Countries represented with significant items include Albania, Austria, France and colonies, Germany, Great Britain and British Commonwealth.

The cover is franked with a 3¢ red brown Caribou with a manuscript “Aerial Atlantic Mail JAR.”

Highlights of the Erivan sale include rare postmasters’ provisionals, Pony Express and Waterbury fancy cancel covers.

Seven separate catalogs have been prepared for the Dec. 5-9 autumn auction series and are available for viewing and download on the Feldman website.

The more than 560 lots of U.S. postage stamps reflect the breadth of Piller’s holdings, from postmasters’ provisionals to revenues.

This change applies to auctions and fixed price purchases.

The auction firm describes the stamp as a “superlative example” possessing “bright exquisite color on wonderfully fresh white paper.”

The auction begins with a broad selection of U.S. and possessions issues.

Abacus said that almost all of the 530 lots in this sale are new to the market.

Also crossing the auction block will be almost 180 lots featuring postal history categories such as advertising covers, zeppelin flights, crash covers and classic United States issues.

Siegel has prepared detailed catalogs for the sales of part 2 of the Getlan collection and part 1 of the Venn collection.

Separate catalogs have been prepared for the Kramer and Rose collections and for the classic U.S. stamps and covers sale featuring the Allen and Houdon collections.

A highlight is a mint example of the well-known 1962 4¢ Thatcher Ferry Bridge stamp with silver omitted.

Highlights of the sale include graded U.S. stamps, proofs and essays of the popular U.S. 1869 Pictorial issue, a collection of rare plate blocks, flight covers and U.S. possessions.

According to the auction house, the sales will be conducted quarterly with the next one tentatively planned for October.

The production miscue is a vertically imperforate horizontal pair of the 1982 20¢ America’s Library stamp.

Linn’s Stamp News was made aware of the 13¢ Talking Pictures color-omitted error pane at the April 22-24 Westpex show.

“The three stamps offered here are not only treasured by collectors, but also stand out as important cultural icons of modern China, embodying its sociopolitical history and mirroring its economic development,” Kelleher and Rogers said.

The June 28 Rarities of the World sale will be followed by the June 29 auction of part 3 of the Magnolia collection of U.S. mail in China and Japan.

The Running Chicken and numerous other well-known cancels were the creation of Waterbury, Conn., postmaster John W. Hill.