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.
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| Lot #3328 Siberia 1904 (4 July) picture postcard (view of Petropavlovsk, railroad station), franked with 3k red and tied by "Station Lebyazhya" Siberian Railroad pmk, repeated below, v.f.
| Price Realized $230.00
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| Lot #3329 Siberia 1918 picture postcard to France, with military cachet "Mission Militaire Francaise en Siberia As-Am-Hg" in violet, mailed from Oakland, Calif. by a member of the French detachment en route to Siberia, v.f.
| Price Realized $450.00
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| Lot #3330 Siberia 1918 piece franked with strip of 4x7k blue, with a good strike of "R.R. Poste Italiane Corpo Di Spedizione in Estremo Oriente", v.f., with Bolaffi certificate, rare
| Unsold
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| Lot #3331 Siberia 1919 military postcard from FPO No.103 dated Jan.1, 1921 from Spasskaya to Japan with censor hs and return military address on reverse, v.f.
| Price Realized $220.00
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| Lot #3332 Siberia 1921 20r on 5r indigo, green & blue, cancelled on piece, fine (unpriced used) O Catalog #62 | Price Realized $675.00
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| Lot #3333 Siberia 1921 20k on 7r dark green and pink, bottom sheet margin single, neat cds, with full original gum, light toning and clipped perforations at bottom right, away from the stamp, v.f., rare positional piece (Mi.20A) O Catalog #63 Catalog Value €400 | Price Realized $550.00
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| Lot #3334 Siberia 1921 20k on 3k+4k semi-postal stamp, surcharge inverted, used, v.f., rare (Mi.16var) O Catalog #64var | Unsold
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| Lot #3335 Siberia 1921 20k on 1r brown and red orange, imperforate block of four, upper left stamp with overprint and surcharge shifted diagonally, central cancellation, with full original gum, minor faint toning and creases at lower right, v.f., rare multiple (Mi.15B) Catalog #70 | Unsold
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| Lot #3336 Siberia 1921 20k on 7r dark green and pink, imperforate horizontal pair, right stamp double overprint and surcharge, cancelled to order, with full original gum, faint toning, v.f., signed Papadoupolo, undoubtedly unique! O Catalog #72,72var | Unsold
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| Lot #3337 Siberia 1921 20k blue and carmine, imperforate single, cancelled on piece, v.f., O Catalog #Mi.1B Catalog Value €1,500 | Unsold
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| Lot #3338 Siberia 1921 15k on 20k blue and carmine, vertical pair, top stamp surcharge inverted, bottom stamp only part of the numeral showing, large part of the double circle cancel (to order), with full gum, folded between stamps, faint overall toning, signed Papadoupolo, v.f., undoubtedly unique. A fabulous rarity! O Catalog #Mi.1F1,2var | Unsold
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