Kelleher Club Sale
Bethel, CT 06801, USA
| Lot | United Nations | Estimate | |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1001 | Private Crescent City Stamp Club souvenir sheets, 1937-40, four sheets, three of them for the club's 5th Annual Exhibit in 1937, and one for the 8th Annual Exhibit in 1940 honoring the Centenary of the First Postage Stamp; two of the 1937 sheets are of identical designs, perf & imperf, NH; the third is the same design in transposed colors, imperf & ungummed; the 4th sheet has slightly disturbed o.g., Very Fine and rare. |  3 | $80 |
| 1002 | Errors, Freaks and Oddities, 1938-2000, 5 black stock pages of underinking, overinking, color mis registration, misperfs, and more; 3¢ Prexie preprinting paper fold, under/over inking Prexie blocks (1¢, 15¢, and 25¢), missing perfs for 10¢ and 14¢ Prexie, paste up Printer's waste Win the War, #2764b black omitted, plus some crazy perforation jobs; a fun lot, Very Fine. |  | $500 |
| 1003 | "Trial and Error" Small Lot of Imperfs & Missing Colors, 1971-90, The 8¢ Eisenhower coil imperf (#1402a) in a strip of 40 consisting of two line pairs, the 10¢ Double Flag coil (1519a) in a strip of 34, and two full booklets of the 1990 Lighthouses (2474b) with the last two stamps of the final pane with "USA 25" omitted, Fine to Very Fine. |  | $200 |
| 1004 | Bring a Forklift, 1912-2019, tens of thousands of stamps and thousands of First Day Covers in this accumulation; massive box with many thousands of US used (little after 1960) including Washington Franklins, perfins, Prexies, precancels, Airmail, Special Delivery, and Postage Due; several hundred foreign organized by country in commercial envelopes; Scott # 755 full sheet (four panes) in a vintage frame; pair of large dealer's drawers with at least 1,500 FDCs individually sleeved with cachets from Anderson, ArtCraft, Artmaster, Fleetwood, Aristocrat Cachets, House of Farnum, Tri Color, CCC Cachets, and ABC Boerger; massive box with 1,200 FDCs (2/3rds without cachets) from 1948-1980; about 100 postal history items with about half Banknotes and the others modern FDCs; and many thousands more stamps; and an uncut press sheet of the 3409-3413 space hologram issues; lots of fun to be had here, Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 68 lbs. |  | $500 |
| 1005 | Mostly Mint on Pages, 1921-2015, healthy stack of album pages with mostly mint that adds up; cursory glance reveals two sets of Prexie (to 50¢), Overrun Countries and Famous American plate blocks, 1933 Century of Progress souvenir sheets, #291, Special Handling and Parcel Post Due, and Airmail including C3, C4, C12-C17, C18 (2), C19-C25, and much more, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 7 lbs. |  | $500 |
| 1006 | Fun Balance Lot, 1851-2005, 10 different USPS Year Sets, two US albums of mint in hinges, an attractive MNH United Nations collection, some mint sheets, hundreds of worldwide stamps; Face $250, Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 54 lbs. |  | $400 |
| 1007 | Modern Commemoratives and Airmails, 1940-2021, thousands of modern used in glassines and on a dozen manila stock pages; five stock sheets of Famous Americans and Overrun Countries as well as six stock pages of Airmail from #C20 forward; mild to moderate quantities of #1345-1354, 1953-2002, 2216a-2219i, 2286-2335, 2647-2696, 2975a-t, 3000a-t, 3068a-t, 3105a-o, 3209a-t (and 3210); useful modern material, Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 18 lbs. |  | $275 |
| 1008 | A True Consignment Balance of a 50+ Year Collector, strength is used collection to 1983 including Nos. 69, 76, 78b, 219-228, 285-290, 294-299, 300-310, 323-327, 397-404, 524, 547, 660-668, C1-C6, C13, C18, E1-E21, Q1-Q12, RW1, RW9/RW39, a modest Canal Zone collection, a Recalled Legends sheet in its original USPS folder, 9 imperf Bugs Bunny sheets, few sheets and plate blocks, mint singles of Nos. 572, C18, Q7 & RVB1-RVB2, an album of mint postal stationery, 13 year sets in USPS folders, some souvenir cards, a handful of first day programs, some foreign and other odds and ends, Fine to Very Fine, see the better used stamps online. Shipping charges apply - weight 53 lbs. |  | $400 |
| 1009 | Odds and Ends with more Ends than Odds, includes a stampless Civil War soldier's letter, mint and used US classic stamps in glassines, a stockbook, and a dealer counter book, also includes a green Scott National album (no pages), a few covers, about 50 picture postcards, a few Revenues, and many unused mounts mostly in opened packs, Fine to Very Fine, see a part of this lot online. Shipping charges apply - weight 30 lbs. |  | $75 |
