Good eye, Jason. good eye!

Three covers from the same seller - a US seller who often sells inexpensive items according to my experience. The auction ended around 3:30AM Taiwan local time. I guess there were more US bidders this time.

Very disappointed with the third cover - it did not even get $1,500 USD which it deserves. I guess if it was a block of 10 geese stamps on the cover, it would have ended much higher.

Jason, you should have gotten the third cover. It is a very rare super multi-franked cover. Hopefully what you got has a short five on it.

First Cover.
http://www.ebay.com/itm/331320891439?_trksid=p2060778.m2748.l2649&ssPageName=STRK%3AMEBIDX%3AIT

Second Cover,
http://www.ebay.com/itm/221550198006?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649

Third Cover.
http://offer.ebay.com/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewBids&item=331320894928&ssPageName=STRK:MEWA:BIDN&_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2765


Due to the significance of the third cover (insignificant price though), Picture is posted. If not appropriate, please let me know. I'll delete it. I've not seen covers with more than 10 geese stamps recently.

There are still quite a few flying geese covers waiting to be uncovered at someone's attic.

I could have easily outbid him had I not outbid him on the first one. I did not bid the third cover since I thought it would have been more than $1,500 - big mistake.

Flying geese covers tend to sell at a higher price outside Taiwan due to some serious collectors reside overseas.

Just had a chance to talk to the seller regarding shipping. She indicated that these three covers were part of the collection from a New York Symphony Orchestra musician who travelled to China (should be Taiwan I guess) in the 70's. The person acquired these covers during that time and had no idea about the value of these covers. He sold all of his collections to the seller for a moderate price.

The seller asked me why they are so valuable and I told her the story. So even a 30+ year APS pro like her may not know about the flying geese stamps since she deals with stamps world wide. SHe would not tell me the cost of the lot but she for sure got a great deal this time. This will never happen in Taiwan!.

BTW, she specifically said that she does not like to ship internationally for high value items like this. She got burn before.

Then that's a very good buy in my opinion.

The power of Da Ti Dot Bi (Position 14). The same person won the item again (last one went for $2077). He apparently has a special taste on such kind of covers.
He did not win it cheap though.

http://www.ebay.com/itm/131329126166?ssPageName=STRK:MEDWX:IT&_trksid=p3984.m1435.l2649