ORCOEXPO Stamp Show Auction ORCOEXPO Stamp Show Auction Jan. 2014 | Page 172

Session III: Sunday, January 19, 2014 Estimate Estimate 2945 USA POSSESSIONS (369) 1957 WILDLIFE 5¢ BLACK LOON, RALPH DYER HANDPAINTED FDC .................................................. PH $150 Attractive multicolored handpainted FDC, red stenciled Milwaukee address, franked with 5¢ pair tied with 4/10/57 First Day cancel, tiny unimportant tape stain on back, very fine. – HAWAII – NEWFOUNDLAND 2946 / 2940 Scarce airmail cover for the second Airship ‘Columbia’ Trans-Atlantic flight. ONE OF ONLY TWO envelopes handed to the crew in Montreal before airship Columbia’s flight from Harbour Grace, Newfoundland to England. This 1930 flight cover addressed to Montreal, Canada (for roundtrip journey), and signed by Pilot ‘Captain J. Errol Boyd’ and Navigator ‘Lt. Harry P. Connor U.S.M.R.’. Franked with Canada George V 2¢ (uncanceled) & Newfoundland Prince of Wales 4¢ (Scott #148) with ‘HARBOUR GRACE OC.9’ cds. On arrival in England additional franking added of George V ½d green & 1d red tied by ‘LONDON 11.OC’ for return postage back to Montreal. Very fine. Makes for a great showpiece! (8) 1857 KAMEHAMEHA III 5¢ BLUE, W/USA #17 ..... PH $6000 A tremendous usage from Hawaii to New York franked with a single Hawaii #8 stamp and USA #17 stamp, both with small creases on orange cover. Both stamps tied with 1860 San Francisco cds, red Honolulu Postage Paid cds at side. Cover repaired along the top edge, missing backflap, very fine appearance. (1994 PF Cert #281815). Cat $10,000. 2947 1951-2001 FIRST DAY COVER STASH ...................... $700-900 Hoard of around 6,500 cacheted First Day Covers for United Nations stamps from all three offices: New York, Geneva & Vienna. Includes singles, multiples, inscription blocks and some souvenir sheets. Noted Airmail issues, Postal stationery and some combination FDCs. Cachets primarily official UN or Artcraft. Duplication generally moderate, majority unaddressed. Overall very fine. 2942 FOREIGN COVERS – AUSTRIA – – UNITED NATIONS – 2941 2948 2949 (939) 1967 THOUGHTS OF MAO 8f RED & GOLD ON BROWN COVER .................................................. PH (1) 1840 VICTORIA 1d BLACK FOLDED LETTER TO ABERDEEN .......................................................... PH – CANADA – (940) 1967 THOUGHTS OF MAO 8f RED & GOLD ON ILLUSTRATED COVER ...................................... PH 2951 (943) 1967 THOUGHTS OF MAO 8f RED & GOLD ON ILLUSTRATED COVER ...................................... PH $500 Attractive, clean illustrated cover with ‘Foot bridge over river’ cachet, franked with single stamp: Thoughts of Mao 8f red & gold with 46 characters (Scott #943), tied by 1968 cds. Very fine. 1851-54 FOUR EARLY STAMPLESS COVERS ..................................................... View photo online $300-400 Three folded letters & one cover, i ncludes: 1851 Montreal to New York, red ‘MONTREAL/PAID/AUG 27/1851/CANADA’ handstamp and matching red framed ‘CANADA’ in arc and ‘PAID’ handstamps; 1852 Toronto to NY, Toronto cds, ‘CANADA 10 Cts.’ straightline & ‘10’ in circle; 1852 Montreal to New York, red Montreal cds and matching framed ‘CANADA’ in arc; 1854 cover to Montreal, circular 5/27/54 ‘STEAM-BOAT-LETTER/ QUEBEC’ cds and manuscript ‘3.’ The last item with rounded corner upper right, otherwise very fine group. $500 Cover with attractive illustration ‘Poling boat on River’, franked with single stamp: Thoughts of Mao 8f red & gold with 50 characters (Scott #940), tied by 1968 cds. Clean and very fine. $250 Folded letter sheet from Nottingham to Aberdeen, franked with 4-margin Penny Black, tied by red Maltese Cross. Two vertical file folds, one goes through stamp. Two different transit postmarks on back. Fine. Ex-Cook. (SG #2 £700=US$1114) Cat $625. Regency-Superior Authorized USA Distributor Join us for this auction at for all Stanley Gibbons Products —Albums • Catalogs • Mounts — OrcoExpo Stamp Show Publications • Anaheim, February 3-5• Accessories CA www.stampshowsteve.com www.RegencySuperior.com • [email protected] [phone] • www.RegencySuperior.com 170 $500 Brown cover franked with single stamp: Thoughts of Mao 8f red & gold with 39 characters (Scott #939), tied by 1972 cds. Fine to very fine. – GREAT BRITAIN – Covers 02.pmd 1941 GERMAN ISSUES, UNLISTED ‘SUEDKAERNTEN’ OVERPRINTS ............................................................ PH $100 – CHINA PRC – 2950 Page 170 $850 Complete set of 4, Michel #764-67,’ each with ‘Suedkaernten’ typeset overprint, all tied with Stein 9/25/41 cds, red Stein (Steiner Alpen) registered mail label lower left, to Berlin, 9/29/ 41 Berlin receiver on back. Small abrasion bottom right corner, small tape sealed tear top left corner, otherwise very fine. These overprints are not listed in Michel. (Michel #764-67 var) BRITISH COVERS 2944 (380) 1936 DOLLFUSS 10s DARK BLUE, FDC ....... PH Blank envelope with Dolfuss issue at upper right, tied by black 7/25/36 ‘Salzburg/Oesterreichischer/Volkstrauerag’ cancel. Very fine. (Michel #380 FDC €€1600=US$2157) 1951-87 FDC COLLECTION + FLAG PROOFCARDS ..... $350-500 Clean collection of United Nations unaddressed cacheted FDCs in 17 blue Fleetwood cover binders (approx 100 covers per binder). Appears complete, including Scott #38 S/S and other souvenir sheets, the Flags and issues from New York, Geneva and Vienna. Second collection, also Fleetwood, has ‘proof cards’ in special binders for the Flag issues for years 1980-89. Very fine. 2943 1930 SECOND ‘COLUMBIA’ AIRSHIP TRANSATLANTIC FLIGHT, CREW SIGNED ........................ PH $2500 11/27/2013, 3:44 PM Regency-Superior