Woohoo! I've Got A Hot Date For Chicagopex!

Excited the see the results of this purchase. You usually do pull out some gems.

Found thus far (dollars are Scott catalog values):

Two R13d ($175 each)
R6d ($275)
R1d ($150. One I have been searching for, for AGES! Richard has never had one and didn't think it existed)
R53d ($575)
Two R15c T15 double transfers ($65 each)
R5c T5 Major double transfer ($50)
R13c T13a double transfer (lesser variety). Stamp is munged, but still probably $40-50.
R13d T13a double transfer (full version). $200 in Scott on R13c, but unlisted on silk paper.
R13c all over double transfer. Scott unlisted and very rare. Likely $300-500.
Three Hart L. Pierce R1c counterfiets ($200-400 each)

Well, I am a bit late on this. Was just browsing around on ebay and obviously large pinch of salt needed here, I saw this auction and wondered if it might help any of the rev. / back of book collectors around here. It's probably all just garbage, but in case:

http://www.ebay.com/itm/U-S-Stockbo...984804&rt=nc

Just got home. Luckily the freezing rain stopped in the early morning hours, so the drive home was uneventful.

Broke and exhausted... pretty much par for the course for any CHICAGOPEX for me.

Richard wants me to consign with him some of the items that I find that I don't decide to keep for my collection. Must be decent. He pointed out to me one of the cancels I had pulled out as a proprietary medicine cancel he's never seen before that he puts in the $250 range. I've done "show and tell" with him before, and this is the first time I've ever seen him excited about an item I've found.

I bought a second carton lot late Friday. Nowehere near the quantity, quality, or thank goodness cost, of the first lot, but still several thousand revenues in several albums and binders to go through. This one is more of a mish-mash, with battleships, proprietaries, playing cards, telegraphs, etc. No M&M though.

Let's see, what else did I pick up... a gorgeous 3rd issue $2.50 claret with superb SON cancel, a few silk paper cherrypicks, and my first 2nd issue invert. It's the most common one, the 50-cent. Centering isn't the greatest, but it's not punch canceled as many of them are. For less than 1/3 of Scott, I'm pleased. I don't intend to collect the inverts seriously anyway; I just wanted a representative example for the collection.

Lastly I spent several hours at Richard's booth just chatting, and picked up a few minor cancels and a couple of 2nd issue margin imprint and plate # singles. Nothing earth-shattering. I picked up a stamp from him that he had been holding for me, an R1b (1-cent express) short transfer, which is listed but unpriced in Scott. I now have a complete set of the short transfers, in imperf, part perf, and perforated.

I've already emailed one of the platers that I sell to that I'll have a large shipment for him in the not too distant future... time to start digging out of the credit card hole.

I need a nap.