U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
January 7-8, 2009

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Lot #1682
LARGE LOTS & COLLECTIONS WORLDWIDE TOPICALS
1826-1950 "Trains on Stamps" - Balance of an award-winning collection written up exhibition style on pages, with 250+ stamps including proofs, also 200+ covers or cards, arranged in chronological order of development, starting with the Steam Engine, details of construction and implementation throughout the world, continuing with locomotives and passenger lines, railroad bridges, diesel trains and related aspects of Trains on Stamps. There are numerous highlights commencing with Great Britain 1826 letter to George Stephenson, civil engineer for Liverpool and Manchester Railway Co., 1840 covers from Shildon Works Company ("Shildon Penny Post), "Pierce Bridge Penny Post", 1870 5c red (Lima-Chorrillos line), nine copies including one on cover, plus an unused strip of five, also 5c Lama on cover (RR cancel), United States with Truman & Chapman's Express covers (2), various covers from Guatemala, Bolivia, Honduras, Nicaragua, Salvador, Uruguay, Saudi Arabia, train pmks on stampless letters from Kiel and Altona, Fl
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Price Realized
$7,500.00

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