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Sale 112
Lot 1431
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U.S. Postal Stationery Collections, the Massive Marvin Schiller Specimen Stamped Envelope Collection and Accumulation, 1, 500+ items housed in albums and cover boxes, Mr. Schiller's favorite postal stationery sub-specialty was the relatively unexplored field stamped envelopes with the various different types of "Specimen" or "cancelled" overprint forms as well as the myriad advertising forms and code forms, the listing of which has not been updated or re-priced in a cat. since the 1954 Thorp-Bartels Century Edition, and these he pursued very avidly, buying nearly everything that came on the auction market, incl. entires only known as specimens, high values, officials and considerable duplication in places, and many are with the overprint away from the indicia and would yield extremely fine full corner cut square should one wish to commit such a philatelic crime (which is why many of these have become so scarce), some faults which are quite typical of these, however most are very fine. This is probably the largest such offering since the Barkhausen dispersal in the mid 1950s. Realized $17,250 in 2012 auction .
Estimate $7,500-10,000.
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| Realized $11,500 |
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