386th Auction

1864, Willem 15 cent orange-yellow, tied by boxed "FRANCO" with adjacent red "EXP. MOERDYK 6/11 1865" and double line red "ROTTERDAM – BRIEVENBUS" to entire letter to Belfast, with London transit mark on front and Belfast arrival mark. Stamp some minor creasing, otherwise fine/very fine. 

 

As a result of the first 1863 Conference in Paris, the letter rates between the Netherlands and GB were reduced from 40 cents to 15 cents, effective from October 1, 1864.

Provenance: ‘Severin’ (Corinphila 2012)

1869/71, Coat-of-Arms 2 ½ cents lilac, tied by clear "ROTTERDAM FRANCO 10 NOV 75" to printed pricelist of stamp dealer A. Blokzeijl to Philadelphia. Paper in the folds partly slightly separated, otherwise fine. A scarce printed matter to overseas and a rare early item of Philatelic History.

1872/88, William 10 cent red in combination with 1876, numerals 2 ½ cents violet, tied by c.d.s. "AMSTERDAM 20 OCT 88" to sample pouch to Argenteuil, France. Very scarce and in nice condition for such an item. Certificate Dr Louis BPP (1990)

1876, Numerals ½ cent rose, 3 copies, and 1 cent green, tied by c.d.s. "ROERMOND 7 OCT 80" to postal stationary card 1877, 2½ cent, with adjacent straight-line "THORN", to Mannheim with arrival mark. Very unusual and most attractive.

1927, UPU conference special cancellation of  September 9, clear strike on parcel tag to the Czech Post Ministry, with handwritten note "Administration des Postes Pays/Documents officielles Conference sur la Poste aerienne" and black wax seal ‘POSTKANTOOR TE sGRAVENHAGE’. Official Post Office Business, so no postage stamps were required. Unique!

1872/1943, eight interesting covers and cards, with among other 1872 “Brief-kaart” with 1867 10 cent, Postal identity card with Queen Wilhelmina 5 gulden and Interned 1914 green vignette on retour cover to Anderlecht, etc, mostly fine 

1881, 1 guilder, three single stamps and an horizontal strip of three, each tied by cds. “AMSTERDAM 11.FEB.00” to large cover with Surinam Willem 50 cents brown and 2,50 guilder (fallen off and replaced) left uncancelled (no longer valid, marked with zero “0”) and Wilhelmina 30 cents lilac-brown, cancelled “PARAMARIBO 20.1.1900” plus endorsement “via Havre” and handstamp “T”. The stamps with tiny spots, the cover with slight traces of transportation. An exceptional high postage due franking.

1870/1961, group of five covers with postage due usages, including two covers with single usage of 1870 5 cent, unfranked German official letter sheet 1909 with 25 Cent on 2½ cent and official glassine postal administration envelope with 1894/1910 1 cent and 2½ cent, plus Dutch New Guinea Postage Due 10 cent tied on 1961 airmail official cover, overall fine

1871, post card 2½ cents violet, used (against the regulations) with dotted “46” and adjacent cds. “HAARLEM 1 JAN 71” despatch alongside, to Amsterdam. A marvellous First Day item and most likely the only such card with numeral cancel. 

Reference: The Postal History of the Universal Postal Union: The Postal card, Worldwide 1869-1975, Volume 1, illustrated pg. 67. 

1871, post card 2½ cent violet with additional franking horizontal pair King Wilhelm III 5 cent blue, used with dotted “82” from “NIJMEGEN 12.SEP.71” to Cologne, Germany with arrival postmark, card with tiny tone spots and stamps with perforation faults, otherwise fine, rare pre-UPU franking

Illustrated in James Peter Gough ‘The Postal Card’, p. 156

1872, post card 2½ cent purple with additional franking King Wilhelm III 5 cent blue, used with dotted numeral “45” from “ZEVENAAR 9.APR.75” to Emmerich with arrival postmark, tiny peripheral tone spots, still fine, a scarce pre-UPU rate used at the border with Germany

1878, double card 2 ½ cents violet (print on first and fourth page), both parts with additional franking 1867, numerals 2½ cents violet, used with long text from "MEPPEL 2 MRT 79" to England (same address on both parts), the stamp on reply part cancelled upon arrival "LONGTON STAFF. MR 22 79". A scarce and interesting card, supposed to be unique.

