Public Auction
4115 Concord Pike, Wilmington, DE 19803, USA
Lot | Worldwide Covers | Estimate | |
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201 | CANADA Large Cache covers of all kinds, abt (700) many sleeved, stamped from 5¢ Beaver to $10 Whale; incl many Admirals, lots of registered, airmail, censor, military incl free frank, multi-frankings, 1930s FDCs, Small Queens, special delivery, (5) w/ 4-hole perfin OHMS KGVI stamps, comml, corner cards & adv, personal, war tax, mail to foreign destinations, used stationery, first flights, PPC, postage due, several Nfld, dollar values, Patriotic & much more; some flts, gen F-VF | 22 | $600 |
202 | CHINA PRC June, 1952, comml airmail cover Canton to Victoria, BC, franked on front w/ #88 (2) & 168 (3), back is covered by #168 Blk/10; one bilingual pmk, rest are Chinese; F-VF | 2 | $60 |
203 | CZECHOSLOVAKIA (200+) 1920s-70s mostly sleeved variety of covers, comml, corner cards, postal cards, souvenir covers & cancels incl few FDC, PPC, personal mail, Bohemia & Moravia, labels & etiquettes, a couple 1940s Slovakia, a couple pre-Independence, airmail, registered, commems; good selection, gen F-VF | 10 | $300 |
204 | DENMARK Collection pre-1940s telegrams & telegram folders, most are colorful or fancy, incl for wedding & anniversary, confirmation, congratulations, also a few more plain ones; gen F-VF | 7 | $100 |
205 | FINLAND 1856 FLS Viipuri to Turku, franked w/ 10k rose cut-to-shade, tied by ms "4" and boxed Wiborg hs; stamp is a bit faded, perhaps from water, dealer note states no opinion was given by APS expertizing service; F | ||
206 | FRANCE Couple (100) covers, stationery & used stamps reflecting various postal history topics: WWI military cancels, free frank postal cards (mailed & unused), several types POW cards (unused), borderlands, railway markings & stations, "Entrepot", "Paquebot", sea post & ship lines, "MB", more; nice selection gen F-VF (Proceeds benefit APS) | 8 | $140 |
207 | FRANCE Railway Postal History 1848-1949 on homemade pgs, incl abt (100) covers & (600+) used stamps w/ railway related cancels; many IDed, grouped by period incl Ceres/Napoleon, Sage & 20th Cent; good descriptions of routes, auxiliary markings, train stations & routes, covering the whole first century of railroad mail; covers incl stampless, stamped, commems, postal cards, PPC; gen F-VF (Proceeds benefit APS) | 9 | $300 |
208 | GERMAN STATES, BAVARIA, 1850-56 1kr pink, 9kr yellow green, 18kr yellow (4, 6, 8), Two each of 1kr & 18kr, cancelled by "14" in cogwheel cancels on March 1856 F/L to New York, Aschaffenburg 23 3" tombstone date stamp, red "Aachen Paid 25cts. 25 3" & New York 30c credit date stamps, some minor edge wear, some minor splitting, stamps w/ few flts o/w Fine, attractive & rare franking | $500 | |
209 | GERMAN STATES, THURN & TAXIS, 1852-53, 1kr black on light green, 6kr black on rose, 9kr black on brownish yellow (42, 45, 46), Block/4 of 9kr, large margins to just in, tied by "148" in target cancels & "Reichelsheim 3/5 1857" circular date stamp on folded cover to Pittsburgh PA, French transits, red "New York Paid 30 May 19" credit date stamp, various transit backstamps, some wear incl UL stamp of Blk w/ defective corner, o/w VF, scarce multiple on cover | $750 | |
210 | GERMANY #14 strip/4, VG-F on small business cover w/ (3) strikes Berlin 1874 cds to Bad Ems, cvr roughly opened at back & repaired w/ 2009 Hansmichael Krug photo Cert | ||
