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Lot 245 |
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Belgian Congo Postal Cards, about 150 cards, most of which are mint, including a good deal of duplication, includes about 80 mostly different View Cards, all identified in plastic sleeves, a clean and F-VF lot.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 246 |
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Canada First Day Cover Collection, 1932-46, over 500 covers in six cover albums. From the classic era, nearly all cacheted with a wide range of cachet types including 1st Eppstadt, Rossler's and Staehle's, etc. Issues include 192-94 (2), 202 (2), 209 (6), 208 (11), 211-16 (11 sets), 261 (4), 262 (4), many C3-5, Special Deliveries, 1939 Royal Visit cachets include over 20 Crosby's, condition F-VF.
Estimate 3,000 - 4,000
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Lot 247 |
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Chile Early 20th Century Covers to France, group of 13 covers, 9 of which are Registered, from a 1910-11 business correspondence between Santiago and Versailles, excellent range of rates and frankings, six being on 2¢ stamped envelopes; we note especially a diagonal bisect of a 2¢ #84 used as 1¢ along with a 10¢ #87 and a 12¢ 88 to make U.P.S.S. # a 25 rate on a 2¢ entire, manuscript note stating there were no 1¢ stamps for sale. A great lot.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 248 |
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Crete Postcards 1908-1919, collection of about 110 postcards, about 40 of which bear Crete stamps and another 40 of which are unused, the balance includes Austrian, French and Italian P.O. in Crete (one to Aden forwarded to Shanghai) or postcards from overseas to Crete, F-VF and very scarce.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 249 |
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Czech Legion Post in Siberia, collection of 28 covers or cards with various Czech unit markings; six with Legion Post stamps, others Russian stamps or free-franked; also seven picture postcards with related subjects; the complete. group of stamps as listed by Scott #1-14, 1a, 3a plus two sets of 25 essays; F-VF.
Estimate 4,000 - 5,000
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Lot 250 |
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"Dutch" Picture Postcards, box of approximately 450 vintage picture postcards, all with Dutch themes, 99% of them featuring a Dutch boy and/or a Dutch girl in wooden shoes, includes holidays, "Dutch" cities, and "Dutch" sayings, probably about half mint and half used, a wonderful lot that took a lifetime to assemble.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 251 |
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East Asia Picture Postcards, group of about 150 pre-1920 cards, about 100 are Indonesia and about 30 are Burma with the balance, including. a few more modern, being Japan, Thailand, Korea, Straits Settlements, etc. A wonderful picture of early 20th century life in the Orient.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 252 |
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Germany Nazi Propaganda Postcards, about 300 cards featuring Hitler and Nazi propaganda including the infamous "Eternal Jew" card, virtually all very fine and probably about 90% mint, a fascinating and colorful group of this highly popular material. Also several reference works on the subject including Bender's 2-volume Postcards of Hitler's Germany and Gogolinski's 3-volume Germany Propaganda and Picture Postcards of the Third Reich.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
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Lot 253 |
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Germany Third Reich Slogan Cancels, collection of about 350 mostly covers or cards with stamps tied by Nazi commemorative or slogan cancels; also a collection of about 200 vintage post cards, a couple hundred pieces of later German covers and stationery as well as a similar group of Austria; all F-VF.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
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Lot 254 |
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Germany Postal Cards, about 400 nearly all different Hitler era cards including. von Hindenburg view cards, private order cards and Nazi propaganda, all F-VF and 95% mint.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 255 |
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Germany Picture Postcards, about 250 WWI era cards in a postcard album, lots of military markings, F-VF.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 256 |
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Great Britain covers, selection of 27 covers assembled by a collector who always kept his eye out for "something special". Starts with a 4-margin Penny Black and a used 1d Mulready envelope and includes lots of interesting and unusual usages and special cancellations; also includes a eight other British Empire covers including India 1924 Mt. Everest Expedition and five KGVI Hong Kong covers; a terrific little lot.
