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Ephemera: April 6, 1892 letterhead of the Chicago Cottage Organ Company with letter requesting payment of a past due account. It pictures the enormous four-story, multi-building company factory, showing stacks of wood going in one end (lower right of picture) and completed organs coming out the other (central alley below the smokestack). A freight train in the background suggests the importance of shipping supplies and completed products. The text also mentions pianos and the brand names Gabler, Schubert, and Kingsbury. The company seems to have been a family affair, with the President, Vice President and Corporate Secretary all being from the Cable family. The letterhead was printed by high quality lithography, but that image appears to have been created from a print of an actual engraving. However, the paper appears to have been of lower quality and it is now fragile, with breaks at top and bottom of the right-column of vertical folds, as well as edge damage [as seen in the website image]. Size 8-1/8 x 10-7/8 inches (201 x 275 mm). A great music / musical instrument thematic item that could be collected intact, or trimmed or windowed for showing in conjunction with a related philatelic item.
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Scott #158 and/or 184 and/or 207 UNSORTED by catalog number [1873 / 1879 / 1881 3c green Washington] Used GROUP OF 56 stamps with VARIOUS COLOR SHADES and CANCELLATIONS. This is an unsorted group, and while it does not appear to include any grilled issues, they have not all been checked by me. The centering ranges from Average to VF and the quality ranges from great to with-defects only seen on the reverse. There are several with JUMBO margins. In general, most look nice from the front. While the range of color shades is nice, the real attraction is the range of cancellations. I see many different designs of carved cancellations including bars, crosses, reverse text (including "B", "2", and a couple others), fancy geometrics (including one in blue), etc. There are also different styles of target cancels and a couple manuscript cancels. There are also several nice examples of letters and numerals in barred-ovals (collecting as many different of these as possible is a lot of fun). Just the raw catalog value for the stamps is somewhere between $44 and $56, but some of the cancellations would sell for a few dollars each. And, who know, you might find a grilled stamp in the group. This group could be the start of a new and very interesting and fun collection for you!
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Scott #372 [1909 2c carmine Hudson-Fulton, Perforated] Mint hinged, top margin PRINTER IMPRINT BLOCK OF NINE. Centering is Average. Three stamps (lower left, center left, lower right) are Never Hinged. Otherwise there are sensible reenforcing hinges at the perforation intersections. The top edge of the top margin is not a straight line, thus we cannot know if this is a normal short margin from one of the bottom two panes of the printer sheet, or if this is a trimmed top margin from one of the two top panes of the printer sheet. The first two numerals "53" of the plate number show at the right side of the top margin, but this could be from any one of the 8 plates (5388-5395). Great color, detailed engraving impression, and fresh appearance. Priced very low! (Scott 2024 $113 as 5 Hinged and 3 NH single stamps.)
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1937 National Stamp Exhibition New York Museum of Science and Industry philatelic exhibition label souvenir sheet. Brown images with green text, imperforate. Two-section souvenir sheet: Right side picturing passenger liner, modern (1937) passenger train, zeppelin at hanger, and "flying boat" / "clipper" airplane. Left side with text. Lithographed by American Bank Note Company. Vertical central rouletted divider (for folding or separation into two parts). Mint, with gum, VF appearance. However has a thin spot on the right side (otherwise NH on right side) and a couple small bends. The left side has hinge marks on the front and back. This is the only example of this label souvenir sheet that I have encountered in 50 years; I do not know for sure, but I believe that it may be quite scarce.
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Test (Dummy) Stamp Scott #TD107a [1962-1986 black, coil, tagged, shiny gum] 5-STRIP NH with F-VF centering. Has very light color shading on paper (thus effective plate wiping) that is likely more typical of later printings.
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NFWF 1987 Conservation Stamp [1987 $5.00 Canada Goose, artist Robert Bateman] NH with VF centering. First conservation stamp issued by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a Congressionally Chartered foundation created in 1984. Typical online prices for this stamp are around $10.
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NFWF 1988 Conservation Stamp [1988 $5.00 Mallards, artist Maynard Reece] NH with XF centering. Second conservation stamp issued by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a Congressionally Chartered foundation created in 1984. Typical online prices for this stamp are around $10.
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NFWF 1989 Conservation Stamp [1989 $5.00 Wood Ducks, artist John Serry-Lester] NH with XF centering. Third conservation stamp issued by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a Congressionally Chartered foundation created in 1984. Typical online prices for this stamp are around $12.50.
