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U.S. Cover Collections

Lot	Photo	Description	Realized
Lot 1767		U.S. California Cancel Group, 1875-1951, Interesting assortment of covers and real photo cards, including 1882 Cayucos with purple c.d.s., 1875 3 cent stationery with pair 3 cent green Bank Notes from Dickson to Straussburg, N.Y., photo cards including early Tualumme and Rio Vista town views, inspection recommended, over all fine. Estimate $250-350. View details	Realized $322
Lot 1768		U.S. Transport Issue Collection, 39 covers representing all values, noted censored, registered, various military including 1942 to APO 606 (Accra, Gold Coast), 6¢ mailed from Singapore with British naval maritime cancels, 30¢ (2) on cover to Dutch naval vessel with label and Dutch naval censor tape, destinations including Fr. Guiana, Saudi Arabia, from Johnston Island (21 Dec. 1941), Honolulu Dec 11, 1941 with letter describing evacuation from home on Sunday, etc., interesting group, few minor faults, but overall fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $460
Lot 1769		U.S. Small Schermack Group, All type III on Scott #384, 408, 409 and 481, 35 covers with duplication, overall fine. Estimate $200-250. View details	Realized $276
Lot 1770		U.S. Group from Estate, Value in flight related material, noted 15 Macon covers addressed to George Hall, C18 on First Day (small faults), few Clipper covers, C4 (3) and C6 on commercial covers, some other flights, dedications, etc., also group of First Day's, mostly mint stationery, and some early 19th Century commercial covers from California, faulty to fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $345
Lot 1771		U.S. Group of 69 Stampless, Mostly 1840's to 1850's, all in sleeves and written up, few transatlantic consisting of to Germany (8), U.K. (2), France, from U.K. (3) and Cuba, also many with markings in red and blue including Ship, Paid, Free, Way and Advertised, good group in better than average condition, fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $863
Lot 1772		U.S. Small Schermack Group, 9 covers, all type III on 2¢ Washington-Franklin, fine. Estimate $200-250. View details	Unsold
Lot 1773		U.S. Postal Cards and Postcards, Approximately 700 postal cards, mixed used and mint, noted #UX1 (1 unused, 3 used), UX3 (5 unused), plus about 300 postcards with mostly DPO cancels, overall fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $196
Lot 1774		U.S. Stuffed Banker Box, Many hundreds from 19th Century to modern, including commercial, First Day's, military, registered, used stationery, anything could be in here, faulty to fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $480
Lot 1775		U.S. 1920's to 1960's Correspondence to Argentina, Couple hundred covers and entires, good variety of issues and rates, also some earlier to Europe and within U.S., virtually all commercial, faulty to very fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $207
Lot 1776		U.S. 1861 3¢ Accumulation, 33 covers from mostly Eastern towns, including 2 with 1¢ values, plus 4 stampless, also 2 stockpages with various cancels including fancy (noted a Masonic), few faults, but overall fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Unsold
Lot 1777		U.S. Military Bases Collection, Semi-organized in several volumes, between 300 and 400 covers, W.W.I to W.W.II era plus later, showing a huge variety of cancels for forts, bases, training camps, airfields, etc., plus about 100 W.W.I soldier's mail (many with letters) from various APO's, also noted some naval cachets including submarines, overall fine. Estimate $200-300. View details	Realized $288
Lot 1778		U.S. Small Stock of 80+, Majority 19th Century 3¢ issues, but a few modern First Day's and postcards, generally fine. Owners retail $936. Estimate $180-200. View details	Unsold
Lot 1779		U.S. Small California Stock, 280 covers, cards and stationery, sorted, priced and sleeved, good variety of towns, 20th Century, off the market for several years, fine. Owners retail $1165. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $115
Lot 1780		U.S. W.W.II and Related, 1936 to 1950, Features APO's, censored covers, military mail and various interesting cachets and postcards, Canal Zone, Hawaii and some foreign items, generally fine to very fine. Estimate $150-250. View details	Realized $161
Lot 1781		U.S. Submersible Dive Lot, Group of about 140 covers including foreign, all cacheted and most annotated with dive details, wide variety of deep submersibles and few related, fine to very fine, examine. Estimate $150-250. View details	Realized $168
Lot 1782		U.S. Space Group, Well over 100 items including Skylab, Space Shuttle, SR-71 tests, rockets and satellite launches, plus about 25 foreign first flights (mostly polar route), substantial retail value, fine to very fine. Estimate $150-200. View details	Realized $115
Lot 1783		U.S. San Francisco and S.F. Station Cancels, 117 covers, 1864 to 1920's (few later), many with corner card advertising or return addresses, clean group, fine, inventory included. Old retail $444. Estimate $100-120. View details	Unsold
Lot 1784		U.S. Used Stationery Lot, Many hundreds stuffed in banker box, classics to modern, mostly used, few foreign sprinkled throughout, plus cut squares on stockpages, faulty to fine. Estimate $100-150. View details	Realized $115
Lot 1785		U.S. Western Lot of About 100, In small box, 19th to mid 20th Century, good variety of towns and States, overall fine. Estimate $100-150. View details	Realized $161
Lot 1786		U.S. California Lot of 100+, In small box, 19th to mid 20th Century, good variety of towns and cancels, overall fine. Estimate $100-150. View details	Realized $230
Lot 1787		U.S. Navy Lot, 1940's to 1970's, Couple hundred in small box, good variety of ship and FPO cancels, inspect, generally fine. Estimate $100-150. View details	Realized $104
Lot 1788		U.S. Small New York State Dealer Stock, 280+ covers, cards and stationery, sorted, priced and sleeved, good variety of towns, 20th Century, off the market for several years, fine. Owners retail $840. Estimate $100-150. View details	Realized $184
Lot 1789		U.S. Postcard and 20th Century Accumulation, Few hundred in half filled banker box, including earlier postcards, mostly 1960's on First Day's, few censored, 19th Century, used stationery, etc., have a look. Estimate $100-200. View details	Realized $150
Lot 1790		U.S. Group of 1930's Dues and 1940's Prexies, Couple hundred covers for same correspondence to M.J.B. Co. in Los Angeles, showing either 2¢, 3¢ or 4¢ Dues on each cover, Prexie covers are 2¢ 1942 period legal size with corner company names, to same addressee, few window envelopes, fine group. Estimate $100-200. View details	Realized $40
Lot 1791		U.S. Postal Card Lot, Few hundreds in banker box, classics to modern, mostly used, few foreign sprinkled throughout, faulty to fine. Estimate $75-100. View details	Unsold
Lot 1792		U.S. Small Wisconsin Dealer Stock, 160+ covers, cards and stationery, sorted, priced and sleeved, good variety of towns, 20th Century, off the market for several years, fine. Owners retail $425. Estimate $75-100. View details	Realized $46
Lot 1793		U.S. Interesting Small Wells Fargo Collection, 5 covers, and 2 stamps of #143L7 unused, one faulty), written up and illustrated on homemade pages, including 2 "Remitter's Receipts", covers used from San Francisco or New York, fine. Estimate $50-100. View details	Realized $184

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