Estimate 400 - 500
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Lot 257 |
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Japanese Expeditionary Forces in Siberia, 1917-1923, collection of 29 soldier's free-franked covers from various FPos in Siberia between 1919 and 1923, F-VF and scarce group.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
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Lot 258 |
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Peru Postal Stationery, collection/accumulation of about 275 postal cards, letter cards, envelopes, letter sheets and wrappers, with plenty of duplication, all identified in plastic sleeves, about 200 of them are postal cards with well over half being mint. Among the used items are many up-rated to Europe, mainly France and Germany, but we also note Denmark, Italy and Spain; also several to other Latin American countries; a Very Fine and clean lot.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 259 |
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Russia Postal Cards, three groups of cards: 22 turn-of-the-century 3k cards with St. Petersburg numeral cancels; 19 Ukraine cards with trident overprints; 80 Soviet era view cards extolling the virtues of socialism, with translations; all identified in plastic sleeves, Very Fine and clean.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 260 |
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Worldwide Airmail covers, old-time assortment of well over 100 covers from 1870 "Ballon Monté" through Pioneer flights (both U.S. and Foreign), Rocket mail, Trans-Oceanics, Early foreign flights (notably Netherlands and Sweden), FAMs, French vintage postcards showing pioneer fliers, Catapults, U.S. C1-3 First Flight covers, etc., etc. A great lot that really should be seen to be appreciated.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 261 |
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Worldwide Rocket Mail covers & stamps, Selection of 13 covers and about 15 mint stamps, 1934-37, including (E-Z numbers) Australia 4C1, Great Britain 4C1-2, Holland 6C1, India 5C1, 9C1, 12C1, and U.S. 6C1a, and 5 others. All F-VF.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 262 |
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Worldwide Cover Stock, valuable stock of about 800 covers, all priced and in plastic sleeves, wide range of countries with the strongest being Germany, with about 300 covers, Canada, with about 150 and U.S. with about 100. Unusual usages and scarce destinations abound, with one gem after another. Highlights are so numerous that we could not decide which to mention; you will just have to take our word for it- this is a fabulous lot. Owner's retail is over $70,000.
Estimate 10,000 - 15,000
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Lot 263 |
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Worldwide Postal History Accumulation, medium box with hundreds of covers, entires and postal cards. Mostly late 19th and early 20th Century items including British Commonwealth stationery, Canada #2 on cover, Censored, Prisoner of War, Japan including FDC, Scandinavia including postal stationery, Zeppelins, etc, generally F-VF, needs a careful inspection to find the value.
Estimate 600 - 800
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Lot 264 |
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Worldwide Cover Lot, mainly Europe and Colonies but also some Asia and Latin America spanning the late 18th through 20th centuries, with approximately. 1000 covers and postcards, including. interesting pre-stamp, mint and used postal stationery, registered commercial and commemorative usages, neatly presented in dealer's box with everything in its own plastic mount, individually priced, of these there are three Safe albums with around 260 Great Britain 1969-89 R.A.F. multicolor cacheted flight covers with fine frankings and many signed by pilots.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 265 |
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Worldwide Cover Accumulation, carton stuffed with many hundreds of mainly 20th Century covers and picture post cards including nice groups of China, U.S., better foreign derivatives, censored covers, etc. which for the greater part is commercial and not philatelic. Some usual mixed condition but generally FVF throughout, inspection recommended for possible better items which may be lurking within.
Estimate 400 - 500
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Lot 266 |
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Worldwide Covers, balance of consignment in a small box, we note several nice registered covers, zeppelins and unusual usages as well as some better used U.S. stationery, but nothing really great. An interesting mix.
Estimate 400 - 500
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Lot 267 |
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Worldwide Cover Accumulation, three large cartons with many hundreds of covers and postal stationery. Most fairly recent, but does include Canadian 1st flights, other scattered earlies, etc., condition generally F-VF.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 268 |
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Worldwide Cover Accumulation, box of about 800-900 covers from 19th century France to modern G.B. FDcs, lots of interesting and exotic material mixed throughout, we note an specially nice group of G.B. Offices in Africa from the 1940s and 50s, vintage European and African postcards, etc. A close inspection will prove worthwhile.
Estimate 200 - 300
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