At this time, a reply card could not be used the UK.  Both halves were instead used as a “letter” because the combined postage was the same as the GPU letter rate. 

Illustrated in James Peter Gough ‘The Postal Card’, p. 597

1881, response card 5 cents blue, with clear blue c.d.s. "MONT-ATHOS TURQUIE 6=18 JANVIER 1882", with transit marks of Turkish and Austrian PO at Saloniki, to The Hague. Fine and extremely rare.

Illustrated in James Peter Gough ‘The Postal Card’, p. 544

1871/75, lovely group of six used cards, among others one card 2½ cent with additional franking 10 cent rose used with cds. “GRONINGEN 16.SEP.73” to Bavaria and another card 2½ cent with additional 20 cent adhesive used from “AMSTERDAM 4.JAN.1875” to Milan, mostly fine

1864, Willem III. 15c. orange, two horizontal pairs and single, all tied by boxed “FRANCO” to folded letter with adjacent cds. “ROTTERDAM 20 2 12-5 65” to Belfast with arrival mark, vertical file fold through one stamp, otherwise fine, signed E. Diena with certificate (1984)

1867, Willem III. 25 c. violet, type II, fresh color and good perforation, tied by dotted numeral “91” to folded lettersheet with adjacent cds. “ROTTERDAM 24 JUL 72” to Baltimore with tying red “NEW YORK PAID ALL AUG 5”, fine, certificate Koopman (1984)

1926/39, Three-hole 7½ cent violet (Driegaats), nice fresh colour, unmounted mint with very slightly toned gum. A fine example of this rare stamp.

1894, Small Numerals 5 c. dark blue type III, tiny tear on upper right with small certificate Vleeming 2024, cat. 450 (NVPH P19a)

1877/1903, 1 c. – 2 g., the complete set of 12 stamps (15 c. 2 copies), unused with original gum and hinge remainders, few small imperfections, but still fine/very fine

1927, Olympic games , postcard Wilhelmina 3 c. green with “O.E.H.B.A.H.” at lower left, unused, very fine and very rare (Geuzendam OL16)

7 Kreuzer graulultamarin mit Rahmenstempel "FRANKFURT A.M. POSTEXPED. No.3 19.2.72" auf amtlichem Correspondenz-Kartenformular (Frech Nr. 1) nach Rotterdam mit Ankunftsstempel. Die Postkartengebühr betrug bis zum 31.12.74 wie die Briefgebühr 7 Kreuzer. Die Marke ist gut geprägt, gut gezähnt und in guter Erhaltung, die Karte mit Patina und einigen Gebrauchsspuren (u.a. senkrechte Faltung). Als Einzelfrankatur eine äußerst seltene Verwendung dieser Marke auf Postkarte mit Destination Niederlande, wir haben kein weiteres Exemplar registriert, Befund Hennies BPP (1984)

1852/2000, in-depth mint collection, written-up in detail on custom pages to 1927, arranged on Lighthouse hingeless pages thereon, beginning with 1852 King William II imperforate and 1864 perforated issues, including examples of colour shades, the subsequent King William III arranged by plate, and including scarcer examples such as the 25 c. dark violet and 50 c. gold, and 1872-91 2gl5c. rose & blue, subsequent Numeral, Princess and Queen Wilhelmina issues, etc. include key values and also collected with an eye to colour variations, plate flaws, perforation varieties, and other special attributes, a few with certificates including 1891-6 Wilhelmina 50 c. “sand” shade, 1899/1905 Fur Collar Issue 5 g. “wine red” shade, and 1920 2.50g on 10 g. mint pair with “broken E of NEDERLAND” variety, from the 1920s onwards missing only a handful of items for completion for the available spaces, including more esoteric items such vending machine stamps, booklets, souvenir sheets, as well as back of the book issues, largely hinged to the 1950s, then mostly never hinged thereafter, assembled with an eye to quality, trivial imperfections occasionally among the nineteenth century issues, though these have been chosen for fresh and bright colours, very fine, a wonderful collection.

