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March United States Postal History
Featuring The Leonard Piszkiewicz Collection of Chicago Postal History, The Van Koppersmith Collection of Philadelphia Postal History and The Tony Dewey Collection of Hartford Postal History
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single used alongside pair of 1955 50c Susan B. Anthony (1051) on September 26, 1958 registered cover from Lackawanna, New York to Aden, Arabia, proper backstamps, very fine, $1.25 pays triple the 25c per half-ounce airmail rate to Aden plus 50c registry fee
horizontal pair tied by July 5, 1941 New Orleans, Louisiana duplex to legal-sized cover to Wellington, New Zealand, very fine cover, $2 pays quadruple the 50c airmail rate to New Zealand (up to 2 oz)
single used alongside horizontal strip of three 20c Green (C9) tied by roller cancel to cover to Honolulu, Hawaii, January 3, 1942 San Francisco datestamp alongside, censor handstamp at bottom left, very fine, $1.60 pays eight times the 20c half-ounce rate to Hawaii (up to 4 oz)
tied by "New York, N.Y. Sta. P. Jan 21 1947" duplex to cover to Shanghai, China paying quadruple the 25c rate to Asia (up to 2 oz), small tape stains, otherwise very fine and scarce solo use of the $1 Prexie
two vertical strips of three and one pair used alongside 15c and 20c Prexies (820, 825), tied by mute ovals to registered bank tag from Litchfield, Illinois to St. Louis Missouri, very fine
pair used alongside 10c, 50c, and $1 Prexies on parcel tag from sailor in San Francisco to Worcester, Massachusetts, light creasing, fine appearance
approximately 70 covers in two binders, a wonderfully eclectic mix of material including (in no particular order) four sets of C13-15 cards/covers including April 19 first day cover of each, CSA 2 Stone Y on cover (APEX certificate), 1c Huguenot-Walloon bisect, early rocket flights, 1869 1c on drop letter, JQ3 on incoming cover from Noway, and selection of 1893 Columbian Exposition tickets, and much more few small faults but generally fine to very fine and interesting
one of the most wide-ranging and interesting binders we have ever handled, includes early airmail covers from Belgium, France, and Switzerland, 1937 Tannu Tuva cover, Somali Coast 25 on cover, 1936 Tin Can mail cover, Denmark booklet panes on cover with advertising labels, Russia 1919 Army of the North set on cover, Germany 1923 Halle local post labels on registered cover, German Kiautschou 10pf on postal card with Chinese Imperial Post issues, Germany Offices in China ½d on 3m on registered cover, France 1937 PEXIP sheet (stamps only) on postal card (plus mint sheet), Iceland 1931 Zeppelin set mint and on cover, several Germany Rhein-Main flight cards, Germany Zeppelin flight covers including 1m-4m, Polar Flight 1m-4m, South America Flight 2m-4m, and Chicago Flight 2m-4m, German Offices in Morocco and China on cover, and more, generally fine to very fine, this binder represents covers which Bill Robinson found interesting over the course of his life and would be very nearly impossible to duplicate, a close inspection is necessary as nearly every item here is worthwhile
two strikes of red numeral "5", four full margins except clear at bottom right, fine and attractive, 2012 Weiss certificate (Scott $350)
red grid and traces of blue cancel, few small thins and corner crease at lower left, four full and margins with portion of adjacent stamp at bottom, very fine, 2011 Weiss certificate (Scott $350)
red cancel, margin large to clear including sheet margin at right, fine and attractive, 2012 Weiss certificate (Scott $450)
red grid cancel, large balanced margins, worn impression, 2009 PSE certificate graded 85 (SMQ $950)