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Auction: 169 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 194

Exhibitions and Fairs massive all-encompassing accumulation of around 675 virtually all pre 1920 pieces, including not just illustrated and advertising covers, but also numerous mostly used Columbian and Trans-Mississippi postal cards, picture post cards, Columbian entires, expositions station cancels including registered, tickets and other ephemera, slogan cancels, exposition corner cards, usages of the commemoratives issued to promote the expositions and more, all in sleeves on G&K pages in absolutely no order at all filling ten binders, with most of the exhibitions listed in Bomar from the 1870s to 1915 being represented, as well as some minor fairs, including perhaps a couple hundred items that should retail in the $25.00 to $350.00 range, highlights are too numerous to mention, but to give an inking of the scope we found several dozen Columbian World's Fair Exposition Station cancels, plus seven scarce registry cancels, ten scarce Trans-Mississippi Exposition Station cancels (Bomar records only 75), with six being on postal cards, a 50c Trans-Mississippi on cover, two Louisiana Purchase complete set covers, covers addressed to the American Legation at Paris expositions, many 1900 Paris exhibition covers with U.S. Postal Station cancels and a dizzying array of advertising cover designs, including many all-over and a few collars, some typical faults, most are fine-very fine; please view to fully appreciate.


Sold for
$8,500