211 | GERMANY (94) Items in binder, mostly Third Reich WWII era covers, some Germany but also occupied Poland & Ostland, cancels incl Radom, Krakau, Lublin, Riga; many are souvenir type covers w/ special cancels, also personal, official, registered, cards; also a few documents, couple covers w/ Cinderellas or labels; gen F-VF | 7 | $200 |
212 | GERMANY (35) WWII era covers, many are to or from Occupied Ukraine, franked w/ Ovpted Hitler Head w/ postmarks of Dnipro, Lviv, Synelnykove, Mykolaiv; others incl Poland, Germany, Ostland, Neth, Bratislava, Croatia; Feldpost, PPC, POW & Ostarbeiter cards, censor, registered, auxiliary marks; most in annotated sleeves, some content, gen F-VF | 5 | $250 |
213 | GERMANY abt (150) 1922-23 inflation covers, gen (2 to 4) stamps per cover, mostly European size w/ abt (25) oversized, some toning but gen F-VF | 2 | $300 |
214 | GERMANY Accum (2,500+) w/ a few PPC & postal cards, abt half sleeved & some priced w/ retail, nice mixture incl adv, airs, comml corresp, event, many nice frankings, Nice lot for eBay | 9 | $500 |
215 | GERMANY Dealer Stock abt (2,500) outstanding group of PPC, postal cards, adv, air, comml, corresp, event, nice franking, fancy cancels, few FDC, aerogrammes, souv cards, etc, some sleeved & marked with retail price with a great profit for dealers, few flts but mainly VF | 10 | $600 |
216 | GERMANY Accum abt (750+) covers from all periods 19th Cent to 1980s in (7) binders; a few stampless & States; abt (100) inflation covers; RR cancellations on covers & postal cards; Germany Tricentennial collection; abt (100) Fleetwood cacheted UA FDCs 1979-86 in (3) cover albums; small perfin collection & more; few flts to gen F-VF | 26 | $700 |
217 | GERMANY & AREA Small accum abt (53) covers, most 1920s-40s w/ many inflation covers, (2) Israel return address required of Jewish males, mixed franking w/ Austria, Bohemia & Moravia, plus more; APS stamp store prices of abt $480, gen F-VF | 4 | $150 |
218 | GREAT BRITAIN #1 (4 margins) tied by red Maltese cross on May 21st 1840, early use, env addr to Lady Isabella Brydges at Wootton Court, Canterbury | 2 | |
219 | GREAT BRITAIN #4 (18) incl (17) F/L & (1) env, all w/ diff London numerals in diamond grid, addr to same person in Cork, Ireland, variety of transit & arrival markings, usual margins, various shades, clean group, figured as cheapest shades, gen F | 2 | |
220 | GREAT BRITAIN Collection of slogan cancels 1917-44 & 1958-62, on abt (120) well-annotated quadrille exhibit pgs; incl full covers, stamped or meter, also cut corners & large pieces, a few proofs; diff slogans incl war bonds, telephone, TV, polio, mail early, fairs & expos, etc & some varieties; gen F-VF | 11 | $200 |
221 | GREECE 1868 F/L Manchester, England to Patras, Greece, sent w/o postage, London Oct 1 transit on back, ms "Via Marseilles & Pire" (Piraeus); blue crayon "2 20" due marking, paid by Hermes Heads, likely Scott #27, 28, 29 (barely a pair), tied by Sept 28 O.S. (Oct 10) Patrai pmks, additional on back; colorful franking, due stamps wouldn't be issued for another seven years; F-VF | $400 | |
222 | GREECE 1874 F/L comml corresp to Trieste, nice tricolor overlapping franking which appears to be #39, 40, 42, tied by 10/16/74 Argostoli (Kefalonia) pmk, merchant's oval on front, Corfu & Trieste transit on back, clear handwriting if you can read Greek; F-VF | $150 | |
223 | ISRAEL Huge Accum of various kinds: official FDC, event covers, postal stationery, pictorial or special cancels & a few regular covers; noted PC3 (Bale $100), several earlies on cover (no tabs), aerogrammes; some dup, gen VF | $350 | |
