Lot
1133 E
1873, 1¢ Essays on Buff Card, group of 18 in range of mostly different colors on buff card, rough surface one side, usually with vertically laid watermarked lines; some toning affects some, F.-V.F. and scarce group. USPCC No. S1E-Zc $5,400.
Realized: $1,000
Lot
1134
1873, 1¢ Brown on Buff, Platings, four separate used plating studies, including Charles Fricke's original master plating of the first issue, Brad Horton's personal plating done prior and independent to Fricke with UX1/UX3 showing four states for each position: early large watermark, early, mid and late small watermarks, large album with plating including some UX1's plus multiple examples of UX3 for each position, Big Hole damage study, and Slawson partial UX3 plating, F.-V.F., a remarkable group of platings for the researcher. Scott No. UX1, UX3 Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $1,050
Lot
1135
1873, 1¢ Brown on Buff, Collection, mounted collection of mostly UX3 in two volumes including some mint and mostly used, sample large "U.S.P.O.D." watermark card, sample "P.O.D." essay watermark card, ink shades, inverted watermark, reversed, and both inverted and reversed, miscuts, wide range of used including fancy cancels like Danbury hat, Elmyria "US" and "POD" in Circles, Beliot negative and positive "OK", Whitewater Wis "OK", four different "US", New York negative numerals and letters, stars, shields, RPOs, color cancels, territorials, machine cancels, forwarded including 1¢ remailed cards, 1¢ rate to Canada, printed paste-ons for 1¢ printed matter rate, clay and bronze coated for reuse, reward card, some better illustrated including Sturtevant's Blast Furnance on UX1, green Jerome B. Rice Seeds showing Farmer, R.P. Studely & Co. Stationeers showing red building, "Cash Paid for Land Warrants", Dr. Flint's Quaker Bitters, plus topics showing horse, fruits, buildings, bronze tools, etc.; mounted cards show some toning on reverse, but overlapped also on front, otherwise F.-V.F., a great collection for further expansion. Scott No. UX1/UX3 Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $1,250
Lot
1136 P
1877, 1¢ Trial Color Proofs on Double Color Cards, unwatermarked, group of 7 different in a range of different card and printing colors includes TCbb in black, TCcc in black and dark blue, TCdd in black, and TCee in black, blue and dark blue, Very Fine and scarce group. Scott No. UX5TC. USPCC No. S4TCbb-ee $2,450.
These bicolor trial color postal cards were submitted for the 1877-1881 postal card contract.
Realized: $750
Lot
1137
1875, 1¢ Black on Buff, Mounted Collection, unwatermarked, collection of 55 pages including freaks (albino and wild miscut), card stock variations on unused and used, damaged and recut plates, usage including territorials, RPOs, auxiliary markings, fancy cancels including shields, "US" monogram, geometrics, colors, crosses, stars, letters and numerals, Leavitt machine cancels, Waterbury cancels, Worcester fancies, address lines added, printed borders, reward card with pasted photo and 3¢ uprating, and better illustrated ads, F.-V.F. Scott No. UX5 Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $800
Lot
1138
1879-1898, 2¢ Liberty U.P.U. Postal Card Collection Accumulation, large unmounted specialized collection balance of 100s of cards, many exhibit items not incorporated into exhibit, includes complete UX6 used plating, multiple mint and used UX6, UX13, UX16 platings, UX6 usages incl. destinations of Luxemburg, Italy, Nicaragua, Guatemala, San Salvador, Jamaica, Bahamas, Melbourne, Madeira Islands, Hawaii, etc., recoated card reused, UX13 usages incl. destinations of Netherlands, Norway, Hungary, Austria, Scotland, Australia, Bolivia, Haiti, Russia, Gold Coast West Africa, Japan, Luxemburg, Finland, miscut to England, etc.; some faults, F.-V.F., an excellent basis for expansion and study. Scott No. UX6, UX13, UX16 Estimate $1,000 - 1,500.
