Auction Detail
January 2023
Our January 2023 sales include the "Erivan" Collection of United and Confederate States Postal History Part VIII, as well as a general sale of United States and worldwide stamps, covers, and collections.
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mostly 1950s/60s, roughly eighty covers from more than twenty countries, with ship and naval mail, expedition covers, scientific surveys, and commemorative pieces, with examples including origins from British, French and Australian Antarctic Territories, Denmark, Greenland, Canada, Norway, Ross Dependency, Japan, Sweden, Tristan da Cunha, Japan, and Madagascar, note a half-dozen signed items, several attractive frankings, the odd fault but a chiefly fresh and very fine group
like German Empire with 9 cards and covers bearing SAF Flight Zeppelin stamps and four covers bearing Chicagofahrt Zeppelin stamps, furthermore US Zeppelin 50c. green total of 32 cards and covers, mostly single franking but also some multiple franking, each single franking of 1.30$ and 2.60$ and also Brazil frankings, Soviet Union Polar flight with 35k. and 2r. imperf etc., mostly good condition
including many better ones, some other airmail covers, mostly good quality
wonderful selection of mostly American first flights, couple of zeppelin covers, 1918 cover with "Aviation Concentration Camp, Camp Dick, Fair Park, Dallas, Texas" handstamp, 1918 postcard with "Pensacola Fla. Aeronautic Br." datestamp, 1933 Mattern and Griffin round-the-world flight cover with handwritten letter from Mattern, and much more, mostly fine to very fine, words cannot do this lot justice so we recommend a close inspection
small group of covers, postcards, and other ephemera mostly related to Clara Adams (but some other zeppelin/DO-X material as well), several covers addressed to Adams and even one of her 1928 Graf Zeppelin baggage labels, generally very fine and interesting
54 covers including 20 transatlantic and 34 transpacific, some scarcer flights and markings, generally very fine, an interesting and attractive group
24 covers including 1930 catapult flight, 1932 Akron flight, and 22 first flight covers (including one Mexico and four Canada), generally very fine and attractive
1983 Babe Ruth 20c first day cover autographed by Mickey Mantle, Ted Williams, Willie McCovey, Frank Robinson, Ernie Banks, and Harmon Killebrew, extremely fine, a wonderful cover signed by six of the greatest to ever play the game, 2022 PSA/DNA certificate
1989 Lou Gehrig 25c first day cover signed by 11 Hall of Fame pitchers: Whitey Ford, Jim "Catfish" Hunter, Hal Newhouser, Early Wynn, Fergie Jenkins, Bob Gibson, Whitey Ford, Juan Marichal, Bob Lemon, Bob Feller, and Hoyt Wilhelm, extremely fine, an attractive cover, 2022 PSA/DNA certificate
1989 Lou Gehrig 25c first day cover signed by 15 Hall of Famers: Enos Slaughter, Rick Ferrell, Monte Irvin, Gaylord Perry, Bob Feller, Hoyt Wilhelm, Ralph Liner, Harmon Killebrew, Yogi Berra, Robin Roberts, Early Wynn, Willie Stargell, Al Kaline, and Bobby Doerr, extremely fine and attractive, a wonderful cover, 2022 PSA/DNA certificate
three covers, first 1989 Lou Gehrig 25c first day cover signed by Johnny Bench, Red Schoendienst, Carl Yastrzemski, and Al Barlick (all 1989 Cooperstown inductees), second 1983 Babe Ruth 20c first day cover with Hank Aaron signature that received a negative 2022 PSA/DNA opinion, third 1983 Babe Ruth 20c first day cover with Hank Aaron signature similar to the last (uncertified) in addition to Willie McCovey, Willie Stargell, and Brooks Robinson, all very fine and offered on their own merits
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powerful mint and used collection on Scott National hingeless pages filled with highlights, including used 1 and 2 (each with red cancel), 30A, 36, 77, 100, 151 (blue cancel), 152, 154, 155 and 191, mint 9, 11A, 35, 37a, 65 pair, 73, 78, 86, 87, 88, 92, 96, 97, 112, 114, 117, 120, 122P4, 145, 147, 156, 157, 158, 166, 179, 185, 189, 208, 209, 214 (never hinged), 215, 217, 218, 227, 228 (never hinged) and 229, unused 14, 15, 38, 68, 69, 71, 72, 75, 76, 90, 98, 113, 115, 116, 119, 148, 149, 150, 153, 161 and 163, condition varies but much fine to very fine, well worth inspection, owner's Scott catalogue value $70,000+