383rd Auction

1918, Central Pacific Coconut Plantations private issues, two envelopes and one card, with 5 c. single franking, also 5 c. horizontal pair in combination with French Océanie on registered card to Switzerland, also sheet of eight, together with 10 c. on combination cover to England; fine to very fine, an unusual group

1915/16, unused and used collection containing many better values, different cancellations and two registered covers, mostly good condition

1892/1979, extensive postal history collection with approximately 200 covers, cards and postal stationery, plus some single stamps, and multiples. The collection starts with some of the earliest known postal items including 'Incoming Mail', India Victoria envelope "ONE ANNA" used in Bahrain (unique), George VI 9 P. postal stationery card with overprint "HALF ANNA", high rupee frankings of the King's issues, the only recorded cover with a pair Postal Agency in Eastern Arabia Elizabeth II. 1½ a. with watermark 'Edward-Krone' (SG 58a), extremely rare "EXPERIMENTAL P.O. K-121" on cover, etc. A unique and undoubtedly most important collection of this area.

1852/2004 (ca.), large mint never hinged/unused and used collection in 8 albums with dozens of covers, incl. postage dues and over 80 postal stationeries, strength in issues up to the 1890s, starting with stampless mail with four Crowned Circle Paid covers (incl. a 1893 first day of emergency use), following with a strong selection of used classics with shades, watermark varieties and multiples, many better items like SG-Nr. 16 and 16a used, West Indian Press 86 used (x2, one certificate BPA), 87 used, 104b pair used, 184 wmk inverted unused, cpl. sets used in duplicates, some Specimen and reply cards. Some occasional faults in the classics, overall an attractive assembly in fine to mostly very fine condition

1851/1950, unused and used collection with more than 40 cards and covers, starting with Canada, Newfoundland with better items like Mi.-Nr. 109 and 109I as pair, two Air Mail Halifax 35c. on cover, Mi.-Nr. 184 on cover, some Br. Columbia and Vancouver, Prince Edward Islands, New Brunswick including proof and covers, Dominion including 1897 Throne Jubilee up to 5$ used, 1908 Foundation of the city of Quebec complete unused, somewhat mixed quality

1851/1990 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and mostly used collection in 1 album and 3 stockbooks, incl. New Brunswick, Newfoundland and Prince Edward Island, starting with a selection of early issues, many duplicates with better items like Nova Scotia SG-Nr. 2 on cpl. 1854 folded entire, 5 used, Canada Dominion 136 unused, 138 used, 140 used, together with some covers. Some occasional faults, especially in the 19th century, otherwise mostly fine to very fine

1928/77, small, mostly mint never  hinged, group of four multiples with perforation varieties, including George V. 4c. yellow-biste  imperforated block of four, Elizabeth II. 6c. orange strip of thee, horizontally imperforated between 2nd and 3rd stamp, 1974 Elizabeth II. Caricature definitive issue 8c. horizontal strip of five perforated right only and 1977 Parliament Building 12c. horizontal strip of three perforated at right only, few small imperfections, mostly fine

1990/2021, complete mint collection including miniature-sheets (without 2016 and 2017). In good condition and of high face value. 

1850/73, small group of 8 covers with different rates, cancellations etc., written up on pages

1928/35(ca.), complete group of 69 George V. sepia postal stationery picture cards (Canada Sepia Scenes), unused, mostly fine

1859/1902 (ca.), group of four covers, incl. multiple frankings, some better items like 1859 12½ c. single usage on 1860 envelope to London, 1897 2 c. and 8 c. together with 1898 10 c. on 1902 envelope to Germany, mostly fine

1864/1920(ca.), very interesting stockbook containing many hundred stamps beginning with First Bill Issue, with many higher Denomination stamps up to 10$, mixed quality

1868, interesting unused and mostly used stuty of the Bill Stamps 3rd Issue, starting with plate proofs, also different perforations and thickness of paper, up to 3$ Denomination, written up on pages, mostly fine

1879/1958, interesting study of the British Columbia Law stamps, first to eleventh Issue,  including two documents, multiples etc., all written up, mostly good condition

1900/70(ca.), interesting collection with several hundert pre-cancellations, starting with early bar-cancels, including some better city-precancells, mostly good quality

1870/90 (ca.), unused and used collection, some better values with SG-Nr. 5 on laid paper unused, together with some reprints and one OHMS postal stationery front; some occasional faults, mostly fine to very fine

1886/1981 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used collection neatly housed in two albums, complete in the main SG numbers, very strong to the 1930s with some duplicates both unused and used, also specialized items like SG-Nr. 123a, 110s-113s, booklets, souvenir sheets, etc., together with a selection of fine postal stationeries and covers, overall excellent condition, great specialist assemblage

2000/10 (ca.), large mint never hinged stock from modern issues in two boxes, many presentation cards in duplicates together with some cpl. sheets, high face value, in extremely fine condition

1890/1910 (ca.), large accumulation of mostly unused and used postal stationeries, incl. a selection of specimen, mostly very fine

1862/97 (ca.), unused and used collection with a few duplicates, incl. officials, some shades and overprint types, together with two postal stationery cards; some occasional faults, mostly fine to very fine

1974/2016, selection of mint never hinged souvenir sheets and booklets duplicates in one box, very fine

1854/55, ½ a. blue, small study of 27 used examples including pair and strip of four

1854/55, Lithographs ½ a.  and 1 a., 8 single stamps, 12 pairs, strip of 5 and 3 small covers, mostly fine/very fine

1854/1949, small group in stockbook, including high rupee values, partly with telegraph cancellations.

1854/1987 (ca.), unmounted mint/unused and used collection, together with some covers and official stamps, neatly housed in one album, starting from SG-Nr. 2 onwards, many duplicates with shades, also C.E.F, I.E.F (with SG-Nr. E1 used on card, E2 pair used on cover), overall condition fine to very fine

1860/1900 (ca.), Fiscal- and Telegraph stamps, unused and used accumulation of about 270 stamps

1882/1933, unused collection with several high values incl. SG 144-45  and 219, very nice quality.

1880, Second Afghan War, 8 postal documents, including 3 telegram receipts with India fiscals used from Kandahar and Kohat, money order receipts with Field force resp. Kohat cds., etc.. Interesting and rare items, ex Dietrich

1895/1970(ca.), small group of more than 30 cards and covers including postal stationery of Faridkot and Jaipur and also cover with Ceylon franking "MADRAS-KARACHI FIRST AIRMAIL 17 OCT. 32", somewhat mixed quality