388. Auktion

1856/1940 (ca.), over 120 covers and cards, strength before the 1930s with many multiple and mixed frankings, usages and destinations, noted Senegal with a fine group including Dubois 5c. (x2), 15 c. and 25 c. with blue octogonal “GOREE 23 12 84” to mourning envelope to Brest, New Caledonia with Dubois 25 c. strip of three with “Nlle CALEDONIE NOUMEA 19 AVRIL 89” to envelope to France, fine section of French offices in Asia with large violet circular “CORPS D´OCCUPATION DE CHINE” on franked postcard from “SHANGHAI 22 3 02” to Gibeon in German South West Africa, etc., somewhat mixed condition

1967/78, Collection on 20 Scott Album leaves, mint never hinged, including postage due stamps, very fine

1924/57, Collection on Scott album leaves mint and used starting overprinted issues 1924, largely complete with good part postage due, mostly fine.

1906/44, Collection on 15 Scott album leaves, unused and mnh, starting Ballay set 1906, including good part air mail issues, S/S and postage due.

1897/75, Collection on 24 Scott album leaves, unused and mnh, starting early overprinted set 1912, including good part air mail issues, S/S and postage due, additional some Mayotte, Anjouan and Moheli.

1956/2016, mint never hinged collection, apparently complete in the main Michel numbers, overall excellent and fresh condition, in two stockbooks

1892/94, 6 covers to Germany, some attractive mixed-issue frankings and interesting usages with mail sent via French, Portuguese or German lines, some better items with Mi.-Nr. 4I (pair) and 10 tied by cds. “LIBREVILLE CONGO FRANCAIS 15 NOV 92” to envelope via French ship to Hamburg (Yvert-Nr. 4A, 7ba), etc., except for the occasional fault in overall good condition, a scarce assembly

1936/49, Collection on 21 Scott album leaves, unused and mnh, starting Congo overprinted sets 1936, including good part air mail issues, S/S and postage due.

1892/1952, Collection on 20 Scott album leaves, unused and mnh, starting allegory 1 fr., including good part france libre overprints and air mail issues, complete sets, S/S and postage due.

1943/58, Collection on 12 Scott album leaves, mint never hinged, starting uprated and overprinted issues, air mail issues, many complete sets, S/S and postage due, fine to very fine.

1886/1933, Collection on nine Scott Album leaves, unused and mint never hinged, including postage due stamps, additional few used stamps, very fine

1892/1933, Collection on 17 Scott Album leaves, unused and mint never hinged, from 1913 mainly complete,  including postage due stamps, additional few used stamps in the beginning, fine

1906/42, Collection on Scott album leaves, starting General Ballay complete set of 16 (Yv.1-16) unused, later issues including S/S, postage due, mostly fine.

1891/1964, Collection on 39 Scott album leaves, unused and mnh, starting colonies allegory overprinted issues with multiples, including good part france libre and CFA overprints, air mail issues, many complete sets, S/S and postage due, fine to very fine.

1922/33, Collection on five Scott Album leaves, mint never hinged, including postage due stamps, very fine

1841/2003, mostly used and mint never hinged stock incl. somthing Channel Islands and little collection “number cancel” on stamps 1841/1902, in seven albums

1880/1902 PERFINS: stock of approx. 800-1000 stamps, strongly mixed condition, in five stockbooks

1777/1849, 17 envelopes including red and black bishop marks, No.1 cancellation on penny post envelope Windsor to Brighton, Cambridge to Eton College 1840, Brighton to New York 1842, Bristol to New York 1849, some different, plus few old photos of Eton, Windsor, Edinburgh and Canterbury, mainly fine early postal history.

1789/1877, 3 unfranked and 5 franked intires, most addressed to Denmark, including "HULL SHIP-LETTER"

1840/72, seven good franking covers with faults, including penny black on envelope 14/May/1840, plate 1a, position RC, red Maltese cross cancel, clear to large margins, flaw at center (before affixed), destinations Rio de Janeiro, Bogota and Prince Edward Island, faults but an attractive group.

1914/18, 70+ covers of APO and FPO covers, 1916/18 covers/cards from British Army in Salonika incl. registered usage, 1921/23 India Field Post Office covers with IEF adhesives ex No.'s 400, 407 and 415, 1922/23 'Army of the Black Sea' covers, Egypt MILITARY POST OFFICE ALEXANDRIA 1898. Ex collection Keith Tranmer.

