| U.S. Postal History: Coil Stamps on Cover |
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Lot 1949 |
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1910, 1¢ green coil (390), guide line pair tied by Stockton, Cal. duplexes, April 24, 1913, on P.O.B. cover to Saginaw, Mich., small tear at T of vertical file fold not affecting stamps, otherwise Very Fine and rare commericially used line pair.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 1950 |
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1910, 2¢ carmine coil (391), guide line strip of four (line between bottom stamps) tied along with 2¢ Lincoln #368 pair with Schermack type III perforations on top half of registered cover from Pine Lawn, Mo to Detroit, Sept 5-6, 1911, F-VF and rare franking, stamp catalog off cover $495+.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1951 |
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1910, 2¢ carmine coil (393), tied by Kansas City, Mo. machine cancel, June 14, 1912, on a multicolor advertising cover featuring a soda fountain and eight different fruits, 3/4 inch tear at UL, otherwise XF, a gorgeous cover.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1952 |
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1911, 3¢ deep violet coil (394), tied by Pike, N.H. duplex Oct 4, 1915, along with 2¢ type I #454, on cover to Germany, illustrated Pike Mfg. Co. corner card, Very Fine.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1953 |
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1912, 2¢ carmine coil (413), tied by Toledo, O. Sta. B machine cancel, July 31, 1913, on legal size cover to Providence, R.I., found to weigh over 1 oz. and backstamped magenta "Due 2 Cents", with 2¢ parcel post due #JQ2, precancelled "PROV./R.I.", to pay the deficiency; 2¢ coil with/torn corner, otherwise Very Fine.
Estimate 99 - 150
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Lot 1954 |
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1912, 2¢ carmine coil (413), four singles tied by Peoria, Ill. duplexes, Oct 24, 1912, on Farm Machinery advertising cover to Sweden, backstamped Eskilstyma, Swe. Nov 5; F-VF double-rate cover (5¢ for first ounce, 3¢ for each additional ounce), great combination.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 1955 |
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1915, 2¢ red, type II, rotary coil (454), strip of 7 tied by Harrisburg, Pa. ovals on legal size registered cover to Butter, Pa. with Pa. Auditor General's Dept. corner card, postmarked on reverse Oct 14, 1915 with Butler receiver Oct 15; reduced a bit at R, F-VF double rate cover and the largest known multiple on a contemporary cover.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1956 |
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1918, 1¢ green coil (486), two singles tied, along with 16¢ airmail #C2, by light Boston ovals on legal size registered cover to Providence, R.I., postmarked on reverse Dec 1, 1924 with same day Providence receiver and East Side Sta. (Providence) Dec 2, F-VF, rare use of airmail stamp for regualr mail, four times 2¢ rate plus 10¢ for registration.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1957 |
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1919, 2¢ carmine, type III, coil (488), tied on cover by Minneapolis machine cancel, Nov 28, 1919, F-VF, stamp lifted to check watermark, the earliest documented use of the stamp, the listing item in the 2003 Scott catalogue.
Estimate 500 - 750
Expertization: 2001 APS Certificate.
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Lot 1958 |
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1916, 1¢ green coil (490), tied by smudge cancel and by magenta handstamp "Due 1 Cent" on orange postcard, 1¢ parcel post due #JQ1 added to pay deficiency, printed form to Commissioner of Health, "City", dated Aug 25, 1925, F-VF.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1959 |
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1916, 2¢ carmine, type III, coil (492), tied by Washington, D.C. machine cancel, Oct 14, 1920, on fire-damaged interrupted flight cover, magenta handstamp "Rec'd at Oakland/from Airplane/Wreck", American Red Cross corner card, Very Fine (A.A.M.S. #201016a, $175).
