373rd Auction

1917, Obelisk ¼a. on 2pa. claret, unused, fine, certificate RPSL (1975)

1917, Mosque of Selim ½a. on 10pa. green, unused, few tones spots, otherwise a fine copy of this rare stamp with only 119 issued, certificate RPSL (1962) (SG £4500)

1917, Mosque 2a. on 1pi. bright blue, unused, fine

1917, Postal Jubillee stamps 1a. on 20pa. blue tied by cds. "BAGDAD SEP 17" to small piece of registered envelope, small corner crease, trivial toning, otherwise fine and scarce

1917, Stamps Overprinted by Six-Pointed Star and Arabic Date "1331" within Crescent, 1a. on 20pa. rose tied by cds. "BAGDAD 16 OCT 17" to small piece with fieldpost cds. on reverse, fine

1917, Stamps Overprinted by Six-Pointed Star and Arabic Date "1331" within Crescent, 1a. on 20pa. rose, unused, few toned perfs, otherwise fine

1917, Stamps Overprinted by Six-Pointed Star and Arabic Date "1331" within the Crescent 2a. on 1pia. ultramarine and similar but date between star and crescent  2a. on 1pia. ultramarine, both tied by cds. "BAGDAD 16 OCT 17" to cover to Woolwich with fieldpost cancel on reverse, two folds not affecting adhesives, fine

1917, Stamps Overprinted by Six-Pointed Star and Arabic Date "1331" within Crescent, 2a. on 1pia. blue, unused, fine

1917, Stamps Overprinted by Six-Pointed Star and Arabic Date "1331" between Star Crescent, 1a. on 10pa. on 20pa. claret, unused, fine, certificate BPA (1978)

1917, Stamps Overprinted by Six-Pointed Star and Arabic Date "1331" between Star Crescent, 2a. on 1pia. ultramarin, unused, hardly percetible gum wrinkle, very fine for this rare stamp with only 111 issued, certificate BPA (1948) (SG. £5.000)

POSTAL STATIONERY: Overprinted by Five-Pointed Star and Arabic Date "1331" within Crescent, 2a. on 1pia. white paper, inside lilac, unused, few imperfections, backflap small part seperated, otherwise fine, a very rare entire with less than 10 examples known

1923/24, 1 a. chocolate and 2 a. reddish-violet, both with overprint inverted, together with normal 3 a orange, tied to registered envelope from "KUWAIT 24 JUN. 26" to Bombay and re-directed; adjacent horseshoe "KUWAIT DUE" crossed out; 3 d. slightly rounded corner and 2 a. one perf squeezed at top, otherwise fine; a very rare entire

KELANTAN: State arms 1c. black with part of the sheet watermark, unused without gum as issued, fine and scarce, certificate BPA (2019)

KELANTAN: State arms 8c. black with part of the sheet watermark, used, peripheral staining, otherwise fine, scarce, certificate BPA (2019)

1944, War Memorial 2c. orange with additional franking of Japanese Occupation tied by cds. "PEDANG SERAI 23/11 2487" to front of reverse of opened out censored registered cover to Singapore

1944, General Issue War Memorial 8c. carmine tied by cds. to reverse of registered and censored cover to Penang, fine and rare

1944, Postal stationery card War Memorial 4c. purple, unused, fine, scarce

General Issue on Selangor stamps overprinted during Japanese Occupation 3c. on 5c. brown, used with part strike of Dungun cds., fine, certificate BPA (2019)

1920, Ruble surcharges with HH monogram 3r. on 5k., corrected to 5r., unused, this stamp is listed in Ashford/Tchilinghirian on page 139. Ceresa describes it on page 122 of his handbook, fine, signed Romeko and Ceresa and certificate Berger BPP (2018)

FISCAL STAMPS: 1919, 50k. amd 1, 3 and 10rbl. in blocks of four, in addition four block of four with later boxed inflationary surcharges, both handstamped and machine printed, mostly never hinged, one block of four small crease, otherwise fine and rarely seen

2013, Postal vehicles 500 d., 5 progressive resp. final proofs in imperforated sheets with all 3 kinds of miniature sheets (3 each), totally 270 stamps

1877, "CORREOS DE LA CHIMBA / BOLIVIA" negative ship-cancel with straight-line "FRANCO" alongside on envelope to Valparaiso, Chile, scarce, fine

1879, unpaid envelope endorsed "Via Magellano per Iberia" to Genoa, reverse with cds. "VALPARAISO UNPAID MY 21 79", blue tax stamp "80" and upon arrival charged "13" thus postage due 30c. and 1l. applied and tied by cds., an attractive and scarce entire

1880, unpaid envelope from Valparaiso with blue merchant handstamp to Rome, with black "T" and 1-10" alongside, upon arrival taxed "16" decimes thus postage due 60c. and 1l. applied and tied by cds., fine and attractive  

1896, Dowanger 2 cr. green tied by blue seal to German Empire postal stationery card 10 pfg. used from “BRILON 31.1.96” via Shanghai to Peking with blue arrival mark “CUSTOMS PEKING MAR.14” and re-directed via German post office “TIENTSIN KDPAg 5.5.96” and “SHANGHAI I.J.P.O. 15.MAY.96” to San Francisco with arrival mark and finaly returned to Germany with arrival mark “BRILON 9.7.96” on front, slight transportation faults, very rare incoming mail to China  

1905, postal stationery card 1 c. with additional franking Coiling Dragon 5 c. salmon, 2 c. red (3), 1 c. ochre (2) and ½ c. brown (2) used as registered card from “SHANHAI 20.JAN.” to Germany with arrival mark, stained and unfresh  

1917, Definitives 2 c., 2 die proofs in red resp. black in block format by Perkins Bacon

4 c. 2 colour plate proofs in blue in different states of engraving, each in block of 4 on ungummed paper

10 c. and 20 c., die proofs in issued colours in block format by Perkins Bacon

AR-stamp 5 c., die proof in yellos-brown in block format by Perkins Bacon

1920/24, Coat of arms die proof 3 c. green on yellow in block format

1942, 40th anniversary of peace treaty 10 c. orange with wrong inscription "2.XI" instead of "24.XI", unused

1898 (ca.), ABNC essay for centavo values, 2 die proofs in black of vignette and frame and vignette only

1857, unpaid letter sheet from Havanna via “NEW YORK APR.15” with tax mark “10” (cent) to London, redirected by forwarded agent and new dispatch from London (28.4.) via Aachen with transit mark “AUS ENGLAND PER AACHEN B 29.4.” to St. Petersburg with arrival mark  

1888, Sphinx 1p. blue and 1m. brown tied by cds. as additional franking to registered postal stationery to Bozen, reverse nicely handillustrated   "La Souris blanche", fine

1897, Provisional issue 2 kr. on 5 kr. and 5 ch. on 8 ch. in horizontal pair, together 3 copies 1894, 5 kr. tied by Tauris cds. to Barnameh, minor imperfections