Meter Stamp Society Auction 39 Closing date: 21 May 2006

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1 Meter Stamp Society Auction 39 Closing date: 21 May 2006 Type numbers cited are from the United States Postage Meter Stamp Catalog (USPMSC). A P at right indicates the lot is photographed. If you have internet access you can view all lots in full color and at full size by following the link at The photos shown in the Bulletin are in black & white (naturally) and are usually cropped and reduced. Lot # Minimum Bid 1 Type AB2 'Shield' cut. Nice cut of this Scarce meter stamp... $ P Type BA cover. Meter 9 and Permit $20.00 P 3 Lot of two Type BA top cuts... $10.00 P 4 Type CA1 cover, cent denomination... $7.00 P 5 Type CA1 cover. With 4 cent plus AD'L 2c PD surcharge... $8.00 P 6 Type CA2-3a front. Nice example of this variety with the small town mark. USPMSC: Very Rare... $8.00 P 7 Registered Type CA3 17 Oval cover. USPMSC: Rare... $12.50 P 8 Type CA4. Folded top cut of this 18-cent value. USPMSC: Rare... $7.50 P 9 Types CA4 (9 cents) and CD4 (1½ cents) cuts. Both Rare in the USPMSC... $8.00 P 10 Type CB1 cover. Meter number 1. Nice 1923 use of this Scarce Mail O Meter... $10.00 P 11 Type DF3. Shortened cover with.02½ value. USPMSC: Very Rare... $7.00 P 12 Lot of ten Flying Eagles. One cover and nine tapes, most with slogans... $ Type JA1a cover. Variety with second digit of the meter number intentionally missing... $10.00 P 14 Type PO-KE1a cover. Variety with "P O" partially removed from TM. M# (VR)... $10.00 P 15 Pair of Official Mail Pentagon mailing tags... $8.00 P 16 Pitney Bowes cover with scarce inverted slogan... $6.00 P 17 Armed Services top strip. USPMSC: Very Rare... $7.00 P 18 Zipster Plus meter stamp cover. Type VM-C-LB1. Rarely offered and used only briefly. Public Vending machine. Includes the receipt... $30.00 P 19 First Day of Use covers. Martin Luther King Station. Both machine #82 and #83... $20.00 P 20 Type VMX-B1a. Autopost. This is the 'Unsevered Multiples' variety. (FIRST CLASS)... $ P US Essays, Specimens, and Proofs 21 Scarce Oval SPECIMEN cover with SAMPLE across stamp... $25.00 P 22 Scarce Type SPE-A(BA1) SPECIMEN cut... $25.00 P 23 Type SPE-A(DB)1 SPECIMEN. Diagonal VOID across stamp... $12.00 P 24 Type SPE-A(DE2)1 SPECIMEN with scarce Spanish slogan. Made for Borden's in Puerto Rico... $10.00 P 25 Type SPE-A(DF2)2B SPECIMEN. Telephone slogan... $10.00 P 26 Interesting normal meter stamp and SPECIMEN on cut... $3.00 P 27 SPE-A(DE3)1 SPECIMEN,.20 value. Scarce slogan... $5.00 P 28 Unlisted SPECIMEN. Similar to SPE-A(DF1), but M# $12.00 P 29 Unlisted SPECIMEN value. As Type SPE-A(DF5) or SPE-A(DF6), but unlisted 02 value (without decimal)... $12.00 P 30 Unlisted SPECIMEN. As Type SPE-A(DF8)B, but with 39CFR at bottom of TM... $12.00 P 31 Unlisted SPECIMEN. As Type SPE-A(DF7)2, but with.03 value and M# $12.00 P 32 Unlisted SPECIMEN. As Type SPE-A(HA4), but with BIC TM. With enclosure... $20.00 P 33 Type HC1l, variety with size of town mark 26.5mm, New York / N.Y., CC $8.00 P 34 Postalia meter stamp SPECIMEN cover. 'Help Retarded Infants' slogan. Scarce!... $8.00 P 35 Pitney Bowes meter stamp SPECIMEN cover... $8.00 P 36 Pitney Bowes meter stamp SPECIMEN cover. Wells Fargo slogan... $8.00 P 37 HC4 PROOF tape with TM BIC. CHICAGO / ILL. Listed as VR (M#6203)... $9.00 P 38 Unlisted SPECIMEN cut. As Type SPE-A(HC1), but frank is narrower... $9.00 P

