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Session III: Sunday, January 19, 2014 3348 Estimate (716) 1932 LAKE PLACID WINTER OLYMPICS FDC COLLECTION ............................................................ $900-1200 Estimate 3350 / 1964-88 EXTENSIVE & VALUABLE MINT OLYMPICS COLLECTION (19-VOLS) ........................................ $4000-6000 Collection of 190 different FDCs for 1932 Winter Olympics (2 covers with Opening Day cancels) in 2 cover albums, includes several with hand-painted or photo cachets, add-on cachets, cachets unrelated to issue including 10 different with George Washington Bicentennial cachets, a group of 35 covers with color and B&W ‘comic’ transfers with children & animals, a couple illustrated hotel & others. A few highlights include (by Mellone): A.C. Roessler cachets #716-1 (x6 varieties, cv $30 each), several different Edgerly cachets #716-4, 4a, 5, 6, 6a & 716-8, 9 ($35 each), #716-16 (rare $50), #716-17 (scarce $30), Aeroprint #716-31 ($50) & 716-31a (scarce $40), Gorham #716-34, 34a, 34c, 34d ($35 each), 1st Beverly Hills #716-55 ($250), Neet 716-63 ($50), May Company 716-65 w/block of 4 ($40), #716-68 (scarce $60), Photographic 716-69c Bob sled run & 716-69d Dog sled run ($75 each), #716-80 dark blue ($50), 4 different + 1 duplicate Santway Photo-Craft Company (#716-70) B&W picture postcards ($30 each), hand-painted cachets by Ben Kraft (x2), C. Winston, Lucina, Judith Fogt and others. Nice specialized lot. Expect a few usual covers flaws. Overall fine to very fine. 3349 / 1954-2010 BEAUTIFUL OLYMPIC GAMES COVER COLLECTION (41-VOLS) ........................................ $2000-3000 Tremendous collection of approximately 3,500 OLYMPIC GAMES cacheted covers, picture postal cards including some maximum cards, picture postcards and other souvenirs, organized by year/games in 41 various albums & binders, all with Olympic cancels. Includes FDCs, Olympic Stations, Olympic Events, Torch Relay, & other items, plus several covers & souvenir programs signed by officials or athletes. Mostly USA FDCs with a variety of cachets including Fluegel, Collins, HAM, Doris Gold, Bazaar, Ross, Goldberg, MFox, Marg, Gamm, Hobo Art, Pasley, Sabinsky, Geerlings, Pugh and others. Nice groups of Host country franked cacheted covers including: 1960 ROME, 1972 MUNICH, 1972 SAPPORO, 1976 INNSBRUCK, 1976 MONTREAL, 1980 MOSCOW, 1988 SEOUL, 1988 CALGARY, 1992 ALBERTVILLE, 1992 BARCELONA, 1994 LILLEHAMMER, 2000 SIDNEY, 2004 ATHENS. Attractive, colorful & organized collection with many interesting items. Overall fine to very fine. OrcoExpo 2014 • Anaheim, California Collections.pmd Beautiful mint OLYMPICS collection in mounts in 19 deluxe K-Line Olympic Specialty Albums with slipcases. Filled with colorful Olympics material, most listed or noted by Scott. Includes Worldwide sets, souvenir & miniature sheets & some postal stationery, for both Summer & Winter Games with many imperforate sets & souvenir sheets, imperforate presentation sheets, gold foil issues plus many unlisted items. Collection extensively covers the 1964 through 1988 Summer & Winter Olympic Games with from 2-4 albums per Games. Sampling of highlights include (by Scott): 1964 Games album A-K with ALBANIA (total cv $214) with S/S #671, 709A, 734 & 764, CHAD C15-18 & S/S C18a, HONDURAS C336-44 with noted S/S perf & imperf (cv $102), JORDAN #446-53, 476-83 & C29-34 all with noted S/S (total cv $95), KOREA #449-53 & S/S 449a-53a ($40); 1972 Games album K-Z with PARAGUAY (total cv $425) with #1262-66, perf S/S 1267 & imperf 1268-69 and S/S C340-45, C346 & C353, QATAR #303-10 & S/S 308a ($63), ROMANIA (total cv $197) with 2 imperf S/S noted after C187 ($80 each), TOGO gold foil m/s C194A-94C ($375); 1980 Games album A-C with BELIZE (total cv $188) with #451-58 & S/S #459-60; BOLIVIA with 10 different S/S (cv $20-$75 each); BURUNDI #570-72 ($49) & C282 ($35), Central African Republic with listed & unlisted items, PRC #1582-85 & 1640-44 (total cv $49); 1984 Games album R-Z with TOGO (total cv $229) with C494-97 & S/S, C502-05 & S/S, TURKS & CAICOS ISLANDS with DISNEY #619a-27a plus S/S & m/s sheets of 5 + label, nice selection of YEMEN sets & S/S; 1988 Games album K-P with KOREA sets & S/S (total cv $198), MACAO #573-76 & S/S #577 ($75), MAURITANIA with 4 imperf S/S, OMAN block of 6 #316a & S/S #316b ($52). MUCH MORE! Clean attractive collection, overall very fine. Estimated cat $20,000. 219 3351 / 1992 BARCELONA GAMES COLLECTION (4-VOLS) .................................................................. $1000-1500 Attractive mint Barcelona Olympic Games collection, in mounts on Custom Impressions album pages in 4 binders, filled with colorful worldwide sets, souvenir & miniature sheets, selected gold & silver foil stamps & S/S & other items including several Scott noted or unlisted items. Just a few highlights include (by Scott): ANTIGUA Archie Comics #1466-73 & S/S#1474-75 (cv $29), Disney #1529-36 & S/S #1537-40 ($34); BARBUDA #1173-76 & S/S 1177 ($58); BOLIVIA 4 noted S/S (total cv $85); Comoro Islands #664-69 & S/S, 706-11 & 712, C215 (total cv $76), GAMBIA (total cv $68); GRENADA & GRENADA GRENADINES (total cv $113); GUYANA #2228-33 plus presentation S/S & S/S #2234-35 (est $78); HONG KONG S/S #502dg ($27); MALAGASY (total cv $74); PARAGUAY with listed (est $100+) & unlisted material; ST. THOMAS (total cv $142), ST VINCENT ($58), SPAIN including 20 different ‘Cobi’ S/S from Olympic Committee; MUCH MORE. Clean extensive but not complete collection with est CV more than $3,000. Fine to very fine. Stamps & Postal History Page 219 11/27/2013, 3:46 PM