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Auction: 173 - The Philatelic Collector's Series Sale
Lot: 157

Exceptional and comprehensive postal card collection, mounted in five albums and extensively annotated, including mint and used examples, the first volume beginning with the 1873 Liberty Issues, progressing through to the 1921 revalued Washington cards, with a dizzying number of varieties, from minor examples to scarcer cards, noting #UX7 "One Cent" re-entry, UX11 "Picture Hanger" variety, UX27C Die I and UX27D Die II with inverted cancel, several dozen varieties of UX32 and UX33, the next three volumes continuing from 1920 through 1986, with an additional volume of airmail cards, impressive degree of completion with hundreds of specialized items unlisted in Scott but noted in the UPSS catalogue, superior quality and exceptional in its comprehensiveness, ideal for the specialist to continue this lifetime's work.

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