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**First Day Covers continued...**
Lot	Symbol	CatNo.	Lot Description	CV or Estimate
961	F	565	#565, 14c Blue, tied to Worden first day cover by "Muskogee, Okla./May 1/1923" machine cancel, very fresh, extremely fine; a choice example of this very scarce first day cover. (Image)	Mellone 1,250.00 SOLD for $1,050.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
962	F	566	#566, 15c Gray, tied to Worden first day cover by "Washington, D.C./Nov 11/1922" machine cancel, unusually fresh and clean, extremely fine. (Image)	Mellone 600.00 SOLD for $100.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
963	F	566	#566, 15c Gray, tied to long registered special delivery first day cover along with 1c Pilgrim (#548) and 6c Air post (#C1) by Washington, D.C. double oval pmks., violet "Washington, D.C. Registered/Nov 11/1922" pmks. on back, sent to Boston, attorney corner card, very fine; a scarce commercial first day cover. (Image)	Mellone 600.00 SOLD for $100.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
964	F	567	#567, 20c Carmine rose, tied to Worden first day cover by "Washington, D.C./May 1/1923" machine cancel, very fine. (Image)	Mellone 600.00 SOLD for $300.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
965	F	567	#567, 20c Carmine rose, tied to first day cover along with 10c Special Delivery (#E12) by "San Francisco MPO" rimless oval pmks., violet "San Francisco, Calif. Information/May 1/1923" c.d.s. alongside, neatly opened at left, very fine; any San Francisco first day cover is rare, this being the only one we have seen with this postmark; Mellone inexplicably catalogs the San Francisco first days at only $1,200.00, while the current Scott catalog value is $2,500.00 and they typically bring $2,500.00-$3,000.00 when offered at auction. (Image)	Mellone 1,200.00+ SOLD for $2,300.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
966	F	569	#569, 30c Olive brown, tied to clean Worden first day cover by "Washington, D.C./Mar 20/1923" machine cancel, choice very fine. (Image)	Mellone 825.00 SOLD for $400.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
967	F	570	#570, 50c Lilac, tied to unaddressed first day cover by "Washington, D.C./Nov 11/1922" machine cancel, quite fresh, very fine; a scarce first day cover, particularly unaddressed. (Image)	Mellone 1,500.00 SOLD for $750.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
968	F	571	#571, $1.00 Violet black, well centered single tied to Worden first day cover by "Washington, D.C./Feb 12/1923" machine cancel, very fine; a highly desirable example of this seldom seen first day cover; ex-Fisher. (Image)	Mellone 7,000.00 SOLD for $4,750.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
969	F	576	#576, 1 1/2c Yellow brown imperforate, right margin plate no. 16917 block of six tied to 1c postal stationery entire first day cover by "Washington D.C./Apr 4/1925" duplex pmks., fresh, choice very fine; scarce with a plate block. (Image)	Est. 150-200 SOLD for $210.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
970	F	583a	#583a, 2c Carmine booklet pane of six, with full tab, tied to a first day cover by "Washington, D.C./Aug 27/1926" duplex handstamps, purple "Special Delivery" handstamps and Washington special delivery backstamp, very fine and scarce. (Image)	Mellone 1,500.00 SOLD for $625.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
971	F	610	#610, 2c Harding, tied by "Marion, Ohio/Sep 1/1923" machine cancel to a pristine tiny first day mourning cover measuring 8.7 x 6.5mm, first George Linn cachet (Planty #1) at bottom left, extremely fine and choice; this is the scarcest size of all the first Linn cachets; one of the key rarities of cacheted first day covers. (Image)	Mellone 850.00+ SOLD for $400.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
972	F	610	#610, 2c Harding, bottom margin plate no. 14853 block of four tied by "Marion, Ohio/Sep 1/1923" machine cancel as well as duplex pmk. on #10 size Worden first day cover, with "The Harding Publishing Co./"The Marion Star." Marion, Ohio." corner card in blue (Planty #12), very slight edge soiling, otherwise very fine; while not technically a cachet, Planty notes it is a "closely related corner card with the status of a cachet." (Image)	Est. 200-300 SOLD for $50.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
973	F	610	#610, 2c Harding, top margin plate no. F 14854 block of six tied by "Marion, Ohio/Sep 1/1923" machine cancel as well as duplex handstamp to mourning first day cover addressed to Philip Ward, "Office of the Postmaster General/Washington, D.C." (Planty #16F) corner card at top left, original enclosure of unused Postmaster General letterhead stationery, very fine; seldom seen, especially with a plate block. (Image)	Est. 200-300 SOLD for $220.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
974	F	610	#610, 2c Harding, right margin plate no. 14852 block of six tied to Worden addressed first day cover by "Marion, Ohio/Sep 1/1923" machine cancel, neatly opened at left, plate block with trivial wrinkle in selvage, fine. (Image)	Est. 200-300 SOLD for $140.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
975	F	610	#610, 2c Harding, block of four tied to first day cover by unofficial "Baltimore Md/Sep 1/1923" duplex pmks., opened at left, fine; only three first day covers are recorded from Baltimore, this being the only one with a block. (Image)	Est. 200-300 SOLD for $180.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
976	F	610	#610, 2c Harding, block of four tied to first day cover by scarce unofficial "Delaware Ohio/Sep 1/1923" machine cancel, cover with trivial bend at top left, fine. (Image)	Est. 150-200 SOLD for $120.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
977	F	610	#610, 2c Harding, group of eight Sept. 1, 1923 first day covers, includes blocks of four and eight addressed to George Linn, one from the first man to buy the stamps at the Marion, Ohio post office, three unofficial towns (Brooklyn, Caledonia, Bucyrus), also one non-FDC and two #611 first day covers (one with pair, one with block of four), fine-very fine; accompanied by some photographs of Harding. (Image)	Est. 300-400 SOLD for $400.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
978	F	614-16	#614-616, 1c-5c Huguenot-Walloon cplt., set tied to a clean first day cover by unofficial "Brooklyn, N.Y. Ridgewood Sta./May 1/1924" duplex cancel as well as a Brooklyn machine cancel, choice very fine; complete sets from unofficial cities are not common. (Image)	Mellone 400.00 SOLD for $120.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
979	F	614-16	#614-616, 1c-5c Huguenot-Walloon cplt., set of blocks of four tied to one long first day cover by unofficial "Baltimore Md./May 1/1924" duplex handstamps, serviced by Howard Beck, opened at bottom, very fine; rarely seen with both blocks of four and from a scarce unofficial city; Mellone prices a set of blocks from an official city at $350.00 and a set of singles on an unofficial cover at $400.00, but does not price the rare combination of both. (Image)	Est. 400-500 SOLD for $350.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM
980	F	614-16	#614-616, 1c-5c Huguenot-Walloon cplt., ten first day covers each with a complete set, from the ten different official cities (no Washington), each is an A.C. Roessler cover with printed return address (Planty #4, 4A, 4B), very fine; a very rare "set" of Roessler covers, which would be virtually impossible to assemble one city at a time; the Mellone catalog value is for a normal set on cover, with the Roessler covers being worth a premium. (Image)	Mellone 1,750.00+ SOLD for $500.00 Closing..Jun-22, 09:00 AM