Winter 2002 Stamp & Collectibles Auction (day 2)

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1805 Nashville Tenn. s/l cancel on a fascinating three page folded letter concerning a court case involving a counterfeiter

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1840, Two Captain Prince Shearman of the American Whaler "Parker" SFLs. The first is a wrapper without contents ...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1845, Wonderful Three Page SFL from Keokuk, Iowa Territory to Scotland. The letter is written by a young adventurer to his f

U.S. U.S. Postal History An Important 1849 Gold Rush Pioneer Letter written from a perspective miner "In Camp one mile north of St. Joseph&quo...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1850 Gold Miner's Folded Letter from Golls Diggings, California. A three-page-plus letter to his brother in Massachuse...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1851, 3¢ Dull Red on Lady's Covers Pair of cute embossed ladies covers. One has a red Ipswich cds and a black &qu...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1851 Red "STEAM BOAT BELLE CREOLE" h/s (Milgram 102) on reverse of folded Bill of Lading for cotton seed to be s...

U.S. U.S. Postal History (1852) Sutter's Creek, California Stampless Envelope with all in manuscript including a "12 / Paid" mark. Th...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1852 Gold Miner's Letter From American Flat, California a three page letter written on Christmas day in which the mine...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1852 Gold Miner's Letter From Taylor's Ravine, most likely in California. A four page letter from a miner to his w...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1852 Gold Miner's Letter From Centerville, California consisting of three pages written to his wife in Michigan with i...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1853 Hoogas Diggings, California, Miner's Letter. A 1-1/2 page letter written by the miner to a person in Pennsylvania...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1853 Steam Boat "Ophelia" folded wrapper with the red oval steam boat marking, Milgram 1032. The cover comes wit...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1855 Red "STEAMER CAPITOL" h/s (Milgram 173) on reverse of a New Orleans commission and forwarding agents illust...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1857 Nebraska Territory Letter With Fascinating Contents. August 2, Nebraska City four page letter from a son to his parents

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1857, Spectacular Mail (Stage) Coach Passenger Manifest listing the passenger's names and with a wonderful vignette of...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1861 10c Green franking to Vermont bearing a "Rough & Ready" Cal (ifornia) cancel. A 1940 photo copy made fr...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1862//1865, Four Civil War Soldier's Letters with three from Union soldiers and one Confederate . The Confederate sold...

U.S. U.S. Postal History Significant April 23, 1863 Civil War Letter containing 6 pages along with the 3c entire in which it was sent from a Union so

U.S. U.S. Postal History 186?, Multicolor Patriotic Cover picturing Martha Washington and cancelled in Metamora, IND. ALSO an 1898 multicolor Spanish

U.S. U.S. Postal History Sept. 26, 1911 Garden City Estates, NY, Pioneer Flight cover franked by 2c Washington definitive. This was the first success

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1918 24¢ Jenny tied to May 15, 1918 First Trip via airmail cover. The stamp is a bottom margin example. A commercial ...

U.S. U.S. Postal History Dec. 5, 1919 Jahn Aerial Drop Cover. Mr. Jahn invented a parachute device for dropping objects from planes without landing.

U.S. U.S. Postal History Sept. 8, 1920 Chicago to San Francisco U.S. Governmental Flight cover franked by C3 on 2¢ on 3¢ surcharged entir...

U.S. U.S. Postal History March 17, 1924 Round the World Flight cover by U.S. Army Aviators, dispatched from Santa Monica, California and dropped in S

U.S. U.S. Postal History September 8, 1931, Transpacific Flight, Tokyo to Seattle flight cover with the proper red cachet and "delayed" h...

U.S. U.S. Postal History 1986 Voyager Around the World Flight Cover, Edwards AFB to Edwards AFB. The cover is signed by both Dick Rutan and Jeana Yea

U.S. U.S. First Day Covers 1935, 3¢ Michigan Statehood Issue FDC signed by ten people including 8 governors of the state of Michigan. Interest...

U.S. U.S. First Day Covers 1938 Prexy $1.00-$5.00 FDCs with Kribbs Hand Painted Cachets . A pretty and scarce unit with each cover signed at bottom l

U.S. U.S. First Day Covers 1930s to 1990, Large FDC Collection consisting of about 2000 covers with virtually all bearing cachets. The collection is

U.S. U.S. First Day Covers 1922//1960, First Day, First Flight and Event Cover Collection. Large accumulation of several hundreds in a carton with a

U.S. U.S. First Day Covers 1938//1948 Grouping of 60 Crosby Cacheted FDCs featuring some Prexys, several Overrun Countries and others all housed in a

U.S. U.S. First Day Covers First Day and First Flight Cover Collection. Mostly 1940 and earlier, with a complete matched set of Famous Americans (Art

U.S. U.S. Postmaster Provisionals 1846 5c Rhode Island Postmaster Provisional without gum and the paper has a toned cast. There are some ink notation

U.S. U.S. Postmaster Provisionals 1846 10c Rhode Island Postmaster Provisional Reprint with letter "B" on reverse, a nice right sheet mar...

