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.
Auction # 58 - Winter 2014 Auction
By: Schuyler J. Rumsey Auctions, Inc.
Schuyler J. Rumsey Auctions, Inc. Auction # 58 - Winter 2014 Auction
We are pleased to announce our Winter 2014 auction with over 3,500 lots offered over four days. The sale is highlighted by:
- The Richard Graham Collection of Naval Covers
- Transatlantic Mail including the Ken Clark Collection of Liverpool Postal History.
- The John Cunningham Collection of United States Expositions.
- Hawaii including Specialized Hawaiian Numerals
- The Charles F. Meroni Jr. Collection of Panama Registered Mail (Part II)
- Worldwide Collections and Accumulations
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Auction scedule
December 8, Lots 1 - 975 - Western Postal History - U.S. Postal History
December 9, Lots 976 - 2053 - U.S. Postal History - U.S. Possessions
December 10, Lots 2054 - 2736 - Great Britain - General Foreign
December 11, Lots 2737 - 3544 - U.S. Cover Collections - Philatelic Literature
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Lot #3274 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
Lot #3275 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
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),...
Lot #3276 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
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.
Lot #3277 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
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...
Lot #3278 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
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.
Lot #3279 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
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.
Lot #3280 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
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...
Lot #3281 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
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.
Lot #3282 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
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.
Lot #3283 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
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; $...
Lot #3284 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
Worldwide Topicals, (Olympics) France, 1924 Paris Olympic Games Collection. Stamp & covers on stockpages and some covers in sleeves; starting with the 1924 Olympic Games issues (Scott 198-201) including a set of mint panes of 25 (some separations and light toning on top values), selection of */o in moderate duplication including 10c gutter pane of 8 with "Parison" imprint doubled plate variety, over 100 covers and cards with the...
Lot #3285 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
Worldwide Topicals, (Olympics) United States 1932 Olympic Issues Cover Collection. Over 300 cover mostly in slips and glassine; includes FDC covers with better cachets including Truby, Gorham, 1st Los Angeles Times airmail set, etc., Olympic Games cachets, host of event covers, interesting airmail usages including ship to shore and F.A.M.'s and a variety of label and auxiliary handstamps, naval and packetboat, foreign destinations...
Lot #3286 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
Worldwide Topicals, (Olympics) Germany, 1936 Berlin Olympic Games Exhibition Collection. On exhibition pages featuring the 1935 semi-postal issues and postal card series, includes */o singles (including mint thick paper and "Muster" specimen set) and blocks, souvenir sheets */o, booklet panes and se-tenant multiples including two full sheets, unexploded booklets including the scarce red stripe variety, covers including Zeppelin and...
Lot #3287 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
Worldwide Topicals, (Olympics) United States 1980-1996 Olympic Event Cover Collection. Approximately 700 covers mostly arranged in 8 cover albums; excellent well formed assembly of cachets and stations cancels for the 1980 Lake Placid, 1984 Los Angeles & 1996 Atlanta Games, includes auxiliary Olympic related and a host of many 100's of mostly unused post and postal cards commemorating the 1984 & 1996 Olympics housed in two...
Lot #3288 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
Worldwide Topicals, Space Covers. One man's accumulation of 50+ covers, cards; most chosen or interesting and unusual usages.
Estimate; $100 - 150.
Lot #3289 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
Worldwide Topicals, (Supplies) Unused Stockbooks. 2 large cartons with new or nearly new fancy padded stockbooks, such as Lighthouse, please inspect.
Estimate; $100 - 150.
Lot #3290 - worldwide collections worldwide topical collections
Worldwide Topicals, (Windmills) Worldwide Windmill Philatelic Collection. Extensive topical collection arranged by country and mounted on pages in 21 Stanley Gibbons springback albums; the vast array of windmill illustrated and related issues many with additional covers, maximum card, FDC, commemorative cachet cover as well as related ephemera, with highlights including a section of Aegean Island (Italian Occ.) issues with scarce 1929...
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