Public Auction
4115 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19803, USA
Lot | Fancy Cancels | Estimate | |
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1 | Selection (28) stampless in flip style cover album, most IDed by town & date, various ms or hs rates, "Free" or other marks incl Forwarded & Paid; from Northeast or Midwest, plus one Mobile; marks in red, blue or black, some weak strikes, typical wear & cond, F+ | 2 | $140 |
2 | Group abt (55) stampless 1820s-50s in cover album, mostly F/L, domestic w/ many NYC & Balt, also incl #65, 147, 184 Blk, U2, Confederate States 11, typical file folds & other minor wear, mixed cond (Proceeds benefit APS) | 6 | $200 |
3 | QE2b The ONLY KNOWN cover w/ Special Handling 15¢ dry printing, affixed to FDC for C49, tied by August 1, 1957 Washington DC FD cancel, listed in Scott as EDU, also probably the only known cover being an EDU for two diff stamps, issued two years apart! VF ex-Rufe | $400 | |
4 | ALASKA Accum abt (500) 1930s-80s to or from Alaska incl flights, events, comml, personal, FDC, postal cards, airmail, RPOs, PPC & a few WW, many hs cachets, some business size & a few pilot signed; typical mixed cond (Proceeds benefit APS) | 14 | $200 |
5 | KANSAS & NEBRASKA Abt (400) mostly vintage PPC w/ a few covers/cards, variety of cancels gen 1908-15, many DPOs, Doanes, small towns; PPC are mostly greetings or holiday types; some minor wear, gen F-VF | 4 | $200 |
6 | MARYLAND Accum abt (100+) 1880s-90s mostly from or to Smithburg & Hagerstown, mostly personal w/ some comml & adv, most still have contents, much western MD history, typical mixed cond for era (Proceeds benefit APS) | 5 | $150 |
7 | NEW ENGLAND Group abt (203) in sleeves or glassines, most labeled by pmk (not sorted), large number are DPO w/ dates given on label; incl CT (68), MA (90), ME (10), NH (19), VT (16); gen from Large Banknotes to 1920s but some older or more recent, couple stampless, many fancy or less common style cancels, diff colors, corner cards & adv, postal stationery, PPC; good variety w/ little if any town cancel dup; some flts, gen F-VF | 3 | $300 |
8 | NEW YORK Abt (350) ranging from stampless to 1950s, majority from Large Banknote to Wash/Frank eras, in annotated glassines or sleeves w/ town & other info (unsorted), large number are from DPOs w/ dates of operation given; wide variety of frankings, pmk styles, colors & parts of the state; covers personal & comml, adv & corner card, PPC, postal stationery, registered, fancy cancels, more; some flts, little if any dup in towns, gen F-VF | 6 | $350 |
9 | PENNSYLVANIA Abt (95) covers & cards in plastic sleeves, vast majority are DPO w/ name & dates of operation written on sleeves; mostly 1890s-1910s, with some later appearing to be last day of service; stamped covers, entires, postal cards & PPC; noted Selin's Grove, Dundaff, Maple Ridge, Fountaindale, Piatt, Kimble, Deep Valley, many more, little if any dup, gen F-VF | 4 | $250 |
10 | PENNSYLVANIA Abt (350) in sleeves or glassines, most annotated w/ town & other info, large number of these are DPO w/ dates given on label (unsorted); good variety of cancel types, majority 1890s-1910s; incl personal & comml, corner cards, PPC, adv, mourning, postal stationery, Last Day of PO, some fancy cancels, more; little if any dup in towns, a few flts, gen F-VF | 5 | $400 |
11 | Group abt (100) advertising covers, both fancy corner cards & large or all-over designs, front or back; 1880s-1920s, some hotels & businesses but many products & factories; expect some flts, gen F-VF | 3 | $150 |
12 | C3 24¢ Jenny "Low Flying" variety Block late usage on 1939 airmail cover to Auckland NZ, attractive & gen F-VF | $100 | |
