Sale 1140 — Outstanding United States Stamps, featuring The Irwin Weinberg Inventory

Sale Date — Wednesday-Friday, 9-11 November, 2016

*A buyer’s premium of 15% of the winning bid was added as part of the total purchase price on all lots in this sale. Buyers were responsible for applicable sales tax, customs duty and any other prescribed charges. By placing a bid, bidders agreed to the terms and conditions in effect at the time of the sale.

Category — Essays and Proofs

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Lot

Symbol

Photo/Description

Cat./Est. Value

Realized

202

1847-1883 Issues, Plate Proofs on Card. Set of 174 card proofs with 17 original Post Office Department envelopes, as received by an employee of the Stamp Agency, complete sets for 1847, 1851, 1861, 1869, 1870, 1865 and 1874 Newspapers, 1873 Officials and 1879 Postage Dues, nice margins throughout, a few with minor toning, some of the envelopes with edge faults incl. 1851 nicked

VERY FINE SET OF CARD PROOFS AND VERY RARE WITH ALL OF THE ORIGINAL ENVELOPES.

This collection is accompanied by an 1889 letter from the original owner stating in part, "U.S. Postage Stamps to 1883, order from Post Master General to have printed from the engraved plates the stamps used in America from the first stamps issued from 1847 to 1883 for gifts...I received a set of 174 stamps as I was in the Stamp Agency". Letter is partially stuck to photo album page.

Scott Retail for just the proofs more than $6,000.00

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E. 2,000-3,000

7,500

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