2013 CHICAGOPEX Stamp Show November 2013

Session II: Sunday, November 24, 2013 Estimate Estimate 2318X 2322X Session II: Sunday, November 24, 2013 Estimate Estimate USA COVER ACCUMULATIONS 2317 1830s-1970s INTERESTING SMALL ACCUMULATION ...................................................................................... $200-300 2321 Small but interesting and impossible to duplicate lot of mostly minor EFOs on cover. Vast majority are Misperfs or Postal stationery freaks, but all are useful. Includes about 30 items total, with some duplication of stationery items. Highlights include Scott 26 double perfs top and bottom, Scott 65 double perfs at top, large ink smear on Scott 583, gutter snipe on first day cover of Scott C19 (Washington, DC), albinos, miscuts and more. Condition is kind of rough on some, but all show postal use of EFOs. Fine. From long buried Ezra D. Cole stock. Interesting and useful group, best is probably the six Civil War Patriotics, generally fine to very fine, four Flag designs, one Soldier & Flag and one Eagle & Flag; also about 30 stampless, nice variety, condition varies, includes a group of 5 Civil War Soldier’s Letters with handstamp Due markings; there’s a Soldier’s Letter from German POW camp; a few modern FDCs; a few old postal cards used & unused; more. 2318 1840s-70s EARLY COVERS ACCUMULATION ........................................................................... PH $2500-3500 Exceptional group of 14 covers and one front, offered intact as received, includes one stampless; #2 huge margins (upper left corner drawn-in) tied with red grid cancel, NY to Ohio; #67 & #68, each tied with St. Louis cds, to Germany; 3¢ front to Germany uprated with 10¢ green (x3) & 2¢ black, all grilled; #75L5 (not tied) on folded letter; a number of 1¢ blues (perf & imperf); #68 & 75 to Prussia; a couple of #65 & 65 covers; a few Banknotes (7¢ & 15¢); more. Usual faults or minor wear, generally fine quite nice, overall fine to very fine. 2319 2320 / / 2322 1846-1960 SMALL SELECTION COVERS & OFFICIAL SEALS .......................................................... $75-125 Group of 17 covers & postal stationery, plus 23 stamps & Official Seals. Highlights include 1846 stampless from New York to Newburgh, NY; 1859 cover with 3¢ Washington w/ dated manuscript town cancel for Middleton, Tennessee, scarce on stampless covers; 1901 cover from Hoboken to Switzerland, franked with 5¢ Pan-American; 1929 Buffalo Aviation Show special event cover; 1934 Mother’s Day stamp with USS Goff naval cancel; few unused postal stationery items; selection of Post Office Seals from 1880s-90s; more. Overall fine. 2323 1870s-1990s FDCs, POSTAL HISTORY & MORE ..... $500-750 Large USA cover accumulation in approximately 15 binders, four shoe boxes and loose, all in a number of large storage boxes. Thousands of covers, mostly FDCs, but also postal history and even some paper ephemera. Some better postal history material going back to Banknote era, spotted early 20th century advertising covers, a little foreign some postcards, some ephemera including valentines, stereoscopic cards, 1933 World’s Fair items, college currency and more. All of this along with many hundreds (thousands?) of FDCs, years 1950s-90s, including multicolored Fleetwoods with Marilyn, complete set of 50 State Flags, spotted two 1966 Delavan, WI Circus FDCs, 1968 Marquette maxi-card FDC, many others. A few faults, generally fine to very fine or better. Proceeds from the hammer price o

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