USA – Briefmarkenauktionen

1851/1991 (ca.), extensive holding in several stockbooks, incl. valid postage, booklets, zip-blocks, yearsets, etc., in two large cartons

1920/80 (ca.), PRECANCELS, collection of several thousand values and multiples (estimated roughly 10.000+) in 18 stockbooks sorted by State and City

1945/85 (ca.), US Aerograms, massive collection with many hundreds of unused and used, showing a wide range of usages and an abundance of printing varieties, inclduing missing colours, paper folds, message card blanks and other specialties, many carefully identified and classified by UPSS numbers. The collection includes a wealth of usages with forwarded mail, inconnu, déménagé, missent or taxed, as well as Navy usage, POW aerograms, censor mail, etc.; many better and scarcer items throughout with UPSS-Nr. S61b (dark blue printing omitted), S63PUV-2, MRU7a (message card blank), MR26a-SEPI (message printed on both sides), RL26d on MR26d, and more. A highly specialized and comprehensive assembly formed with great care and difficult to duplicate, overall in very good condition.

1851/1990(ca.), interesting mostly used collection with some covers, including Mi.-Nr. 4 horizontal strip of 7 (faults) in combination with Mi.-Nr. 3, Mi.-Nr. 20 horizontal strip of three on cover, some better values, Officials etc., mixed quality

1944/45, US Field Post in Luxemburg, exhibition collection with additional material, altogether about 180 covers and (few) cards, including V-mail, blue envelope mail, censor marks, incoming mail, etc., etc. a very interesting object.

1919/54 (ca.), Partie von über 60 Luftpostkarten, Aerogrammen und Dokumenten, darunter u.a. “AIRGRAM - FROM PRESIDENT WILSON TO YOU”, Iraq 1932 König Faisal 15 F. Luftpost-Ganzsache mit rotem “SPECIMEN” Aufdruck, Thailand 1933/36 vier, über KLM oder AIR FRANCE frankierten beförderten Airgrams, etc. Ein interessantes und vielseitigs Objekt, sauber im Album.

1916/58 (ca.), US Coupons & Advertising Cards, assembly of over 150 unused and used, showing an abundance of themes and companies, with cigars, malls, flowers, alcohol, soap, and more. Overall in good condition, an attractive lot, neatly housed in one album.

1913/58 (ca.), US Ocean Letters & Radiograms, extensive collection of unused and used, many interesting usages throughout with some registered mail, labels, Ozean-Brief with complete telegram-formulars, together with a few foreign Ocean letters from France, New Zealand, etc. A useful specialist lot. Slightly mixed condition

1916, two livestock purchase records bearing fiscal stamps: one on a green form with 5 h and 10 h denominations, and a beige form with more extensive franking ranging from 64 h to 10 kr. Both documents date from the Austro-Hungarian occupation of Serbia during World War I; each is folded both vertically and horizontally and shows corner creases.

1928/38, US Varney-Airmail Airgrams, collection of 65 unused and used, predominantly 1928/29 issues, some better usages with returned mail, underfranked to England with postage due on arrival, first flights Albany-Buffalo, C.A.M Seatlle 1929. etc. Interesting assembly of this early contract mail carrier, mostyl in fine condition, neatly housed in one album.

1942/45 (ca.), US V-Mail Service, large specialized collection of unused and used, showing an abundance of duplicates, complete boxes, illustrated formulars including Greetings with pre-printed messages, and more. A most useful assembly of the Victory Mail service, overall in very good condition.

1903, Mc Kinley 1 c. postal stationery card, used with machine cancel “NEW YORK DEC 17 1903” to Toronto, Canada, with arrival datestamp (18 December) on reverse, bearing on reverse a complete manuscript message written in the Sherlock Holmes "Dancing Men" cipher devised by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. Minor sopiling spots, still very fine. Accompanied by the bound volume of the Strand Magazine, July to December 1903, containing the first first appearance of the Dancing Men. A most unusal and attractive duo.

1873/98, specialized collection of 91 postal stationery cards, unused and used, with some rare varieties, picture postcards, additional frankings, etc. 

Goldmedaille, 1896. Amateur Athletic Union of the United States, 125 lbs. Boxing Champion. Av. Victoria hinter zwei Wappen, Lorbeerkranz haltend, n.l. sitzend; Rv. Gravur zwischen Lorbeer und Eichenkranz. Gehenkelt. 45 mm, 37,74 g. Kl. Randfehler, Sehr schön-Vorzüglich 

1870/71, 2 c. brown, 3 c. green and 10 c. brown, tied to orange envelope from New York to Christiania, Norway. Fine and scarce.

1869, pictorial issue 2 c. brown, 2 copies, with 1861/67, 10 c. green with grill, tied by target to yellow envelope from Cambridge, Illinois, to Salo, Sweden, with transit and arrival marks including frontside "Weiterfr. 1½ Sgr." and "BREMEN/FRANCO". Small faults.

1873, STATE 20 $ light-green/black, 2nd. printing, position 6, fresh color, without gum, one pulled perf, slight toning, otherwise fine, certificate Ebner BPP (2026)

1867, Colored Border: Lincoln 25 c. orange-red, fresh color and mostly good perforation, without gum, one short perf at top, otherwise fine, scarce, signed Kosack and certificate Ebner BPP (2026)

1867, Colored Border: Franklin 10 c. green on pelure paper, fresh color and good perforation, without gum, de-centered, otherwise fine, scarce, signed Kosack and certificate Ebner BPP (2026)

1867, White Border: Washington 5 c. light-blue, fresh color, nicely centered, without gum, one pulled perf at bottom, otherwise fine, scarce, signed Thier and certificate Ebner BPP (2026)

Soldier on Rearing Horse, Patriotic envelope from “WASHINGTON” via “BOSTON Am. PKT. 22 MAY” to Karlsruhe in Germany, reverse with transit and arrival mark, heavy transportation and opening wear, vertical fold

1861/67, Black Jack 2c. and Washington 3c. rose and 10 c. green, all tied by target cancel resp. cds to ilustrated envelope of the "38th Congress/House of Representatives/ Washington D.C.", endorsed “Pr. Steamer via Hamburg” with adjacent red “N. YORK PAID HAMB Pkt. JUN 24 12” to Ludwigsburg in Germany, reverse with transit mark of Stadtpost Hamburg and arrival mark, vertical fold not visible on front, franking some faults, yet an attractive entire

1861, Black Jack 2 c. black and Washington 12 c. black, used in combination with Vancouver Island 5 c. carmine, fresh colors and mostly good perforations, all tied by segmented cork cancel to small piece of a Wells, Fargo & Co envelope, fine

1869, Pictorial Issue 90 c. carmine/black, fresh color and good perforation, used with blackish grid cancel, a fine copy of this rare stamp, a.o. signed Köhler