| 1010 | Mostly Used Dealers Stock, 1851-1912, 46 stock cards of vintage goodness; used include #7 (2), 9 (9), 10 (2), 10A, 11 (3), 11A (6), 17 (2), 24 (5), 25, 26 (15), 26A (5), 30, 32 (2), 33, 35 (2), 36-38, 63a (6), 64b, 65 fancy cancels (37), 68 (3), 70a (2), 71 (6), 73 (13), 76 (6), 77 (3), 78 (2), 78a (2), 152, 160, 276A, 311, and 634b; unused include #26 (OG pair and 3 singles), 112, 113, 209, 228, 369 (5), 411 MNH LP, 481 Wilson roulette, 595 MNH, 599A, and 634b; good stuff, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 0.6 lbs. |  | $1,500 |
| 1011 | Old-Time Lindbergh Exhibit, 1926-34, typed exhibit on quadrille pages celebrating Charles Lindbergh; includes mail carried by Lindbergh (CAM 2, FAM 5, FAM 6, and FAM 8), First Day Covers from all cities, Lindbergh Day, honors in Panama and Cuba, "Horseshoe" mail (including a bisect), awarded Congressional Medal of Honor, Lindberg KY, letters addressed to Lindbergh, New York to Paris anniversary covers, and more; includes ALS letter from Joe Foss (along with signed photo) with great content about Lindbergh, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 4 lbs. |  | $600 |
| 1012 | "Face Up" Face Lot of Higher Denominations, 1966-95, Plate blocks of the $1 & $5 from the Prominent Americans series, as well as Express Mail stamps, nearly 100 plate blocks of the $1 Airlift, and over 30 sets of the American Bicentennial souvenir sheets, along with some additional postage from the 1990s. Total aggregate face approximately $865, mostly Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.6 lbs. |  | $450 |
| 1013 | Postal History Collection, 1853-2023, several important mini collections; postal stationery from a specialist with most of the 125 or so entires, wrappers, and postal cards banded with the UPSS number, Die, Size, Knife, Watermark, Scott Number, and Scott Value; about 60 Airmail covers with almost all franked with #C34 Pan American Union Building and destinations including Switzerland, Argentina, Aruba, Bahamas, Bolivia, Brazil, Costa Rica, Cuba, Jamaica, Paraguay, Peru, Uruguay, Venezuela, Cameroon, Ethiopia, Portuguese East Africa, South Africa, Lebanon, South Iran, Malaya, Australia, Germany, Hungary, Portugal, Spain, Turkey, Belgium, Denmark, Holland, Italy, Luxembourg, Sweden, and France; and commercial mail (about 120) from late 19th and early 20th century with opportunities to collect fancy cancels, Advertising, and stampless (there are 27 including an 1837 Free Frank from the Acting Commisioner of Pensions with word a pension had been granted); also perhaps 50 oversized modern envelopes with high value adhesives, Priority Mail, and the like for the modern rate specialist; good stuff, Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 19 lbs. |  | $800 |
| 1014 | Postal History & Ephemera Collection, 1850-1960, great lot with two Antebellum newspapers, 1914 Puck magazine, small group of postal stationery with better markings, small lot of albino postal stationery, 1907 Battleship Revenues on cover, birch bark postcard, 1904 World's Fair St. Louis postcards, 1918 Westfield NJ golf pass, several coin & stamp dealer cards and covers, inauguration covers, 1942 Prexie Registered cover censored, 13 CDVs with Revenues, and all sorts of other miscellaneous covers and postcards; a treat for your stock, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 6.2 lbs. |  | $650 |
| 1015 | Cover Group with Value, over 300 mostly 19th Century including nine stampless folded letters, 23 with 3¢ 1851/1857 issues including 12 with enclosures and one used as revenue stamp on insurance policy, 3¢ 1861 approximately 100 including legal sized with two plus No. 69. legal size with single plus Nos. 68 & 73, 8 other legal size franked with multiples, few fancy cancels including Columbus Ohio prison bars, "V" in circle, railroad manuscript covers stamp and perfectly placed "PAID" handstamp, about a dozen from two soldiers in the Civil War back home including six with letters, few advertising and a couple mourning, 3¢ 1869's (18), Bank Note issues include 1¢ (57), 2¢ (7), 3¢ (17), 6¢ on all over advertising cover, 10¢ to Mexico, 1894-98 issues include 16 to South Africa mostly 5¢ but 2 insufficiently paid, 19 mostly 2¢ Washington Franklins including one to Netherlands insufficiently paid / postage due and a few others including legal sized Zeppelin flown and Nox. 704-715 on cacheted first day cover, plus 35 postal stationery entires including 3¢ Nesbitt and a couple military related, anything after 1932 is not counted, few faults as always on large groups of mostly 19th century covers, generally Fine to Very Fine, see the pre 1930 covers online. Shipping charges apply - weight 8 lbs. |  3 | $600 |