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 1960 |
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1917, 3¢ violet, type I, coil (493), tied by New York machine cancel, Feb 14, 1918, on windowed electrical supplies advertising cover to Uruguay, two different N.Y. postage due markings, one outgoing (in centimes, illegible), resulting in a 4c Uruguay postage due being added to pay the deficiency and tied at Montevideo on Mar 24, and the 2nd, "Due 4 Cents", on return to N.Y. on June 19 after having been handstamped (in Spanish) "Refused" and "Unclaimed" and returned to sender, VF and unusual, nice illustrated advertising on reverse including an early telephone, rate should have been 5¢ + 1¢ war tax = 6¢ leaving a 3¢ shortage + a 1¢ penalty = 4¢ due.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 1961 |
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Washington-Franklin Coils to Overseas Destinations, five covers and three postcards, includes two with Swiss postage dues, an Amundsen Trans-Polar Flight Expedition promotional card, a cover to Switzerland with pair & strip of 3 #486 (a most unusual overseas franking), F-VF.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1962 |
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Washington-Franklin Coils on cover, about 40 covers or postcards, domestic usages including registered, special delivery, flights, advertising etc., made up of 12 x 1¢ 23 x 2¢ 4 x 3¢ and one 5¢; F-VF.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 1963 |
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Washington-Franklins Coil Line Pairs on cover, Washington-Franklins Coil Line Pairs on cover, 12 cards or covers comprising seven 1¢ and five 2¢; the 1¢ include one #410 (the rest one #490); the 2¢ include strips of 3 & 4 on #488 1924 registered cover; strips of 3 & 4 #492 with #E11 on 1922 registered special delivery cover; strips of 6 & 7 #492 on 1917 registered 8x rate cover (court documents); etc, generally F-VF.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1964 |
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1923, 2¢ carmine coil, type I (599), joint line strip of 5 plus five singles and a single 2¢ #583, tied by Brooklyn, N.Y. "B" ovals on damaged-in-handling legal size registered cover to N.Y., N.Y., Jan 13, 1927 light magenta handstamp "Received in Bad Condition/New York City Hall Station", manuscript markings indicate opening by an A. Cooper at the Dept. of Public Works when the addressee was unknown at the Bureau of Highways to which the cover was addressed, blue crayon "Try Brooklyn", sealed with white paper tape and two P.O. seals, handstamped Remailed after delivery/Not in Registered Mail, Fine and unique cover, postage is 4¢ for 2x letter rate plus 15¢ for registration and 3¢ for return receipt.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1965 |
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1923-32, 4 different (599, 602, 603, 721), tied by Rochester, N.Y. duplexes, Apr 3, 1939, on printed C.O.D. envelope/parcel tag, Gardner Seed Co. corner card, package contained a seed order of $6.64 with a money order fee of 11¢ indicated on the tag, Extremely Fine and very scarce 4-color all-coil commerical franking.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1966 |
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1923, 2¢ carmine coil, type I (599), tied by Boston slogan cancel, Jan 17, 1927, on cover carried by dog sled along Star Route 2995 from Boston to Claremont, N.H., manuscript inscription "Via Dog-Team-Mail/Sichin 66," postmarked Claremont Jan 24, backstamped Albany Jan 29, Very Fine. Two sleds carried mail from Minot, Me. (one sled was driven by the postmaster of Minot) to Albany, N.Y. via Boston, Concord, and Claremont; accompanied by photostat of Postal Bulletin of Jan 15 authorizing the service for one trip provided such service be without expense to the department, and by two contemporary newspaper clippings reporting the trip.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 1967 |
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1923, 2¢ carmine coil, type I (599), tied by Newark, N.J. machine cancel, Jan 25, 1932, on cover to New York, forwarded to Paris, France with interpanneau strip of 3 French dues applied, reforwarded to London, England with ½d and 1d dues tied by London d.s. Feb 8, multiple postage due markings, plus boxed "Return/to sender/8-2" (French), British slogan cancel on reverse, Feb 9, on departure to U.S.; VF and highly unusual.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1968 |
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1923, 2¢ carmine coil, type I (599), joint line strip of 5, three pairs and two strips of 3, tied, along with two each 1¢ #632 and 2¢ #634, by New York cancels, May 11, 1936, on cacheted Hindenburg flight cover to Germany, backstamped Frankfurt May 14; Very Fine, a wonderful coil franking.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1969 |