224 | ISRAEL Accum abt (7000) 1950-80s mostly cacheted & UA FDCs, some w/ tabs; comml, personal, educational, some PPC & oversized; many grouped by topic or year, light to moderate dup; a few flts but mostly gen F-VF | $400 | |
225 | ITALY (2) Albums w/ couple (100) covers, ranging from 1763-1955, incl several documents, (33) stampless on annotated pgs (in German), then stamped covers in plastic pgs (not IDed), incl (12) from various States, Kingdom w/ stamped, used postal cards, Express, registered w/ etiquettes, censor, postal form, postage due, PPC, military pmks, mourning covers, charity labels, much comml w/ corner cards, used abroad (Albania, Slovenia, Turkey), Social Republic, more; great postal history overview, many multi-frankings & auxiliary markings; some flts, gen F-VF | 17 | $600 |
226 | LATVIA (23) stamped covers & forms 1920-40, incl covers, postcards, parcel forms, diff town cancels, many Arms issues, gen F-VF | 2 | $150 |
227 | LIBERIA abt (300), largely 1920s-70 to US, incl C46A (2)+C33+294 (2), C46A+C48+C44, C46 (2)+C46, C45+C46 (2)+C48, C25 on 1st flight, mostly comml/personal but some FDC; plus abt (135) stationery mostly unused (some used or favor cancels) incl unused H&G F7 (2), used F6; some flap marks, tape marks or light foxing but mostly F-VF | 4 | $150 |
228 | LIECHTENSTEIN 1932 registered official cover Vaduz to Chemnitz, Germany, franked w/ full set O1-8 (not checked for perf vars); each tied by 11/9/32 Vaduz cds, registration etiquette, receiver on back; CV is for basic used set, small premium for on-cover; F-VF | ||
229 | MALAYA & States abt (550) 1907-50s & few Malaysia, uses to India & domestic, some typical aging/wear but gen F-VF | 4 | $300 |
230 | MARSHALL ISLANDS #7-12 of 1899-1900 all tied on Registered cover to Bavaria by Jaluit, Marshall Islands, 1900 cds, VF | $150 | |
231 | MIDDLE EAST & INDIA abt (120) incl (13) Indore state 1888-1907 stampless, (25) unmailed PPC featuring mosques; few flts but gen F-VF | 2 | $150 |
232 | MILITARY (108) Covers from British Occupation of the Rhineland 1919-1926; most dealer sleeved & IDed w/ info on FPO, dates, locations & military divisions; a few covers but most are PPC w/ various pmks, handstamps & censor markings; views of Cologne & other Rhine towns, rural, some Belgium; lots of diff FPO, good selection, gen F-VF | 3 | $250 |
233 | MILITARY Impressive Accum (300+) wartime related mail, primarily soldier's & POW mail from both WWI & WWII; mail to & from both sides of the conflicts, material from France, Germany, Italy, Canada, Belgium, GB, Austria-Hungary & a bit of US (Russian material is found in a separate lot); incl Feldpost or free frank covers, cards & PPC, mail from occupied areas, incl (25) franked w/ occupied Belgium stamps; POW mail mostly cards to family or response cards to prisoner; some post-war or commem items, Red Cross, charity labels, variety of camp, censor & transit markings, military pmks, more; many sleeved, gen F-VF | 15 | $800 |
234 | PERU Accum over (280) mainly from 1930s-50s to same addressee at Chase Bank in NYC, mostly all are airmail various rates, also some PPC, some are censored & many w/ interesting markings etc, mixed cond rough opening, tears, soiling etc to most F-VF | 7 | $200 |
235 | POLAND #16-21, 21a, 23-26 incl the RARE 20pf Ultramarine #21a all tied by Kalisz cds 29. III.19, on neat, clean registered cvr to Posen , signed "S. PERIUK PZG"; CV for used | ||
236 | PORTUGUESE INDIA Unusual Group (24) diff mainly 1930s-40s & to India but a few to the US, some registered, also many censored by Indian/British censor, interesting typical mixed cond flts to Fine or better | 4 | $100 |
