Josiah K. Lilly Collection, Part IX, US Envelopes, Revenues, Match & Medicine and Telegraph stamps, 780 lots. Illustrated in large quality black and white plates, size 6.75" X 9.75". Soft covers without prices realized but those are available on the Siegel website. Clean condition throughout with a bit of expected edge toning on cover. Click here for sample of inside page. $20 + $5 shipping.

Josiah K Lilly Jr. (1893 to 1966) amassed a collection that took ten sales over an almost two year period to sell by Robert A. Siegel Auction Galleries, 1967-68. It included some of the rarest and most prized items contained in a single holding. It is one of the name sales in philately. Lilly was an industrialist and businessman who for five decades headed up the pharmaceutical company his grandfather founded – Eli Lilly and Company. Lilly was a collector of many things, not just stamps. He assembled world renowned collections of jewelry, manuscripts, books (including a Gutenberg Bible), coins, military miniatures, and antique weaponry. Today, his rare books form the Lilly Library housed now at Indiana University in Bloomington, Indiana. His coins were acquired by the Smithsonian Institution in Washington.