373rd Auction

ALLIANCE & DUBLIN CONSUMERS GAS Co., DUBLIN: Envelopes ½ d.-2 d. (the later in type b), unused, 1 d. with faults, ½ d. slightly stained (Jung 1-4b)

BATTERSBY & Co.: Envelope ½ d. green, used in 1926, very fine and rare (Jung 1)

BROOKS, THOMAS & Co.: 1926, Envelope ½ d. with cellophane, neatly used in 1926, also 2 forerunner envelopes (Jung 1a)

CLONTARF FOOTBALL CLUB: 1962, Player's notice card 2 d. green, used, fine (small stain); just 2 examples recorded (Jung 1)

CRAIGIE BROS.: 1954, Postcard 2 d. + 1 d. used in 1964, filing hole and small marginal fault, also 5 further cards with different denominations (all used with filing hole) (Jung 1 etc.)

THE IRISH DUNLOP Co.: 1936, Envelope ½ d. light green, 2 envelopes in different shades, one used in 1931, the other in 1939 (Jung 1a)

GREAT NORTHERN RAILWAY COMPANY: Envelope ½ d. green with watermark "GLENCAMAC", otherwise similar to Jung 1f, but "A under n", unused, very fine and rare

JOHN STEEDMAN & Co., LONDON: Postcard ½ d. green, unused, very fine, only 2 recorded (Jung 1)

PEMBROKE ESTATES: Envelope 2 d. deep-olive-green, used in 1926 (earliest recorded) and envelope 2 d. olive-green, used in 1938 (backflap torn) (Jung 1a, b)

PIM BROTHERS: 1935/47, Proxy cards 1 d., 4 different issues unused, 3 with pen notations and one additionally somewhat stained (Jung 1a, j, l, m)

SUN LIFE ASSURANCE: Window envelopes 1½ d. without watermark and 1½ d. with meter mark ½ d., both used, fine (Jung 2aI, 2b)

WANDERERS FOOTBALL CLUB: 1947/68, complete reply-cards 1 d. red and 3 d. blue in type I and III, unused, fine and fresh (Jung 1, 2I, III)

CORK AND BANDON RAILWAY: 1870 (ca.), yellow 'Carriage Paid'-label on cover to Bandon, re-folded and little unfresh, very scarce. ILLUSTRATED IN HIBERNIAN CATALOGUE p. 210

BALLYCASTLE RAILWAY: 2 d. olive-green (die I) with Victoria 1 d. lilac (corner fault), tied by Ballycastle cds. to cover 1896 to Essex with arrival mark

GREAT SOUTHERN AND WESTERN RAILWAY: 2 d. yellow-green, die Ia, used with Edward 1 d. on Ewen's Weekly cover to London with transit mark of Dublin and arrival mark; a scarce stamp on entire

2 d. yellow-green (die I, p.11) with Edward ½ d. in pair, with manuscript cancellation and cds. "WATERFORD AP 25 07" to Ewen cover to London with arrival mark

1929, 'KARLSRUHE'-Galway, green vignette, tied by New York duplex to cover to Germany (M/W AC 4c)

1937, First flight of the summer season, cover to Douglas, Isle of Man and re-directed to Dublin on M/W AC 14

1938, First flight of the summer season from Dubin to the Isle of Man

1932, 4. SAF, postcard with connecting flight from Berlin, to Brazil, nice franking incl. Seahorses 2 s. 6 d. (Sieger 157B)

7. SAF, registered printed matter with connecting flight from Berlin, to Brazil (Sieger 183B)

8. SAF, registered printed matter with connecting flight from Berlin, to Argentina (Sieger 189B)

1933, 2. SAF, printed matter with connecting flight from Berlin, to Brazil (Sieger 214B)

3. SAF, registered printed matter card (without text) with connecting flight from Berlin to Brazil (Sieger 219B)

5. SAF, printed matter with connecting flight from Berlin to Brazil (Sieger 226B)

Chicago flight, printed matter with connecting flight from Berlin, to Brazil (Sieger 238E)

1934, 2. SAF, printed matter to Brazil, on reverse transit mark of Stuttgart (Sieger 250Aa)

4. SAF, printed matter to Brazil, on reverse transit mark of Stuttgart (Sieger 260Aa)

7. SAF, printed matter to Brazil, transit mark of Stuttgart (Sieger 271A)

9. SAF, printed matter to Brazil, transit mark of Stuttgart (Sieger 277Aa)

1949, ERP 5-20 l. in cpl. sheets of 100 stamps with 10 gutter pairs each (here folded), unmounted mint in fine condition; an extremely rare set

1956, CEPT 25 and 60 l. in sheets of 100 incl. ten gutter pairs, unmounted mint, folded horizontally, otherwise fine (Mi. 6.200,-)

1956, CEPT 25 and 60 l., block with ten verical gutter pairs, unmounted mint, fine (5.000,-)

1917-18 - ISKOLAT PERIOD 1917-18: 1918, Imperial Coat of arms 3k. red as block 15 tied by cds. "ZELZAVA 17 1 18" to reverse of registered cover to Stomerszee, Lifl, correctly franked at 45 kopeks and with appropriate receiver cancel. Notable for the only recorded example of an internal bi - lingual Russian - Latvian Registration label, probably produced locally sometime in 1917 . It appears to be unrecorded in the literature, and must be regarded as of great rarity and possibly unique The ISKOLAT was the Bolshevik Committee of Workers , Soldiers and Landless Peasants of Latvia and controlled parts of former Imperial Lifland from end July 1917 until February 1918

1919 December, 1r. imperforated, two vertical pairs tied by post - Imperial but cyrillic cds. "KORSOVKA LATVIA " a " 11 12 19" [ von Hofmann 121 . 1 ]  to reverse of slightly stained cover from a soldier who gives his address on the front of the envelope as 1 " Cavalry regiment , 4 " Division , and addresses his letter to a private residence in Rezhitsa ( Latvian , Rezekne ). Franked at 4 roubles, the correct RSFSR Registered letter rate (Tariff of 5 November 1919). Arrival post-Imperial but cyrillic cds. " REZHITSA LATVIA " b "[von Hofmann 216.7]. Returned to sender with improvised Spravka attached indicating that the recipient could not be found at the address given. A very rare and interesting item, signed Mikulski with his opinion (1995)

1918, 5k. as vertical strip of three tied by straight-line "LEEPAJA" to censored cover to Stettin, scarce, fine