| John Sheffield Philatelist Ltd. |
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| 1 | Canadian Bank Note Company a duo of trade sample sunk die proofs on card, 8' x 8' showing Beavers at work and family of Lions, very fine. Likely for use on stock certificates (Picture2) | Est $30.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $50.00 | |
| 2 | McGreely's Express (1898) label used by McGreely to deliver mail from Dyea to Skagway. Only 2,000 copies produced and in use for just a few weeks as a U.S. Post Office opened and put private delivery out of business. Fine mint top margin copy, lightly hinged. Lafreniere lists this at $150 | $150.00 | $14.00 | Bid | ![]() $60.00 | |
| 3 | China, People's Republic 3338-3418 complete mint set of 2004 postal issues housed in a commemorative album produced by China Post, very fine mint, never hinged | $94.95 | $14.00 | Bid | ![]() $50.00 | |
| 4 | France all mint collection assembled in mounts and housed in a Minkus album. Contains regular and semi-postal issues and others with plenty of sets (all we checked were never hinged). Although sparce in spots there is much useful and an excellent basis for expansion. Fine-very fine throughout (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) (Picture5) (Picture6) | Est $125.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $170.00 | |
| 5 | Germany collection of issues 1872 through 1945 housed in mounts and assembled in an European Schaubek album. Useful run of Germania Heads, Inflationary period, Third Reiche to AMG and a few Zones. Replete with sets mixed mint and used and souvenir sheets. Generally fine-very fine throughout and will catalogue out well (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) (Picture5) (Picture6) (Picture7) | Est $150.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $200.00 | |
| 6 | Germany pleasing mint and used collection of Berlin issues from 1948 through 1990 housed in mounts and assembled in a European Schaubek album. Few empty spaces in earlier then a high degree of completion 1953 onward wth sets, singles, booklet panes, and souvenir sheets with both regular and semi-postal issues. Routinely fine-very fine throughout (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) (Picture5) (Picture6) (Picture7) | Est $300.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $375.00 | |
| 7 | Germany lovely mint and used collection of issues from 1949 through 1990 housed in mounts and assembled in an European Schaubek album. May be a handful of stamps missing for this to be complete for regular and semi-postal issues. All the good post-war sets are there along with hundreds of others, routinely fine-very fine throughout (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) (Picture5) (Picture6) (Picture7) | Est $300.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $375.00 | |
| 8 | Japan a pair of lovely annual souvenir collections for 1982 and 1987 with the stamps in mounts. The back of each book containing stories of each stamp, in English. Very fine and the binders much nicer than most post office products (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) | Est $40.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $60.00 | |
| 9 | United Nations all mint collection of issues housed in a Schaubek hingeless album with pages to 1989, Contains the New York regular and Air Mail issues from 1951 to 1980, Geneva from 1969 to 1980, and Vienna from 1979 to 1980, very fine mint, never hinged, album alone worth the estimate (Picture2) | Est $100.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $150.00 | |
| 10 | United Nations all mint accumulation of issues from 1951 through the late 1970's assembled on 51 stock pages. Each issue in blocks of four or six, very fine mint, never hinged (Picture2) (Picture3) | Est $40.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $60.00 | |
| 11 | United Nations a mint collection from first issues through 1999 housed in a trio of albums ablong with ten souvenir collections. Looks complete along with postal stationery for the same period. Includes the Anniversary souvenir sheet, flag series looks complete in sheets, and a wide range of additional material, very fine mint, never hinged (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) | Est $175.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $250.00 | |
| 12 | United States accumulation of modern era issues mostly in sheets or souvenir sheets with denominations to $11.75, very fine mint, never hinged. Face value 211.48 (US$) (Picture2) | Est $150.00 | Sold for $200.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 13 | United States a mint and used collection of 'Duck' stamps with #RW3-RW56, the complete series from 1937-1989, fine-very fine, 54 items (Picture2) | $1815.00 | $180.00 | Bid | ![]() $250.00 | |
