U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
March 12-13, 2019
We are pleased to present our March 12-13, 2019 sale, with 1,577 lots, properties of numerous vendors and estates sold by their order. There are selections of attractive United States (over 350 lots), Western European countries with Austria, Benelux, Scandinavia, France, Germany, Danzig, Saar, Italy and Colonies, Liechtenstein, Switzerland and Scandinavia. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented and as always, our sale includes selections of better South America, Asia and rest of the world. We conclude with 130+ large lots and collections, which range from single country collections to multi-carton worldwide groups of stamps and covers.
| Images | Description | Current Bid |
 | Lot #1466 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  | Price Realized $4,500.00 |
 | Lot #1467 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 | Price Realized $1,400.00 |
 | Lot #1468 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, fine-v.f. | Price Realized $2,300.00 |
