Sale 923 — United States Stamps
Sale Date — Monday, 23 October, 2006
Category — Philippines
Lot
Symbol
Photo/Description
Cat./Est. Value
Realized
3469
1903, $2.00 Dark Blue (238). Lightly hinged, deep rich color, wide margins, Very Fine and choice, with 2004 P.F. certificate
800
550
3470
1900, 2c Carmine, Booklet Pane of Six (214b). Light tropical original gum, horizontal guide line in tab, fresh and Fine-Very Fine
250
110
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1903, $2.00 Dark Blue (238). Lightly hinged, choice margins and handsomely centered, Very Fine and choice, with 2006 P.F. certificate (VF-XF 85)
800
600
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1903, $2.00 Dark Blue (238). Small h.r., rich color, tiny tear at right, appears Very Fine, with 2006 P.F. certificate
800
180
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1903, $5.00 Dark Green (239). Lightly hinged, fresh, deep rich color, Very Fine, only 746 issued, with 1983 P.F. certificate
1,000
700
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1903, 1c Black, Postal Card, Ty. "b" Ovpt. (UX3). Unused without printed back, Extremely Fine, rare
1,350
1,700
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1903, 1c Black, Postal Card, Ty. "b" Ovpt. (UX3). Unused with printed pictorial view on back and neat purple " 'La Yebana' Cigar Factory Manila" three-line handstamp bottom left corner on the front, Very Fine and choice
1,350
1,100
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1903, 2c Black, Postal Card, Ty. "b" Ovpt. (UX4). Unused, remarkably fresh, Very Fine and choice
800
425
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1906, 1c Black, Postal Card, Ty. "d" Ovpt. (UX7). Unused, Extremely Fine, with 1985 P.F. certificate
275
400
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1906, 2c Black, Postal Card, Ty. "d" Ovpt. (UX8). Unused, Extremely Fine, remarkably clean example of this Philippine postal card rarity of which only a handful are known, with 1985 P.F. certificate
2,000
5,750
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1944, 2c Green, Red on Buff, Postal Cards, "VICTORY" Handstamp Ovpts. (UX20-UX22). Unused, remarkably fresh, Extremely Fine, scarce set, only 94 of no. UX21 were issued
1,115
3,500
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1900-03, 1c + 1c, 2c + 2c Paid Reply Postal Cards (UY1-UY3). Unused, unsevered, fresh, Very Fine and choice complete issues
610
225
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1899, 2c Carmine on Oriental Buff, Die 2, 19mm Ovpt. (U7). Used entire, "Arecibo Sta. Porto Rico Feb. 12 1900" grid duplex circular datestamp to Mayaguez with that town's backstamp receiver of the same date, "Sucesores de Roses & Co., Arecibo, Puerto Rico" printed corner card as surely on all of the sixteen used examples that are recorded, remarkably fresh and clean, Very Fine and choice, there were 500 of this type overprint entire prepared yet there are no surviving unused examples, thus available used only, Sloane handstamp guarantee
1,250
1,100
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1899-1900, 4c Brown (U10). Unused entire, "Roses & Co." corner card, tiny natural paper inclusion, Very Fine
500
550
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1899, 2c Carmine on Oriental Buff, 23mm Ovpt. (U12). Unused entire, "Sucesores de Roses & Co., Arecibo, Puerto Rico" printed corner card, fresh, Very Fine and choice, very rare with only twelve recorded unused entires out of the 1,000 printed, Sloane handstamp guarantee
1,200
1,900
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1899-1900, 1c Black on Buff, Postal Card, 20mm Ovpt. (UX1A). Unused, slight toning, most apparent along top in two spots, otherwise Extremely Fine, rare
1,200
0
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United States Possessions Postal Stationery Collection. Comprehensive collection of unused entires and postal cards mostly in binders, includes Canal Zone with Nos. U1, U2, U4, U5, U12 (large size) and some better postal cards, Cuba complete Nos. U1-U18, W1-W2, UX1-UX2 plus an overprinted set of Columbian entires fraudulently produced in the 1920's or early 1903's, Sloane, Tows and Bartels reportedly forced the manufacturer to destroy all he had (twelve sets) but apparently there were a few more, this set, and we believe one other (background accompanies), Hawaii Nos. U1-U13, UE1, UX1-UX9, Philippines virtually complete between U1/U45 and UX1/UX23, includes UZ4, U37 and U39 with printed "OB" and a U26 without overprint but with Manila business printed corner card (error?), Official corner cards and a few duplicates, Puerto Rico virtually complete U1/U18 plus scarce UX1, UX2 and UX3, exceptionally nice quality throughout, Very Fine
E. 2,000-3,000
3,750
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