Sale 1339 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Thursday-Friday, 12-13 December, 2024
Category — Group Lots by Issue
3c 1851-61 Issues, Better Cancels. 3c 1851 Nos. 11-11A including approximately 27 stamps with star cancels, wide variety with some better such as Chicopee Mass. stars, Danvers Centre Mass. hollow star, others, 3c 1861 No. 65 with more than 120 stamps showing a wide variety of cancels including steam and steamboat, paid, free, numerals, Wells Fargo, Fort Sill and Fort Smith, registered, Alban "US" in circle of stars, lots of others, mixed condition but overall decent strikes and attractive
1870-75 Bank Note Issues, New York Foreign Mail Cancels. More than 85 stamps on stock cards, denominations range to 30c, most are identified by Weiss number, wide range of cancel types with some slightly better, mixed condition on the stamps but most of the cancels are clear to identifiable, some are choice strikes, overall Fine appearing and divers group
Booklet Pane Collection, 1900-1990. In a Scott album, the only one missing is the 2c A.E.F. pane (does include the 1c A.E.F. pane), 1900 2c in both horizontal and vertical watermarks, six different 1903 2c Shield, and goes all the way to 1990 issues, Air Post complete 1928-1973, original gum, hinging varies on the early issues and includes some Mint N.H., the later issues are probably all Mint N.H., overwhelmingly Fine-Very Fine
1954 Liberty Series, Graded Accumulation. Nearly 100 Mint N.H. items, approximately 14 Scott numbers between Nos. 1031 and 1055b with heavy duplication, including coil pairs, all P.S.E. graded between XF-Superb 95 and Gem 100, Extremely Fine Gems, linked spreadsheet lists each stamp and grade, total SMQ $8,780
Back-of-Book Collection. Postage Dues, Officials, and Newspaper Stamps on album pages, Postage Dues mainly used, Officials are unused and used, and are missing only a small number of better stamps for completion, Newspaper stamps represented by mostly unused stamps, with a few used and some card proofs, mixed condition, should have a high catalogue value
Back-of-Book Accumulation. Small box with mostly Postage Dues, range of issues including earlier with lots of duplication and loads of blocks, we note some better items such as J20 block of four, also some Officials, plenty of Parcel Post including multiples, Savings Stamps, this was once part of a high-catalogue Back-of-Book balance from the Weill Brothers stock, although the valuable stamps have been removed there is still material here worthy of review, our estimate is a fraction of the retail value and is designed to move it along
Cut Squares Collection. Stock book loaded with cut squares neatly labeled with Scott numbers and accompanied by a log detailing numbers and catalogue values, which range to over $100 (see linked PDF of the log and a sheet of some highlights), an occasional small fault but overall fresh and Very Fine collection, total owner's Scott value approximately $11,000
Postal Stationery Accumulation. Six albums or binders with cut squares, entires, and postal cards, early to modern, mixed condition, should prove to be a useful lot