| 1016 | The Absolute Final Lot of the Covers of the Falmouth Stamp & Coin Shop, includes 500-750 Fleetwood cacheted unaddressed FDCs 9/1995 to 12/2000 & 1/2006 to 4/2010 in ten cover albums (top right in image), a few commercially prepared cover products (top left of image), 18 Postal Commemorative Society albums containing well over 1,000 cacheted addressed FDCs (2nd row of image), additional FDCs and a few inaugural covers (3rd row of image), and many hundreds of souvenir pages (bottom row of image), also includes blue 3-ring binder of 60 CAMs 1928-1930 (see video), generally Fine to Very Fine or better, ex Falmouth Stamp & Coin. Shipping charges apply - weight 390 lbs. |  | $400 |
| 1017 | First Day Cover Collection, mostly 1930's-2000, few thousand with a handful of better cachets, includes 689 Steuben Society, Army set and Navy set on legal sized Rice cachets (one original Rice stuffer), No. 832, Canal Zone No. 117 (two including one with typed letter), 909-921 Farnum, C25-C31 (individual Linprint), and many others, well sorted in plastic tubs with dividers by year, also includes souvenir pages & commercially prepared FDC's, overall Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 114 lbs. |  | $325 |
| 1018 | Event and Better First Day Covers, 1882-1959, about 120 mostly US envelopes in a large binder; #C3 on May 24th 1918 hotel cover, several FDCs of early 1930s "reds", #704-715 matched FDC set, rich color E5 on cover, C46 plate block FDC (3), #367 FDC (cat $450), better CAMS and FAMS, #158 (3) steamship to France, Lindbergh flown, and more; nice stuff, Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 7 lbs. |  | $300 |
| 1019 | Stampless to First Day Cover Collection, 1831-1988, 23 New England stampless folded letters (several business related) to Boston and New York; a few hundred older mint postal cards and postal entires; about 200 FDCs (including a dozen from Austria); and a few other goodies, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 11 lbs. |  2 | $200 |
| 1020 | Group of 5 Classic Covers, including #11 3¢ blue Paid, Philadelphia Blood's Despatch tied, and two #93 2¢ pair Black Jack covers, fine overall. |  3 | $100 |
| 1021 | Coil Leader Collection, 1912-58, 100 coil leaders seldom encountered from #597//C52; Washington Franklin and Harding, Prexie (including vertical coils), Liberty Series, as well as Airmail; colorful, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 0.8 lbs. |  | $750 |
| 1022 | Yale College "Light and Truth", 1819-1983, 120 postcards, envelopes, and stampless folded letters related to Yale College or Yale faculty in three binders; 22 early postcards (pre-linen) from an exhibit on Yale College from an advanced collector; undivided, divided, linen, and a few chrome postcards from the college; faculty include three stampless to Jeremiah Day (1819-1833), free frank to James Hillhouse (1822), SFL from Benjamin Silliman (1835), free frank from Ralph Isaacs Ingersoll (1830), Wells Fargo entire to William Henry Brewer (1866), envelope addressed to Thomas Lounsbury (1896), fancy cancelled envelope to Oliver Daggett (1880), Simeon Baldwin (1898), Elias Loomis (1886), Russell Chittenden (1900), Othniel Marsh (1883), Hollon Farr (1901), William Phelps (1912), Ellsworth Huntington (1917), and George Dahl (1917); a great exhibit in the making from a storied seat of higher education, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 11 lbs. |  | $1,200 |
| 1023 | Legends of Baseball Scrapbook and Album, 1989, USPS produced a delightful product (Item #8831) that consists of the scrapbook, stamps amd black mounts, and baseball cards; the perfect crossover collectable for kids; lot includes 38 examples in the original windowed envelope; cool, Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 13.4 lbs. |  | $160 |
| 1024 | USPS Year Sets, 1972-2009, 38 Year Sets with stamps and minimal duplication; the books are still in the issued packages; beautiful, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 32 lbs. |  | $300 |
