359 / März 2015

REPRINTS: Interesting collection of sheets, 1 d. blue (3 sheets) and 2d-5s. one sheet each, in addition many hundred single stamps including forgeries

APIA MUNICIPAL POST OFFICE, 1882-86: "APIA JUN 17" cds. on cover franked with US 1882 Garfield 5 c. cancelled with cork, addressed to "Fräulein Anna Stuebel Wachwitz bei Loschwitz bei Dresden", adjacent "SAN FRANCISCO STM. SHIP JUL 14", reverse with arrival mark, cover with notes regarding the content of the letter, very scarce  (Odenweller MO 4)

1886, 1s. rose bisected, tied by cds. "APIA APR 24 95" to cover to San Francisco, fine

1886, 1s. rose bisected, tied by cds. "APIA MAY 22 95" to cover via London to San Francisco, with transit- and arrival mark, fine

1886, 1s. rose bisected, tied by cds. "APIA APR 24 95" to cover to Kansas, opened on two sides, fine

1886, 1s. rose bisected, 4 halfs and one normal 1s. value tied by cds. "APIA APR 24 95" to cover addressed by typewriter to local Apia adress, somewhat stained (Odenweller 507)

1886, 1s. rose bisected, 12 examples tied by cds. "APIA" to piece, plus 20 bisceted perf. 11 tied to piece by black cds. "APIA", fine

½d. purple-brown, three singles and 1d. green tied by cds. "APIA NOV 7" to cober to Sandershausen with arrival mark, some spots, otherwise fine

1 d. green as horizontal strip of three tied by cds. "APIA JAN  2" to cover addressed by Davis to West Hartlepool with arrival mark, fine

1 d. green and 1895-00 1½d. on 2 d. dull-orange tied by cds. "APIA JAN 30 (Month missing, day inverted) to cover to San Francisco, opend on two sides, otherwise fine (Odenweller 462)

1d green and German Empire Crown/Eagle 10 Pfg. on picture postcard, cancelled in transit in New Zealand with barred oval, to Kiel with adjacent "N.Z. MARINE P.O. 1 DEC", fine and scarce

2½d. rose tied by cds. "APIA AUG 1 15" (instead of 94) to cover to Philadelphia, fine

2½d. rose tied by cds. "APIA MAY 22 95" to cover to Rostock, fine

1891-92, ½d. purple-brown, two singles and 1895-1900 1½d. on 2d. dull orange tied by cds. "APIA APR 8 95" to cover to San Francisco, fine

1d. green and 1895-1900 1½d. on 2d. dull orange tied by cds. "APIA SAMOA" with complete missing day/month/year to cover to Rostock, very rare, fine, illustrated in Samoa Specialist Sept. 1996, page 29

½ d. purple-brown and 2 d. yellow tied by cds. "APIA 15 JUN 95" to cover addressed to the German Consulate in Sydney, from there forwarded to Bremerhaven, slight faults in lower right corner, otherwise fine

½d. purple-brown and 2d. dull-yellow with additional franking tied by cds. "APIA JUN 12 97" to registered cover to Bern, one stamp got lost during the transport, note in the upper right corner "Marke abgefallen", fine

1899, ½d green and 1d. deep red-brown tied by cds. "APIA FEB 28 1900" to picture postcard to Munich, fine (Odenweller 960/61)

1d. green and 1895-1900 1½d on 2s. yellow-orange, each with bottom sheet margin with circles, tied by cds. "APIA JUL 17 95" to cover to England with arrival mark, fine

1899, 2½d. on 1 s. rose with additional franking tied by cds "APIA FEB 99 22" (interchanged Day and Year) to registered cover, fine

1d. green as pair and 1899 ½ d. green tied by cds. "APIA FEB 23" to cover to San Francisco, fine (Odenweller 950)

1895-1900, 2½ d. rose tied by cds. "APIA OCT 6 96" to cover to Leipzig, vertical fold, otherwise fine

1893, Handstamped in two operations: 5d. on 4d. blue, marginal block of four, the upper left stamp with "FIVE PENCE" omittedm used, fine, certificate BPA

1893 Handstamped, 5d. on 4d. blue tied by cds. "APIA JAN 3" to cover to San Francisco, fine

5d. on 4d. blue, two different types, tied by cds. "APIA JUN 14" to registered cover to Sydney, fine

1893, Handstamped in three operations: 5d. on 4d. blue, each with clear double overprint "5d.", unused, fine

1893, 5d. on 4d. blue tied by cds. "APIA FEB. 28" to cover to San Francisco, fine

1½d. on 2d. dull orange two singles and 3d. on 2d. dull orange tied by cds. "APIA MAR 27" to registered cover to Rostock, fine (Odenweller 469)

1½d. on 2d. dull-orange and 3d. on 2d. dull orange tied by cds. "APIA JUN 25 95" to cover to Sydney, fine

1895-1900, 3 d. on 2d. orange, block of four with right sheet margin, the upper right stamp with double overprint, unused, fine, certificate BPA

1895-1900 Handstamped: 3d. on 2d. orange-yellow, vertical marginal pair imperfed between, unused, fine

1899, 1d. deep red-brown tied by cds. "APIA SEP 8 99" to picture postcard with adjacent "N.Z. MARINE P.O." to Grossenhain, fine

1899-1900, Provisional Govt. ½ d. green and 1 d. chestnut tied by cds. "APIA FEB 28" to card to Rudolstadt with adjacent "N.Z. MARINE P.O. 19 FEB., fine  (Odenweller 265)

1899, Provisional Govt. 1 d. chestnut as strip of four with 4 d. blue tied by cds "APIA FEB 28" to registered cover with adjacent "N.Z. MARINE P.O. 19 FEB" to Groß Lichterfelde, with R-Label "Vom Auslande über Bp....", fine

1886-1900 PALM TREES AND MALIETOA ISSUE: Die proof 2½d. rose on wove paper, fine

1894-1900 5d. FLAG-ISSUE: Die proof 5d. lilac on wove paper, fine