U.S. & Worldwide Stamps & Postal History
September 15-16, 2020

Welcome to our September 15-16, 2020 Auction which will be held simultaneously via CherrystoneLIVE and Stamp Auction Network (SAN). This sale contains 1,353 lots of Rare Stamps and Postal History of the World, with United States and European countries, including Austria, France and Colonies, Germany, Italy, Poland, Russia, Spain, and others. Great Britain and British Commonwealth are well represented, covering all Reigns with many high values and sets from Aden to Zanzibar. Also featured is a collection of Imperial China, with Dowagers and extensive Red Revenues which include small 4c and inverted 2c and $5 overprints. This section is followed by solid selection from Republic of China (Taiwan) and PRC souvenir sheets. From Egypt (Kingdom), there is a fine showing of used and unused sets and postal history. This auction concludes with a strong selection of 250 large lots and collections ranging from single country albums to specialized collections (Postal History of Louisiana, British Commonwealth) and multi-carton worldwide properties and large cover lots.

ImagesDescriptionCurrent Bid
Lot #1141
LARGE LOTS AND COLLECTIONS UNITED STATES - Space Program
1960s-2000s large 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, etc.
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Price Realized
$5,250.00

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