237 | POSTAGE DUE (72) many sleeved, mostly Europe 1920s-60s, some covers but majority are postal cards or PPC, domestic & foreign, large number to/from Belgium, also France, Switz, Italy, Neth, Germany; payment indicated by various postage due stamps, also some "T" markings on cover or on stamp (Belgium), great variety, gen F-VF | 7 | $150 |
238 | RUSSIA (41) WWI POW mail to & from camps in the Russian Empire, incl locations Tomsk, Omsk, Akmolinsk, Irkutsk, Kyiv district, Kharkiv district, Krasnoyarsk, Vyatka, others; most are to Austria-Hungary; variety of camp, censor & transit marks from both countries; corresp in German & Czech; most sleeved, gen F-VF | 4 | $250 |
239 | SPACE Abt (490) WW covers & just a few US souv covers; incl covers w/ space stamps, FDC, event covers, maxi cards, pictorial cancels & cachets; incl Germany, France, USSR & Eastern Bloc, others; gen F-VF | $200 | |
240 | SPAIN (45) Covers incl (6) early 20th Cent, incl #174a on 1909 PPC; (5) Republic (incl Madrid Nov 1937); post Civil War to 1950s incl philatelic show covers, FDC, Viva Espana Ovpts, Franco, more; censored,Ovpts, several charity labels, some flts, gen F-VF | 5 | $100 |
241 | STAMPLESS Group (66) stampless from several countries, half from France, others incl Neth, GB, US, Canada, Italy; diff type markings, a couple documents, typical flts, F+ | 3 | $150 |
242 | VATICAN CITY Attractive souv cover franked w/ cplt set #47-54 tied by 2/23/39 cds, VF | ||
243 | VIETNAM abt (2000) late 1970s-early 80s, sorted by issue, many good topicals, expect some soiling & occasional rough opening | 3 | $500 |
244 | Abt (120) incl cover album w/ abt (100) German covers, mostly Third Reich incl comml, stationery, propaganda, slogan cancels, also early post-war w/ Notopfer, some sports themed cigarette cards, Feldpost, a few earlier (Germania); others incl Jan. 1840 stampless sent by "Lord Hill" (Rowland?) w/ red crowned Paid date stamp, a few modern comml airmail to US, PPC, Japan, Mexico, Canada; gen F-VF | $140 | |
245 | (18) Medical related cards, both "Dear Doctor" & adv types, many addr to Belgium, drug ads incl Ionyl, di-acipen-V, Aspro, Plasmarine, dicaliode; also Abbott, Squibb, Bayer; stamps from Vietnam, Egypt, Spanish Sahara, Guyana, Basutoland, Somali Coast, Neth, Mexico; texts in English, French, Spanish; also PPC w/ French stamp & label for Petrole Hahn hair tonic; gen F-VF | 4 | $140 |
246 | Accum abt (1000+) mostly FDC w/ some comml & abt (150) Canada unused postal cards, FDC incl PRC #1613-16, 1761; comml incl China 1948 inflation to US incl 759 Blk of (24), Prussia 11 from Rawicz (now in Poland); few flts but gen F-VF | 4 | $150 |
247 | Collection abt (68) WW w/ machine cancels of various types, early 20th Cent, most sleeved, incl GB (36), Mexico (11) & one or just a couple from Jamaica, Canada, Bolivia, Sweden, Neth, COGH, NZ & others; noted personal, mourning, perfin, comml w/ corner card, censor, postal cards & entires, PPC, official & more; great selection, gen F-VF | 4 | $150 |
248 | Accum abt (800) comml, personal cacheted & UA & addr FDCs many sleeved 20th Cent to 1980s incl abt (400) Canada FDCs 1960-70s, abt (170) #10 size covers & more, also incl (7) empty cover albums, few flts but gen F-VF | $150 | |
249 | Accum abt (185) covers & cards largely pre-1950 incl unused German Offices & Colonies postal cards, flights, PPCs, much Europe, some US, gen F-VF | 4 | $150 |
250 | Accum abt (200+) largely pre-1950 incl flights, censored, many PPCs; incl RPCs, abt (50+) US 1930s-40s; few flts but gen F-VF | 2 | $150 |