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1929, 2¢ carmine coil, types II & I (599A, 599), joint line strip of 3 (two 599A) tied by Kansas City, Mo. duplexes, Aug 11, 1930, on legal size advertising cover to Germany, twice-redirected within Germany, Atlantic-Pacific & Gulf Oil Co. corner card with fancy logo on flap, F-VF, rare franking and scarce triple German treaty rate usage.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 1970 |
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1923, 2 different 2¢ carmine coils (599, 606), 26 covers, eight being to Foreign destinations including shortpaid to France and Sweden with postage dues; airship Los Angeles to Puerto Rico; single with 6¢ #723 airmail to Tasmania, 1938; single with 3¢ #721 to Nicaragua and returned with Nicaraguan stamps, 1929; pair on unpaid cover from Durban, South Africa, postage due of 6¢ paid with block of 6 #J61 on reverse; etc., etc., a marvelous group, F-VF.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1971 |
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1924, 10¢ orange coil (603), 15 covers and two large pieces of parcel wrappers; includes single with 50¢ Prexy censored airmail to Peru, 1944; strip of 5 Honolulu to San Francisco, 1936; single with 3¢ #483 strip of 3 registered, 1927; pair with pair 4¢ #601 tied by Taiyo-Maru Japanese Seapost cds's on large piece of wrapper 1928; single with 5¢ #602 and 30¢ #569 on parcel tag; single with 2¢ & 5¢ #487, 496, registered, 1927; seven singles on a 1930 crash cover; etc., F-VF group.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1972 |
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1923-29 4th Bureau Issue Coils (597/605), 29 covers with a terrific variety of rates and markings, includes 1¢ (16) including pair on picture postcard to Czechoslovakia with Czech 1k postage due;1½¢ (5); 3¢: joint line strip of 7 on legal size 7x rate cover; 4¢ (4); 5¢ (3); F-VF.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 1973 |
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1929, 2¢ Edison coil (656), strip of 5 applied with paper trailer from coil roll over the indicia on legal size 2¢ entire #U429 by San Francisco duplexes, Sept 11, 1929, sent locally by special delivery and accepted despite the fact that the 2¢ indicia was barely visible, F-VF, a unique item for the coil collector.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1974 |
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1929-32 Coils (656/722), 23 covers with a wide variety of frankings, rates, and usages; also three later coil covers C37, C52, C61; F-VF.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1975 |
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1939, 1½¢ Presidential, horizontal coil (840), tied by 1843 New York Grand Central Annex machine cancel on 2nd class mail cover to India, two different British censor handstamps, backstamped Ahmednagar, April 12, 1944, cover contained a periodical entitled "Social Action", F-VF and rare solo usage of the 1½¢ Proxy to a foreign destination.
Estimate 100 - 150
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Lot 1976 |
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1939, 4½¢ Presidential, horizontal coil (844), single tied by Merion Station, Pa. c.d.s., Apr 29, 1947, on insured 4th class cover to Sheldon, Iowa, oval handstamp "INSURED/MINIMUM FEE," Extremely Fine, a rare solo usage of the 4½¢ Prexy coil.
Estimate 150 - 200
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Lot 1978 |
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1939, 4½¢ Presidential, horizontal coil (844), three covers: pair with 3¢ #924 on airmail envelope from Arlington, Va. to San Francisco, Sept 1, 1944; pair on 6¢ entire #U529, censored airmail from Los Angeles to San Jose, Costa Rica, Nov 26, 1943; pair on legal size multicolor WWII Patriotic cover from Pittsburgh to Honolulu, July 2, 1944; F-VF.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 1979 |
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1939, 10¢ Presidential, horizontal coil (847), strip of 11 plus 7¢ blue jet coil #C52 strip of 3 tied by New York Grand Central Sta. roller cancel, Mar 8, 1962, on legal size special delivery cover to local address, backstamped N.Y. Fort George Sta. Mar 9; Very Fine, the largest recorded multiple of the 10¢ Presidential coil used on cover.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 1980 |
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1939, 10¢ Presidential, horizontal coil (847), strips of 10, 9, and 7 plus a single tied by N.Y. Grand Central Sta., roller cancels, Aug 14, 1956 in large pieces of parcel wrapper, F-VF, the largest recorded usage of the 10¢ Presidential coil.
Estimate 150 - 200
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