| 1925-26 13¢ & 17¢, 1926-34 Rotary Press Issues |
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Lot 1073 |
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1926, 13¢ green (622), tied by January 11, 1926 Washington, D.C. slogan cancel on First Day Cover to Auckland, New Zealand, the cover was undeliverable and is marked "Not known by postmen…", "…Unclaimed" and "Returned to Sender" withWellington Dead Letter Office handstamp on reverse; opening tears and edge wear at top, Fine and unique.
Estimate 400 - 500
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Lot 1074 |
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1926, 13¢ green (622), block of four tied by January 11, 1926 North Bend, Ohio handstamped cancel on bright white registered First Day Cover, mimeographed Worden address and printed corner card showing both spellings of "Milburn" (he often incorrectly added a second "L"), blue "FIRST DAY COVER" rubberstamped cachet. Extremely Fine.
Estimate 250 - 300
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Lot 1075 |
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1925, 17¢ black (623), tied by December 28, 1925 New York, N.Y. slogan cancel on First Day Cover with black Roessler corner card, addressed to Chuquicamata, Chile, backstamped Antofagasta, Chile, Jan 18, and Chuquicamata, Jan 20; opened at top with sealed opening tear. Very Fine. Similar to Newton ROE-2, which has the corner card printed in blue.
Estimate 400 - 500
THE ONLY 17¢ FIRST DAY COVER RECORDED ON THE BLACK ROESSLER CORNER CARD ENVELOPE.
Roessler may have used up his supply of blue corner cards before he was able to fill all his orders for 17¢ Wilson first day covers. It is likely that only a small number of his clients, perhaps just those overseas, received the black corner card. The 13¢ Harrison, which came out two weeks later, is known exclusively with the black corner card.
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Lot 1076 |
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1925, 17¢ black (623), tied by December 28, 1925 Staunton, Va. machine cancel on Nickles-cacheted First Day Cover (Planty 623-2), mimeographed Nickles address, opened at left. Very Fine. Planty $400.
Provenance: Ahl
This series of cachets prepared for the 17¢ Wilson are the first cachets prepared by pioneer First Day Cover maker, C.E. Nickles.
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Lot 1077 |
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1925, 17¢ black (623), tied by December 28, 1925 Princeton, N.J. duplex cancel on Nickles-cacheted First Day Cover (Planty 623-3), mimeographed Nickles address, opened at left. Very Fine. Planty $400.
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Lot 1078 |
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1925, 17¢ black (623), tied by December 28, 1925 Washington, D.C. slogan cancel on unaddressed Nickles-cacheted First Day Cover (Planty 623-4). Fresh and Extremely Fine. Planty $400.
THIS IS THE FIRST C.E. NICKLES PRINTED CACHET.
Provenance: Ahl
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Lot 1079 |
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1925, 17¢ black (623), tied by bold strike of December 28, 1925 Airmail Field, Bellefonte, Pa. violet duplex cancel on Roessler-cacheted special delivery First Day Cover (Planty 623-1), trivial cover edge tear at left. Otherwise Very Fine. Planty $350.
THIS IS ROESSLER’S FIRST PICTORIAL CACHET.
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Lot 1080 |
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1927, 1¢ green (632, 640), tied by June 10, 1927 Washington, D.C. duplex cancels on First Day Cover with neat Milton Mauck rubberstamped address. Fresh and Very Fine.
Scott $350
THE ONLY RECORDED FDC WITH THIS COMBINATION.
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Lot 1081 |
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1927, 1¢ green, booklet pane of six (632a), tied by November 2, 1927 Washington, D.C. duplex cancels on fresh First Day Cover, neat Hugh Southgate manuscript address, opened at left. Fresh and Very Fine. A rare complete pane on a FDC.
Estimate 5,000 - 7,500
THIS FIRST DAY COVER WITH THE COMPLETE BOOKLET PANE IS EXCEEDINGLY RARE AND QUITE POSSIBLY UNIQUE.
Expertization: 2004 A.P.S. Certificate.
