380th Auction

1870/2000 (ca.), Straits Settlements and Malayan states, comprehensive mainly used and also some mint balance in nine albums (plus some approval books), well sorted from a good section QV period up to modern.

1890/2000 (ca.), Straits Settlements/Malayan states/Malaysia/Singapore, sophisticated balance of apprx. 430 covers, cards, ppc and stationeries, comprising e.g. registered and censored mail, insufficiently paid mail, Johore incl. SG 28/31.

1860/1979, extensive ungebrucht / MNH and additionally used collection with better and complete issues, in the beginning with variants, mostly clean on self-made album pages in album

1860/2010, unused collection, complete in the main numbers except for Mi.-No. 52, good condition

1855/2002 (ca.), unused and used collection in two albums, some early issues, better items such as Mi. 145 "SPECIMEN", fine to very fine

1916/73, small collection with Mi.-Nr. 1-11 unused, Mi.-Nr. 13-14 II unused and Mi.-Nr. 28II used, mostly good condition

1855/2000 (ca.), mainly used balance in 17 albums comprising (parts of) collections and duplicates/accumulations, well sorted from Chalon heads, several better items noted, advertisement imprints, mini sheets, some Back of Book, etc., early issues partly with faults, others mainly fine.

1862/1970 (ca.), used collection with stamps and apprx. 147 covers, neatly arranged on album pages in six binders, showing commercially used/uprated stationeries, airmail incl. 1st fligths, registered, censored and express mail, insufficiently paid letters, loose stamps with marginal imprints, various postmarks, etc., few items slight faults, overall fine and attractive.

1970/2003, MNH collection in four stockbooks (a few are c.t.o.), well collected throughout.

1870/2000 (ca.), sophisticated balance of apprx. 700 covers/cards incl. stationeries and ppc, registered, censored and airmail, partly with usual postal wear as to be expected, overall fine.

1921/77, specialized assembly of over seventy (70) covers and cards, various rates and destinations, multiple frankings, airmail and printed matter rates, good range of departure postmarks such as cds "KUMBA", MAMFE", BATIBO", BUEA", TIKO", MUYUKA, "CAMEROONS UNDER BRITISH MANDATE", etc., some parcel postal receipts from the 1930s, also over a hundred used stamps, condition varies, overall fine to very fine (ex Mi.-Nr. 13/78)

1908/10, correspondence with nearly 60 picture postcards from all over the world to Sapele with mostly arrival postmarks on the front, including mail from Bavaria, Brazil, USA, France, German Empire, Austria, Hungary, Denmark, Italy and Great Britain partly with forwarding to Warri with arrival postmarks, mostly franked on the picture side.

1947/1949, "PAKISTAN" overprints on India, sophisticated collection of used stamps and especially apprx. 65 commercial covers/commercially used stationeries, incl. uprated pieces, multiples, handstamps, officials, insufficiently paid mail to foreign destination, etc.

1948/2011, mint, in the beginning somewhat unused and used collection, from 1960 in the main numbers mint never hinged to a very large extent cpl.

1903/70 (ca), collection of over a hundred used stamps, also some souvenir sheets and a few covers, neatly mounted and mostly written up on album pages, starting with British Protectorate 1903 First Issue, overall condition is mostly very fine

1903, Overprints on India, lot of six stamps mainly showing particularities of overprint: SG 3 used, 5b used, 25 with one inverted year date figure used, 30 with "Thin I" and "Large L" mint, O6 with "Broken S in BRITISH" and O6 with distinctive "Dropped E" mint. All signed Dr.Knopke.

1903, Overprints on India, collection of apprx. 70 mainly used stamps, comprising e.g. SG 22/24, some are signed Dr.Knopke.

1904, Overprints on India, lot of three items: SG 24 used on piece with clear strike of field post c.d.s. "BASE OFFICE 1 SEP 4" (slight faults); SG 19+20 on registered cover to Holland; SG 26/30 on registered cover to Germany. 

1852/1910 (ca.), 2-volume collection, starting with some Cape triangles including a block of four 4 d., then mainly postal history collected with about 170 letters (many 1860s and 1870s) and postal stationary, besides registered mail, much foreign mail with some unusual destinations, railway mail, some picture postcards, etc. A nice and interesting object.

1853/64 (ca.), group with over 30 Cape triangles in mostly very good condition, practically all with full to wide margins; including the intaglio prints in the main numbers overcomplete with also better colours, plus 3 woodblocks (repaired, but optically good).

