Lot 240
Roosevelt, Franklin D. The balance of the Grace Tully philatelic holding including: two First Day Covers with a presentation letter from the Postmaster General on stamps released to honor President Roosevelt immediately following his death--including one on the opening of the United Nations Conference on International Organization in April 1945; a presentation folder and two signed Fdcs with the first stamp commemorating Lyndon Baines Johnson, boldly inscribed to Tully by Lady Bird Johnson; a group of seven (7) foreign covers addressed to FDR as President, with stamps from such countries as Hungary and Germany; seven (7) FDcs with the first stamp to honor Eleanor Roosevelt following her death, addressed by Grace Tully to herself, together with the official Post Office Dept. ceremony announcing the ceremony to release the stamp; a small group of eight (8) various items, including a letter from Postmaster General Farley, a FDC cancelled from Hyde Park with the FDR stamp, July 1945, that includes a gorgeous cachet design; a presentation folio housing a FDC from Campobello with the new FDR stamp of 1982, released on the 100th anniversary of Roosevelt's birth; and a complete mint sheet of the Eleanor Roosevelt stamps kept by Grace.
Estimated Value $400 - 500.
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