386th Auction

1953-1960, Haile Selassie I. four Contemporary Photographs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, unaccepted designs, mounted on card, very scarce and fine

1955(ca.), Red Cross Nurse, 15 c. Contemporary Photograph, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, accepted design, mounted on card, very fine 

1955, Silver Jubilee: Emperor three values and Balambaras two values, unaccepted designs, Contemporary Photographs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, mounted on card, very fine

1955, 70 Years Adis Abeba 1 c., two values unaccepted designs, Contemporary Photographs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, mounted on card, very scarce and fine

1956, Air Mail & Express 24-9-56, five values unaccepted designs, Contemporary Photographs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, mounted on card, very scarce and fine

1957, Lake Taan Air Mail & Official four values, unaccepted designs, Contemporary Photographs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, mounted on card, very fine

1957, Air Mail & Official five values unaccepted designs, Contemporary Photographs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, mounted on card, very scarce and fine

1959, Birds three Contemporary Photographs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book,  unaccepted designs, mounted on card, very fine

1960, Freedom From Hunger Campaign two values, unaccepted and accepted designs, Contemporary Photographs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, mounted on card, fine and very scarce

1960 ca., Tuberculosis two values & Institut Pasteur 10 c. medicine, unaccepted designs, 10+25 instead of 10+3, Contemporary Photographs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, mounted on card, very fine

1961, Birds two Contemporary Photographs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, unaccepted designs, mounted on card, very fine

1961, Birds 14-7-61 two Contemporary Photographs, unaccepted designs, removed from the printers daily photographic record book, mounted on card, scarce and very fine

1895, Quetzaltenango 13.4.95 c.d.s. on heavy envelope to San Francisco bearing 2 x 2 c. and 6 x 6 c. coat of arms on reverse, transit Retalhuleu 14.4.95 and arrival mark 2.5.95, fine

1928, 2 c. orange, shifted blue overprint on right margin block of ten, on reverse of cover clear cancelled "COLOMBA QUETZALTENANGO 4/ENE/1930" c.d.s., addressed to Germany, tiny corner crease, otherwise fine

1881/90, Liberty first issues three sets on album page

1950, RIS 3 sen red, imperforated block of 8 with 2 gutter pairs, without gum, very fine, copy  of certificate Vleeming BPP (2013), (cat. 5600,- Zbl 44D)

"BAGDAD" bilingual oval type cancellation on envelope bearing 1 Piaster blue 1901 issue, addressed to Sham / Damascus, tiny flaw on top, otherwise fine, attractive cover showing a beautiful cancellation

“BASRA” (Coles & Walker no.43, RRR*) cancellation on 1876 cover with 20 Para green / violet to Kermanchah / Irak with arrival mark on reverse, shortened on top and corner flaw, this cancellation is unknown on cover at Isfila, great rarity of Turkey & Iraq postal history 

"BATTAL" ("cancelled", Brand-Ceylan no.XVIII-12) clear double circle on cover bearing Turkey empire issue 20 pa. rose, used in Iraq and addressed to KUT (Kut el Amara), tiny shortened at left, very scarce and attractive

“KERBELA 1” bilingual blue c.d.s. (Coles-Walker unrecorded) on 1915 money transfer bearing 1½ piaster carmine black to Constantinople with arrival mark PERA 5 on reverse, tiny border crease, otherwise fine and unique Turkey forerunner

“KERYE BACHI (BAGDAD)” Turkish cancellation (Isf. no.2) on telegram form.  A scarce ottoman forerunner, very clear cancelled

“KIAZIMIE 23/9/07” c.d.s. (Coles-Walker no.31) on 1908 cover with 1 Pia. blue to Teheran with arrival mark, fine and very clear Iraq forerunner

"MUSUL 81" black box type (Coles-Walker no.66) cancellation on 1891 official cover with rectangular "tahrirati mühimme" (important mail) and official seal "MOSUL EMLAK HÜMAYUN IDARESI" (Mosul Land Registry), to Constantinople with arrival mark, little roughly opened at top and some crease, otherwise fine, very scarce and unusual Turkey / Ottoman forerunner

“By Overland Mail / BAGHDAD-HAIFA” boxed hs. in violet on top right of 1927 commercial envelope from Baghdad to Swiss with, franked on reverse with pair 3 a. deep blue, Port Said transit and arrival mark Emmishofen 1.2.27, vertical folds and crease, otherwise fine

1876, 4 kr. deep yellow on vertically laid paper, full to wide margins, light part cancelled ZENDJAN, signed, very fine

1928, First Flight BUSCHIR-TEHERAN and First Flight MECHED-TEHERAN by German ´Junkers´, cover with 6ch. lilac-red and 5 Kr. airmail stamp of 1927, boxed related cachet and arrival cds alongside, one tiny toned, the other fine

1942, Three covers with different WW II Anglo-Soviet-Persian and Farsi censor sealing labels, including Pan American Air Mail Service label on and flown cover from Teheran to New York, franked with eight 3 Rilas Reza Shah and 50 d., two additional covers to New York and Switzerland, minor faults, otherwise fine and attractive

1892-1923, Seven stampless covers showing fine cancellations, Ispahan, Schiraz, Kum, Isfahan No.2, Barfrouch and thimble type Sandok, fine group

1975/85 ca., 13 aerograms unused, including rare overprint "THE ISLAMIC REPUBLIC OF IRAN" 1979, Shah provisional issues 

1975/85 ca., aerograms, 16 unused, all different, including Shah provisionals and overprint issues

“BEYT LAHM TELGRAF VE POSTAHANESI 1311” (Coles-Walker no.113, 25 Pts.) very clear violet cancellations on postcard “Souvenir de Bethlehem” bearing two 10 Para green to Germany with arrival mark MAGDEBURG 26.4.99, very fine Palestine & Turkey postal history!

"CAIFFA 1 - 12/2/18" bilingual octogonal d.s. (Coles-Walker no. 60, Haifa) on envelope to Berlin with transit marks Beyrouth and Stamboul on reverse, fine and scarce

"CENTRAL COMITE KNESSETH ISRAEL JERUSALEM PALÄSTINA" preprinted envelope from US 1910 bearing 5 c. blue tied by Kingston c.d.s. and french Levant arrival mark "JERUSALEM PALESTINE 28/6/10" on reverse, tiny flaw at left, otherwise fine and scarce Israel forerunner

"DJENINE 2.6.18" (Coles-Walker no.67) on back of registration receipt bearing 5 paras on 10 paras block of 22 stamps showing six clear strikes of this scarce cancellation (20 points). On front black all arabic oneliner "the registration fee was paid in stamps" used in Djenine, tiny spots, unrecorded. The receipt was mounted in a registration booklet and is roughly turn off, otherwise fine. A very interesting postal history document of Palestine

1917, Rehonoth / Jaffa postcard (rounded corners) cancelled by all arabic violet fieldpost mark "DÖRDÜNCÜ ORDU KARARGAHI KUMANDANLIGI" (Fourth Army Headquarters Command), oval all arabic censor mark "MUAYENE OLUNMUSDUR" alongside, adressed to Dersaadet, some faults and corner flaw, scarce Palestine postal history

"FORWARDED BY THE AMERICAN CONSULATE JERUSALEM PALESTINE" blue mark on Austrian Levant cover bearing 1 pia. ultramarine tied by "JERUSALEM 15/5/906" c.d.s. to Oakland California with arrival mark on reverse, vertical fold, shortened at right and tiny toned, otherwise fine, a very scarce usage