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Sale 60: The Westpex Auction

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Maritime & Naval Covers

Lots 3232-3239

Lot 3232    

Ship Related, 1870's-1955, approximately 150 items, including 9 advertising blotters picturing ships, 34 photos of sailing ships, and 46 covers with different cancels, including 4 Crosby type photo cachets of USS Oklahoma (sunk at Pearl Harbor & sold for scrap), 12 Mail Line & Mail Boat Covers, 1870's-1880's and Operation Deep Freeze covers with some HPO's.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $280

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Lot 3233

Steamship Bills of Lading, 1838-1891, 146 items, bills of lading and receipts, almost all different, tremendous variety of lines and document styles, 62 with ship vignettes, over 30 with printed names of ships, dated 1838-46 (31), 1855-59 (19), 1861-69 (67), 1870-91 (29), mostly very fine and ex-Morton Dean Joyce; seldom seen in such variety.
Estimate    $1,500 - 2,000.

Realized: $750

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Lot 3234    

Naval Cover Accumulation, 1930-60's, approximately 750 covers in slips, with approximately 500 arranged by ship name; strength on 1930's usages with and array of cachets including Crosby cachet, Admission Day, first day commissioned & last day decommissioned, Flag Day, Fleet Week, etc., ships including submarine, destroyers, etc.; nice condition throughout, worth review.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $675

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Lot 3235    

Naval Cover Balance, 1930-60's, approximately 600 covers and cards, many in slips, strength on 1930's usages with and array of ships and cachets including unused Crosby cachet covers, Admission Day, first day commissioned & last day decommissioned, Flag Day, Fleet Week, etc., ships including submarine, destroyers, also a selection of mostly unused post cards showing various ships, etc.; interesting group, worth review.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $500

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Lot 3236    

Naval Fancy and Provisional Cancel Covers, approximately 1,175 fancy (T-F) & provisional (T-P) covers from the 1930-40's, vast array of interesting postmarks from all kinds of ships, split between cacheted and uncacheted with some duplication of cancels for different events, great nucleus for a specialized collection of navy fancy and provisional cancels, very fine overall, please examine.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $725

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Lot 3237    

Naval Port Location Covers, approximately 250 naval covers with port locations in killer bars, mostly uncacheted collection of world wide port locations with the exception of Asia, Alaska, Canal Zone, North and South America, Caribbean, and Europe; condition conscious collector with most strikes and covers being better than VF, examine.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $160

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Lot 3238    

Naval Uncacheted Covers, 1939-1941, 500+ covers addressed to noted Seattle collector Howard Rohloff, Howard was a purist who disdained cachets and wanted to obtain the best strike of each ship postmark he could, consequently the condition of these covers are exceptionally fine with most being full bold strikes, great variety of ships and postmarks; please examine.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

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Lot 3239    

Naval WWII Era Non Philatelic Naval Covers, approximately 525 covers; group of mostly OB non philatelic naval covers from 1941 to 1945, good variety of larger and smaller ship types noted, condition usual for this type of mail, worth careful examination.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $525

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