1852/1988, unused and later mnh collection with just a few used examples; in the main Michel numbers obviously complete with specialised part of perforations and some multiples, also postage due, service etc. (partly used). Some items with small faults, but generally very fine.

1852/1960, interesting holding in 2 stockbooks and on pages, unused and used, containing a lot of good material as Michel 1-6 unused without gum, 66 (3), 92 (2), 132-33 (2), PA 1-7, Brandkast set, etc.

1852/2000, comprehensive used collection, mounted on custom pages to the 1920s, with accompanying detailed annotations as to shades, plates, etc, arranged on Lighthouse hingeless pages thereon, beginning with 1852 King William II imperforate and 1864 perforated issues, organized by plate and including an impressive array of shades of each denomination, including the 5 c. (x19 singles and four pairs), 10 c. (x17 singles and four pairs) and 15 c. (x5 singles and two pairs) the subsequent King William III also arranged by Utrecht and Haarlem Printings, the subsequent Arms issues arranged by perforation, with similar attention to detail paid to the Numeral, Princess and Queen Wilhelmina issues, which are also studied in detail, a few with certificates including 1852 10 c. horizontal pair, 1869 1½c. rose and 5 c. blue perf 14, and 1876 Numeral ½ c. perf 14, from the 1920s onwards missing only a small number of items for completion for the available spaces, including back of the book issues, and includes more unusual material not often found in a used collection, 
including souvenir sheets and booklet panes, selected with an emphasis on quality, with minor flaws occasionally present among the nineteenth-century issues, which have been carefully chosen overall for their freshness and vibrant colours, a remarkable collection, rarely offered so complete.

1852/1997 used collection complete with the main numbers, including 25L with certificate Muis 1998, Back of the Book, etc. in 2 Davo albums

1852/2008, mostly mint never hinged, from Mi.-Nr. 1-3 (used) mostly complete collection, from ca. 1957 in the main catalogue numbers complete MNH, incl. better and early issues, booklets, miniature sheets and postal stationery, ca. 480,- EUR valid postage, further collection of Madeira 1980-2006 in one album, good condition, in six hingeless albums

1852/1888, collection of mostly used & postal history, including 1852 issues displaying a range of shades of the 5 c. (x12 singles, one pair), 10 c. (7 singles, one strip of three), and 15 c. (7 singles), many with unusually large margins all around and neatly-cancelled, with less common strikes including ZUIDBAYERLAND straight-line and ROZENDAAL boxed handstamp, 1867 15 c. orange brown imperforate proof, 1872/8 2g50c rose & ultramarine, and a small group of eight covers, including four 1852 imperforate frankings, much better quality than usually found, the occasional small flaw, most very fine.

1852 to modern, balance of collector's duplicates and works in progress, comprising two well-filled stockbooks of largely nineteenth and early twentieth century material, with imperforates, plating studies, postmark accumulations, etc, one stockbook of rocket mail adhesives, a couple dozen stockpages of duplicates, postmarks, plate flaws, and more, a selection written-up on pages with an emphasis on town cancels, and over forty items still on auction/sales cards, some dating back decades, condition varies throughout as typical of such material, but much is fine or better, worthy of careful review.

1852/1983, used collection and some unused, mint never hinged, with better (no. 131) on album pages in folder

1852/1973 used collection with slightly better examples in Davo album