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NFWF 1990 Conservation Stamp [1990 $7.50 Wood Ducks, artist Robert Bateman] NH with XF centering. Fourth conservation stamp issued by the National Fish and Wildlife Foundation, a Congressionally Chartered foundation created in 1984. Typical online prices for this stamp are around $20.00.
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Test (Dummy) Stamp Scott #TD119 [1989 gray/black Eagle and Flag over Forest, Perforation 10] NH SINGLE with VF centering. This has a low catalog value, but is seldom offered on dealer websites.
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Test (Dummy) Stamp Scott #TD119 [1989 gray/black Eagle and Flag over Forest, Perforation 10] NH PAIR with VF centering. This has a low catalog value, but is seldom offered on dealer websites.
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1972 "NIXON NOW" presidential campaign label. NH VF single, perforated 11 on all 4 sides. [Printed in a sheet of 117, 13 columns by 9 rows, trimmed on all four outer edges (sheet margin straight edges).]
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1972 "NIXON NOW" presidential campaign label. NH F-VF 4-BLOCK, perforated 11 on all 4 sides. [Printed in a sheet of 117, 13 columns by 9 rows, trimmed on all four outer edges (sheet margin straight edges).]
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1972 "NIXON NOW" presidential campaign label. NH F-VF 4-BLOCK, perforated 11. Right sheet edge (straight edge) on right side of block. [Printed in a sheet of 117, 13 columns by 9 rows, trimmed on all four outer edges (sheet margin straight edges).]
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1972 "NIXON NOW" presidential campaign label. NH VF GROUP OF THREE, perforated 11: on all 4 sides, straight edge sheet margin on top, straight edge sheet margin on right. [Printed in a sheet of 117, 13 columns by 9 rows, trimmed on all four outer edges (sheet margin straight edges).]
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1972 "NIXON NOW" presidential campaign label. Mint VF 8-BLOCK, from upper right corner, perforated 11. Three stamps top straight edge, corner top-right straight edge, one stamp right straight edge. [Printed in a sheet of 117, 13 columns by 9 rows, trimmed on all four outer edges (sheet margin straight edges).] Slight gum disturbance at very top of the top row. Scarce position piece.
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1972 "NIXON NOW" presidential campaign label. NH VF FULL SHEET OF 117. Centering varies due to variable layout of the images VS variable layout of the perforation rows and columns. Printed in a sheet of 117, 13 columns by 9 rows, trimmed on all four outer edges (sheet margin straight edges). This sheet shows clean (no perforating) cutting on top, bottom, and right. The left was perforated and then cut. Individual labels properly sell for about $3 each (more for scarcer positions), but I have seen them offered for as much as $10 each label! This is the only full sheet I have had in 49 years! [The website image has been pieced together from a couple scans -- the item is perfect.]
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Scott #1031A [1960 1-1/4c turquoise Liberty issue: Palace of the Governors; Santa Fe, New Mexico] NH FULL SHEET, with XF centering throughout, with upper right plate number 26724, bearing "NITRO / W.VA." pre-cancels positioned on the stamps sideways, reading downward, viewed from the left side. The pre-cancellation device was, in upright portrait position on typical portrait stamps, two stamps wide and ten stamps high. [Nitro has an interesting history that fits into thematic collections including chemistry, war, weapons, smokeless gunpowder, etc. Located in what became "Chemical Alley", the site was intended to be the major U.S. WWI production facility for smokeless gunpowder -- "Nitro" is short for nitrocellulose, the primary ingredient of smokeless gunpowder. WWI ended just as the plant started production. Wikipedia states that the plant "...by the time of the armistice was producing one hundred thousand pounds of high explosives per day." The town was later incorporated in 1932 with the name of Nitro. Other major chemical plants were built at Nitro, including a Monsanto facility producing Agent Orange -- and now the area is a Superfund site and is a cancer cluster.] NH full sheets of Liberty issue pre-cancels are quite unusual; while not "rare" or "greatly valuable" they are seldom found or offered. As an individual pre-cancel, the singles would sell for $1 or $2 each. [The website image has been pieced together from a couple scans -- the item is perfect.]