2 39 Type PO-HA4-1a PROOF tape. Post Office stamp used in error by private firm (Vultee Field). With additional stamp properly used... $10.00 P 40 Lot of ten WWII Patriotic meter stamp tapes. Nice variety... $8.00 P 41 Lot of ten WWII Patriotic meter stamp tapes. Nice variety... $8.00 P 42 Lot of ten WWII Patriotic meter stamp tapes. Nice variety... $8.00 P 43 HC1 PROOF tape with un-engraved M#... $5.00 P 44 Type SPE-A(IB4)1C, with TM blank. Scarce... $10.00 P 45 Fidelity Lodge slogan PROOF cover... $7.00 P 46 Type SPE-A(IA4)A SPECIMEN covers. Lot of two covers. one with PB advertisement slogan... $10.00 P 47 Unlisted SPECIMEN. As Type SPE-A(IA3), but with both TM and value box empty... $10.00 P 48 Type SPE-A(ID2) SPECIMEN on shortened cover... $5.00 P 49 Scarce Official Mail Departmental Permit proof, WASHINGTON / DC, Permit No $15.00 P 50 As lot 49 but WASHINGTON / DC, Permit No $ As lot 49 but WRIGHT FIELD / DAYTON, OHIO, Permit No $ Autopost SPECIMEN tape. Solid black field in place of denomination. Generated when the machines are first powered up or tested for problems... $65.00 P 53 Pitney Bowes 'work up' impression. Type IA-series, but without denomination and TM... $10.00 P 54 Pitney Bowes ESSAY. ESY-B-(IC)1. As Type IC1, but smaller meter number and larger value figures. The lot includes both a tape and a cover... $10.00 P 55 Oval SAMPLE and First Class Permit Proof cover. Nice combination cover... $35.00 P 56 Post Office meter proofs from Set of 110 unaddressed #6 covers with zero-cent proof impressions of Type PO-IA3A, nos with no duplication. Several have METERED MAIL" + mailman slogan plus additional tape stamp affixed. These covers probably were used to proof machines before their distribution to post offices in the early 1940s... $25.00 P Permits and Revenues 57 Scarce 1909 'PAID IN MONEY Third-Class Permit... $20.00 P 58 Rare 1906 Permit cover, with enclosure. PO cancel on back from Tiffin, Ohio... $20.00 P 59 NCR Meat label 'Ticket'. Nice example of this NCR use on a grocery store meat label... $20.00 P 60 State of America revenue meter essay on tape... $5.00 P Rest of the World Meter Stamps 61 Early United Kingdom meter stamp, with "LATE FEE PAID handstamp... $15.00 P Belgium meter stamped card to Alabama. From the XVIth Brussels Official and International Commercial Fair... $5.00 P 63 Canada, early stamp type with inverted license number... $5.00 P 64 Canada Official Mail tape with DEPT PP&S vertical... $ Czechoslovakia meter stamp front... $ Lot of five Egypt fronts. Nice examples. Catalog value $ $ Indonesia meter stamp cover with automobile slogan... $5.00 P 68 Indonesia meter stamp cover with slogan... $5.00 P 69 Italy covers, with Fasces removed. Nice examples. Lot of two covers... $10.00 P 70 Malaya cut. Universal type... $4.00 P 71 Malaysia cover with nice slogan... $8.00 P 72 Samoa cover, with inverted town mark... $5.00 P 73 SAAR cover, bold impression... $7.00 P United Kingdom meter stamp cover... $8.00 P United Kingdom cover... $8.00 P United Kingdom cover with Selfridge s Stamp Selling slogan... $5.00 P Censored United Kingdom cover... $8.00 Rest of the World Essays, Specimens, and Proofs 78 John Lennon slogan PROOF cover... $10.00 P 79 British Guiana PROOF meter stamp cut... $5.00 P 80 Belgium ESSAY covers. Lot of two. These were designed by Pitney Bowes, but not accepted... $10.00 P 81 Brazil ESSAY cover. Designed by Pitney Bowes, but not accepted... $5.00 P

