2013 CHICAGOPEX Stamp Show November 2013 | Page 198
Session II: Sunday, November 24, 2013
Estimate
Estimate
USA FIRST DAY COVER ACCUMULATIONS
2305
1930s-2000s FDC ACCUMULATION ...................... $1500-2000
About 6,000 FDCs (includes a few Event, First Flight & other
covers), mostly for years 1940s-90s loose (some sleeved) and
in 5 cover albums. FDCs include cacheted & uncacheted,
addressed & unaddressed. Cachets mostly from Artmaster,
Artcraft with clean unaddressed FDCs for years 1960s-70s in
cover albums & others loose, Fleetwood & Colorano Silk (and
several imitators) plus smaller quantities of cacheted FDCs from
Grimsland, Ioor, HF, Bazaar, Cachet Craft, Wesson, Ross Foil
and several others including Postal Commemorative Society
& Postmasters of America. A few better cacheted FDCs noted:
1933 Peace #727 (Mellone cv $25), 1936 Texas #776 ($20) &
Anthony #784, 1941 Vermont #903 (x5), 1945 Coast Guard,
others. Also complete/partial sets of Legends of the West,
Presidents S/S singles, many Famous Americans, Bicentennial
Flags and more. Lots of variety with light to moderate duplication. Some toned covers, some usual cover faults, overall
fine to very fine.
2306
2308
Collection of more than 900 FDCs in 8 cover albums & in
loose cover stock pages. Includes: Postal Commemorative
Society addressed FDCs for years 1960s-90s (mostly 1990s)
in 8 cover albums with many topical sets including Classic
Comics, Civil War, Endangered animals, American Dolls (x2
sets), Classic Aircraft, Olympics, selected WWII, Celebrate the
Century 1900s (x10 different) & complete for 1920s, 30s, 40s
& 50s, 1987 North American Wildlife, 1982 State Birds &
Flowers (no album) and 1992 Wildflowers complete sets of 50
FDCs each, other topical sets. Also Prexies 1¢-50¢ on addressed
covers with matching Ioor cachets, small group of unaddressed
cacheted & uncacheted other FDCs and 2 joint issue souvenir
cards. Clean material, fine to very fine.
2309
1934-38 NATIONAL PARKS & PREXIES ½¢-50¢ +
BOOKLET PANES & COILS FDCs ............................. $500-700
Selection of 6 different cacheted sets of perforated National
Parks FDCs #740-49 (one set missing 2¢), one set of addressed
imperf Parks FDCs #756-65 with Ioor cachets (cv $200), and
4 different cacheted Prexy ½¢-50¢ FDCs #803-31 all individually sleeved, plus booklets #804b, 806b & 807a & coil
FDCs #839-47 & 848-51. National Parks cachets on addressed
covers include (by Mellone): Linprint #740-49-4 (cv $100);
Rice #740-49-5 ($100); WSE/Dyer #740-49-7 ($90);
Grimsland #740-49-11 ($125); Fawcett #740-49-13 ($150);
Roy #740//49-32 (stains, no 2¢, est $160). Prexy cachets
include: addressed Ioor #803-31-1 plus booklets & coils (total
cv $261); addressed Fidelity #803-31-5 plus booklets & coils
(total cv $280); addressed Grimsland #803-31-42 plus coils
(total cv $244); unaddressed House of Farnam (HF) #803-3145 plus booklets & coils (total cv $261). Except as noted, fine
to very fine. There is a great deal of variety and catalog value
here, well worth examination.
2310
1940s-2000 FDC & EVENT COLLECTIONS .............. $350-500
Lot includes more than 1,100 addressed & unaddressed
cacheted FDCs on descriptive pages in 19 Postal Commemorative Society Albums (PCS) plus 2 empty albums and stack
of loose descriptive albums pages with FDCs; PCS ‘America’s
Bicentennial Covers’ with 91 addressed covers commemorating
Revolutionary War events in 5 red specialty albums; PCS ‘The
1940 Famous American Stamp Series Commemorative Cover
Collection’ with 35 unaddressed covers in specialty album, each
with a mounted Mint Famous American stamp as part of cachet;
PCS ‘Officially-Numbered/U.S. Commemorative Stamp
Blocks’ with 1970s-80s plate blocks on descriptive panels in
oversized specialty album (total face $38). FDCs for years
1940s to early 1970s mostly unaddressed and include some
better with cachets by Fluegel, Boerger, HF, Cachet Craft,
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