13 | Over (250) Space & Aviation covers, incl Apollo, anniversaries, Shuttle (incl "silk" cachets), Apollo-Soyuz, a few foreign cvrs, FDC for space stamps, history of aviation event cvrs incl airport anniversaries, stamp shows, slogan cancels & more; some issues of Space Craft Explorer newsletter; gen F-VF | $140 | |
14 | Selection (11) covers franked w/ 1st & 2nd Airmail issues, incl 1926 CAM 9 Chicago to St. Paul w/ C1 Blk; 1918 Philly to Jersey City w/ special cancel on C2, enclosure mentions sending via air is now a fad; 1926 CAM 10 Jacksonville to Fort Myers w/ C4 Blk; 1929 St. Thomas, VI to Philly w/ C4 on 2¢ entire; others incl Woodhouse faked autographed 1918 first flight; gen F-VF | 8 | $500 |
15 | Abt (1150) flights, largely 1920s-70s w/ few later, unsorted, virtually all cacheted, few if any airport dedications or flight annivs, few dup, some sleeved, some IDed w/ FAM #, could be few flts but gen F-VF | 7 | $600 |
16 | Accum abt (1500) 1950s-90s auxiliary marking & metered mail covers, unorganized w/ much oversized & business sized, also postal cards, PPC & modern officials, mixed typical cond (Proceeds benefit APS) | 2 | $200 |
17 | Accum abt (45) Patriotic Civil War covers, (37) unused, (8) used in a cover album, incl covers by Kimmel, Magee, Magnus, Walcott & more, subjects incl flags, eagles, secession, Washington, loyal & rebel states, satire & more, nice selection of covers, owner's retail value $1,200 (NV), few flts to F+ | 8 | $200 |
18 | (3) Covers w/ historical content: c.1863-65 Cover St. Louis to Ashtabula, Ohio, uncle to niece, from Benton Barracks (now Fairground Park), letter mentions "the greatest novelty is that the congregation is composed of white & black but each color occupies its own side of the house," and "They are organizing some colored troops here."; July 1898 on Railway corner card, Cleveland to Muskegon, Mich., religious letter w/ crisp handwriting mentions "I believe we should hold Puerto Rico, the Phillipines [sic] and the Carolines in the interest of religion and humanity," w/ more content of freeing from slavery & bringing civilization; July 1899 2¢ entire postmarked Manila, ms "Soldiers Mail" and long letter written at Candaba, Luzon, describing some battles to a doctor in Ohio, calling the natives "devils" or the "n" word, describing wildlife, diseases & more; F+ | $60 | |
19 | Abt (300) World's Fair Covers 1933 Chicago to 1992 Spain; sorted by fair, a few foreign, diff cachets & themes, FDC for commem stamps, special cachets or cancels, incl New York '39 & '64, 1958 Brussels, 1967 Canada, Hemisfair, 1974 Spokane, 1984 Louisiana, others; gen F-VF | $140 | |
20 | Collection (88) postal cards w/ various fancy cancels, incl geometrics, letters, target, crosses; 1870s-90s from about (20) states, mostly black, also blue, violet; housed in new BCW pgs, gen F-VF | 4 | $400 |
Lot | Space Covers | Estimate | |
21 | Several (100) Clinton/Gore inaugural covers, some 1993 but majority are 1997; several diff cachets incl printed, computer generated, "silk" & caricature, but dup in the common ones, diff frankings, pmks of Washington & Hope, Arkansas; also dup of PPC of portrait; UA, VF | $140 | |
22 | Couple (100) Inaugural or presidential themed covers, FDR to Obama, incl cacheted inaugurals from ArtCraft, Fleetwood & others ("silk," Aristocrat, homemade), also VP, First Lady, last day in office, museum, etc; gen F-VF | $140 | |
23 | Collection covers & cards, over (140) 1890s-1910s, adv, CC, PPC, some mourning cvrs in (2) cvr albums; variety of machine cancels, flags, Barry, Doremus & others; cond varies, some wear, VF to Fine | $200 | |
