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.
extensive specialized collection sorted by issue, organized according to district overprint and cancels (Schatzkes numbers), containing many better cancellations and multiples, some certificates included, mostly fine to very fine, an impressive collection which requires a close inspection to fully appreciate
extensive group of collections, balances, and duplicates in a large carton, a mixture of never hinged, mint, and used material throughout, we note an interesting group of the Exporta issue, some better material, generally fine to very fine, a bit of hard work could pay off
extensive collection with better items including C1 never hinged vertical pair, mint C39 inverted surcharge (C39a), double surcharge (C39b), and pair, one without surcharge (C39c), two unused C60, and much more, mix of mint and used throughout, an attractive and worthwhile holding
over 300 covers and some fronts, containing a wide variety of different district overprints, cancellations, multiples, bisects, quadrisects, a registered cover front, we note a France 20c Napoleon issue on cover from the Second French Intervention, also a nice group of staples covers and approximately 100 covers from the 1895-1915 period, mostly fine to very fine, an extraordinary holding which would be very difficult to duplicate, ideal for the specialist and worth a very close inspection
six Wells Fargo Express covers and entires, one mint five used, including WF17 1885 12c Green Hidalgo, WF43 1887 20c Lilac Numeral, WF44 1887 20c Lilac Numeral (2), WF-MX 12, NE16 1895 10c Lilac Mulita entire (Mint), several interesting postal marking and registry labels, overall fine to very fine
mint and used collection in well-filled Scott Specialty album, mostly used to 1940 and mint thereafter, better Netherlands including used 1-9, 12, 51-54, 86, and 124-34, mint 8, 11, 101, 319-22, and C13-14, also nice collection of colonies with Netherlands Antilles, New Guinea, and Indies including mint 218, 307-30, Indonesia to 1965 with 1948-49 Vienna and Philadelphia issues, Rian Archipelago 2-22 mint, and Surinam, fine to very fine, owner's Scott catalogue value $17,000+
comprehensive collection neatly mounted in two Davo albums, first album has several hundred showing post office date stamps arranged alphabetically, second album with several hundred stamps with date stamps arranged in five sections including substations, branch offices (Amsterdam, Arnhem, s'Gravenhage, Rotterdam and Utrecht), train station post offices, railroad post offices, and boat post offices, a difficult group to duplicate and a nice opportunity for the postmark specialist, generally fine to very fine
attractive collection of many hundreds in a binder on homemade pages arranged alphabetically by types, including Kleinrondstempels (small circle) and Grootrondstempels (large circle), begins with first issue imperforates with "Halfrond" types A-C, followed by Langstempels (straight line), amazing assemblage of neat socked-on-the-nose cancels, fine to very fine, practically impossible to duplicate, excellent condition
lovely collection featuring hundreds of stamps with a wide range of postmarks, including earliest numbered 1-120 Puntstemple, straight line, squared circle, double circle, and others, all meticulously mounted on homemade pages, an veritable trove of postmarks that is worth a close inspection, fine to very fine
neat used collection of more than 250 stamps and three covers in a stockbook, excellent variety of cancels, includes 1 (2), 2 (2 on part folded cover), and more, fine to very fine
19th and 20th Century mint and used accumulation, all identified on manila stock pages in binder, strong assortment of material including semipostals, airmail, and more, fine to very fine
two binders arranged by denomination, for each stamp in the series there is a wealth of production material including trial color proofs with Waterlow overprints, the issued souvenir sheets with manuscript "File Copy", "Muestra" overprints, imperforate proof sheets, as well as on-cover uses (mostly philatelic), generally very fine, many of these items only exist in extremely limited quantities (for the imperforate sheets as few as three are in private hands), an extraordinary opportunity for the baseball or sports topical collector, or someone looking to purchase the foundation of a strong exhibit-quality collection