| 1025 | U.S. & Foreign, Selection of Premium Items Including Great Britain, 1840-1926, A White Plains sheet, a beautiful MNH margin copy of #235, a Wells Fargo cover from the 1860s, and pretty 4-margin examples of Great Britain #1 & 3, Fine to Very Fine or better, viewable in full. |  4 | $500 |
| 1026 | United States and United Nations Assortment, 1887-2011, bring a handtruck; US Souvenir Pages (1971-1978); UN Souvenir Cards (mint and cancelled) in White Ace mint sheet file; UN Souvenir Folders (1969-1982); a few hundred US postal stationery including aerograms, postal cards, and entires (including Officials); US Federal Duck prints; USPS FDC postmarks on sheets and covers (still shrink wrapped); 20" x 25" London building lease from 1826 and an even larger document (2 pages) from 1825 with a history of the lease with a dozen dates going back to 1704; several folded letters (not sent through the mail); albums and binders of United Nations stamps, blocks and covers including all offices; at least 200 US FDCs; and more to explore, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 73 lbs. |  2 | $400 |
| 1027 | U.S. and Foreign, Packet-Maker's Delight, varied mishmash of US mint and used singles, mint and used entires and postal cards, a couple First Flight Covers, etc., plus Canada mostly mid-century items (again, mint and used), in quantities and all gathered in bags or glassines which, for the most part, are identified or come with inventories, plus even more in several stockbooks, an old-time album (general coverage), more envelopes, etc.; also includes a Space-themed framed group of US stamps, and a clear Albert Gallatin Free Frank (as Secretary of the Treasury, docketed 1808) outer letter sheet to the Collector of Baltimore; overall fresh and sound from a quick overview, generally Fine to Very Fine or better, inspection invited. Shipping charges apply - weight 32 lbs. |  | $300 |
| 1028 | United States and Worldwide Hoard, formed by a local collector, consisting of stamps and covers mostly US but some foreign, strength in stamps including a US collection, generally Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 109 lbs. |  | $130 |
| 1029 | US and Worldwide Stamp Consignment Balance plus Supplies, strength in US including 4 dealer counter books and a group of 102 cards featuring cut squares and 19th Century used, plus a binder of 8½ x 11 inch stockpages and a small handful of covers, worldwide in 3 binders of 8½ x 11 inch stockpages and a thin green stockbook, supplies are in an 18 x 12 x 12 inch box and 3 red boxes, generally Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 70 lbs. |  | $150 |
| 1030 | "Southern Comfort" Appealing Mostly Used Collection, 1861-64, High-octane collection mounted on quadrille pages beginning with two used Postmaster Provisionals from Charleston (#16X1) and a pair of 62X4 from New Orleans. Other highlights from the general issues include used 1 (on piece & on cover), 2, 5 (on piece), 6 (single & pair), and mint 8 (strip of four), generally Fine to Very Fine, viewable in full. Shipping charges apply - weight 0.6 lbs. |  3 | $500 |
| 1031 | U.S. Possessions, Mint Sheets Holding, 1935-64, 6 sheets from the Canal Zone, 5 sheets from the Philippines, and one from Monaco; includes Philippines #384, 388, 461, O28, and O53; Canal Zone includes #C36-C41; and Monaco #198; fresh, Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 0.8 lbs. |  | $160 |
| 1032 | Canal Zone, 75 Years of Change, 1904-79, about 70 items in a loose leaf binder to and from the Canal Zone; #2 on cover from Ancon to Ferncinder, #42-45 on Panama Canal Official envelope Registered and sent to the Police Department in Ancon, 1930 Postmaster in Cristobal to Venezuela on First Flight via Pan American Airways, 1939 Crosby photo cachet on Airmail cover from Balboa Heights to Randolph Field in Texas, #16b on 1907 postcard to Wyncote PA, pair of First Flight envelopes carried by Charles Lindbergh, censor tape on WWII Airmail from Balbo to Manchester England, and more, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 2.6 lbs. |  | $350 |
| 1033 | Canal Zone, Airmail Postal History Collection, from 1930, large collection of 180 covers showing Airmail rates from the Canal Zone to around the world, including WWII censored mail; hand-selected over the years, but did not make it into the owner's Large Gold Airmail exhibits; well worth examining for the specialist collector or someone who wants to start a Canal Zone Airmail collection, Very Fine, fully imaged online. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.4 lbs. |  | $600 |