24 | Accum (188) sleeved covers w/ numerous diff styles of machine cancels, 1898-1927, incl comml, personal, corner cards, adv, mourning, foreign destination, postal card, PPC; town pmks large & small from around the country, horizontal, vertical, diagonal & wavy lines, fairs, letters, numbers, more; gen F-VF | 6 | $300 |
25 | Collection WWII related covers, on annotated pgs in 3-ring binder; incl free franks, APO pmks, content, Naval cvrs w/ cachets, many diff patriotic cachets on personal cvrs or FDC, censor, Overrun Nations FDC w/ Blks, airmail; some minor flts, gen F-VF | 10 | $200 |
26 | APOs abt (800) sorted by APO #, largely 1940s incl censored, stamped, "free" & penalty envs, typical cond | 2 | $350 |
27 | Accum abt (130) cachet or pmk of ships in Pearl Harbor, 1920s-30s, abt (60) uncacheted, all appear addr, many sleeved, list of Pearl Harbor ships incl, few flts to gen F-VF | 7 | $400 |
28 | Official Stationery (unused & FDC), penalty mail from various government offices & variety of post office forms (used/unused), incl unused UO72 abt (250+), few flts but gen F-VF | 4 | $300 |
29 | 1944 Piece taken from package containing live bees, sent to Redding, CA, 15¢ Special Handling along w/ some damaged Prexies tied by unclear oval cancels, "special handling" handstamp and Redding parcel post receiver, some staining to piece, packaging of this kind was seldom preserved; F-VF; bonus: modern version of similar item, a 1997 shipping label for package of live queen bees, from apiary in Georgia to Virginia, meter pays the First Class postage w/ special instructions & health label from GA Dept of Ag, VF; both on annotated exhibit pgs, ex-Rufe | 3 | $150 |
30 | 1944 Large Piece from parcel containing a book, sent from Cleveland, OH to an Italian POW at Fort Meade, MD; 10¢ Special Handling stamp plus 4¢ Prexy pays postage; various pmks & a note from censor stating POWs may only receive books directly from publishers or booksellers; unusual usage, F-VF ex-Rufe | $150 | |
31 | Mailing card for film reel canister, sent in 1947 from New Berlin, NY to church in Massena, NY, postage paid w/ 20¢ Special Handling plus 6¢, 10¢ & 50¢ Prexies, handstamps for special handling & insurance; reverse of card for return several days later used 7¢ & pair 30¢ Prexies for insured return (no special handling); VF ex-Rufe | $150 | |
32 | RARE Special Handling insured parcel post tag, late usage of QE stamps in August, 1957 (stamps withdrawn in October); $1 Liberty pays parcel post and 10¢ & 15¢ pairs pay the new (July, 1957) 50¢ Special Handling rate for parcel weighing over 10 pounds, tied by boxed Edgartown / MASS. handstamps; one of only (5) QE covers w/ a Liberty Series stamp; VF ex-Rufe | $150 | |
33 | 1931 Paper label for COD shipment of (500) live baby chicks from hatchery in Petaluma to Bellflower, CA, 20¢ Special Handling used along w/ 9¢ pair & 50¢ Fourth Bureau, oval cancels, Special Handling & COD violet handstamps, VF ex-Rufe | $200 | |
34 | Large part of 1932 wrapper used to send live alligators from Florida to New Jersey, franked w/ 11¢ Hayes & 10¢ Special Handling, both tied by Jacksonville ovals, couple purple "Special Handling" handstamps; by their nature, few of these kind of package wrappers were saved, F-VF ex-Rufe | 2 | $300 |
35 | Label on piece of carton used in 1935 to mail live chicks from hatchery in Michigan to New York, franking incl 20¢ Special Handling along with 5¢, 20¢ & 50¢ Fourth Bureau tied by Zeeland, Mich. (2) wavy line roller cancels; by their nature, very few of these kinds of labels were preserved, F-VF ex-Rufe | $300 | |
36 | JQ2 1918 business size 2¢ carmine entire from bank in Fleming, NM to bank in El Paso, TX, 2¢ parcel due tied by oval cancel, file fold, small edge tear, F-VF | ||
