As all of us are virtually staying at home and working on our collections, libraries or other neglected or put off long overdue projects. Some years back Charles Opitz (Nancy's brother) gave to us a Robert A. Siegel auction catalog of Sale 955 held on April 11, 2008 and featuring "The Summit Collection of United States Encased Postage. As long time collectors of these and other related items we went to their site and were very pleased to find the prices realized for this sale.

The firm has been in business since 1930 and has held some important sales of numismatic postage and related items all of which are available to download and research. The Newman portal has references to the Siegel catalogs for items that have been purchased there. In any instance, if you collect U. S. postage currency, encased postage, postage stamp currency or postage currency envelopes you will have fun going through the various catalogs and finding items you collect along with what prices they realized.