384. Auktion

1800/70 (ca.), large group of many steel engraved illustrations and coloured maps, together with royal personalities, coat of arms and scenic views, somewhat in mixed condition, a wonderful assembly

1840/1990 (ca.), massive holding with thousands of covers, cards and postal stationeries, strength before the 1950s, with an abundance of interesting usages and combinations, noted good parts of France with prephilately, Great Britain, South America, Switzerland, Russia, etc., together with a full sheet and some used in duplicates. Mixed condition, a remarkable and pleasant lot, in five large boxes

1840/90 (ca.), large unused and mostly used collection in an old pre-printed Schwaneberger album, incl. Postage Dues, Telegraph and Newspaper stamps, filled with many better items and cpl. sets, France Mi.-Nr. 33, Great Britain Penny Black, Ungarn 8-13, Shanghai Local Post, etc., German States and Empire, French Colonies, fine selection of British Commonwealth with Straight Settlements, India, etc., together with a few specimen, a number of forgeries and reprints noted. Mixed condition, a lovely lot

1841/1975 (ca.), balance of a collection, a few better items and sets like Romania Mi.-Nr. 154-160 unused, a few Cape Triangles, noted some better parts with Portugal, Romania, Europa CEPT, some modern Middle East, etc., mixed condition, in 27 albums and stockbooks

1850/1912 (ca.), used collection, many values scattered across, mixed condition, in two old illustrated albums

1858/1940 (ca.), interesting mint never hinged/unused and used accumulation, strength before the 1940s, some duplicates and better items with ecclectic choice of material, good selection of South America with Argentina, Corrientes and Rivadavias, Ecuador early issues, Mexico with early Eagles, Belgium Mi.-Nr. 156-158, also some British Colonies, etc., together with some covers, many reprints and forgeries noted, mixed condition, in one stockbook

PERFINS: 1890/1950 (ca.), used accumulation with hundreds of stamps and a few covers, strong part of German Empire, also France,  Scandinavia, USA, etc., mostly fine

1838/1964 (ca.), excellent covers and cards accumulation, strength before the 1950s, many interesting items and usages, noted German Inflation, Iran, Poland, Confederate States, Russia mute cancellation and 1856 Incoming Mail to the Imperial Science Academy in St Petersburg, German Fieldpost, etc., some occasional faults otherwise mostly fine, in one album

1839/1975, circa 100 covers and cards, all with interesting usages such as underfranked and taxed upon arrival, redirected to a new address, returned to sender, some labels “Unbekannt Inconnu Sconosciuto”, handstamps “DÉCÉDÉ DECEASED”, “REFUSÉ”, a few mail well travelled, mostly fine, a good group

1882/1921 (ca.), most interesting group of over 140 covers, cards and postal stationeries, strength before the 1910s, many fine usages, combination frankings, some alluring areas like Zanzibar, North Borneo, Straight Settlements, Persia, Capo Verde, Martinique, Sarawak, also a good selection from South America, some wrappers, etc., mostly fine

PRISONERS OF WAR MAIL: 1914/18 (ca.), over 115 covers and cards, franked or sent free frank, some registered, many censor marks, mixed condition

1800/1920, accumulation of worldwide postal history items with a significant section of Italian States including pre-philatelic entires from Livorno to Constantinople (3), Alexandria (3, one “Vapore francese”), and Malta “Vapore postale francese” (2) as well as from Alexandria to Livorno “Vapore Austriaco via Trieste” and four Papal States frankings, Spain with four early frankings, Germany with Colonies, P.O.s Abroad and a number of Helgoland frankings, French Colonies with “Bulletin de Dépot” from Pondicherry (1892) or three disinfected entires from Algeria and Tunisia, Dutch Colonies with an 1866 paid entire from Batavia “Pr. Fransche Mail” via Marseille to Doesburg or 1901 registered letter from Soerbaja (Dutch East Indies) to Kyoto, Japan. Slightly mixed condition. 

1840/1930(ca.), used and unused group with Great Britain with five Penny Black, Braszil, Poland and Russia each Mi.-Nr. 1 used, German States better values like Bremen 1x and 1y used, German Empire good range of “Brustschild”, also some better Austria, Denmark, France, Netherland, Norway, Spain, in addition some modern material

1849/1936, small group of ten covers, including USA Mi.-Nr. 1 on folded letter and 1926 White Plains souvenir sheet on cover, Austria Dollfuß 10 Schilling on cover,  Mi.-Nr. 772-75B on envelope, condition varies

1850/1950 (ca.), collectors estate consisting of an All-World collection in twenty-five somewhat aged stockbooks with Germany as the mainstay in volume but also significant sections of Great Britain and Commonwealth from 1d. read and some Edwardian high-values, France, Austria and Belgium from First Issue, Switzerland, Russia, smaller parts of Eastern Europe and a stockbook overseas with better 1960s China including 1961, Block 7 mint never hinged and 1962, Block 8 used on somewhat creased airmail cover to Czechoslovakia. 

1850/1970 (ca.), three big boxes with albums and stock books with still some interesting material

1854/2000 (ca), large mint never hinged/unused and used accumulation, mostly Europe with strength in the modern issues, many duplicates, good part of USA from 1851, Switzerland from 1862, Luxemburg from 1927, etc., China with presentation booklets and some Thailand FDCs, condition varies, a useful lot, in 39 albums and stockbooks

1860/1960 (ca.),uUnmounted mint, unused and used accumulation in medium box, including better items as Austria 588, Switzerland souvenir sheet 1 (3), US Zeppelin set 1928 (2), early unused France, etc

1860/1960 (ca.), interesting collection of various countries in Africa, Australia and Central and South America with old stamps, modern airmail issues, as well as covers, cards and postal stationery, including New South Wales R-letter 1895 with German transit R-label, prepaid R-letter Tonga 1 904 with American transit R-label, Danish West Indies GSU 1895 with three-color franking, Egypt cover 1872 with 1 and 2½ piasters to Italy and plenty of South African states with interesting frankings and cancellations, neatly on self-designed album pages in four albums

1860/2010 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used holding of smaller collections with Germany, Switzerland, Greece with Epirus Chimarra Mi 1-4 signed Richter, Labuan, Egypt, etc., in four cartons 

1860/2020 (ca.), predominantly used All-World collection with more substantive areas including Italy, Netherlands from first issue, Poland, Romania, USSR, Bulgaria, Finland, Norway, Sweden, Monaco and Vatican unused, Luxemburg, France, Great Britain and Spain with an unused section including 1930, Ibero-American Exhibition, 10 Pta. imperf (Mi.-No. 552B). Good general condition, neatly arranged with every stamp numbered according to Michel in 52 stookbooks and a further 11 books of duplicate material. 

1860/1983 (ca.), mint never hinged, unused and used group, the majority from Europe, further including better classic issues from Latin- and South-America, mostly fine, ex Gustav Strunk

1860/2010 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used collection with United States of America, Russia, Bulgaria, Great Britain, etc., incl. some covers, in one carton

1863/1978 (ca.), small accumulation, mostly covers, noted Argentina airmail, Austria, some German inflation mail, French Levant wrapper, etc., also a small Serbian collection, mixed condition

1870/1996 (ca.), unused, mint never hinged and used stock, including better stamps from the USA, German Empire 1872-1945 with many colour-typified and signed stamps Wiegand BPP, Soviet occupied zone with better district overprints (some signed Rehfeld, Dr. Modry, Fläschendräger), general issues Bl. 6 signed Rehfeld, further Federal Republic of Germany first day cards, including some accessories, in two boxes