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Confederate Facsimile: Scott #13 "mint", VF, light bend. Sometimes described as reprints, these are facsimiles made for collectors (I believe that these date from the 1950s). On the back each bears the text "Facsimile / No. XX" (numbered 1 to 14) -- this is 13. While these initially look Imperforate, they are die cut but just held together in a block by tiny breaks in the cutting. Ungummed on yellowish-white paper. Typical, for these facsimiles, printing quality and appearance on thick white paper. Excellent quality with full margins. These are quite collectible. This type, with die-cutting and the tiny connectors (breaks in the die cutting), seems to be scarcer.
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1953 check on Bishop National Bank, at HONOLULU, in the amount of $11.20 to a stamp dealer in New South Wales, Australia. IN NSW, an orange 2d STAMP DUTY revenue stamp was affixed to the face and canceled. A very nice piece of stamp dealer history and a nice NSW revenue document. A revenue-stamped check on a Hawaiian TERRITORY bank to NSW must be very, very unusual!
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South Carolina #BW 26 [1943 48c Beer Tax Case Stamp] Blue (and pink) on white paper with rouletting. The state revenue catalog states that the pink color was fugitive and "may be entirely absent in used examples". Used VF without defects (but without pink color); slightly soiled as natural for case stamps. With roulettes on top, bottom, and left; natural sheet edge straight edge on right. Perforated cancellation.
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South Carolina #BW 26 [1943 48c Beer Tax Case Stamp] Blue (and pink) on white paper with rouletting. The state revenue catalog states that the pink color was fugitive and "may be entirely absent in used examples". Used VF without defects (but without pink color); slightly soiled as natural for case stamps. With roulettes on left and bottom; natural sheet edge straight edges on top and right. Perforated cancellation.
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South Carolina #BW 26 [1943 48c Beer Tax Case Stamp] Blue (and pink) on white paper with rouletting. The state revenue catalog states that the pink color was fugitive and "may be entirely absent in used examples". Used VF without defects (but without pink color); slightly soiled as natural for case stamps. With roulettes on top, bottom, and left; natural sheet edge straight edge on right. Perforated cancellation.
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South Carolina #BW 26 [1943 48c Beer Tax Case Stamp] Blue (and pink) on white paper with rouletting. The state revenue catalog states that the pink color was fugitive and "may be entirely absent in used examples". Used F-VF without defects (but without pink color); slightly soiled as natural for case stamps. With roulettes on top and right; natural sheet edge straight edge on left and bottom. Perforated cancellation.
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South Carolina #BW 26 [1943 48c Beer Tax Case Stamp] Blue (and pink) on white paper with rouletting. The state revenue catalog states that the pink color was fugitive and "may be entirely absent in used examples". Used F-VF without defects (but without pink color); slightly soiled as natural for case stamps. With roulettes on top; not sure about other sides. Cut in bottom margin. Perforated cancellation.
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RW52 [1985 $7.50 Cinnamon Teal] Duck Stamp First Day Cover with Fleetwood Cachet. Stamp Designer/Artist: Gerald Mobley. Cachet Artist Don Balke. Accompanied by the obligatory 22 cent stamp to make it "legal" to postmark the cover. I believe that this particular postmark device was specific for the Fleetwood-cacheted FDC. Very attractive. (These are not listed by Scott; the Brookman 2016 value is $30.)
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RW53 [1986 $7.50 Fulvous Whistling Duck] Duck Stamp First Day Cover with Fleetwood Cachet. Stamp Designer/Artist: Burton E. Moore, Jr. Cachet Artist Don Balke. Accompanied by the obligatory 22 cent stamp to make it "legal" to postmark the cover. I believe that this particular postmark device was specific for the Fleetwood-cacheted FDC. Very attractive. (These are not listed by Scott; the Brookman 2016 value is $30.)
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Scott #2122 [1985 $10.75 Eagle and Moon, Express Mail] April 29 1985 First Day Cover with Fleetwood cachet. VF stamp, but with slight crease (only visible at a certain angle; was this way before being applied to the cover). Otherwise very fresh and attractive. With very clear USPS FD cancellation, but is a postmark version only applied to covers from some of the cachet makers: The "1985" is much larger than the rest of the date and in the "94188" zip code, the "1" is taller and the "88" are quite irregularly shaped. I do not know if the Fleetwood cachet exists with other cancellation types. Unaddressed. This cachet is one of the more "in demand" FDCs for #1909. (Scott 2022 $50; dealers list $50-60 for this cachet.)