| 1034 | Canal Zone, Official Penalty Cover Compilation, ca. 1911-18, approximately 500 Official covers from the early days of the Panama Canal Zone to claims officer; a large assortment of towns (though none of the truly rare towns), good range of postmarks and return addresses, etc., Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 20 lbs. |  4 | $250 |
| 1035 | Canal Zone, Postal History Collection, comprising seven covers and six postcards franked with 1¢ or 2¢ values, single frankings unless otherwise stated, comprising type I 1¢ (2) and 2¢, type II 1¢ (2) and 2¢ (3), type IV 1¢ (2 pairs) and 2¢ (3, with a pair), and type V 2¢, mainly Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 0.6 lbs. |  | $250 |
| 1036 | 1880, Hawaiian Bell Telephone Company Stock Certificates, two, one with counterfoil attached (folded under), one with counterfoil detached (included in lot), both blank; some toning and light edge wear as to be expected, but attractive items, Fine. |  2 | $100 |
| 1037 | United Nations, It's a Small World After All, 1951-2020, Albums, stockbook, and shoeboxes of First Day Covers; Essentially mint complete Scott Specialty in black mounts; Lindner hingeless pages with a wonderful mint collection; several hundred (most in glassines) FDCs from 1952-1985 including oversized Flags of the World issue; stockbook with Vario pages packed with ultra fresh singles, souvenir sheets, blocks, inscription blocks, and souvenir cards; will break out nicely, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 86 lbs. |  | $600 |
| 1038 | United Nations, Pristine Budding Collection, 1951-95, six-volume like-new Scott albums; mint collection complete in clear mounts from the First Definitive Issue through the 50th Anniversary mini sheet; includes Offices in Geneva and Vienna, as well as Air Post; imprint blocks from 1969 to 1974 in a White House album followed by Scott Part III complete from 1971 to 1983 and Part V from 1984 moderately populated through the 1990s, a new binder and suppliment included to continue the expansion as the collection grows; also includes virtually complete postal stationery envelopes, Air Letter Sheets, Air Postal Cards, and more; lovely, Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 26 lbs. |  | $600 |
| 1039 | United Nations, Better Specialist Material, 1951-70, selection of mainly better items including 3 forerunner covers, 1957 UN Gaza Emergency Force cover, #1-11 on two First Day Covers, 1-11 and C1-C4 on separate FDC official UN cachets, early inscription blocks, #38 FDC, 38 NH, 38d (2 with one with printing flaw), 85 with broken "i" and "v" flaw, 149 with Bundesdrucheri Berlin imprint block of 10 (2), C1-C6 with "specimen" overprints with DeLaRue certificate, C3a Prussian Blue error, and West Irian 1a-19a blocks of 4; not your run of the mill UN, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 3.8 lbs. |  | $400 |
| 1040 | United Nations, Fresh Collection, 1951-2005, new Lindner stockbook, 3 ring binder, and a few dozen stockbook manila pages packed with several hundred stamps as singles, sets, souvenir sheets, inscription blocks and more; duplication is mild to occasionally moderate; includes some mounted postal stationery; useful, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 13 lbs. |  | $200 |
| Lot | Great Britain | Estimate | |
| 1041 | United Nations, Collections & Stock with FDCs, 1951-1980, Multiple collections in Scott, Minkus & White Ace albums and other binders with a very nearly complete postal stationery collection and hundreds of FDCs, as well as two large metal boxes filled with souvenir cards, souvenir folders, and miniature sheets. And when it comes to premium items, #38 obviously springs to mind, and it's here mint and also as an FDC, but many other better too, like the 1½ precancel, the only precancel ever issued by the U.N., the 1962 UNTEA overprints for use in West New Guinea, and select pieces of postal stationery, such as the Offices in Vienna air-letter sheet UC2. And as an added bonus, three large binders with approximately 180 covers of U.S. gold replicas, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 85 lbs. |  | $160 |
| 1042 | Collection of New York Stampless and Documents, 1774-1865, 32, includes "New York Daily" 1789 newspaper, straight-line, Free, "clamshell" including red cancel, bishop marks, Locals uses including Boyds, Swarts', Carrier markings, Ship, Baltimore R.R., Brooklyn c.d.s., illustrated "American Telegraph Company with content, 1804 volunteer enlistment, etc., other than a few file folds, a very clean group, Fine to Very Fine usage. Shipping charges apply - weight 5 lbs. |  | $1,500 |