| 14 | United States a mint and used collection of issues housed in two volumes, the first for regular issues, the second for commemorative issues. Sparce in earlier but good coverage from the 1930's onward with a goodly amount of 'face' material, fine-very fine (Picture2) (Picture3) | Est $100.00 | $35.00 | Bid | ![]() $150.00 | |
| 15 | United States Presentation book for the 12th Congress of the Universal Postal Union Paris 1947, contains regular and air mail issues along with #803-834 the Presidental set. Presented to the delegates of the 12th Congress of the UPU and signed by Robert Hannigan, Postmaster General. Some minor spine damage at bottom otherwise in good shape and the stamps, very fine | Est $100.00 | $20.00 | Bid | ![]() $150.00 | |
| 16 | United States a carton full of miscellaneous collections, covers, etc., with plenty of interesting. Saw a binder of Federal and States Revenues, show labels, binder of FDC's, another with tremendous amount of unused material, a few annual collections (no stamps), and other useful, could be surprises (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) (Picture5) (Picture6) (Picture7) | Est $125.00 | Sold for $170.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 17 | United States a mint and used accumulation housed in glassines and stuffed into a shoebox, looks like issues from the 1920's or 1930's onward, thousands along with a few covers | Est $40.00 | Sold for $60.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 18 | Worldwide Rainy Day Special, a large boot box stuffed with stamps from around the world in glassines and envelopes with thousands in total, could be surprises! | Est $50.00 | Sold for $70.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 19 | Worldwide Rainy Day Special, well packed box with stamps in glassines and envelopes. We have no idea what's in this one! | Est $40.00 | Sold for $60.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 20 | Worldwide Rainy Day Special, a large shoebox stuffed to the edges with stamps in glassines and envelopes. We didn’t have time to dig to the bottom of this one, so it could be full of surprises | Est $45.00 | Sold for $60.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 21 | Worldwide carton full of remainders, divers, and an on-paper accumulation of stamps sorted by country and housed in old cigarette boxes. Unchecked by us | Est $35.00 | Sold for $50.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 22 | Worldwide Rainy Day Special, shoebox full of stamps in glassines, envelopes, some covers, etc. | Est $25.00 | Sold for $40.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 23 | Worldwide carton of remainders and divers in binders, old albums, etc. Who knows what! | Est $35.00 | Sold for $50.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 24 | Worldwide The CABOOSE.The end of a consignment containing an eclectic assortment of stamps and covers with British Commonwealth complete definitive sets in gutter pairs, early Palestine postal history, nice assortment of Canada and USA stamps and covers and much more, sure to please. Routinely fine-very fine, great lot with interesting material! (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) (Picture5) (Picture6) (Picture7) (Picture8) | Est $225.00 | $110.00 | Bid | ![]() $300.00 | |
| 25 | Worldwide a mainly used collection of issues from A-Z countries housed in a pair of very old springback albums. Plenty of useful material with sets, singles and covers. Appears to be fine-very fine and as is often the case with consignments like this, may be some treasures waiting to be found (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) (Picture5) (Picture6) (Picture7) | Est $125.00 | $55.00 | Bid | ![]() $170.00 | |
| 26 | Worldwide an old time mint and used collection housed in a pair of battered International albums. Does not appear to go past 1920, best is Canada and the United States but did spot useful early Commonwealth here and there. Some mixed condition but sure to be some surprises lurking about! (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) (Picture5) (Picture6) | Est $150.00 | $65.00 | Bid | ![]() $200.00 | |
| 27 | Worldwide a three volume collection housed in Minkus albums with British Europe, British Oceania, and Greece. Mainly issues of Australia, Great Britain and Greece, fine-very fine and excellent basis for expansion | Est $125.00 | $95.00 | Bid | ![]() $170.00 | |
