拍項 1074 美國

The "Godfather" Collection of the Very Popular U.S. 5¢ Beacon Airmail Issue (Scott C11), consisting of stamps, covers and reference material; stamps begin with the "Godfather"'s award-winning one-frame exhibit, "The Beacon, The Production of the U.S. Airmail Issue of 1928", the philatelic material beginning with a left margin block of six signed by New and Irving Glover (title page), then the finest of the 12 known examples of #C1P1 (signed by Harry S. New and initialed by Michael S. Eidness Jr., and R.S. Regar; 2000 P.F. certificate), and ends with a sheet of 50 including one with red "TOP" and signed by the same three dignitaries as the proof (2012 P.F. certificate). The other pages include 18 plate number blocks of 6, 8 and 10 featuring different printings and marginal markings, siderographer's mint blocks (3) and used singles (4), plate finisher's (2 mint and 2 used singles plus a used block of 9 with "18576" handstamp in bottom selvage, and over 30 varieties including single with 2mm diagonal paperfold across stamp and plate strip of 5 with large appendage at right from foldover, other items include four sheets of 50 including one with double "TOP" and blue quarter moon in top right selvage and half moon in bottom right selvage (found with blue plate numbers 19597 & 19598). Also includes nine photographs with a few similar to many of the design elements of the issued stamp, also including a stockbook of mint sorted, stockbook of 186 different plate number singles (109 red & 77 blue), stockbook of 580 mint in singles and multiples including additional stamps with siderographer's and plate finisher's initials, plus 63 plate blocks consisting of double top (8 including 3 PBs of 10), no top (6), blue top (31) & red top (18) with red and blue each 13 PBs of 10, a stockbook of hundreds of used including varieties and approximately 100 precancels, over 1,300 covers including 35 interrupted (crash) covers, 30 fancy cancels including Girl Jumping Rope (2), race cars (Indianapolis 500), Death Valley Skull & Crossbones, and Hopi Indian Dancer, 70 to or from foreign destinations including single with vignette shifted up on cover to Mexico and returned to sender, 34 Zeppelin flown covers or cards partially franked with #C11, including one with block of 15 and one with US #C13, 14 Catapult covers including two S.S. Aquitania, 2 Byrd Antarctic Expedition covers ("Aux. Bark City of New York Byrd Atlantic Expedition" Feb. 19, 1930 and S.S. City of New York Dunedin N.Z. on Roessler "wallpaper" cover), Earle Ovington- and Orville Wright-signed covers, 1929 gun cover, a handful of varieties on cover including one with "blue bombs dropping" on cover (reportedly unique), pair paying last day of 10¢ rate (2), three playing cards from the same deck with #C11 tied & flown, two Hoover Inauguration covers, approximately 85 First Day Covers (July 25, 1928) with a handful cacheted and a couple unofficial cities including Baltimore and N.Y. & Wash. R.P.O. (1991 AFDCS cert), 12 covers canceled on July 31 & Aug. 1, 1928 (last and first day of Airmail rates), approximately 150 Aug. 1 1928 first day of Airmail rate covers; few faults as always with no impact on value. Also includes wonderful reference material including copies of Kobersteen, Bize and McFarlane's exhibits, two copies of Gregg Hopkins' large die proof census book, a handful of books, handbooks and articles, a thick black 3-ring binder of e-mail correspondence with other collectors of the issue (sorted by collector last name) plus a few auction catalog loose pages with bid sheets and invoices, and a bankers box full of folders of data regarding all aspects of a serious and active student of one particular issue (rates, routes, uses, varieties, proofs, cachets, perfins, marginal markings, and more). Shipping charges apply - weight 143.4 lbs