386th Auction

1920/50, hundreds of covers, cards and postal stationeries, including registered covers and cards, airmail, parcel cards, postal orders and foreign mail, plus a small collection of “Partisan mail” from 1944/45

1871/1897, a collection of mint and used on stock pages, beginning with Kingdom of Kabul issues, comprising a range of nine 18711/74 Tiger's Head issues, including on horizontal pair, fourteen 1876/8 Tiger's Heads, over twenty 1881/91 Script issues, these mostly used, and over 40 Kingdom of Afghanistan issues, mint and used, including a striking 1898 2ab black on light yellow block of twenty one, offered with a small number of covers and an unusual 1sch and 1/2a adhesive of India mixed franking on piece , typical faults for this period of Afghan philately, with owner's accompanying inventory noting a Michel catalogue value exceeding €1,600.

1880-1 Issue, collection of twenty four covers or fronts, mounted on pages and annotated as to denomination, wide range of shades, ranging from light rose and lake to orange/red and dark browns, mostly domestic usages though note usages from India, most cancelled with pen crosses, though note examples with ring-seal and ampersand-style markings of  Tashkurghan, usual faults and mixed quality, yet a challenging group to assemble.

1856/2005 (ca.), used and unused/mint never hinged collection, in two large albums, incl. Rivadavia sets perf and imperf (slightly faulty), Buenos Aires issues, Corrientes, later issues with S/S, Zeppelin issues and Air Mails, officials, some occasional faults, mostly fine

1866/1900, Collection unused on three album leaves starting Dom Pedro perf and rouletted issues including 500 r. orange, and 300 r pair, 1000 r. proof on white paper, Cross of South ten values up to 1.000 r., Liberte and Mercure up tp 2.000 r., newspaper 1879 and overprinted 1898, some stamps partially affixed, otherwise mostly fine and very fresh colours

1890/1996 (ca.), small selection in one stockbook, including Taiwan, some reprints noted, etc.

1900/1965, collection in little album mostly PRC mint and used, 1955 S/D set, chrysanthemum and fish sets used, few early issues and a Michel China catalogue

1900/65 (ca.), mainly used including Chrysantemums and Huangshan National Park in stockbook.

1920/80 ca., Collection in two albums mint and used, few Mao blocks of four, booklet

1941/44(ca.), small group of unused stamps including alledged local prints for Sing-Kiang, fine

1955/2000 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used accumulation, including some miniature sheets, together with a part of modern Taiwan, overall in fresh condition, neatly housed in 4 stockbooks

1897/1920, 14 cards and postal stationery cards and one cover with issue 1897 1 and 5 c. with large dollar “PEKING”,  with postal stationery cards with additional frankings, interesting postmarks etc., ex Calibra

1898/1910, nine covers and cards including Hong Kong, incoming mail, mostly with faults, missing stamps etc. 

1902/1997 (ca.), group of about 75 covers, noted some attractive Junk issue frankings, via Siberia, registered and censored mail, also some better People´s Republic mail, etc., together with a few photographs, overall in good condition, neatly housed in one album. 

1901/02, postcards and stationery philatelic frankings from Japan, China, Germany, USA and a letter piece with QV C.E.F. stamps from India in envelope

1949/80 (ca.), large stock book with unsued and used stamps incl. complete issues and many duplicates, plus some material from befor 1945

1960/70, Collection including many CTO stamps and sets

1965/68, mint never hinged accumulation containing a.o. Mi.-Nr. 882-889, 958-63, 977-81, 1010-1016, 1018,1019 and also Mi.-Nr. 966-976 and 1020-24 total three strips of five, slightly different condition with some stamps toned

1974/1979, mint never hinged, unused and used collection with the miniature sheets collected both conditions, including Highway Arch Bridge sheets, Shanhaiguan Pass sheets, Flying Fairies sheets, Galloping Horses sheet (1x used), 30th anniversary sheets (4x) and many better sets in stockbook

1975/79, small mostly mint never hinged collection including e.g. Year of the Monkey stamp, Mi.-Nr. 1162-67, 1225-27, 1198-1201, all MNH, further three folders, good condition

1990/2000, mint never hinged lot of luxury souvenir collections, year sets, UPU presentation folders, etc., in large box