1853/64, 1d. (7), 4d. (11) and 1s. (2), small group of twenty stamps used or unused without gum from the Perkins Bacon or De La Rue printings, some signed Dr Knopke or with Holcombe and Brandon certificates; poor to fine condition, with some faults

1853/64, Cape Triangulars, specialized unused and used collection, good range of shades throughout, better items such as One Shilling green (5), also 4d. blue, pair tied by triangular barred cancel to folded entire to Paarl, reverse red postmark "WELLINGTON NO 24 1855", and 4d. blue tied by triangular barred cancel to an envelope with "GRADOCK 1855" oval datestamp alongside, some minor faults. Usual defects for those delicate issues, overall condition is poor to fine 

1865/1905, The numeral cancellations, extensive collection in 5 volumes with hundreds of stamps and over 300 letters and cards, starting with Cape-triangles with 3 letters, block of four and pairs, afterwards much Boer War, censor marks, registered mail, letter from the sunken steamer 'Mexicana', Bechuanaland, Mashonaland,, etc. A very interesting object

1890/1910 (ca.), stamp collection on loose stamps and few postal stationeries, main focus on numeral cancellations from no. 1 to 1601, plus some day cancellations, neatly sorted in two albums

1899/1902, nine covers from and to Cape of Good Hope, including various censorships, mail to KGF camps on St. Helena and Ceylon and field letters, plus visiting card of General N.J. Smit.

1910/2000 (ca.), South Africa+South West Africa,  comprehensive mainly used balance in 18 albums plus several hundred covers/cards, comprising collections and duplicates/accumulations, always well sorted from early issues.

1913/2001, South West Africa/South Africa, used and mint balance in six albums, well filled and sorted from early issues incl. pairs, also a nice section modern period MNH and c.t.o. 

1914/16, Anglo-French Occupation, collection of over twenty (20) used stamps and four covers, neatly mounted and mostly written up on album leaves, better items such as 1916 20sh. dark lilac/black on red paper (Mi 45), some registered covers with multiple frankings, mixed issue franking 1914 1d. with 1915 3d., 6d. and 1sh. tied by cds "LOME 17 5 17" to front of registered envelope to Switzerland, mostly very fine and attractive group, signed Calves (ex Mi.-Nr. 4/45)

1934/70, collection "TIN CAN MAIL" with 29 covers with emphasis up to 1940, including registered covers, interesting frankings and many different postmarks incl. Nebenstempel, throughout in good overall condition

1893/1985, collection of over 40 covers and a few used, neatly written up on album leaves, covering both the Indian and Zanzibar Post Offices, better items like India Mi. 43a tied by squared circle "ZANZIBAR" to envelope to Germany, handed over to French paquebot with adjacent octogonal "LA REUNION MARSEILLES L.V.N°3 4 AOUT 93" (Salles 2307), on reverse arrival cds. "BAMBERG II 25 AUG 93", also 1934 large official envelope with scarce unboxed oval mark "ZANZIBAR 21 PROTECTORATE", overall fine to very fine, unusual group

1895/1898, Overprints on India, mint and used assortment of apprx. 70 stamps, comprising e.g. a decent mint set of 13 values ex SG 3/21, a nice selection of 1895/1898 revaluation overprints incl. specialities, mainly signed Dr.Knopke.

1911/80 (ca), voluminous collection of unused and used stamps in more than thirty (30) albums, including a large number of multiples, some booklets and souvenir sheets, many complete sets in blocks of four unused such as Mi. 327-344, 1933 Mi. 355-361, 1951 Mi. 578-581, etc.; 1943 For the Child set in complete sheets, etc., also over a hundred Cyprus 1976/97 Specimen overprints; overall condition fine to very fine, an impressive holding  

1926/60, collection of over two hundred (200) stamps and one airmail cover, neatly mounted and mostly written up on album leaves, nice range of postmarks, also British Military 1948/50 overprints, condition mostly very fine (ex Mi.-Nr. 82/375)

1854/2011 (ca.), selection of 15 covers, mostly registered, with better items like Novo Scotia SG 3 and 5 (stamps creased) tied to a 1855 registered folded entire to Halifax, very rare triple-rate; Canada SG 29 (2) and 31 (2) tied to a 1863 registered envelope to Drummondville; mixed condition

1860/1980 (ca.), used and mint balance in 14 albums, comprising mainly various British colonies and some independent states, partly from classic period.

1948/1959 (ca.), British areas on the Arabian Peninsula, almost exclusively used collection in a stockbook, comprising Bahrain, Kuwait and Postal Agencies in Eastern Arabia (Oman), also incl. more than 90 covers.