Auction 40
Collector Series
Misc. Postal History
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Lot 115 |
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 1867, U.S. Coast Survey, stampless official free-franked cover, postmarked Cambridge, Mass. and addressed to a general in the engineering office in New York, Fine to Very Fine, unusual. Estimate $100 - 150. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 116 |
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1879-1939, postal history miscellany, 12 different covers, including a 3¢ Bank Note with major plate crack, couple ad covers from the 1890's, a 1924 incoming letter from Pago, Pago, Samoa, a 1926 registered airmail cover, #629 FDC, National Stamp Week 1935 with 14 different definitives, a goodwill Coronation Flight to London in 1937and a 1939 United Air Lines flight log. Quite a pot-pourri, generally Fine to Very Fine but not always. Estimate $200 - 300. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 117 |
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1881, Fort Omaha, Neb., clear postmark on a cover to New York, with letter enclosed. Opened roughly at right (scalped, no doubt), otherwise Very Fine. Scott 184. Estimate $120 - 150. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 118 |
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1894-1920, Foreign Mail, incoming and outgoing group, 11 covers and postcards mainly to interesting destinations from the U.S., with one incoming from Winnepeg Canada canceled by oval "Branch Dead Letter", other destinations include Cape of Good Hope, Denmark, England, India, Japan, New South Wales, Portugal, Russian Poland and Yugoslavia. Nice items retailing $50 to $300 each, around $1300 retail total, generally Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $400 - 600. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 119 |
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1898, Spanish-American War illustrated cover, showing General Wade's Headquarters, from a soldier in Chickamauga, Ga. to West Virginia. Back edge rebacked, Fine to Very Fine overall. Scott 279b. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 120 |
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1898, Spanish-American War illustrated cover, lovely patriotic design on a cover with Harrisburg, Pa. machine cancel (an early usage of machine cancels), addressed to Pittsburg, backstamped. Scott 279b. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 121 |
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1898, Spanish-American War patriotic covers, an attractive group of 6, including three with "Cuba Libre" (rum & coke not included), one "Remember the Maine", and two with U.S. and Cuban flags. Noteworthy are two with early machine cancels, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $150 - 200. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 122 |
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1930, Byrd Antarctic Expedition, attractive cover postmarked S.S. City of New York, with the cachet of the expedition below, Fine to Very Fine. Estimate $60 - 80. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
Lot 123 |
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1934, Byrd Antarctic Expedition II, post card from Little America, Antarctica, signed by the captain of the Ice Breaker S.S. "Bear of Oakland", with a real photo of an ice breaker on the reverse, Very Fine. Estimate $75 - 100. View details and enlarged photo | Unsold |
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