U.S. and Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
October 16-17, 2018
Welcome to our October 16-17, 2018 Sale of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World. With 1,627 lots, this auction features properties of various owners and estates from all over the world, including Ernest Wheeler’s flight and space covers and autographs, additional selections from the Scouts of the World collection, Vito Bianco’s stock of Italian area and many others. There are solid selections of United States, Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Latin and South America, European Countries with Austria, Belgium, France, Germany & Italy, with their respective Colonies, also Poland, Russia, Spain and Switzerland; rarities from China and other Asian material. As always, the sale contains 150+ large lots and collections, with individual country collections, worldwide accumulations in cartons, cover lots and more. A limited number of printed catalogues are available on request.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
| Lot #3498 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Space Program 1960s-2000 collection of 3,500+ covers in FDC albums, housed in four cartons (banker's boxes), with various Project Mercury, Gemini-Apollo flights, many signed by the Astronauts, several by John Glenn, Vance Brand, Alan Bean, Jack Lousma, Charles Conrad, Paul Weitz, later test pilots and crews, Apollo-Soyuz flights, with 1975 signed covers (Stafford, Brand, Slayton, Leonov and Kubasov), official cacheted FDCs, hundreds of test and shuttle flights, 1978-81 shuttle training flights (various crews including Judith Resnick), autographed STS-32 and 34 Landing, STS-33 Discovery, autographed covers prepared by Titusville-Moonport Stamp Club, STS-37 Atlantis, projects involving B-1 bombers, YF-17, SR-71, Satellites, etc., truly a magnificent holding, with many better covers, impossible to re-assemble. In addition, there are three cartons of Philatelic Literature, with "Astrophile" 1970-2015 apparently a complete run, hundreds of other journals, pamphlets printed by NASA and other agencies, American Air Mail Catalogu  | Unsold | |
| Lot #3499 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Space Program 1960s-70s collection of 1,000+ covers in small FDC albums, Gemini-Apollo flights, many signed by the pilots and Astronauts, wonderful variety, with many undoubtedly scarcer items included, generally v.f. An old-time collection of United States Space Program covers, ex-Ernest Wheeler | Unsold | |
 | Lot #3500 LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Space Program 1980s-90s NASA Staff Photographs (usually 8x10inches), collection of 245, mostly autographed and dedicated ("Wish Best Wishes" etc.), including Sally Ride, Michael E. Lopez-Alegria, Vance Brand, Guion S. Bluford, Jr., Michael Richard Clifford, Eileen M. Collins, Jan Davis, Barbara Redding Morgan, James D. Halsell, Mark and Scott Kelly, Fred Leslie, John Irwin, Jack Lousma, Rick Husband, Joan Higginbotham, Susan Helms, Linda Godwin, Story Musgrave, Nancy Sherlock, Carl Walz, James Wetherbee, Alan Bean (Apollo 12), Richard F. Gordon, Jr., Don Leslie Lind, crews of Space Shuttle STS-53, STS-39, STS-104, STS-101, STS-99, STS-111, STS-114, STS-121, some duplication, mostly fine-v.f., ex-Ernest Wheeler | Unsold |