For many years no First Day Covers of the perf. 11x10½ rotary press booklet stamps were known. This self-addressed Hugh M. Southgate cover (Southgate was President of the Bureau Issues Association) was not discovered until 1977. To date, it the only one the current owner has encountered.
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Lot 1082 |
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1927, 1½¢ yellow brown, 4¢ yellow brown and 9¢ rose (633, 636, 641), tied by May 17, 1927 Washington, D.C. duplex cancels on special delivery First Day Cover, typed Robinette address. Fresh and Very Fine.
Scott $550
ONE OF ONLY THREE RECORDED EXAMPLES OF THIS COMBINATION FIRST DAY COVER.
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Lot 1083 |
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1926, 2¢ carmine, type I, electric eye printing (634 var.), tied by March 28, 1935 Washington, D.C. duplex cancel on unaddressed First Day Cover with blue engraved Harry Ioor cachet. Very Fine and rare. Brookman $1,000.
Earl Planty, in preparation for his groundbreaking Encyclopedia of First Day Covers, conducted an interview with Harry Ioor in which Ioor stated that he had produced only one example of this cachet.
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Lot 1084 |
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1934, 3¢ bright violet (635a), tied by February 12, 1934 duplex handstamp of Hodgenville, Ky., Lincoln’s birthplace, on a cover with a bi-colored cachet commemorating the 125th anniversary of Lincoln's birth, the year date has been altered to read "1923", the first day of the 3¢ flat plate. A Very Fine and unusual collateral item for the FDC collector.
Estimate 300 - 400
Expertization: 2003 A.P.S. Certificate.
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Lot 1085 |
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1927, 5¢ dark blue and 7¢ black (637, 639), tied by March 24, 1927 Washington, D.C. duplex cancel on special delivery First Day Cover. Some edge or flap wear. A Fine combination cover.
Scott $500
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Lot 1086 |
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1929, 1¢-10¢ Kans.-Nebr. set complete (658-679), all 22 values tied by mute oval cancels on registered special delivery First Day Cover, May 1, 1929 Washington, D.C. magenta registry postmarks and black special delivery duplex handstamp on reverse. Fresh and Very Fine.
Scott $4,000
A GREAT FIRST DAY COVER RARITY—ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED.
Expertization: 1993 P.F. Certificate.
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Lot 1087 |
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1929, 1¢ 6¢ and 8¢ Kans. (658, 664, 666), tied by April 15, 1929 Newton, Kans. machine cancel on a special delivery First Day Cover, locally addressed and signed by the Newton postmaster, typical faint flap toning, 6¢ oxidized. Very Fine.
Estimate 400 - 500
A TOTAL OF 47 COVERS COMPRISING VARIOUS COMBINATIONS OF THE 1¢ 6¢ AND 8¢ VALUES WERE MADE AT NEWTON ON APRIL 15.
Provenance: Vogel
On April 15, 1929, Joseph Foltz, the postmaster of Newton, Kans., received a shipment of 1¢ 6¢ and 8¢ stamps overprinted "Kans." Not being aware of the overprints the Post Office was testing in Kansas and Nebraska to discourage theft, Foltz consulted a Mr. Dickey, a local stamp dealer. Dickey recognized the overprints for what they were and he and a local collector immediately went to the post office to make some covers. By the time they arrived there were only fifteen minutes left until closing. By working quickly, Dickey and the anonymous collector were able to mail 47 covers with the overprinted the stamps. These 47 were the only covers with overprinted stamps to be mailed from Newton on the 15th.
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Lot 1088 |
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1929, 1¢ Kans. (658), bottom right plate #19339 block of 12 tied by April 15, 1929 Newton, Kans. machine cancels on a special delivery First Day Cover, opened at left. Fresh and Very Fine.
Estimate 400 - 500
THIS PLATE BLOCK ON A NEWTON FDC IS QUITE POSSIBLY UNIQUE — NO MORE THAN ONE OTHER CAN EXIST.
Provenance: Seacrest
In an interview conducted in April of 1941 by collector Arthur E. Schaefer with Mr. Dickey, the Newton dealer who serviced all of the 47 Newton First Day Covers (see story on preceding lot), Dickey could not recall whether he and the collector who assisted him had made one or two sets of covers with blocks.
