Sale 44: The Westpex Sale - Important Worldwide Stamps and Covers

Lot 3380    

Columbian Issues on Cover, 1893-1900. 148 items, vast array of usages & combinations, including 10¢ registry, 5¢ overseas destinations, many 1¢ rates, 2¢ usages, advertising corner cards with some illustrated, many good topics; Columbian stationery also in abundance to 10¢; overall very interesting lot in much better than normal condition, please inspect closely to determine full value.
Estimate    $1,000 - 1,500.

Realized: $1,100

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Lot 3381    

Consignment Balance. Eclectic assemblage of wide variety of items, including Post Office Seals on cover (including OXF1 & OXF5); colorful "Army & Navy Needle Book" with needles inside; several Columbian Expo illustrate postal cards & souvenir book; several tintypes including Tom Thumb & wife, daguerreotype of woman; nice clean letter on 1871 "Forty first Congress" illustrated letter sheet with vignette of U.S. Capitol; several documents signed by U.S. Postmaster Generals; several U.S.P.O. Letter Carrier badges; page of classic imperf & imperf Belgium King Leopold issues; and much more of interest, please inspect.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $350

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Lot 3382    

Cover Accumulation. An interesting array of approximately 300 covers including a little foreign, interesting material throughout from early stampless to Prexie parcel tags; includes classic covers including 1861 10¢ to Turkey, 12¢ Banknote pair on cover to Mauritius (stamp faults), C18 flight covers, Hawaii including #UE1 and 1899 Bureau of Health official cover, telegraph covers, Langton's Virginia City usage, Spanish-American patriotics, 1860's valentine usages, U.S. local covers, Jacqueline Kennedy autopen cover, WWII APO's including usages from Ryukyu, Papua New Guinea, Ascension, Canton and Christmas Islands, etc.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $850

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Lot 3383    

Cover Balance. Mix of material in large box; includes various cover hoards, WWII correspondence, philatelic event material, Dagget, Cal. railcar fire mail, some foreign; worth a look.
Estimate    $75 - 100.

Realized: $1,500

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Lot 3384    

Cover Balance, 1860-1940. 100 or so items, including high value bank tags with Prexies to $2, range of mainly lower priced commercial covers, Quartermaster's correspondence including "Proposal for Interment"; some advertising and unusual corner cards; range of usages including to foreign destinations; please inspect.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

Realized: $160

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Lot 3385    

Cover Balance, 1860-1960. Interesting assortment of about 175 covers, with scads of advertising, interesting postmarks and other usages, event covers including 1930's cacheted FDC's, unusually attractive range of subjects, frankings, etc; should be reviewed carefully to establish true value, condition generally F-VF or better.
Estimate    $750 - 1,000.

Realized: $350

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Lot 3386    

Cover Balance, 1861-1920. Group of 26 covers, including Officials, P.O. Dept franking, Waterbury crossroads, U. S. Treasury with 2¢ Jackson; red "New York Paid 1 Cent"; several 3¢ 1869 usages, also 1¢; 10¢ #96 grill with "N. York Steamship" cancel; four 24¢ 1861 issues on covers to England & Ireland; useful lot, somewhat mixed condition.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $375

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Lot 3387    

First Day & Event Covers, 1920's-1930's. Attractive group of items, including 1929 "U.S.S. City of New Orleans Antarctica" cover; 1933 March 4 FDR Inauguration with cachet; misc 1930's FDC's including Winter Olympics, Maryland 300th; 1934 1¢ & 3¢ Parks souvenir sheets nice clean; 1938 Presidentials complete to $5 with coils & booklet panes, matching very fresh (Fidelity?) cachets missing only couple low values; plus a few patriotics; all F-VF or better.
Estimate    $150 - 200.

Realized: $190

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Lot 3388    

First Day Covers, 1935-1960. Attractive collection of several hundreds, including better such as 1939 Baseball Centennial (2), many unaddressed, some better cachets including Knapp and Crosby, note 1952 & 1957 Eisenhower Inauguration on Artcraft u/a, few airmail and other back-of-the-book, very fresh.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $100

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Lot 3389    

Foreign Destination Covers, 1859-1896. 33 items, to a variety of destinations, including "Matanzas, Cuba" franked with 10¢ 1869; another 1858 to "Santiago de Cuba" franked with 10¢ #96 grill with fancy cancel Philadelphia "mummers"; cover with interesting contents to "Fleet Paymaster, U.S. Flag Ship 'Powhatan', Panama, U.S. of Colombia, Care of U.S. Consul"; 5 covers to "France", 2 franked with 30¢ Franklin; Bank Note covers include 1881 "Utah to Port Elizabeth, South Africa"; Cape May, N.J. to "Valparaiso, Chile"; diverse other frankings to "Mexico, Guatemala; Belgium, Germany, Austria, Italy"; various to "England; Bulgaria, Venezuela"; various to "Canada"; 1¢ wrapper to "Australia"; retail prices near $6,000, condition somewhat mixed but quite attractive overall, please inspect, F.-V.F. lot.
Estimate    $1,500 - 2,000.

Realized: $1,000

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