Realized: $1,300
Lot
1139
1879-1898, 2¢ Liberty U.P.U. Postal Card Collection, mounted collection including UX6 mint shades, miscuts mint and used, dirty plates, uses to Japan, Columbia, Hawaii, British Honduras, etc., German Sea Post Office uses, China Relief Exp. "Military Postal Sta. No. 1" cancelled card, 1899 purple "Mil. Sta. No. Philippines, San Francisco" usage to Singapore, 1899 "U.S. Postal Agency, China" use to Germany, international forwarding and returned mail with labels, Leavitt machine cancels, 1893 World's Fair Chicago use, illustrated advertising, etc., UX13 mint shades, uses to Egypt, Sweden, British Honduras, "Mayaguez, P.R." to Venezuela, "Mil. Sta. No.1, Manila, Philippine, Received" cds on reverse of 1899 use, UX16 mint shades, under and over-inked, war tax rate, Cuba UX2 mint and used plus later surcharged "1" mint and used, Philippines, UX2 mint and used, UX6 mint and used to Kiautschou with receiver; UX6 and UX13 with 1921 "1 Cent" revalue handstamps of Jacksonville and Louisville respectively; some faults, overlapped cards with some light mount toning, F.-V.F. Scott No. UX6, UX13, UX16 Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $1,250
Lot
1140
1885, 1¢ Brown on Buff, Exhibit Collection, mounted collection in large album starting with mint and used albinos, wide range of shades, novelty miscuts, damaged plates - stamps and inscriptions, card stock variations, range of cancellations including fancy: stars, scarabs, wheels of fortune, county and territorial postmarks, Leavitt machines, postage due usages, foreign mail incl. Costa Rica, Turkey, illustrated ads, reused cards with coating, etc.; the exhibit with overlapped mounting that has caused face toning on the majority of cards; accompanied by an accordion folder with unmounted extras with many items of interest, Fine, a scarce opportunity to acquire a gold medal winning exhibit nearly intact. Scott No. UX8 Estimate $750 - 1,000.
Realized: $950
Lot
1141
1886, 1¢ Black on Buff, Exhibit Collection and Extras, mounted exhibit collection balance of 96 pages starting with photo of design source bust, Daggett printing sample (S8PSd, $200) and "Specimen" handstamped (S8PSf, $250), Daggett and Wooldworth ink and paper variations, missing Keystone on both Daggett and Woolworth plates (S8f), mint 1¢ on salmon colored cover stock (UX9d, cat $2,000), miscuts including. used, printing freaks with foreign material on plate, plate damage, dirty plates, usage with territorials, Chicago World's Fair use, fancy cancels, wheels of fortune, color cancels, county and P.M., RPOs, Machine cancels including. American, Barnard, Barry, Constantine, International, Leavitt, auxiliary and carrier markings, coated for reuse, illustrated advertising, twice mailed, foreign mail including. Argentina, India, Japan and Java, Hawaii short paid, France and Colombia postage dues, reward cards, illustrated advertising, etc.; some minor toning on reverse of cards from mounting; also includes some unmounted extras in two folders, F.-V.F. Scott No. UX9 Estimate $1,500 - 2,000.
Realized: $1,350
Lot
1142
1894-1897, 1¢ Black on Buff, E. Louis Smith Counterfeit Exhibit Collection, mounted exhibit collection mounted on 19 pages telling the story of E. Louis Smith from the first person, the exhibit starts with Smith's coating business and examples of his coated ads, the two recorded UX12 counterfeits are present, a mint example defaced with red manuscript. "Counterfeit" by Inspector Cochran and a faulty used example with silver coating over previous address, and 11 UX14 counterfeits comprising 5 unused and 6 used, the four known plates are shown with mint or used examples plus an example that does not fit the other four plate and noted by Brad as a new fifth plate, includes the two UX14s confiscated by Inspector Cochran and marked in red manuscript. "Counterfeit", also includes the original mailing by Cochran of his confiscated cards to Victory Mills N.Y.; accompanied by additional back up material and research on the subject., Very Fine. Scott No. UX12, UX14 Estimate $3,000 - 4,000.
A REMARKABLE AND UNIQUE EXHIBIT COLLECTION OF THE E. LOUIS SMITH COUNTERFEITS.
This is a study of E. Louis Smith's postal card coating and printing business from 1895 until 1902, when he was sentenced to prison for two years for counterfeiting $100 of U.S. postal cards with 1894 and 1897 Jefferson designs. Postal Inspector W.E. Cochran discovered that Smith had been counterfeiting cards when he made a surprise visit. He had come to inspect the size of Smith's stock of unusable postal cards and already coated cards and to tell him that coated cards had been invalidated three weeks earlier. The Post Office Department had long redeemed unusable stamped envelopes and was going to being to redeem unusuable postal cards. The inspector noticed that Smith had blank card stock cut to size and a counterfeit plate mounted in his small press. Smith confessed to counterfeiting and was arrest on April 24th 1902.
Single examples of the UX14 counterfeit have hammered for between $375 and $750 in our past sales. The UX12 counterfeits have never been offered at public auction.
Realized: $3,500