| 28 | Worldwide accumulation of stamps, covers and cigarette cards housed in five volumes. Includes commercial mail from around the world mostly to an address in Canada. Early Great Britain including stamps used for Revenues on documents, one volume filled with a few hundred cigarette cards, and two filled with miscellaneous stamps in stock pages. Much of interest (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) (Picture5) (Picture6) | Est $50.00 | Sold for $70.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 29 | Worldwide carton accumulation with stamps on album leaves and stock pages, along with others. Saw useful Egypt, New Zealand, Persia, selection of unused Canada, and more, fine-very fine (Picture2) (Picture3) (Picture4) (Picture5) | Est $80.00 | $65.00 | Bid | ![]() $120.00 | |
| 30 | Worldwide Rainy Day Special, shoebox packed with covers, post cards, intact booklets and lots of other stuff providing hours of sorting enjoyment | Est $50.00 | Sold for $70.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 31 | Worldwide Rainy Day Special, well packed shoebox with stamps in sales cards, glassines, loose, some covers and more. Spotted plenty of $10 and up items, plenty of value here and appears fine-very fine throughout | Est $150.00 | Sold for $200.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 32 | Worldwide Rainy Day Special, shoe box stuffed with stamps and covers, thousands with both mint and used stamps, who knows what will be found in some of the glassines | Est $60.00 | Sold for $85.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 33 | Worldwide used collection of A-Z countries housed in a pair of Master Global albums. Sparce in spots but still hundreds of stamps, fine-very fine and excellent basis for expansion or adding to an existing collections | Est $60.00 | $45.00 | Bid | ![]() $85.00 | |
| 34 | Confederate States of America 1/14 a mint and used selection of 11 different issues of 1861-1863, some possible reprints, fine-very fine | Est $100.00 | Sold for $130.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 35 | France B391 1965 25c + 10c Mail Ship Semi-postal issue, a trial colour proof pair and a single, the single in colour of issue, the pair with one stamp violet, one bluish grey, very fine, lightly hinged | Est $25.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $40.00 | |
| 36 | German East Africa 11-21a 1900 Kaiser's Yacht set complete, very fine used, top three values on piece | $359.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $275.00 | |
| 37 | Germany Offices in China 1/5a selection of overprints with #1, 1a, 2a, 3, 3a (2), 4a and 5a, mostly on piece with nice cancels, fine-very fine used | $133.75 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $60.00 | |
| 38 | Germany Offices in Morocco 39 1906 50c on 40pf overprint, very fine used | $135.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $60.00 | |
| 39 | Mariana Islands 13a 1899 10pf carmine issue with overprint at 48 degree angle, very fine used | $180.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $75.00 | |
| 40 | Mariana Islands 15 1900 25pg orange issue with overprint at 56 degree angle, very fine used | $145.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $60.00 | |
| 41 | Suez Canal Company 1868 1˘ black and 40˘ carmine issues, fine-very fine mint, never hinged, sold 'as is.' These stamps were used only in July and August 1868 when it was decided that payment to the Suez Canal Company shoud be made for transport between Port Said and Suez. (Picture2) | Est $45.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $60.00 | |
| 42 | United States 2 1847 10˘ black Washington issue with clear margins, red cancel, very fine used | $900.00 | $190.00 | Bid | ![]() $500.00 | |
| 43 | United States 7 1851 1˘ blue Washington issue, type II, fine used with clear to touching margins | $150.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $70.00 | |
| 44 | United States 12 1847 5˘ brown Thomas Jefferson issue, type I with clear to touching margins, fine-very fine used | $750.00 | $110.00 | Bid | ![]() $450.00 | |
| 45 | United States 29 1859 5˘ brown Thomas Jefferson issue, type I, fine-very fine used | $325.00 | Sold for $120.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 46 | United States 30 1861 5˘ orange brown Thomas Jefferson issue, type II, shorter perf top left otherwise fine-very fine used | $1300.00 | $100.00 | Bid | ![]() $550.00 | |
| 47 | United States 32 1857 10˘ green Washington issue, type II, left margin copy, fine-very fine used and extremely lightly cancelled | $190.00 | Sold for $85.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 48 | United States 38 1860 30˘ orange Franklin issue, fine-very fine used | $500.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $250.00 | |