1958/99, interesting accumulation of more than 2500 cards and covers, containing a wide array of parcel cards, many r-stamps mostly R6, military post, FDC, 80 letters with selfmade stamp used in Wuhan, VR covers etc., mostly good condition

1859/2018, used, unused and mint never hinged collection with the Arms issues of Colombia, with many better classics (some forgeries) and Old States on album pages in folder

1881/1905, Columbian Telegraphs, mint never hinged/unused and used accumulation of circa 100 with many duplicates, slightly mixed condition, neatly housed in one booklet

1971, Comoros 85 F. natural herb, over 460 mint never hinged values in sheet parts, cat.v. 6000€ in envelope

1966/86, mint never hinged collection incl. Zaire with many topic sets and miniature sheets, in Leuchtturm-Album

1890/1955, 23 covers including bisect 10 c. tied by Matanzas c.d.s. 1888, two Columbus stationery envelopes, censor, air mail cover 1935 signed by pilot E. E. Baker, pharmacy air mail cover with mark for insufficient franking in folder

1899, Spanish American War: Columbus eight different postal stationery envelopes (one surcharged) all fine used, four to Germany (two registered, one receipt), four used uprated - rare - in folder

1866/1914, collection used/unused on three album pages starting first issue including imperf proofs, good part Pyramid issues, two used interpostal stamps, fine

1931, issue Graf Zeppelin 50 pia. on 27 m and 100 m. on 27 m., two complete sheet reconstruction with each 50 stamps including pairs, multiples and stamps with sheet margins, unused, many stamps unmounted mint, fine, very rare reconstruction (Mi.-Nr. 156/57)

1931, collection Graf Zeppelin stamps with plate varieties, shifted- and faints overprints, “double kiss” overprints and other specialties with 50 unused/unmounted mint stamps, 12 used stamps incl. pieces and 4 covers/cards, with seven sheet margin stamps with control-number “A29” (two on cover or card), mostly fine, nice

1931, lot with over 250 stamps issue Graf Zeppelin 50 pia. and 100 m., mostly unused/umounted mint, with pairs and block of fours, overprint varieties etc.

1879/1958, exhibition collection “The postal stationeries of Egypt” with over 300 used postal stationeries with many interesting and better cancellations, postal stationary with additional frankings, registered-cards and envelopes, destinations, cards with printed advertising, censorships, foreign mail incl. airmail and other special features, with card 5 m. with hotel postmark “PYRAMIDS MENA HOUSE 1893”, three used cards SP 30, early used reply cards, 1911 envelope with additional franking as inland money letter, 1916 envelope with additional franking as registered-letter with postmark “ARMY POST OFFICE”, registered envelope 1913 used (SRE1) and registered envelope 1928 with additional franking to Belgium (SRE4) as well as better destinations with i. a. Australia, Indochina, Indochina, Java, Caroline Islands, Cape of Good Hope, Monaco, Rhodes, Samoa, Tunisia, Zanzibar. An attractive collection on almost 150 pages

1894/1905, a mostly mint collection in a stockbook, a study of the Menelik II and Lion of Judah designs, including mint and used singles and multiples, as well as proofs and varieties, noting four Menelik II perforated proofs of unissued values, large blocks, 1902 2g overprinted single on mixed franking piece with 50c Somali Coast issue, 1905 Harar Provisional bisects, blocks, strips, and one complete sheetlet of sixteen Fournier forgeries, Postage Dues, and an unusual 1g blue single from the 1894 “Province Block” affixed to cover and cancelled with segmented Maltese Cross, handstamped POSTMUSEUM in violet on reverse, some small imperfections in places, the cover with filing folds clear of stamp, an overall fine and desirable collection. 

1917/19, Group of 3 prisoners of war covers, one franked with Spanish issue and addressed locally and censored, also one stampless envelope endorsed on the back flap “Hauptmann Harttmann, interniert auf Fernando Poo, Santa Isabel” to Stuttgart with red “CROIX ROUGE SPAGNE .. FRANC DE PORT” and various censor marks, etc., mostly fine

1886/1903, Quetzal issues, used, unused and mint never hinged stock on stock pages in folder