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Auction: 142 - March Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 496

Valuable and impressive collection offered intact as received in 6 Lighthouse hingeless albums, high catalogue value due to its very solid coverage from 1847 to 2007, replete with scarce issues such as used #5A type 1b (position 8R1E), 19, (both with APS certificates), 85B (SPA certificate), 131 (PF certificate), unused 102, 129 (both with PF certificates), a cover franked with 11, 17 tied by "STEAM" handstamp (ex Caspary), and a super abundance of other desirable stamps such as unused #9X1, 3, 4, 40, 44, 107, 128, 130, used 1, 2, 12, 13, 16, 18, 21, 22, 23, 27, 28, 28A, 30, 31, 32, 34, 39 (red cancel not guaranteed), 64, 67, 72, 78a (APS certificate), 79, 83, 84, 85, 85C, 85E, 86-91, 92-101, complete used 1869 Pictorials, mostly used and complete regular Banknotes (except for 24c grill, and I grills) and Bureaus, mint or used complete Columbian and Trans-Mississippi, all other commemorative sets mint, mostly hinged, and complete to 1945 (n.h. White Plains sheet), mint n.h. and 99.9% complete from about 1946 onward, Washington-Franklins are well covered, including mint 3c, 6c, 10c, 15c bluish papers, 5c error in block of 6, and the same n.h. in a strip of 3, regular and definitive issues complete and mint from 1922 onward (except used $5 Coolidge), mint n.h. from 1954 forward, including some imperf coil errors, the back of the book also impresses with comprehensive airmails, including mint Graf Zeppelin set (disturbed gum), special deliveries, postage dues, Offices in China, officials, newspaper and periodical stamps, parcel post, carrier stamps, a few locals, including #1LB6 with 26 on cover, 6LB6 on cover (PF certificate), and ends with complete mint or unused 1934-2007 hunting permit stamps, rather mixed condition, including regummed, reperfed stamps, mint includes unused, part or full o.g., a few questionable items before 1920, however many are fine or better; five APS, two PF, and one SPA certificates accompany.

Sold for
$23,000