375th Auction

SPECIAL CANCELLATIONS: 1920/40, interesting group of 25 cards and covers and 38 stamps and pieces, cards and covers including "300 LIEPAJA 300", registered cover with multicolored labels (and rare special registered labels) and cancel  "IX DZIESMI SVETKI", "SKAUTU NOMETNE", mostly fine

RAILWAY: Interesting collection with more than 280 cards and covers and many loose stamps or pieces, mostly very nice strikes

PROVISIONAL CANCELLATIONS: 1921/39, interesting group of 15 cards and covers and several stamps and pieces, mostly fine

MACHINE CANCELLATIONS: 1921/39, interesting group of more than 300 cards and covers and few stamps and pieces, mostly fine

METER-MARKS: 1920/40, interesting collection with more than 140 covers including registered covers, special usages, specimen printings etc., 

INSTRUCTIONAL MARKS: 1920/40, interesting collection with more than 125 forms, 28 covers and more than 220 cards/covers not yet sorted, including many interesting items, mostly fine

INTERNAL CANCELLATIONS: 1928/40, interesting group of 11 cards/covers and forms including three forms franked with fiscal stamps, mostly fine

MISCELLANEOUS: 1918/36, interesting group of 7 covers and some pieces with corrected or missing date bridge, in addition 4 volumes with cancellation collection trying to show every day of the 1st Republic, mostly fine

POSTAL SLOGAN CANCELLATIONS: 1936/40, very interesting collection with many different slogans on 23 cards and covers including registered covers, foreign destination etc., in addition 2 volumes sorted by Juris Mars research with a total of 136 cards and covers (few fronts)

CANCELLATIONS ON FORMS: 1918/40, very interesting and extensive collection with close to 2000 items, collected on the different postal forms in use

FISCALS: 1915/40, interesting collection with more than 60 documents starting with 5 documents from Imperial times resp. Postgebiet Ober-Post, containing 7 passports, better fiscals, interesting mixed frankings etc., mostly good condition

REVENUES: 1916/43, interesting collection housed in 4 albums collected by Barefoot catalog, beginning with Russian period, wide array including Postgebiet Ober-Ost high value up to 50 M., than Estonia starting with some Provisionals, National Government, few stamps with PROOV overprint, Latvia with better high-value stamps, multiples, different perforations, issues from the Railway Medical and Entertainment Department including some proofs on multi-colored paper, also a good part Ostland and in addition some Revenues of Estonia and Lithuania

FISCALS: 1921/39, very interesting lot of 10 letters or cards franked with fiscal stamps, often with postage due marking, but partly also delivered unrecognized, very scarce assembly

1928, Railway Newspaper Stamps 15(2) and 50 s., archive proofs, singles without gum, the 15s. together with large part of marginal inscription, scarce, fine

1940, Railway Newspaper Stamps 5-10 s., archive proofs, vertical pairs from the upper right resp. lower left sheet corner, 5 s. small wrinkles, otherwise fine, very rare and attractive multiples

1941, Railway Newspaper Stamps 5s. red, archive proof, block of four from the upper left sheet corner showing large part of inscription on top "100 MARKAS á 5 SANT. = Ls 5-...", despite few wrinkles which are of no importance in fine condition, a spectacular and unique multiple

1941, Railway Newspaper Stamps 5k. rot imperforated, used with violet cancel, scarce Provenance: Rucins and Franck Collection

RAILWAY STAMPS: 1926/29, unused/ mint never hinged and used collection including multiples, some with control numbers, blank fields etc., mostly good condition

1940/41, Railway Newspaper Stamps, small used and mint never hinged collection containing Dz14-15 as singles and Dz15 as block of four, fine

1919, small, mostly used collection with 6 stamps/pieces with red overprint and 2 pieces with blue overprint, some signed Mikulski a.o., fine

1919, unused and used collection with 10 pieces including three pairs of 25k. on 3k. including a tête-bêche, mostly signed Mikulski, Winterstein, Rucins, Hoffman BPP, good condition

CANCELLATIONS: Extensive collection with approx. 750 covers, cards, postal stationery, forms, illustrated envelopes etc.

1945/90, extensive collection with more than 1900 items like fieldpost and censored mail, provisional cancellations, use of old latvian cancellations, postal stationery, registered mail, illustrated envelopes, special cancellations, waybill, forms, official mail, meter marks, machine cancellations, telegramms, illustrated telegrams etc., many items ex Harry von Hofmann collection

MAIL IN EXILE: 1945/91, interesting collection of covers including Advertising letters and cancels, special envelopes, one album with vignettes as singles, multiples sheets and on covers, all in 4 albums

1991/2001, postfrische Sammlung inkl. Mi.-Nr. 313-16 im Dreierstreifen, dabei die mittlere Marke ohne Aufdruck, Mi.-Nr. 315 im Dreierstreifen mit und ohne Aufdruck auf Brief, außerdem einige Markenheftchen

1991/2005(ca.), very extensive collection with forms, waybill, international reply coupons, express shipments, provisional franked forms on lost shipments/covers from various cities (41 ), advice of receipt, cash on delivery, additional charges, Russian forms used up in Latvian time and the first Latvian telegrams. Furthermore machine cancellations (185), single frankings (157), mixed frankings (84), meter marks (107), special cancellations (100) also airmail etc.. All in all a large collection of modern Latvian postal history with more than 2500 items

CANCELLATIONS: Extensive collection with approx. 2000 covers, cards, postal stationery etc.

1913/42 (ca.), 17 Briefe und Karten sowie 2 unfrankierte Bildpostkarten, dabei Einschreiben, Zensur, Brief mit verklebter Poste Restante-Gebühr etc.

1931/2016, ungebrauchte und postfrische Sammlung inkl. Portomarken mit u.a. Mi.-Nr. 1-23 (Höchstwerte signiert), dazu viele Kleinbogen- und Bogensätze ab 1967 bis 1994, zusammen in zwei Vordruckalben und sieben Bogenmappen
 

1849/1981, postfrische, ungebrauchte und gestempelte reichhaltige Sammlung mit guten Werten, Sätzen und Blocks, dazu Dienst, Eisenbahnpaket, Porto, Postpaket und Zeitungsmarken in 2 Alben

1849/1920, ungebrauchte und gestempelte Sammlung mit Briefen, Karten und Ganzsachen

1674/1748, 17 Briefe nach Gent, Lile etc., interessantes Los

1745/1847 (ca.), 24 Briefe aus "HERVE", dabei verschiedene Stempel, verschiedene Taxvermerke etc.

1815/30, Sammlung von 77 Briefbogen mit fiskalischen Probe-Eindrucken, teils mit handschriftlichen Bemerkungen

1842/76, 16 Dokumente mit Fiskaleindrucken, dabei Probedrucke, gebraucht und ungebraucht

1874/1900 (ca.), rund 30 Briefe und Karten, dabei Brief 1874 an den König von Griechenland, Einschreiben 1893, auch 3 spätere Belege, dabei ein Brief aus Belgisch Kongo