3 82 Czechoslovakia PROOF meter stamp cover. Francotyp slogan... $5.00 P 83 Germany ESSAY covers. Lot of two. Design not accepted... $20.00 P 84 Scarce German PROOF covers. Lot of two... $7.00 P 85 Mexico meter stamp ESSAY cover... $20.00 P 86 Panama meter stamp ESSAY cover... $5.00 P 87 Sudan meter stamp PROOF tape... $5.00 P 88 South Africa Pitney Bowes ESSAY covers. Lot of two. Designed, but not approved for issue... $10.00 P 89 Great Britain Pitney Bowes SPECIMEN cover. Lot of two... $15.00 P 90 Great Britain Concord meter stamp slogan cover... $6.00 P 91 Great Britain Pitney Bowes SPECIMEN cover... $15.00 P Great Britain Pitney Bowes SPECIMEN front... $15.00 P Topical Slogans 93 Walt Disney 101 Dalmatians slogan cover, France... $20.00 P Christmas Seal meter stamp slogan cover. Nice example of this slogan... $7.50 P Christmas Seal meter stamp slogan top cut. Nice impression... $5.00 P 96 American Indian meter stamp slogan cover... $10.00 P 97 WWII Patriotic meter stamp slogan covers. Lot of two covers... $10.00 P 98 Walt Disney theme meter stamp slogan covers. Lot of two covers... $10.00 P Donation Lots. The following have been generously donated by members, and all proceeds from sales will go entirely to the Meter Stamp Society. 99 Lot of ten German Francotyp cuts... $ Meter stamp cover with Post Office seal on back... $ Lot of ten Experimental Public Vending machine meter stamps. Florida. Printed on April Fool s Day Misaligned impression. Values from 01 to 10. Scarce... $20.00 P 102 Lot of two Experimental Public Vending machine meter stamps. Florida. Printed on 3 March One tape and one cover, with date reading 03/03/03. Scarce... $20.00 P 103 PC Postage pane of ten stamps, $0.70 value. The 23-cent panes of this stamp have sold on ebay for upwards to $ $ P 104 PC Postage pane of ten stamps, $0.80 value. The 23-cent panes of this stamp have sold on ebay for upwards to $ $ P 105 Israel Vending Machine meter stamps. Lot of two. One First Day cover and one tape... $10.00 P 106 Israel Vending Machine meter stamps. Lot of two tapes... $10.00 P 107 Mini collection of Norway. 25 covers, front and cuts, Dates from the 1920s... $ Mini collection of Australia. 25 covers, front and cuts, Dates from the 1920s... $ Mini collection of Canada. 25 covers, front and cuts, Dates from the 1920s... $ Pitney Bowes Model DM magazine ad 1... $7.00 P 111 Pitney Bowes Model DM magazine ad 2... $7.00 P 112 Pitney Bowes Model DM magazine ad 3. Similar to lot 111 but with different cartoons... $ Pitney Bowes Model DM magazine ad 4. As lots but with different cartoons... $ Pitney Bowes Model DM magazine ad 5. As lots but with different cartoons... $ Mystery Box, US covers/fronts/tapes. Approx ten pounds. (due to weight, US bidders only)... $ Mystery Box, Non-US covers/fronts/tapes. Approx ten pounds. (US bidders only)... $ Mystery Box, Australia covers/fronts/tapes. Approx ten pounds. (US bidders only)... $40.00

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