1916/18, WWI Fieldpost 13 covers & cards from Salonique, several cancellations and censors, nice cards, all to England, mainly fine.

1918/62, Collection on 17 album leaves including British field post Natal South Africa, Palestine censorship reg. 1918 to Egypt, (Hebrew), Italy, Trieste and Greece, M.E.F. two air mail covers from Egypt to Germany 1948, mostly fine.

1994/2008, Collection in Album icluding S/S, all mint never hinged

1958/2014, mint never hinged and small parts used collection incl. Yearbooks 1985-2014, some earlier ones multiple, further se-tenants, souvenir sheets, postal stationery, booklets and FDC, good condition, in two large cartons

1840/2002 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used collection, Great Britain starting from the Penny Black, noted some modern facial value with Irland, Guernsey, Isle of Man, Gibraltar etc., also Malta, together with a few covers, except for some occasional fault in the early issues mostly in very good condition, neatly housed in 9 stockbooks/large holders

1872/1995 (ca.), unused and used collection with duplicates, together with a few covers, in 6 albums/stockbooks

1890/1950, 22 covers/cards and 14 fronts, attractive frankings, censor marks and labels, french Saloniki, registered mail, mostly fine.

GREEK OCCUPATIONS & LOCALS: 1859/1942 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used collection with 24 covers, many duplicates throughout, some better items including fine group of 1913 Dedeagach (some signed Schmitt BPP), 1897 Turkish-Greek War with Feld Post, some with bilingual cds “VOLOS” and LARISSA", also noted Thrace, Samos, Creta with some postage dues, etc., together with a fine selection of duplicates from the first Ionian Island issue (Mi.-Nr. 1-3), some occasional faults as to be expected, overall in very good condition, a delightful assembly neatly housed in one stockbook

1840/1912, Vilayet of Selanik / Salonica : The collection on leaves with covers/ cards (19) including 1840 prefilatelic envelope front with all arabic SELANIK in blue, Tatar Post documents with clear cancellations of Yanya 256, Yenisehir Fener 257, Salonique 258, Cavalla 2651903 cover at 1 pi. rate tied TIMOUR-HISSAR cds, 1906 card with 5 pa. pair tied by bold YALILAR / (SALONIQUE) datestamp in purple, 1910 cover with 20 pa. pair tied SERRÉS/1 cds, scarce 1911 and 1912 covers with 1 pi. frankings tied SERÉS/3 cds's, 1912 20 pa. rate cover tied CAVALLA/4 cds, cards from SERRES (one cancelled in violet), 1910 cover with 1 pi. tied CAVALLA cds, 20 pa. card cancelled by superb DRAMA cds. etc. A generally fine group.

1897/98, Ottoman military occupation of Thessaly: six covers franked with octagonal military stamps, all properly posted, with Volos, Domokos Kalabaka, Trikhala cds., very unusual; one cover with very scarce gutter pair 10 pa. from Volos, sheets and additional forgery study, good to very fine

1935/60, over 30 FDC and covers with attractive frankings, including Womans Congress 1935 up to 10 krs. on registered cover to England, mainly fine to very fine.

1914/15, North Epirus, small collection with stamps and three covers, starting with Argyrokastron issue mint including high values and pairs, followed with the 1940-41 issues with both overprinted Youth Organisation sets unmounted mint. The collection includes also one Cover with Argyrokastron values to Jannina, Infantrymen cover to Paris, cover with overprinted lithos and some unofficial stamps and reprints, generally fine, a scarce assembly.

1867/1983 (ca.). mint never hinged/unused and used collection, inclduing Officials, many duplicates throughout, together with a selection of covers, except for the occasional fault overall in good condition, in 5 stockbooks/album

1960/76, mint never hinged/unused and used collection, two albums of imperforated issues, with most miniature and souvenir sheets, including Mi.-Nr. Block 45 B mint never hinged, plus one album with perforated issues, overall in very fine condition

1884/1948, 27 covers and cards, including censored mail, noted 1914 Registered postcard, three airmail covers with large special postmark “ZEPPELIN MAGYARORSZAGI 1931”, etc., together with two unused stamps, slightly mixed condition