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Auction: 169 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 182

Voluminous estate offered intact, many thousands of singles, some blocks, numerous plate blocks as well as coils in pairs and line pairs, booklet panes and booklets, plate no. coil strips, modern sheets and sheetlets, including Recalled Legends of the West and interspersed covers, all in mounts on White Ace pages housed in over 30 binders filling four large cartons, starts with a volume of regular issues including used #1, 2, 36, 1861 issue to 90c and a few grills to 15c, 1869 to 15c, Bank Notes to 90c, unwatermarked Bureau issue to 50c, 313, and mint starting with some watermarked Bureau issues, 1902 to 15c and a $2.00, 331-42, the last with PFC, useful Washington-Franklins including coils as well as 422 and 547, 551-73, 578-79, 581-91, Kans.-Nebr. cplt., 804-84 singles and plate blocks, 1030-53 singles and plate blocks, etc., with issues to 1996 and plenty of face value in modern issues, especially high values, the commemoratives are complete but for a $5.00 Columbian, however most of the early issues are regummed, the air mails are complete with a nice set of mint Graf Zeppelins and there are a few back-of-the-book such as Q1-8, the commemorative plate blocks start with the Pilgrim issue and are quite complete to 1996, mixed condition prior to 1920, then largely fine-very fine; a valuable collection that is worth spending the necessary time required to do a proper evaluation, with much of the value being in the first box.

Sold for
$12,000