includes Lincoln rail splitter campaign cover, 1869 10¢ Pictorial to Dresden, Saxony, 2¢ Pictorial usages including wrapper, advertising, couple bank tags including one with four color franking with 1922 $5 Freedom block of four, 1896 use to Russia, CSA with semi-official cover, etc.; condition varies.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $650

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Lot 1991    

Cover Group, of a hundreds or so covers; mostly common 19th century 2¢ & 3¢ usages with a nice range of town cancels, some better items including illustrated ads including large Buggy and Calvary Pulling Cannon, illustrated Bull corner card from Helena, Mont. to Europe, etc.; condition varies.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $700

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Lot 1992    

Cover Group, couple hundred with some slightly better items; inspection a must to appreciate.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $350

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Lot 1993    

Cover Miscellaneous, two or three hodge-podges combined into one, several hundred postal slogan machine cancels and several thousand philatelic show and/or event illustrated hand cancels, mostly from the sixties and seventies, also a few Tennessee items, nothing super expensive but lots of good dollar box material.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

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Lot 1994    

Covers and Postal Stationery, 1872-1900s, about 75 covers and postal stationery in nice Lighthouse cover album, emphasis with postal stationery up to 1900 with interesting postmarks, uprated frankings, note a Columbian Wells Fargo frank use and 1892 use from Germany advertised with 1¢ postage due #J22 for fee but unclaimed and returned.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $425

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Lot 1995    

Definitive and Commemorative Cover Balance, 1922-44, of approximately 450 sleeved covers; includes 4th Bureaus issues with parcel tags including $5 Freedom high value use, other high value usages, an array of registered usages and combination frankings, airmail usages including first flights, foreign destinations, illustrated ads, special delivery, bisect, useful range of later material, etc.; condition mixed, worth review.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $1,000

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Lot 1996    

Definitive and Commemorative Cover Balance, 1929-40, of approximately 400 sleeved covers; includes a nice range of Parks issues and other Farleys, an array of registered usages and combination frankings, airmail usages, FDC's with some better cachets including Famous Americans, foreign destinations, illustrated ads, special delivery, etc.; condition mixed, worth review.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $400

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Lot 1997    

Domestic Cover Accumulation, of over 670 covers in sleeves; mostly Banknote era usages with a wide array of duplex and fancy killers, including numerals, letters, vast array of geometrics, etc., some small towns and earlier including ad covers, etc.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $2,300

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Lot 1998    

First Day Cover Balance, 1938-44, of mostly various cachet set of the Prexies, Famous Americans; Prexie includes hand painted and Farnam sets, Famous Americans with Crosby and M. Fulton hand painted, Overrun Nation Crosby set and some modern items; nice condition throughout.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $250

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