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Lot 1089 |
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1929, 8¢ Kans. (666), bottom right plate #18192 block of four, tied by April 15, 1929 Newton, Kans. machine cancel on locally addressed First Day Cover, signed by the Newton postmaster. Very Fine and rare.
Estimate 1,000 - 1,500
THE KEY PLATE BLOCK OF THE KANS.-NEBR. SET ON A NEWTON FDC — NO MORE THAN ONE OTHER CAN EXIST.
Provenance: Vogel
Enclosed is the story of how these First Day Covers were prepared. According to the documentation, the preparer of these covers could not remember if he had made one or two.
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Lot 1090 |
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1929, 2¢ Nebr. (671), tied by April 15, 1929 Hartington Nebr. machine cancel on locally addressed First Day Cover. Fresh and Very Fine.
Scott $275
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Lot 1091 |
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1931, 13¢ yellow green, rotary (694), plate number single tied by September 4, 1931 Woolrich, Pa. machine cancel on airmail special delivery First Day Cover, 2¢ Red Cross (702) added to make up proper rate, self-addressed to Hugh Southgate, illustrated in Harvey’s handbook. F.-V.F.
Estimate 1,500 - 2,000
ONE OF ONLY TWO RECORDED COVERS FROM THIS UNOFFICIAL FIRST DAY CITY.
Southgate was the only collector to create an unofficial first day cover of this issue.
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Lot 1092 |
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1931, 17¢ black and 25¢ blue green (697. 699), tied by July 27, 1931 Washington, D.C. slogan cancel on fresh airmail special delivery First Day Cover, manuscript Siebold return address; opened at left, Fine-Very Fine and rare.
Scott $2,500
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Lot 1093 |
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1931, 17¢ black and 25¢ blue green (697, 699), tied by July 25, 1931 Brooklyn, N.Y. duplex cancels on special delivery First Day Cover, typed address to W.R. McCoy, return address of Max Johl; slightly reduced at top. Very Fine.
Scott $5,750
A VERY RARE COMBINATION FIRST DAY COVER; ONE OF ONLY TWO REPORTED AND A KEY ITEM TO THE COMPLETION OF A FOURTH BUREAU FIRST DAY COLLECTION.
Two magenta Brooklyn registry postmarks on the reverse are marked out with blue crayon, apparently when the clerk realized the cover, despite the high postage, was not being sent registered
Hugh Southgate and Walter R. McCoy, leaders of the Bureau Issue Association, arranged for the first day covers of these two stamps in Washington and Brooklyn, respectively. According to Jack V. Harvey, author of the AFDCS handbook First Day Covers of the Regular Postage Issue of 1922-1935, these covers "are extremely scarce and rank among the top ten First Day Cover rarities".
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Lot 1094 |
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1931, 20¢ carmine rose (698), light concentric circles cancel on a registered pre-First Day cover from Wake Forest, N.C. to Hugh Southgate in Chevy Chase, Md., September 5, 1931 Wake Forest duplex handstamp and magenta registry postmark on reverse, along with a September 6 Washington, D.C. receiver, a rare pre-first day usage; opened at right. Fresh and Very Fine.
Estimate 4,000 - 5,000
ONE OF THREE RECORDED USAGES OF THE 20¢ ON SEPTEMBER 5TH.
Provenance: Harvey
The 20¢ was not officially issued until September 8th.
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Lot 1095 |
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Balance of the Pioneer Collection, about xxx First Day Covers still on exhibition pages. Many better covers remaining, mostly serviced by Hammelman, Nickles, Roessler or Worden. Includes the following singles: #552, seven different unofficial cities, 559, Niles, O., 560, 561, 562, 564, 623, first Roessler, 588-590 combination, plus the following blocks of four: 555, unofficial Rahway, N.J., 557, 559-562, 564-566, 658, Newton, Kans., etc. A terrific lot in exceptionally fresh condition.
Estimate 3,000 - 4,000
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