Sale 58: The Winter Sale

Lot 3274    

Worldwide Topicals, (Airmails) Foreign First Flight Covers, approximately 200 covers identified in glassines; includes some modest items as well as better including Canada with a few semi-official items, Germany with 1912 "Gelber Hund" stamped cards, G.B. with 6 covers and card from the First U.K. Aerial Post, early India flights, etc.; some duplication to be expected.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $1,450

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Lot 3275    

Worldwide Topicals, (Airmails) Trans-Oceanic Record Flights, 1920-57, approximately 75 covers identified in glassines; with good to better usages including 1925 MacMillan Arctic Expedition (AAMC 1031, cat $200), two 1926 Homeric ship to shore flight covers (1045, cat $150 each), 1928 Mears & Collyer Round the World flight (1077, cat $350), 1929 Yellow Bird flight (1091, cat $250), 1931 Nichols Transatlantic flight (1142, $150), 1933 N.Y. to Lithuania flight (1182, cat $225), two 1934 Pond & Sabelli flight covers (1207, cat $250 each), 1938 Howard Hughes Round the World flight (1307, cat $250), etc., nice condition throughout, 1981 AAMC cat $6,500+.
Estimate    $2,000 - 3,000.

Realized: $4,500

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Lot 3276    

Worldwide Topicals, (Airmails) Worldwide Zeppelin Covers, 1912-30, group of over 30 covers and cards; includes early flights with 1912 Rhine and Main 10pfg & 30pfg cards, 1912 Viktoria Louise flight, 1913 Ersatz flight card with 10pf semi-official stamp, U.S. with 65¢ Zepp and #C18 usages, 1930 Moscow flight with special 40k stamp, Germany 4m Polar Flight usage, etc.
Estimate    $400 - 600.

Realized: $1,150

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Lot 3277    

Worldwide Topicals, Antarctica Cover Collection, 1930-80's, approximately 160 covers mostly on stockpages in large binder; interesting range of material including U.S. naval covers from the 1960's Deep Freeze operation, 1948 letter and cover from the Australian National Antarctic Research Expedition in Melbourne, Little America covers from the 1930's on, signed covers from McMurdo Station, 1931 Wilkins-Ellsworth Trans Artic Submarine Expedition, etc.; also some stamps including Victoria Land mint single and block.
Estimate    $300 - 400.

Realized: $350

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Lot 3278    

Worldwide Topicals, Antarctica Polar Covers, 1940-70's, approximately 240 covers from bases in the region, many cachet items, nice variety of cancels including base & ship postmarks, etc.; inspect.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $240

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Lot 3279 /o   

Worldwide Topicals, Butterfly Topical Collection, mostly mint sets and souvenir sheets arranged by country on stockpages in three binders, with material fairly modern and typically ranging from $2-$40+ in catalog value with a few better sets; a very colorful array of issues, with owner's value sheets included.
Estimate    $100 - 150.

Realized: $130

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Lot 3280

Worldwide Topicals, (Forgeries) Raoul De Thuin Reference Collection, interesting assembly of dozens of original intact approval sheets with stamps from an array of countries including Afghanistan, Columbia, Tangier, Trinidad, Paraguay, Mexico, Spain, etc., and original correspondence between Carl Walske and Thuin from 1869 to the mid 1970's giving a fascinating insight to this stamp forger's later years, hundreds of stamps with Thuin handwritten notations, photocopies of his various postmarks and some original tracing (mostly Mexico cancellations) and other documentation including original copies of James Beal The Maya Shop article, photographs of Thuin, etc., ex C. Walske.
Estimate    $3,000 - 5,000.

It is now nearly fifty years since the American Philatelic Society (Maya Shop Fraud Order), exposed the fraudulent activities and forced termination of Mr. de Thuin's activities in Merida, Mexico in 1965. Thuin had developed a vast group of non-genuine cancelling devices, overprint cliches and techniques for fraudulently producing stamps and covers that were present to customers on approval sheets. These included various worldwide stamps with some emphasis on Mexico. His correspondence with collectors was revealing as to the extent of his holdings and productions.

This assembly of material was part of the Carl Walske Collection of Fakes and Forgeries which was sold by us in February 2010 and realized $4,500 hammer.

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Lot 3281    

Worldwide Topicals, (Ham Radio) Amateur Ham Radio Card Collection, 1930-60's, of approximately 1,000 cards mostly in sleeves, wide mix with strength in U.S. country cards, many postal used, others from around the world including many exotic and out of the way places including various islands; ideal for the amateur radio enthusiast.
Estimate    $200 - 300.

Realized: $260

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Lot 3282    

Worldwide Topicals, (Historic Figures) Worldwide Lenin Cover Collection, approximately 200 commemorative cards & covers, mostly Eastern Europe issues from 1970 (Lenin's death), nice range of material with no Russia.
Estimate    $100 - 150.

Realized: $55

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Lot 3283    

Worldwide Topicals, (Olympics) Worldwide Olympic Cover Accumulation, 1920-2000's, approximately 300 covers and cards mostly in sleeves and glassine and alpha arranged in box; wide range of material with the occasional better, with 1956 Melbourne cards and covers, French Africa registered usages, Czechoslovakia with 1925 Congress set on piece, 1940 Tokyo cachet on cover from Hawaii, 1976 Liberia, etc.; worth a look.
Estimate    $500 - 750.

Realized: $450

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