380th Auction

1854/2000 (ca.),  comprehensive used and mint balance in 17 albums, well filled from QV to modern, mixed condition from poor to fine.

1855/1973 (ca.), comprehensive used and mint collection in four binders, arranged on album pages, well filled throughout from QV to semi-modern incl. a mint 1948 Gandhi set, plus 10r. also used (smudgy postmark).

1860/1980 (ca.), comprehensive balance of a few thousand covers/cards/stationeries from QV, attractive mixture of commercial and philatelic mail, mixed condition as to be expected but mainly fine, housed in six boxes.

1948/2000 (ca.), Mahatma Gandhi thematic collection, mint/used/covers with commemorative issues All World, comprising e.g. India 1948 set mint, used, f.d.c. and six covers with low denominations, 1969 Cameroun surcharges, 1969 West Germany photo essay and variety "impef. at right", several imperforate issues, etc. 

1840/1970 (ca.), collection of apprx. 250 covers/cards/stationeries, showing especially a good section QV period incl. uprated stationeries, mixed quality from heavy postal wear to fine.

 1844/1970 (ca.),  collection of apprx. 130 cover/cards from a few pre-philately, some QV, nice range of 1920s/1930s airmail covers, in addition some stamps, slighty mixed condition but mainly fine.

1929/1970 (ca.), Airmail of India, sophisticated collection of apprx. 600 covers, mainly First and Special Flights and main focus on 1930s, some with slight postal/age wear, mainly fine.

1880/1950 (ca.), comprehensive used and mint balance in two stockbooks, nine approval books (prepared but uncirculated) and on album pages, slighlty mixed condition, mainly fine.

1877/1901 (ca.), unused and used collection including several multiples and one cover

1872/96, small, mostly unused collection on album leave

1906/14, interesting collection with 17 picture postcards of Mombassa and Zansibar with different views and motifs, all neatly used from a correspondence to Hamburg, all on self-made album sheets with inscriptions.

1895/1896, "British East Africa" Overprints on India, assortment of 31 mainly used stamps, some are signed Dr.Knopke resp. Köhler.

1923/1947, collection of 26 covers incl. airmail and censored mail, in addition several loose stamps incl. SG 13, 33, plus Muscat SG 1/15+O1/12 (2) c.t.o.

1870/1980 (ca.), Straits Settlements and various Malayan states, mainly used balance in a binder, well sorted on 49 pages, showing a strong section of QV-KGVI period.

1870/1990 (ca.), Straits Settlements and various Malayan states, sophisticated used and mint collection well arranged on album pages, also incl. a selection of Bangkok surcharges and a nice range of covers. 

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