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Collections and Lots Zeppelin and Airmail Covers bulk lot

Collections and Lots Topics Covers bulk lot

Collections and Lots Topics Trading cards

Collections and Lots Zeppelin and Airmail Covers bulk lot

Collections and Lots Topics Covers bulk lot

Collections and Lots Zeppelin and Airmail Covers bulk lot

Lot 907

200.00 CAD

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First Flights, 1928/1946, collection of over 400 covers, predominantly to 1939, showing a wide range of routes to and from Canadian towns

First Flights, 1928/1946, collection of over 400 covers, predominantly to 1939, showing a wide range of routes to and from Canadian towns with some United States destinations, featuring a dizzying variety of cachets, markings, and frankings, chiefly Air Mail issues though not exclusively, including singles, coils, complete sets, a booklet, and even a paste-up pair, many now housed in protective sleeves, some envelopes affected by past storage conditions, a substantial holding offering excellent scope for study or continuation, fine or better.

Collections and Lots Topics Covers bulk lot

Lot 915

50.00 CAD

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Olympics & Expositions, 1976/1986 Olympics, Expo and Commonwealth Games First Day Covers (FDCs) and special event cover collection, ex

Olympics & Expositions, 1976/1986 Olympics, Expo and Commonwealth Games First Day Covers (FDCs) and special event cover collection, ex Earle Covert. More than 400 covers (large majority are addressed) in eight FDC albums with sleeves (35 being loose), nearly two-thirds being related to the 1976 Montréal Olympics, and with representation from the 1978 Commonwealth Games, 1980 Moscow Olympics, and 1986 Expo covers plus postcards. Shows a tremendous range of postmarks including for opening and closing ceremonies and the various sporting events. Also includes a b/w copy of Dale Speirs's postal history of the 1988 Calgary Olympic Games. Fine to very fine overall, and providing a solid foundation for continuation in this area.

Collections and Lots Topics Trading cards

Collections and Lots Topics

Collections and Lots Topics Trading cards

Lot 1208

60.00 CAD

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Aviation, 1930s/2000s, collection of material relating to Amy Johnson, pioneer aviatrix, with a few dozen items. Highlights include a

Aviation, 1930s/2000s, collection of material relating to Amy Johnson, pioneer aviatrix, with a few dozen items. Highlights include a selection of circa 1930s–40s real photo postcards depicting Johnson and her aircraft Desert Cloud and Heart’s Content, alongside Great Britain commemorative covers and a range of engaging ephemera. Noteworthy collateral material includes a pane of ten “Daily Mail / Amy Johnson / U.K. Tour” labels, a scarce ticket stub from her 1932 lecture “How Jason and I Flew to the Land of the Golden Fleece”, cigarette cards, and other period items of aeronautical and historical interest. Condition is mixed, with some small faults noted, but overall a useful and appealing foundation for, or enhancement to, a specialized aviation or thematic collection focused on early female pioneers of flight.

Collections and Lots Topics

Lot 1209

Video

100.00 CAD

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Aviation, 1970s–2000s, souvenir sheet topical collection, extensive assembly comprising over 230 mostly never hinged items, with

Aviation, 1970s–2000s, souvenir sheet topical collection, extensive assembly comprising over 230 mostly never hinged items, with occasional used examples, in two Lighthouse binders with slipcases, featuring a wide range of subjects including aeroplanes, helicopters, balloons, airships, airports, and related aviation themes, together with noted aviators such as Charles Lindbergh, Amelia Earhart, and Steve Fossett, representing more than fifteen countries and illustrating major developments and milestones in late twentieth-century flight, an ideal holding for the aerophilatelic or thematic collector, very fine throughout.

Lot 1210

200.00 CAD

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Communications, extensive exhibit collection, 18th century to 2000s, entitled "The Medium is the Message", comprising thousands of items

Communications, extensive exhibit collection, 18th century to 2000s, entitled "The Medium is the Message", comprising thousands of items from more than 30 countries, including stamps, souvenir sheets, documents, covers (commercial and FDC), and ephemeral material, covering spoken word, non-verbal signals, the printed word, newspapers, Braille, and electronic communications, all in binders containing researched, written-up pages telling the story of human communication from the ages to modern times and four additional stock books of material to continue the project overall fine or better and sure to provide many days of fun for the exhibitor or topical collector, with examination of our online images encouraged to best appreciate the diversity and extensive treatment of this subject.

Lot 1211

50.00 CAD

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Maps on Canadian stamps, 1898–2014, topical collection, neatly displayed in a 16-page stockbook, beginning with the world’s first Map

Maps on Canadian stamps, 1898–2014, topical collection, neatly displayed in a 16-page stockbook, beginning with the world’s first Map Stamp (Scott #85) and including Canadian issues depicting maps either on the stamps themselves or in the selvedge, noted four mint examples of Scott #85, overall fine–very fine, an appealing thematic collection.

Lot 1212

Video

50.00 CAD

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Skiing, 1950s/2000s, worldwide stamp collection, with several hundred stamps, souvenir sheets, and cinderellas, filling a twenty-page

Skiing, 1950s/2000s, worldwide stamp collection, with several hundred stamps, souvenir sheets, and cinderellas, filling a twenty-page stockbook, a mix of mint and used from Ajman to Yemen and many countries in between, mostly from the mid-to-late twentieth century, with some earlier European poster stamps, includes Olympics-related issues, some minor duplication in places, a colourful and fresh collection, mostly very fine, attractive and ideal for expansion.

Lot 1213

100.00 CAD

Live

Skiing, worldwide postal history accumulation, over 120 covers or cards, mostly mid-twentieth century, including commemorative

Skiing, worldwide postal history accumulation, over 120 covers or cards, mostly mid-twentieth century, including commemorative cancellations, illustrated event cachets, slogan cancels, skiing-related frankings, illustrated postmarks, Olympic-related, machine cancels, etc, from countries as diverse as Czechoslovakia, Lebanon, the Soviet Union, Poland, Bulgaria, Canada, France, Austria, San Marino, Argentina, Norway, Finland, Sweden, etc, the commercial usages with typical wear, overall fresh and fine-very fine or better, a desirable lot of this popular thematic, and an ideal companion to the preceding lot of skiing-related stamps.