37 | 118 c.1870 3¢ green entire U82 to Dayton, Ohio, registry fee paid by #118 15¢ Pictorial Type I, tied by Rossville, Indiana, adherence on backflap, slightly reduced at L, stamp F-VF | ||
38 | 1880 Yellow business size corner card of lawyer in Cincinnati, registered to common pleas court at Batavia, Ohio, franked w/ 3¢ (probably #184) & 30¢ gray black #165 tied by "11" grid circles; several ms notes from court clerks & notary front & back; minor wear, F-VF | ||
39 | Abt (350) PPC w/ RPO or other railway cancels; many are sleeved & IDed, strikes weak to bold, from all corners of the country, spot checked years 1907-24, gen F-VF | $180 | |
40 | Abt (450) covers, almost half are Apollo 11 related from 1969-94; others are for Gemini, Apollo, Apollo-Soyuz, space stamp usage, FDC & others 1960s-70s; simple to printed cachets, minor dup, some UA, gen F-VF | $200 | |
Lot | Cover Accumulations | Estimate | |
41 | Abt (1150) incl events related to various programs, w/ cachets, personal or comml covers using space stamps (1990s) & FDC some w/ fancy cachets; wide variety, 1960s-90s, gen VF | $400 | |
42 | CD KENNY Accum abt (150) archival business corresp 1880s-90s, incl abt (60+) postal cards mailed by Kenny containing general business content & his initials; also incl abt (80+) covers mailed by Kenny, most contain letters w/ general business content & Kenny's signature; mixed typical cond for this era (Proceeds benefit APS) | $200 | |
43 | C18 (2) 1933 Century of Progress flight covers: New York Oct 2 FDC, Blk on cover to Friedrichshafen to Chicago to Seville, Spanish 11/1 receiver on back; New York Oct 4 Blk w/ pl# to Friedrichshafen to Wilmington, Delaware, addr to Mrs. DuPont at Nemours, also w/ Spanish 11/1 receiver on back, a few minor wrinkles or flap marks, F-VF (Sieger #241F) | 2 | $700 |
44 | Large 5¢ Airmail entire w/ cplt set of Special Handling stamps added (QE1-4) for 1929 Zeppelin flight cover, Los Angeles to Lakehurst (Sieger #29A); tied by 8/26/29 Los Angeles Arcade Station duplex & ovals, VF | $400 | |
45 | Selection (4) covers; #24 F-VF tied by Kendallville, Ind. cds; #94 w/ EFO-level misperfs, tied by Brewsters Station, NY bars & cds, docketed 1868; #258 or 273 Registered soap company corner card, 1895 Auburn, ME to Buffalo, NY, 10¢ First Bureau tied by violet boxed registered dated hs; #306, 307 w/ cork oblits, 1906 registered Leadville, CO to Karhula, Finland (major center of glass production), NY registry exchange label FX-NY1a(iv) affixed; gen F-VF | 2 | $140 |
46 | Selection abt (75) c.1850-1910 in annotated dealer cards, abt a third from New York State, a third from Pennsylvania & the rest mostly from the Northeast; most selected for less common cancel types, smaller towns, corner cards, county name in cancel, fancy cancels, etc; quality selection, gen F-VF | 6 | $150 |
47 | Selection (3) Interesting covers; #26 small cover to Boston, tied by large part "N.Y. & Boston STMB. & R.R.R." postmark (steamboat & railroad); c.1865 corner card for The Cheshire Republican weekly newspaper, franked w/ EFO-level off-centered Black Jack, tied by blue Keene, NH cds & cork; 1869 Insurance document w/ R37c tied by nice blue hs cancel, then mailed using 3¢ Pictorial tied by oblit & nearby Montpelier, VT cds | 2 | $300 |
48 | (100+) Covers in plastic pgs, stampless to 1869 Issue; good variety of pmks, colors, auxiliary markings, ms pmk & rates, many 3¢ Washingtons, some entires; expect some typical flts, gen F+ | 7 | $400 |
49 | Abt (135) 1860s-1930s incl comml, personal, PPC, also some checks & documents w/ revenues, a few bits of ephemera, some flts, gen F-VF | 4 | $80 |
50 | Accum over (500) mainly all pre-1960 20th Cent, incl WWI & WWII soldiers mail (to & from) also naval, Polar, HPO, FDC, airmail & more, mixed cond to F-VF | $100 |