U.S. U.S. 1847 Issue 1847 5c Red Brown, an attractive example with red grid cancel, 4 narrow to ample margins with the narrow top margin with small n

U.S. U.S. 1847 Issue 1847 5c Red Brown with pen cancel removed but does have nice margins. 2001 PSE certificate. VF. Scott No. 1 US$300

U.S. U.S. 1847 Issue 1847 5c Red Brown with pen cancel, four margins which are ample to large, thin spot, Fine. Scott No. 1 US$300

U.S. U.S. 1847 Issue 1847, 5¢ Brown Imperforate on cover. Light red cds, from Albany, NY. Stamp with full margins and a red grid cancel. XF. 2...

U.S. U.S. 1847 Issue 1847 5¢ Brown tied to extensive 1849 folded letter to Woodstock, NY by red grid cancel. The cover also bears a matching, ...

U.S. U.S. 1847 Issue 1847 5c Red Brown on a Vermont wrapper that bears a blue "5" marking and a matching cds. Part of the letter is writt...

U.S. U.S. 1847 Issue 1847 10c Black with cleaned cancel and thin at center. Margins all around except in at bottom. 2001 PSE certificate. Fine. Scott

U.S. U.S. 1847 Issue 1847 10c Black on 1849 commercial folded cover to Boston. The stamp has been pen cancelled and has a red cds as well. The pen st

U.S. U.S. 1847 Issue 1847 Issue Reproduction Card Proofs, hinged but fresh and well margined, VF. Scott No. 3P(4)-4p(4) US$300

U.S. U.S. 1875 Re-Issue 1875 Reissue of the 1847 Issue on bluish paper without gum, a nice set with ample to large margins. VF. Scott No. 3-4 US$1800

U.S. U.S. 1851 Issue 1851 1c Blue Type IV recut at both top and bottom. An attractive stamp with nice margins which has been regummed. There are a so

U.S. U.S. 1851 Issue 1851 5c Jefferson with nice color but cut in at top and with small faults. The stamp has an unused appearance but is more likely

U.S. U.S. 1851 Issue 1851 10c Green Type I date cancel and four good size margins, repaired, VF appearance. Scott No. 13 US$800

U.S. U.S. 1851 Issue 1851 10c Green Type II with light face free cancel and four ample to large margins, thin, VF appearance. Scott No. 14 US$225

U.S. U.S. 1851 Issue 1851 10c Green Type III with large margins and blue cancel. The stamp has a shallow thin and minor creasing in the bottom left c

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1857 1c Blue Type I used. There are some small faults that require searching to find, but the stamp has excellent color and appe

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1857 1c Blue Type II with nice cancel and good color, Fine. Scott No. 20 US$250

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1857 1c Blue, Type III used with light face free cancel and exceptional centering. There are tiny perf tears at top (resulting i

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1857 1c Blue Type IIIa used with cds and frame broken at top. Marked on pencil on reverse as position 24L4. Thin speck but a ver

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1857 1c Blue Type IV with barest trace of blue cancel so that it appears unused, but is not. A fresh example which show full rec

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1857 1c Blue Type IV with essentially a face free cancel, some minor staining on top perfs in nearly the same color as the cance

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1858 5c Brick Red used with light red cancel. A lovely example. 2001 PSE certificate. VF. Scott No. 27 US$1400

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1857 5c Red Brown Type I used with very light cancel. A nice, fresh example. Margin at top is into outer frame line, otherwise c

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1861 5c Orange Brown with OG and hinged. The stamp is reperforated at the left but has exceptional color and is a very fresh exa

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1857 10c Green Type I used with nice cds cancel. Excellent color and centering but with thin in the bottom right corner. VF. Sco

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1857 10c Green, type IV, position 55L1 with lovely red cds, recut at bottom. A beautiful stamp, ex-Caspary. 2001 PSE certificat

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1857 12c Black, Plate I, OG, with a couple of shallow thin spots. Nice VF appearance. Scott No. 36 US$1200

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1860 24c Gray which has been regummed. 2001 PSE certificate. Nice color. Fine. Scott No. 37a US$675

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1860 30c Orange double cancel, reperfed at left, Fine. Scott No. 38 US$450

U.S. U.S. 1857 Issue 1860 90c Blue with no gum and with small thin. Rich color and nice centering. 2001 PSE certificate. VF. Scott No. 39 US$1200

U.S. U.S. 1875 Special Printings 1875 1c Bright Blue Reissue of the 1857 issue, without gum on white paper which has an even cream toning. Fine. Scot

U.S. U.S. 1875 Special Printings 1875 5c Orange Brown Reissue of the 1857 issue without gum on white paper. Couple of uneven perfs as usual but a ver

U.S. U.S. 1861 Issue 1861 10c Dark Green August design with OG and is hinged. The stamp has a light horizontal crease but is not only well centered b

U.S. U.S. 1861 Issue 1861 3c Brown Rose "Premier Gravure" plate essay, formerly number 56. Disturbed OG with a couple of small thins but ...

