SESCAL Stamp Catalog 2013 October 2013 | Page 119

Session IV: Sunday, October 6, 2013 Estimate Estimate 4317 4318X 4319 4320 4322 4321 Session IV: Sunday, October 6, 2013 Estimate Estimate USA Covers, cont. 4317 (U244) 1884 WASHINGTON 2¢ RED ON AMBER ‘2 LINKS’ DIE ............................................................. PH Very fine example of this scarce die type. Vertical printed ‘Return to...’ message at left, along with small stain lower left, otherwise fresh, with never sealed flap. Cut square alone catalogs for $350. From long buried Ezra D. Cole stock. Cat $475. 4318 – ADVERTISING – 4320 1925 & 1930 BISECTS ON COVERS (x4) ........... PH $200-300 Four covers with bisects, probably done by an eager philatelist. Three covers marked ‘PRINTED MATTER’ with stamps paying 1½¢ rate, one cover with 3¢ Washington violet canceled Baltimore, MD 1925 addressed, and two unaddressed covers with #614 1¢ stamp from Huguenot-Walloon issue (single & bisect) with Baltimore MD 1925 cancels. Fourth cover has right half of C15 $2.60 Zeppelin stamp tied to picture postcard, mailed in Albany, NY to Baltimore on Aug 27, 1930 & sent airmail. Interesting group. 1931 HUNGARIAN-AMERICAN OCEAN FLIGHT CARD ......................................................................... PH $300 Special postal card to Budapest with violet pre-printed $1 indicia at upper right showing Eagle and “Detroit-Budapest”; additional bilingual text about flight and airplane, maps and “Justice for Hungary” on front of card. Franked with 5¢ Norse-American, tied by 5/14/31 Flint, MI machine cancel; proper green flight cachet and two different Budapest receivers. Attractive, busy and scarce card, very fine. (AAMC #1144 $140) 4321 (64) 1861 WASHINGTON 3¢ PINK ON ‘BOILER BUILDER’ CORNER CARD ....................... PH 118 $650 $500 Small cover with embossed corner card for a ‘boiler builder’ in Buffalo. Single pink 3¢ Washington tied by 10/26/61 Buffalo, NY, cds and black grid cancel. Stamp with creases at top, cover in good condition. (2011 PF Cert #494908). Cat $950. 1899 FUNK & WAGNALLS PUBLISHING ADVERTISING COLLAR COVER ............................. PH $350 Funk & Wagnalls publishing company corner card with green ad collar design at upper right, with company address and reminder of reduced printed matter postal rate (2 ounces per 1 cent). Proper 1¢ First Bureau affixed at center and tied by dateless 1899 New York City flag machine cancel. Stafford, CT receiver on back. Several repaired tears, mostly on back, do not affect designs. Fine and quite scarce. (800) 782-0066 • www.RegencySuperior.com Page 118 USA-Covers-01.pmd (64) 1861 WASHINGTON 3¢ PINK, BLUE CANCEL ON CINCINNATI GAZETTE CORNER CARD ........ PH Small cover with embossed corner card for the Cincinnati Gazette newspaper. Stamp tied by blue Sept 11, Cincinnati cds and grid cancels. Stamp with small faults at top, lifted and hinged in place. Ex-Ashbrook. Fine. (2011 PF Cert #494912). Cat $1000. 4322 USA AIRMAIL COVERS 4319 USA SPECIALTY COVERS $250 8/16/2013, 5:00 PM Regency-Superior, Ltd.