375th Auction

CANCELLATIONS: ABAVA-ZVADE, extensive collections with more than 4600 stamps and pieces, all written up in 6 albums

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

LATVIA: 1932, 3rd. South-America flight with connecting flight as registered card with good franking, fine

LATVIA: 1932, 6th. South-America flight with connecting, fine

LATVIA: 1932, 8th. South-America flight with connecting flight as card with good franking, slight corner crease, otherwise fine

LATVIA: 1932, 9th. South-America flight with connecting flight as cover to Porto Allegre, small tear at bottom left, otherwise fine, scarce

LATVIA: 1930/33, interesting group with 7 cards and covers, some registered, some with connecting flight, in addition 3 card/covers Ostsee-Fahrt, mostly fine  

1945, Proof overprint 6 on 5 Pfg. in red, unused with large part original gum, a rarity with only a few proofs known, lower left corner slightly blunted perf, signed van Loo BPP and Brandes Reference: "Postverkehr Kurland", page 145, Wilhelm van Loo (2016)

12 on (-)brownish-red with double overprint one running diagonally, with light offset of overprint on reverse, block of four, mint never hinged, a attractive and rare multiple Reference: "Postverkehr Kurland", page 148, Wilhelm van Loo (2016)

12 on (-)brownish-red, damaged (probably by adhesion of an overlying sheet) before the overprint, used with clear cds. "VENTSPILS", a interesting variety, fine Reference: "Postverkehr Kurland", page 150, Wilhelm van Loo (2016)

12 on (-)brownish-red, vertical pair completly misrouletted, mint never hinged, a very attractive variety, fine Reference: "Postverkehr Kurland", page 150, Wilhelm van Loo (2016)

12 on (-)brownish-red, completly misrouletted with divided overprint, mint never hinged, a very attractive variety, fine Reference: "Postverkehr Kurland", page 150, Wilhelm van Loo (2016)

12 on (-)brownish-red with clear overprint as block of 10, mint never hinged, few trivial short roulettes, otherwise fine, a scarce multiple

12 on (-)brownish-red with double overprint one running diagonally, with light offset of overprint on reverse, marginal pair with part of the inscription, mint never hinged, a attractive and rare multiple

12 on (-)brownish-red perforated, complete printing sheets with 50 stamps and right sheet margin, mint never hinged, one stamp adhering, somewhat separated between 4th and 5th vertical row, otherwise fine

12 on (-)brownish-red, three complete printing sheets with 50 stamps each, three different HAN "18895.44 1", 18895.44 2" and "20286.43 ", mint never hinged with only 3 stamps adhering, one corner copy some surface scraping, otherwise fine and scarce