| 1043 | New Jersey Stampless, 1810's-1850's, 137, better postmark cancels include Garret D. Wall free frank, Acquackanuck, Bergen (2 in brown), Bridgetown, Chatham, Greenburg, Lawrenceville straightline, New Brunswick stencil, Perth Amboy, Princeton green, and West Bloomfield, few manuscript, interesting addresses including a large handful to the famed Nassau St. NYC, one to the "Education Rooms" in Philadelphia, two to George Sykes in Congress (one that enclosed a petition the sender wants delivered to the PMG for a mail route from Somerville to Princeton, and the other a long personal letter from Sykes' sister Edith. some written by famous New Jersey citizens including members of Congress, Fine to Very Fine, fully imaged online. Shipping charges apply - weight 6 lbs. ASCC approximately $4,250. |  2 | $1,000 |
| 1044 | NO LOT. |  | $10 |
| 1045 | Stampless Cover Holding in Album, 1796-1867, A total of 40 covers neatly mounted in a SAFE album and mostly from the first half of the 19th century including many ship cancels and some to foreign destinations, such as Brunswick, Germany and Cognac, France, Fine to Very Fine, viewable in full. Shipping charges apply - weight 3.4 lbs. |  | $500 |
| 1046 | Postal History Box of Goodies, 1935-68, includes 1934 oversized unclaimed envelope carried on SS Europa to Zanzibar, 1924 oversized Registered money envelope from Netherland to the US, 1853 folded letter sent to US Navy Lt Moffitt, 2¢ George Rogers Clark plate block of 16 on parcel piece, 1941 International Parcel Post piece with mostly Prexies (some damaged) paying the rate to mail seeds from Calcutta, Pennsylvania and New York Canal and Railroad Company voucher (negotiable the same as a bank check) on Revenue paper, #C1 and C2 on Registered envelope, about 45 WWII are Airmail covers, extraordinary Post Office Department document (1859) appointing John Nixon a postmaster in Illinois and signed by Postmaster General Holt (folded and in remarkably good condition), and numerous items referred to as autographs but instead are autopens or printed signatures (Eddie Rickenbaker, Robert F Kennedy, Ronald Reagan, and others), large Home of Abraham Lincoln CAM-2 cover reportedly autographed by C A Lindbergh (looks like it might but forgeries are notoriously good), autographed typed letter with Supreme Court cornercard from Charles Hughes, pair of inscribed publicity photos from Decca recording artist The Four Aces (signed by all four), and more; a fun lot, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 4.4 lbs. |  | $500 |
| 1047 | A Treasury of Bank Note Issue Covers, 1873 (Scott 157, 158), over 700 2¢ and 3¢ Bank Notes on cover; a pair of shoeboxes worth of domestic envelopes franked with #157 or 158; opportunity to collect fancy cancels, town cancels, or some other schema; 157 outnumber 158 about 2:1, Fine to Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 7 lbs. |  | $350 |
| 1048 | Classic Fancy Cancels Collection, 1847-1923, 100+ mint and used classics on three stock pages; includes #1, 7, 9, 10A, 24 unused, 24 pair (PF cert), 25, 26 unused, 65 star cancel (PF cert), 67, 70 cogwheel (PF cert), 76 five point star in circle (PF Cert), 112 (3), 115 (2), 184 Skull & Crossbones (PF cert), 215 MNH (PF cert), strong Banknotes, unused Columbians (including 240), and more include Back of Book; considerable value here, Fine to Very Fine. |  6 | $2,500 |
| 1049 | U.S., Fancy Cancels of Watkins NY, 1869-1929. Mounted exhibit containing fancy cancels of Watkins NY; 11 envelopes and one postal card as well as one stamp; includes left pane of Scott 657 as well as vintage Post Office correspondence and a lovely photograph of the engraving from which the stamp was created; absolutely top drawer, Very Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 1.4 lbs. Estimate $3,500 - 5,000. |  | $2,400 |
| 1050 | Oregon Town Cancels, 1908-92, nearly 600 envelopes, postal cards, and pieces with town postmarks; 345 Adams to Medford mounted in oversized sketch book along with photograpghs of most post offices and a description about the town; pair of 9" x 12" sketch books with DPO and Branch post offices, 251 covers (also with photographs) from Agate Beach to Zagzag; most are from the 1985-1995 timeframe; key for the Oregon postal historian, Fine. Shipping charges apply - weight 17 lbs. |  | $325 |