| 49 | United States 68a 1861 10˘ dark green Washington issue, straight edge at right, fine-very fine used with fancy cancel | $90.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $45.00 | |
| 50 | United States 87 1866 2˘ black Andrew Jackson issue, with E grill, print shifted to top showing part of next stamp at bottom, fine used | $200.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $85.00 | |
| 51 | United States 138A 1870 7˘ vermilion Daniel Webster issue with I grill, couple shorter perfs otherwise fine-very fine used (Picture2) | $800.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $300.00 | |
| 52 | United States 144 1870 90˘ carmine Commodore Perry issue with H grill, shorter perf at top otherwise fine-very fine used (Picture2) | $2250.00 | $80.00 | Bid | ![]() $650.00 | |
| 53 | United States 151 1870 12˘ dull violet Henry Clay issue, couple shorter perfs otherwise fine used | $200.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $60.00 | |
| 54 | United States 152 1870 15˘ orange Daniel Webster issue, small sealed tear upper right otherwise fine-very fine used | $225.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $70.00 | |
| 55 | United States 153 1870 24˘ purple General Scott issue, fine used | $225.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $85.00 | |
| 56 | United States 154 1870 30˘ black Alexander Hamilton issue, fine used | $300.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $120.00 | |
| 57 | United States 208 1881 6˘ rose Lincoln issue, fine-very fine used with fancy cancels (Note: cancels are intact though appear missing due to the dark cancels) | $110.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $30.00 | |
| 58 | United States 209a 1881 10˘ black brown Jefferson issue, fine-very fine with numeral 14 duplex cancel | $375.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $65.00 | |
| 59 | United States 261 1894 $1 black Commodore Perry issue, type I, fine-very fine used | $350.00 | $14.00 | Bid | ![]() $100.00 | |
| 60 | United States 261A 1894 $1 black Commodore Perry issue, type II, fine-very fine used | $800.00 | Sold for $275.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 61 | United States 262 1894 $2 bright blue James Madison issue, fine-very fine used | $1200.00 | $100.00 | Bid | ![]() $450.00 | |
| 62 | United States 263 1894 $5 dark green John Marshall issue, fine-very fine used | $2600.00 | $120.00 | Bid | ![]() $750.00 | |
| 63 | United States 294-299 1901 Pan-American Exposition set complete, fine-very fine used | $119.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $45.00 | |
| 64 | United States 300-311 1902-1903 1˘ to $1 definitive issues, fine-very fine used | $168.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $40.00 | |
| 65 | United States 312 1903 $2 dark blue James Madison issue, fine-very fine used | $200.00 | Sold for $70.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 66 | United States 313 1903 $5 dark green John Marshall issue, fine-very fine used | $700.00 | $26.00 | Bid | ![]() $250.00 | |
| 67 | United States 351 1909 5˘ blue Washington coil issue, fine-very fine mint, lightly hinged | $155.00 | Sold for $55.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 68 | United States 352 1909 1˘ green Franklin coil issue, fine-very fine mint, lightly hinged | $110.00 | Sold for $45.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 69 | United States 354 1909 4˘ orange brown Washington coil issue, fine-very fine mint, hinge remnant | $220.00 | Sold for $70.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 70 | United States 355 1909 5˘ blue Washington issue, fine-very fine used | $300.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $90.00 | |
| 71 | United States 368 1909 2˘ Lincoln Centenary issue block of four, very fine mint, never hinged | $96.00 | Sold for $60.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 72 | United States 386 1910 2˘ carmine Washington issue, fine-very fine mint, never hinged | $260.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $120.00 | |
| 73 | United States 500 1917 2˘ deep rose Washington coil issue, type 1a, fine-very fine mint, never hinged | $570.00 | Sold for $200.00 via Buy It Now! | |||
| 74 | United States 805 1938 1˝˘ brown Martha Washington issue, misperfed to bottom showing gutter in middle os stamp, very fine mint, never hinged. Interesting error! | Est $40.00 | $10.00 | Bid | ![]() $60.00 | |
| 75 | United States C18 1933 50˘ green Zeppelin issue, the usual light gum bends visible on reverse, otherwise very fine mint, never hinged | $75.00 | $14.00 | Bid | ![]() $40.00 | |
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