386th Auction

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

1881/1979, used, unused and mint never hinged, nicely arranged collection including some varieties (proofs) and miniature sheets in Yvert album

1881/1960, unused and used collection, with duplicates, overprints and sheetparts in 2 binder

1948/60, King Faisal II 20 official stamps red surcharged "SPECIMEN" (Mi.D169 Spec.) additional 22 postage and official stamps red (20) and black (2) surcharged "SPECIMEN" (Mi.188-193, 176, D170-185 Spec.), all mounted with other stamps from 1960 on two printers archive card pages, very scarce and attractive

1902, Teheran typeset issue, small lot, including 2 sheets without handstamps and five toman values incl. 100 t. with signature Lavers

1907/09, Lion and Ali Mirza, 1c.-30K cancelled remainders including the scarce 4 Kr yellow. All MNH ** except the 3 Ch, 2 Kr and 4Kr bistre which are without gum. Over 600 stamps, pairs and strips of 3 on album pages in folder

1960/87, collection unused in Farahbakhsh Album including air mail sets

1890/1950 ca., collection mainly used on stock pages, early overprint stamps, Service, Officials etc. in folder

1900/60, Over 160 covers/cards including early registered mail, good cancellations, air mails, Shah frankings, mostly fine

1940/60, 10 covers from WW II and one air letter, including six different Anglo-Soviet-Persian Censorship censorships with Nos. 6, 8, 9, 11, 12, 13, some used to Denmark, Germany censors etc.  in folder

1950/80 ca., early covers lot with airmail, labels, good Shah frankings etc. in folder

1898/1940 (ca.), Hotel cachets and postcards, about 80 cards and covers plus some additional and later material. A lot of different and scarce handstamps of Hotels in Jerusalem, Haifa, Jericho, Nazareth, Tiberias, etc., also some better postmarks, mail to US, Luxemburg, Switzerland, etc., etc.. A most interesting collection.

1949/2008, mostly mint never hinged collection with better items, in 5 Davo luxury albums 

1950/84 (ca.), mnh collection of varieties, including 5 imperforated pairs of coin issues 1950/52, otherwise mostly 1980/84 definitive issues with phosphor varieties, often in blocks and sheets.