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Session IV: Sunday, October 6, 2013 Estimate Estimate USA BACK OF BOOK COLLECTIONS 4493 / / 1860s-1970s BACK OF BOOK HOARD ............ $2500-3500 Many thousands of issues primarily in glassines by Scott number. Includes mostly used Special Deliveries, Officials, Parcel Posts, Cut squares, Revenues and others in quantity. Also Postage Dues, Post Office Seals, Match & Medicine, State Revenues, non-Scott listed and more. Mixed condition as usual for this material, high cat with plenty of value. 4494 / / USA SPECIALTY COLLECTIONS 4500( )/ / 1644-1865 INTERESTING ACCUMULATION OF STAMPS & CINDERELLAS .................................. $400-600 Interesting group of stamp-like items and other non-Federal postal material, with some on cover. Highlights include folded letter from 1644, in French, unsure of origin; 1752 folded letter Philadelphia to London with Bishop’s Mark, sent while Benjamin Franklin was Philadelphia postmaster; Two examples of wafer seals used to close and decorate envelopes in the 1850s, one ‘At Last’ and other ‘Help me Through’; Two hotel mail forwarding handstamps: Jones’ Hotel and Merchants’ Hotel, both of Philadelphia (listed in ASCC); Three Providence, RI postmaster provisionals, either reprints or forgeries (no printing on back), including 5¢/10¢ pair; Blood & Co. Local stamp (Scott 15L5); Carrier LO3 on piece with non-contemporary cancel (1991 APS Cert); Private Die Playing Card stamps, five different (Scott CV $36); Newspaper stamps PR1-4, used with major faults, PR1 has blue ink stroke, others with smudges. Eclectic grouping, fine and better. 1879-2007 BACK OF BOOK COLLECTION ..... $1500-2000 More than 354 stamps mounted on Lighthouse Hingeless pages. Includes complete Airmails with line pairs (no C13-15 Zeppelins), good Special Deliveries, Postage Dues, Offices in China through K14 and K17-18, complete mint Parcel Post & Parcel Post Postage Dues and collection rounds out with modern Officials. MINT never hinged, mainly in more modern, hinged with some unused, no gum and few used. Some mixed condition with most fine to very fine. 4495 / 1918-71 MINT AIRMAILS IN STOCKBOOK ............... $300-400 More than 550 mint Airmail stamps in small brown stockbook. Includes C1 & C4 MNH, fine; then multiples of most basic issues from C10//78 with singles, pairs, blocks and some plate blocks (C10, 17, 23, 28-31). No Zeppelins. Duplication light to moderate, overall fine to very fine. Both MINT never hinged and hinged. 4496 4501 / Group of items related to College or Business School stamps. Includes three Musgrove’s orange 1¢, 2¢ and 3¢; a couple later fantasies, a 3¢ U.S. entire with College of St. James, Maryland cds; Eastman College 3¢ ‘banknote’ used for mock purchases of the school’s stamps; orange piece with pre-printed 3¢ stamp showing Liberty and ‘EBC’ (Eastman Business College), along with 3¢ Washington postage stamp, both tied by 12/3/62 Poughkeepsie, NY cds. Interesting grouping, overall fine to very fine. Mounted on annotated two exhibit pages. 1948-58 WHOLESALE AIRMAILS .............................. $150-250 Quantities of line pairs, pairs and singles of three coils: C37, C41 & C52, and C51a booklets pane (x8). Fresh, MINT never hinged, fine to very fine. Cat $858. 4497 / 1919-22 OFFICES IN CHINA USED SELECTION ...... $250-350 Group of 7 used stamps and one postcard from Offices in China. Includes K1 light cancel, extremely fine Jumbo; K2 duplex cancel, very fine; K5 light cancel, extremely fine; K8a light cancel, fine to very fine; K10 parcel cancel, shallow thin, well centered; K10 parcel cancel, fine to very fine; K17 Agency postmark, fine. Additional color postcard showing child and woman in kimono along Yokohama waterfront, mailed from U.S. Postal Agency in Shanghai, franked with regular 1¢ Washington (#498) and sent to Minnesota c.1920. Fine to very fine. Cat $945. 4498 / 4502 4503 4504 / / 1980s-2000s PNC HOARD ................................... $400-600 Oodles (many hundreds) of Plate Number Coils as singles or in strips, loose or on cover, on album pages, in glassines, bundleware, envelopes and small boxes. A few mint examples, mostly precanceled or used, either on- or off-paper. Plenty to choose from, from early Flags and Transportation coils up to recent Bulk and American Design. Fine to very fine. Happy hunting! (800) 782-0066 • www.RegencySuperior.com Page 144 Collections.pmd 1981-2000s PNC5 COLLECTION (2-VOLS) ........... $1500-2000 Hundreds of MINT never hinged Plate Number Coil strips of 5 (PNC5) including tagging & gum varieties & precancels and a few PNC3s & line pairs, in mounts in 2 Scott Specialty Series Albums from Flag & Anthem #1891 thru Toys #3638-41. Complete plate numbers for several issues. A few highlights include (by Durland): #1891 PNC3 pl #1 (x2, Durland cv $30 each), Flag Over Supreme Court #1895 PNC5s for pl #1 (x3, $50 each), pl #4 ($300) & pl #6 ($115), lots of Transportation PNC5s with Bicycle #1901a precancel PNC3 pl #6 (not priced in Durland, Scott cv $75), Hansom Cab #1904a precancel PNC5s pl #1 & #2, $1 Seaplane #2468 pl #1 & #2468b pl #3, Eagle & Shield #2603 PNC5 pl #11111, and many others. 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