US # 1 on Cover Boston 1847.

PR XF #11 on Placerville CA cover C. 1852.

Scott 35 10ct Special Cross Mountain rate 1861 Georgetown, Cal.

Scott 182 with Glen Allen, VA Precancel - 1977 cert.

Wide Bar Precancel Milwuakee c 1895

The collection contains about 70 Wisconsin DPO's and or early covers. Below are just two.

Platteville, Wis 1841

New California, Wis 1853

There will be 45 free franks offered for sale in one of the sessions. Sign up for the email list to get notice when. The collection consists of Presidential, Presidential Widows, Vice Presidents, Congressmen, Cabinet & others officials, and post office free franks.

Below are several examples.

To see almost all the Free Franks go to my Free Frank Lens. Free Franks

John Quincy Adams Free Frank as US Senator before becoming president. c 1805

James Madison After being president 1833

Martin Van Buren while President 1840

John Allison 1857 Free Frank, a member of Congress.

Lucretia Garfield, widow Free Frank, mourning cover after 1881

Post Office Business Free Fancy Cancel

There will be about a dozen Confederate covers offered including the following three. Be sure to sign up to be notified as to when these will be offered.

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Confederate #1 on Cover Mobile to Canton.

U27 Star Die Entire with Confederate States overprint

Alexander Hamilton Stephens, Vice President of the Confederacy Free Frank 1863

Among the sub categories of covers are Express Mail, Express services, Steamboat and Local posts. Each is represented with multiple examples in the collection.

Pair of #11's and 2 more for a four time rate cover US Express Mail NY to Boston.

1854 Steam Cancel

1853 Southern Belle Mississippi River Steamboat

1855 Blood's Despatch cancel with Bloods Penny post stamp acid tied. On cover with Scott 11.

Elko & Mountain City Pony Express entire

Overall Illustrated Cover with Wells Fargo Imprint c.1880

About a dozen and a half covers from the 20th century made it into the collection.

One below is actually 19th century.

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1899 Military Station in San Juan Porto Rico

WWI AEF Cover from Siberia 1919

Crosby cover USS Kenneth Whitting Atom Bomb Test Cover

There will be about 30 lots of US Stamped covers going to Foreign destinations. Some are shown below.

Scott 33 on cover to Nova Scotia Fancy United States Banner.

Scott 149 with fancy St Louis cancel New York paid all to Liepzig

Scott 116 on lemon cover to Germany

Pair Scott 17 on cover to England

Multi colored franks was still short paid.

Scott 68 & 76 on cover to France forwarded to London

Guam #12 on cover, cat is $3000

The Covers in this lens were all part of the Haertel Postal History Estate Sale conducted by ETN Covers as part of the ETN Presents auctions series.

The ETN Presents Auctions Series Seeks to Present "Collections That Tell a Story" with Postal History as the Medium.

Today, most major philatelic auction houses tend to shun individual covers expected to bring less than $250-300. For most collections, that means they will cherry pick your top items, and toss the balance in a box to sell for pennies on the dollar.

ETN Covers hopes to fill that gap by offering a two-fer for the collector.

Effective eBay marketing of your collection by a decade plus eBay powerseller with 99.9% positive feedback rating...

And the preservation of your collection as a Squidoo Lens, or other web presence.

This is what I call Philatelic Catch and Release. It permits you to retain pride of ownership in your collection, even after it has been dispersed into the hands of other collectors eager to add your items to their collections. A way to have your cake an eat it too, if I may add another metaphor.

So, if you have a collection gathering dust, or plateaued out for all practical purposes, why not pass it on to the collecting community? There is an eager market for better material.

The best way to share your collection with others may be to do just that. Share it with others. Let new collectors use your material to build their dream collection.

While they are enjoying their portion of your collection, you will retain bragging rights to your entire collection, virtually online. You will still be able to display it, if not hold it. Should you chance on to the 'holy grail' cover that has eluded you all these years, you will still value it as a single, because you already have had the rest.

If you have a particularly informative collection, your web presence will allow others, long into the future, to value the completeness you achieved, and the insight your collection was able to illuminate, even though its pieces may by then be far flung.

ETN Covers specializes in US philatelic covers of all sorts, but is known to dabble in other arenas as well.

Email me for consignment information.

Earl Netwal
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There will be 50 Civil war patriotic covers to pick from. Be sure to sign up for the email notice to be sure you are aware of the auction date.

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Daughter of the Regiment

Civil War Camp Scene

Cure for the Rebellion

Winged Victory

Winfield Scott Taunts Jeff Davis

One Flag One Country

Death to Traitors

The Devil carries away Jeff Davis

Abraham Lincoln Campaign Cover 1860 - Abe the Rail Splitter

The collection consists of 120 Fancy cancels on cover. This collector focused on getting as nice an example of each cancel as possible. I think you will agree, he did an very good job at that.

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Fancy Cancels

US in circle cancellation c 1861

US Mail Killer

Scalloped M

Paid in Ornamental Circle

Large Star

Circle & Large Dot in Blue Star

Negative Star in Circle with Negative Dots

Checkerboard Cancellation c 1873

Geometric Circle Cancellation

Diamond Geometrics in Circle NYFM

Large Dot and Grid in Circle 1863p>

Masonic Square and Compass

Honeycomb

Christian Cross in Circle

Shield Cambridge, Mass C.1867

Pumpkin Head

Geometric

Smiling Sun

A small group of Astronaut signed covers and a group of Eisenhower related autographed covers will be part of one of the sessions.

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John Glen Autograph

Ike FDC With Autographs of 4 Chiefs of Staff

Perhaps a separate section, perhaps to be worked in with others, there are about 10 ship covers.

New York Ship Letter Due 4 cents

1859 Salem Ship Letter

1735 Colonial era Ship cover NY to London

1814 Bermuda to Baltimore