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RW57 [1990 $12.50 Black Bellied Whistling Duck] Duck Stamp First Day Cover with Fleetwood Cachet. Stamp Designer/Artist: Jim Hautman. Cachet Artist Don Balke. Accompanied by the obligatory 25 cent stamp to make it "legal" to postmark the cover. USPS "DUCK STAMP STATION" pictorial FD postmark. Very attractive. Includes Fleetwood informational cards both about the stamp and about the cachet artist. (These are not listed by Scott; the Brookman 2016 value is $30.)
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Scott #U350 [1893 5c Columbian Exposition] Envelope cut square, Mint VF. Light chocolate brown color on yellowish-white diagonally laid paper. Extremely blurry impression -- quite unusual compared to the very clear impressions I usually see. There is a clear meridian line behind the Columbus head, but I cannot determine if there is a period after CENTS, thus either Die A=1 or C=3. Interesting variety.
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New Jersey Hunting / Fishing Stamps 1966-1983 Collection: Collection of New Jersey Hunting and Fishing Stamps for Trout (resident and non-resident issues), Woodcock, and Pheasant and Quail. An extremely unusual group in 4-blocks, with two issues in sheets of 10. All NH VF. All perforated unless stated. 1967 Trout, Resident and Non-Resident, in sheets of 10. ALL THE REST IN 4-BLOCKS with side margins where such exists: 1966 Trout R and NR. 1967 Woodcock. 1968 Woodcock, Trout R and NR. 1969 Woodcock, Trout R and NR. 1970 Woodcock. 1972 Trout R and NR. 1973 Woodcock. 1978 Pheasant/Quail, Trout R and NR (all rouletted). 1979 Woodcock. 1982 Pheasant/Quail, Trout R and NR (all rouletted). 1983 Woodcock (rouletted). All are listed and priced in "The Streamside Catalogue of Fish and Game Stamps" 2006 edition edited by Jan R. Wooton. The catalog prices are for Hinged stamps prior to 1976 and NH after -- I have applied the listed prices for everything even though the pre-1976 items are NH and thus should be higher. I have just applied the singles values times the number of stamps in the blocks. The individual catalog values seem quite reasonable, but they do add up. Also included are two nice accent items: metered mail envelopes from the NJ Division of Fish and Game from 1973 and 1988, as well as a 1983 booklet back cover. The total catalog value per Wooton is $1028! The 1960s items are scarce, but the others all add up quickly as well. [The website shows just a couple sample images.] [FREE SHIPPING on this item for mailing in the U.S.] Shipping cost is additional for this item.
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Confederate Facsimiles: Group of 7 "mint" (Scott #1-5, 8, 10). Sometimes described as reprints, these are facsimiles made for collectors (I believe that these date from the 1950s), but they are still quite actively collectible. This group is different than those I have previously had. On the backside all have text in black on the back; five have "FACSIMILE" all caps in small type; #3 has "FACSIMILE" INVERTED, in all caps, much larger type; and #10 has "Facsimile" in mixed case, small type. All are "VF" with full margins; #1 has a small toned spot and #10 has a small thin on the back text.
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United States Military Academy, West Point, privately prepared philatelic commemoration page featuring the poem "The Corps" and 12 U.S. mint stamps in clear mounts. The stamps include the 1937 West Point stamp and 11 stamps picturing a total of 15 West Point graduates. Very attractively presented 8.5 x 11 inch gray page with gold-imprinted West Point emblem at top. While the mint stamps are of minimal financial value, it this would be a terrific item for a West Point graduate, whether for yourself or as a gift.
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North Carolina #SD 9 [1969 25c Soft Drinks Tax] Imperforate red on white decal on original backing of light yellow card stock imperforate horizontally with rouletting vertically. 25c denomination in black. According to the 2013 "The State Revenue Catalog", "Decals were used mostly on syrups and unmixed powders, often affixed to tags attached to syrup canisters." Though I have lived in North Carolina since 1989, and Bonnie and I collect such items from North Carolina, I had never before actually seen a single example of any of the denominations of these decals until I found five examples of this item, only two of which were in perfect condition. They seem to be very scarce. NH VF in perfect condition.
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North Carolina #SD 9 [1969 25c Soft Drinks Tax] Imperforate red on white decal on original backing of light yellow card stock imperforate horizontally with rouletting vertically. 25c denomination in black. According to the 2013 "The State Revenue Catalog", "Decals were used mostly on syrups and unmixed powders, often affixed to tags attached to syrup canisters." Though I have lived in North Carolina since 1989, and Bonnie and I collect such items from North Carolina, I had never before actually seen a single example of any of the denominations of these decals until I found five examples of this item, only two of which were in perfect condition. They seem to be very scarce. NH VF with inconsequential bend.
