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**Columbian and Later Issues**
Lot	Sym.	Lot Description
3998		Columbian Exposition Postal Cards. Nine complete unused sets of Goldsmith Postal Cards, incl. few different sets as identified by UPSS, also incl. three outer wrappers (faulty), Very Fine group Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 750-1,000 CLOSED Will close during Public Auction
3999		3c Columbian (232). Tied by "San Francisco Dec. 1 130 PM 93" duplex cancel on California Midwinter International Exposition Columbian Entire (U349) with "Prussian National Ins. Co." corner card to Leipzig, Germany, transit and receiving backstamps, Very Fine (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 300-400 SOLD for $300.00 Will close during Public Auction
4000		3c, 6c Columbian (232, 235). Each on separate Magnus multicolor two-panel Civil War patriotic cover and tied by "World's Fair Station Chicago" machine circular datestamps, Oct. 30 and 13, 1893 respectively, same correspondence, minor cover soiling, otherwise Fine-Very Fine, scarce and unusual, Scott Retail as ordinary covers with World's Fair Station cancels (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	525.00 SOLD for $275.00 Will close during Public Auction
4001		Round-the-World Postal Card. 1895 posting with 1p Red Great Britain Postal Card, pair of U.S. 1c Blue No. 264 and Japan 5s Ultramarine No. 74, all tied (or cancelled) by various circular datestamps as Carnarvon March 12, 1895 (Wales), Yokohama, Japan, San Francisco, Cal. (arrival and transit), on the message side is another Carnarvon circular datestamp dated June 27, 1895 indicating the card made an around the world trip which was the desire of the writer who asked each addressee and "forwarder" to add postage to keep the card going, some wear as would be expected (Image)	E. 200-300 SOLD for $300.00 Will close during Public Auction
4002		5c Chocolate (270). Tied by "New York N.Y. Apr. 26 6-PM '98" machine cancel on cover to Mahon, Balearic Islands, with label at left reading "Despatch to Spain or Spanish Colonies Prohibited on Account of War", also with purple pointing hand handstamp with "Do not post again this envelope or wrapper", minor soiling, Very Fine, an outstanding Spanish-American War attempted use, the Balearic Islands are an archipelago off the eastern coast of Spain, the most famous of which are Ibiza, Majorca and Minorca (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 200-300 SOLD for $425.00 Will close during Public Auction
4003		50c Trans-Mississippi (291). Natural s.e. at left, choice centering, tied by target, light strike of 1900 Mass. town datestamp on cover with printed address to Providence R.I., philatelic use, Very Fine (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	1,750.00 SOLD for $275.00 Will close during Public Auction
4004		1c-10c Pan-American (294-299). Complete set tied by tiny targets on registered cover to Germany, "Leon Tex. Jul. 13, 1901" circular datestamp, registry label and large purple oval handstamp return cachet, appropriately backstamped, 10c small corner crease and 5c trivial edge toning, slight cover wear, otherwise Fine, still rather attractive in the overall and certainly very scarce (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 400-500 SOLD for $600.00 Will close during Public Auction
4005		1c-10c Pan-American (294-299). Each on individual cover, all with either September or October 1901 Buffalo "Pan American Exposition" machine cancels, 4c-10c with matching monochrome expo "globes" corner cards with the Americas made up of embossed female allegorical figures (all different colors), 2c ordinary, 1c an unaddressed hand-back souvenir with large portrait of McKinley cancelled Sept. 7, 1901, one day after he was shot, 2c soiled, 5c small edge tear, otherwise Fine-Very Fine (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 300-400 SOLD for $325.00 Will close during Public Auction
4006		1c Pan-American (294). Small tears, tied by Syracuse N.Y. dateless machine cancel on 5-1/4 x 5-1/2 inn. multicolored "None Such Mince Meat" advertising card to So. Woodstock Me., slight crease, otherwise Fine, rare format (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 200-300 SOLD for $150.00 Will close during Public Auction
4007		2c Pan-American (295). Tied by "Buffalo N.Y. Jun. 1 2:30 PM '01" exposition machine cancel on illustrated "Pan-American Exposition, 1901" design depicting an Indian and the city from the Buffalo German Insurance Company to Bath N.Y., receiving backstamps, Very Fine and choice (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 200-300 SOLD for $350.00 Will close during Public Auction
4008		1c Blue Green (300). Single, used with with two 2c Carmine (319), tied together by "New York, N.Y. Dec. 22, 1904" wavy-line machine cancel on advertising cover to Satara, India with spectacular six-color Christmas design for Bloomingdales' Dept. Store with Santa Clauses trying to fit aboard a street car, right 2c with corner nick and minor per faults, Fine, rare holiday adveritising cover, the artist, Outcault, placed his most famous creations, Buster Brown & Tige, in the foreground, another example of this design realized $5,000 in the Spink-Shreve Risvold sale (Image) Search for comparables at SiegelAuctions.com	E. 1,000-1,500 CLOSED Will close during Public Auction

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