U.S. U.S. 1861 Issue 1861 5c Buff used with nice Old Point Comfort cancel. Small thin but otherwise a very pretty and VF stamp. Scott No. 67 US$750

U.S. U.S. 1861 Issue 1861 90c Blue which has been regummed over repaired faults and reperforated on three sides. Nevertheless the stamp is an attract

U.S. U.S. 1861 Issue 1861, 90¢ Blue repaired at top and with a faint horizontal crease at bottom. Appears VF. Scott No. 72 US$400

U.S. U.S. 1861 Issue 1863 2c Blackjack with a nice face free cancel and excellent centering, XF Scott No. 73 US$50

U.S. U.S. 1861 Issue 1862 5c Red Brown with a beautiful red cancel. A lovely stamp that has two small shallow thins but is still XF. Scott No. 75 US$

U.S. U.S. 1861 Issue 1863 24c Lilac without gum but the stamp is well centered and with delicate, lovely color. 2001 PSE certificate. VF. Scott No. 7

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 3c Rose A Grill used with nice blue Duplex cancel. The stamp has a few short perfs as is normal for the grilled all over issues

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 12c Black, Z Grill used with better centering than usual but small thin at bottom. 2001 PSE certificate. Fine. Scott No. 85E US

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 1c "E" Grill with light concentric circle cancel, nice for this stamp, Fine. Scott No. 86 US$450

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 10c "E" Grill an attractive stamp notorious for being off center, but this one is F-VF. Scott No. 89 US$300

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 12c E Grill used with both red and black cancels. A pretty and well centered stamp with a few small repairs. Appears XF. Scott

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 15c Lincoln E Grill used with face free red cancel and traces of a black cancel as well. Reperfed at the top but still an attra

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 2c Blackjack F Grill used with exceptional centering for the issue, two small thins in the grill. XF. Scott No. 93 US$45

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 12c Black F Grill used with blue cancel, an attractive stamp. F-VF. Scott No. 97 US$230

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 24c Gray Lilac F Grill used. The stamp has nice color and centering, especially for this issue. Some uneven perfs and thin spot

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 24c "F" Grill with Split Grill some uneven perfs including one short, shallow thin near grill, Fine for this. Scott...

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 30c Orange F Grill used with nice centering and fresh color for this issue. The stamp has a small repaired thin and two attache

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 90c F Grill used, with tiny perf tear at upper right. A scarce stamp with 2001 PSE certificate. Fine. Scott No. 101 US$1400

U.S. U.S. Grills 1867 90c "F" Grill used, various small faults and or repairs. Nevertheless, the stamp is attractive with near face free ...

U.S. U.S. 1875 Re-Issue 1875 1c Reissue for the 1861 Issue without gum on hard white paper, big margins, XF. Scott No. 102 US$400

U.S. U.S. 1875 Re-Issue 1875 12c Black Reissue with part OG, a fresh stamp with 2001 PSE certificate, only 389 issued, Fine. Scott No. 107 US$3500

U.S. U.S. 1875 Re-Issue 1875 24c Deep Violet Reissue with OG and is hinged. A very rare stamp with exceptional color. Only 346 issued. 2001 PSE certi

U.S. U.S. 1869 Pictorials 1869 6c Pictorial regummed and small internal tear above right "eye". 2001 PSE certificate. VF Appearance. Scot...

U.S. U.S. 1869 Pictorials 1869 10c Pictorial insignificant ironed out creases, a most attractive stamp which is otherwise VF. Scott No. 116 US$140

U.S. U.S. 1869 Pictorials 1869 12c Pictorial regummed and reperforated at right. 2001 PSE certificate. Fine appearance. Scott No. 117 US$950

U.S. U.S. 1869 Pictorials 1869, 12¢ Green. Brilliant red cancellation. Choice. VF. 1986, Philatelic Foundation certificate. Scott No. 117 US$300

U.S. U.S. 1869 Pictorials 1869 15c Pictorial Type I used, nicely centered but nibbled perfs at right. Still VF. Scott No. 118 US$650

U.S. U.S. 1869 Pictorials 1869, 15¢ Brown and Blue An extremely pretty example, of this beautiful issue. The deepest and riches color imaginab...

U.S. U.S. 1869 Pictorials 1869 24c Pictorial used, small faults and reperfed at right. Appears VF. Scott No. 120 US$750

U.S. U.S. 1869 Pictorials 1869 30c Pictorial used with light cancel and nicely centered. VF. Scott No. 121 US$550

U.S. U.S. 1869 Pictorials 1869 30c Pictorial an attractive example which is faulty, but is VF appearing.. Scott No. 121 US$550