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North Carolina #SD 9 [1969 25c Soft Drinks Tax] Imperforate red on white decal on original backing of light yellow card stock imperforate horizontally with rouletting vertically. 25c denomination in black. According to the 2013 "The State Revenue Catalog", "Decals were used mostly on syrups and unmixed powders, often affixed to tags attached to syrup canisters." Though I have lived in North Carolina since 1989, and Bonnie and I collect such items from North Carolina, I had never before actually seen a single example of any of the denominations of these decals until I found five examples of this item, only two of which were in perfect condition. They seem to be very scarce. NH VF hard-to-see crease at top.
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North Carolina #SD 9 [1969 25c Soft Drinks Tax] Imperforate red on white decal on original backing of light yellow card stock imperforate horizontally with rouletting vertically. 25c denomination in black. According to the 2013 "The State Revenue Catalog", "Decals were used mostly on syrups and unmixed powders, often affixed to tags attached to syrup canisters." Though I have lived in North Carolina since 1989, and Bonnie and I collect such items from North Carolina, I had never before actually seen a single example of any of the denominations of these decals until I found five examples of this item, only two of which were in perfect condition. They seem to be very scarce. NH VF horizontal crease.
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Scott #RW20 [1953 $2 deep rose brown Blue-winged Teal] Used Fine on reverse of "VIRGINIA COUNTY RESIDENT License To Hunt and Fish -- $1.00". Though the license has the usual "wallet creases", the duck stamp has not been creased! Virginia did not start using actual waterfowl hunting stamps until 1988; this license is the equivalent of a State stamp. (Virginia did have "bear and deer" hunting stamps this early.) While this Federal duck stamp is not scarce (Scott 2021 $15 for Used), it is quite hard to them on intact licenses in decent quality.
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Wooten (2006) VIRGINIA Big Game (Bear and Deer) Hunting Stamp #31 [1953-54 $1 black on blue "Bear and Deer" Resident (pictures deer)] Used VF, with red serial number, on reverse of "VIRGINIA STATE RESIDENT LICENSE TO HUNT ONLY -- $3.50" for 1953-1954. Not being familiar with the Virginia system, I do not know why the license was $3.50 but the stamp only $1.00; I assume both amounts had to be paid. Though the license has the usual "wallet creases", the hunting stamp has only very minor creasing (since unfolded) of the perfs at top and left! The 2006 Wooten catalog prices this stamp Mint at $30 and Used at $12, but makes no effort to price uses on license (though the author notes in the 2006 introduction that collecting on license has "grown in popularity"). A very attractive, pictorial stamp design which greatly helps the marketability, thus the value. A very nice and very scarce-on-license item from the era well before the "philatelicization" of hunting stamps.
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ca.1920s-1930s illustrated advertising envelope (unused) for E. Graham, PRACTICAL PLUMBER, located in Norfolk, Virginia. Attractive b/w image of an elegant bathroom sink with all the accessories and accouterments. Envelope size 7-3/8 x 3-7/8 inches. Great item for a variety of thematic "display" collections/exhibits. Unused, VF with faint bends and/or faint, small erased pencil markings (website image is representative of appearance).
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Ephemera / Cartoon Art: May 12, 1940 amateur hand-drawn cartoon strip "The Fumps" by "Benny". Found in a stamp collection -- it is too precious to ignore. This just demonstrates that very little is new in politics, conspiracy theories, or fools. The story: Person answers door and welcomes in guests. The conversation proceeds: "How dja [sic] like Roosevelt? ... Speaking of Roosevelt, too bad McKinley was taken sick and died. ... He was shot... No! ... Listen here, you dummox, McKinley was a victim of cancer... Big bum, you, McKinley is still alive. He was impeached... No!... No!... [fight ensues] ... Resident sits in wrecked living room. (Seems much like 2016-2021!) I am not sure why in 1940 they were arguing about the 1901 assassination of McKinley by a gunman. However, it just shows that nothing is really new and perhaps that we have another 40 years ahead of us arguing about recent events. Overall size 11 x 8.25 inches.
