Sale 278

U.S. Stamps and Worldwide Collections and Large Lots


Worldwide Topicals
 
 
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Lot 688
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Worldwide Antarctic postal history, 160+ covers and a fw stamps on pieces, generally 1960's-1970's with most from Operation Deep Freeze, plus a small group from Australia 1940's and Ross Dependency 1950's, interesting group and F-VF.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 689
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Worldwide cinderellas and revenues of the world, medium box containing couple thousand items from almost every corner of the world. In addition to Cinderella and revenue items, includes semi-official postage stamps, locals, Israel labels and forerunners, eight Egypt Interpostal seals, interesting group of forgeries and reprints, terrific group of Philatelic Exhibition labels, Australia Coolgardie Cycle Express stamps, plus much more, condition F-VF. If an area of interest, leave some time.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 690
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Worldwide cinderellas, Accumulation of many hundreds made by combining several smaller collections. The bulk is British Empire postal stationery cut squares but there are also lots of Locals, Seals, and Revenues. An intriguing lot.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 691
 
Worldwide Europa & forerunners, Mint collection of Europa issues 1956-97 with each year consisting only of the same eight to ten countries. Consequently there is no 1972 Spanish Andorra or later Portugal but 1956-60 are complete plus there are good forerunners from Italy (1949 E.R.P.), Luxembourg (1951 Coal & Steel Union) and Saar (1949 Council of Europe). A great lot of this hot topical, all Very Fine, NH.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 692
 
Worldwide Europa stock, stockbook containing couple hundred mint sets from 1950s-1960s, includes single sets and blocks, clean and VF, NH.
Estimate 400 - 500
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Lot 693
 
Worldwide 1939 New York World's Fair, outstanding collection, mostly mounted and written up for exhibition. The bulk is U.S. covers, of which there are more than 300 including over 100 different cacheted First Day Covers of Scott #853, as well as Fair Event covers, Fair cancels, Naval Ship cancels, etc. Included among the Foreign material is Mexico's "Sarabia" airmail mint and with specimen overprint (both NH) plus on flown cover; Cape Verde inverted overprint (only 25 issued) plus Angola, Cape Verde, Mozambique, Port. Guinea & India, each on a separate flown airmail cover; France #372 trial color die proof, and Cameroun #223-224 presentation proofs. There's also a little collateral and a few picture postcards. A marvelous collection, undoubtedly one of the finest in existence.
Estimate 2,000 - 3,000
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Lot 694
 
Worldwide ship postal history collection, terrific assortment of covers, photo cards and picture postcards, all related in some way to maritime history. Wide range of ships with many lesser known, still major ships include R.M.S. Lusitania, R.M.S. Queen Mary, R.M.S. Queen Elizabeth, S.S.United States, S.S. Europa, Ile de France and S.S. Andrea Doria, a great group of usages including many catapult flights, overall F-VF and should be well worth your time.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 695
 
Worldwide space collection, beautiful collection mounted is fourteen stockbooks, mostly 1960s to 1980s with sets, blocks and souvenir sheets, loaded with imperfs plus varieties, VF & NH.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
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Lot 696
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Worldwide stamps on stamps, Group of 57 vintage picture postcards published by Ottmar Zieher of Munich, each featuring multicolor illustrations, most often embossed, of the stamps of a single country. This holding features 49 different cards from about 45 different countries, all clean and Very Fine. A marvelous holding of these popular cards.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 697
 
United Nations World Refugee and Human Rights collections, two volume World Refugee and one volume Human Rights collections mounted in Lindner hingeless albums, sets and souvenir sheets quite complete, fresh and F-VF, NH.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 698
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United Nations topicals, One- volume collection of U.N. topicals (including U.P.U.) with unusual material like proofs and imperf throughout.
Estimate 200 - 300
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Lot 699
 
Worldwide U.P.U. 75th anniversary, Collection of 1949-50 issues fairly complete including British Omnibus set, Berlin (NH), Hungary imperf S/S (C81), San Marino S/Ss, etc. A few minor faults but generally F-VF with much NH.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 700
  Worldwide hotel baggage labels, Collection of more than 2,000 labels with perhaps 1500 being different (often 2-5 of the same label). The labels were produced by hotels to be pasted on suitcases (most are gummed). They vary in size from about 2" x 2" to 4" x 4" with many being die-cut and most being multicolored miniature works of art. Hundreds of hotels are represented from dozens of countries around the world; the time period covered seems to be the 1920s to the 1960s with the newer ones tending to be more plain. A fabulous lot.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 701
 
Worldwide Zeppelin covers, group of about 50 covers, 1924-37, including Hindenburg and Los Angeles, mainly German despatches but also including Brazil, U.S. and a few other European; best items we note are Sieger #20 originating in Switzerland (€400) and #430C (€500); also includes several vintage Zeppelin picture postcards. Nice clean lot.
Estimate 750 - 1,000
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Lot 702
 
Worldwide Zeppelin memorabilia assortment, two cartons containing both vintage and modern Zeppelin items, vintage includes Scientific American newspaper from 1908 and 1919, advertisements including a metal sign for "Zeppelin Bread", two cutout books designed to produce cardboard models, music score for "The Wreck of the Shenandoah", two 1935 newspapers about loss of Macon at sea; modern includes an array of books, pamphlets, articles, etc., condition generally F-VF.
Estimate 600 - 800
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Lot 703
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Worldwide topicals collection, small group with a two volume Red Cross collection which includes better values, plus Freedom from Hunger and Malaria collections, condition F-VF, mint og with most NH.
Estimate 500 - 750
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Lot 704
 
Worldwide topicals, large carton filled with varied group of topical issues, almost entirely mint sets and souvenir sheets from the 1960s to 1980s, varied group of topics with the strongest being Animals, Birds, Military, Paintings and Ships, clean and F-VF, virtually all NH.
Estimate 300 - 400
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Lot 705
  Philatelic supplies hoard, nine large cartons filled with new supplies from Scott, Lighthouse, Lindner, Safe, etc., huge group of very high retail value including albums, slipcases, hingeless pages, stockpages especially Safe large size and much more, all VF and definitely worth an inspection.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
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