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Ephemera / Art: ca. 1940 amateur hand-drawn, colored automobile illustrations. Found in a stamp collection and too fun to ignore. Probably by "Benny" the creator of a 1940 cartoon strip "The Fumps" found in the same stamp collection. Each is on thin, tracing paper (or clothes pattern making paper). Pen outline, colored in. Similar, but different car designs. Interestingly the creator paid attention to developing surrounding scenery: desert, rural, city. Lots of fun. Especially for a car lover who has one or more ca.1940 cars like these. Some insignificant edge wear. Each overall size 11 x 8.5 inches.
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WX6 Large Red Cross and Wreath (1910, the last year of the seals issued and sold by the American National Red Cross; after this time, the seals were issued by the Red Cross, but sold by the TB society). Mint F-VF. Very fresh and attractive. (Scott 2020 value $20.00.)
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1612 [1979 $5.00 Railroad Lantern, Americana Series] First Day Cover without cachet, neat label address. Great potential for adding your own artwork or for creating a combo FDC with a future stamp issue.
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1893 Columbian Exposition picture postal card: "Womans Building" of series published by Girsch and Roehsler. Mint Fine with some bends and creases. Printed on U.S. postal card Scott #UX10 for which normal mint lists in 2020 at $47.50 each. This series seems to be fairly scarce; I have never seen an illustration of a complete set, nor do I know how many cards constitute a set. The Chicago Postcard Museum site only pictures one card from the series (a different one). At this moment, I do not see ANY cards of this series offered on eBay, which is a reasonable reflection of scarcity. Despite the quality problems, this is a desirable card. Genuine original card.
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Confederate Facsimiles: Group of 14 "mint". Sometimes described as reprints, these are facsimiles made for collectors (I believe that these date from the 1950s). On the back each bears the text "Facsimile / No. XX" (numbered 1 to 14). While these initially look Imperforate, they are die cut but just held together in a block by tiny breaks in the cutting. The 12-block is intact, but weak due to the very tiny connectors. The pair was originally attached somewhere along the bottom of the 12-block. Ungummed on yellowish-white paper. All of consistent printing quality and appearance on thick white paper. All excellent quality with full margins. These are quite collectible. I have never before seen this type with die-cutting and the tiny connectors (breaks in the die cutting).
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Germany: FORGERY OF A FORGERY: Forgery imperforate souvenir sheet of four of U.S. OSS "Operation Cornflakes" Postal Forgery of orange-red 12 pf Hitler Head stamp with the text "FUTSCHES REICH" (ruined empire) and the jaw partly exposed showing the teeth. The original postal forgeries were created ca.1942-1943 by the U.S. OSS (Office of Special Operations; precurssor to the CIA) in the design as shown on this item, but with perforations and printed in large sheets. The original postal forgery is listed in Michel as #17 of such postal forgeries -- it is costly and sought after. Text from the Henry Gitner hgitner.com website: "These stamps were key part of a high level clandestine plan to undermine the morale of the average German citizen. The Allies felt that if many German people started receiving Anti-Nazi propaganda in their morning mail delivered punctually at breakfast time by the mailman, they would feel that their "German Empire" was falling apart from within... The OSS decided that the best way to smuggle the mail into the regular German postal system was to bomb mail trains. In addition to bombs to possibly destroying the trains, they dropped sacks of mail containing Anti-Nazi propaganda. During the confusion of cleaning up the wreck, the false mail sacks were mixed with the damaged German mail. The OSS re-created all aspects of the German Postal system from real business return addresses to many thousands of names and addresses pulled from the telephone directories. They even replicated the mail bags, postal markings and every other detail of the postal system. Every letter was franked with a 12pf stamp or two 6pf stamps. On opening the letter, they would find it filled with anti-Nazi propaganda including the 12pf "Futsches Reich" stamp." This, however, is a later -- I am guessing from the 1960s or perhaps the early 1970s; it is not a more recent reproduction which also may exist -- imperforate, gummed, souvenir sheet of four stamps reproduction / forgery of the original postal forgery. Over the years, I have seen dealers successfully selling this for around $20. NH VF souvenir sheet of 4; small natural paper inclusion far out in the margin away from the stamps. CANNOT BE SHIPPED TO COUNTRIES WHERE SUCH ITEMS ARE PROHIBITED.
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Label: "ROANOKE, VA. / AN ALL-AMERICA CITY / THE STAR CITY OF THE SOUTH". Lithographed, rouletted label design (view of the city with mountains in the distance) with printer inscription "AMERICAN BANK NOTE COMPANY, LITHO." Very attractive. The city was first named an All-America City in 1952 and six times subsequently. The huge star on a nearby mount was built in 1949 (it has an interesting history, see Wikipedia). This has the appearance of having been issued in the 1952-1965 time period. NH F-VF.
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2.50

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1319 [1966 5c Great River Road (Mississippi River)] Colorano #14. Baton Rouge, LA first day canceled maximum card. Mellone #9. Wonderful graphics. Seldom offered.
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1314 [1966 5c National Park Service] Colorano #9. Yellowstone National Park, WY first day canceled maximum card. Mellone #?. Seldom offered.
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1340 [1968 6c Hemisfair 68] Colorano #?. San Antonio, TX first day canceled maximum card. Mellone #?. Seldom offered (the only offering I could find was at $16.99).
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1479 [1973 8c American Revolution, Drummer, Rise of the Spirit of Independence] Colorano #? SILK. New Orleans, LA first day canceled maximum card. Mellone #?. Seldom offered (I was unable to find any offered).
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8.95

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1294 [1967 $1.00 untagged, Eugene ONeill, Prominent American Series] Art Craft cacheted, neat typed address, Superb first day cover.
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4.00

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1295 [1966 $5.00 untagged, John Bassett Moore, Prominent American Series] Art Craft cacheted, UNaddressed, Superb first day cover.
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36.00

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1305C [1973 $1.00 COIL, Eugene ONeill, Prominent American Series] Art Craft cacheted, neat typed address. Superb first day cover.
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3.50

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1341 [1968 $1.00 Airlift] Art Craft cacheted, neat typed address, Superb first day cover.
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5.00

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Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Duck and Conservation Stamp: 1995 (void after June 30, 1996) Tribal Member (green) $5.00. NH VF. Ducks taking flight.
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Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Duck and Conservation Stamps: 1996 (void after June 30, 1997) Complete set of 3 (Tribal/Resident $5, Non-Tribal South Dakota Resident $10, and Non-Resident Out-Of-State $10). NH VF. Bison and geese. Specialist dealers seem to sell this set for $39.
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Lower Brule Sioux Tribe Duck and Conservation Stamps: 2000 (void after June 30, 2001) Group of 2 (Non-Tribal South Dakota Resident $10 and Non-Resident Out-Of-State $10). NH VF. Ducks taking flight. Specialist dealers seem to sell a set of 3 for $39.
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Scott #11/12 facsimile "mint". Sometimes described as reprints, these are facsimiles made for collectors (I believe that these date from the 1950s), but they are still quite collectible. Back printing "Facsimile / No. xxx" with 211 in blue gray. On coarse yellowish paper. I do not know for sure, but I suspect that the various backprinting versions of these exist; compare to what you have.
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4.00

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CSA Scott #2 Ten Cent Jefferson. "Springfield" (Tatham Stamp Company) 1930s-1940s Reproduction with "Facsimile / No. 201" printed on reverse in WHITE. Color GREENISH BLUE, on coarse brownish-yellow paper. Mint VF NH (ungummed). Left margin horizontal pair. Interesting and attractive. The Tatham reproductions are actively collected.
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CSA Scott #2 Ten Cent Jefferson. "Springfield" (Tatham Stamp Company) 1930s-1940s Reproduction with "Facsimile / No. 201" printed on reverse in WHITE. Color GREENISH BLUE, on coarse brownish-yellow paper. Mint VF NH (ungummed). Bottom margin horizontal pair. Interesting and attractive. The Tatham reproductions are actively collected.
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Scott #11/12 facsimile "mint". Sometimes described as reprints, these are facsimiles made for collectors (I believe that these date from the 1950s), but they are still quite collectible. Back printing "Facsimile / No. xxx" with 211 in blue gray. On coarse yellowish paper. I do not know for sure, but I suspect that the various backprinting versions of these exist; compare to what you have.
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4.00

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May 28, 2006 Samuel de Champlain Joint Issue with Canada Souvenir Sheet. 4074 Souvenir Sheet -- the U.S. version of the issue without a barcode -- on an official U.S. BLANK first day cover. The souvenir sheet includes two of the U.S. stamps and two of the Canadian; the FDC is canceled with a U.S. FD cancellation on the two U.S. stamps and a Canadian FD cancellation on the two Canadian stamps. While this FDC is not "scarce", fresh and attractive examples, without creases, can be hard to find because of their size (9.5 x 8 inches). This example has selected VF or better centering (which is a bit scarce, especially for mint examples of the souvenir sheet).
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