383rd Auction

1982/99, mint never hinged stock with sheets, souvenir sheets and miniature sheets

1855/19508ca.), unused and used collection, starting with a good section Chalon Heads including 10 covers, later issues specialized, good section officials and postage due, also better items like Postal fiscals Mi.-Nr. 50 used with certificates Holcombe etc., mainly on older written up pages, mostly good condition

1856/1890, unused and used collection with a few duplicates, some better values with SG-Nr. 1-2, stamps with marginal watermarks, etc.; fine to very fine, an interesting group

1860/1884 (ca.), unused and used collection with a few duplicates, incl. Steam Ship Conveyance, some better values with SG-Nr. 1, 3, together with some postal stationery cards and a few forgeries for reference; some occasional faults, mostly fine to very fine

1860/2000, mint never hinged/unused and used collection incl. over 80 covers and postal stationeries in seven albums, incl. officials, postage dues and fiscals, up to the 1930s complete in the SG numbers, starting with a fine selection of classics mostly used with some shades, better items like SG-Nr. 12 horizontal pair on 1874 lettersheet to Bordeaux, 1897 cover to Russia, etc.; overall condition fine to mostly very fine

1861/99, unused and used collection with a few duplicates, incl. revenues, some better values, specimen and a revenue postally used, together with a postal stationery card, a wrapper and some forgeries for reference; some occasional faults, mostly fine to very fine

1861/1979 (ca.), extensive unused and mostly used collection in three albums, strength in the issues up to the 1890s, starting with a 1775 Ship Letter to London (one of the earliest entires known from St Vincent) and an assortment of Abbreviated Village Datestamps with "BA" Barrouallie, "BEQ" Bequia (x2), "CA" Calliaqua (x2, one in black), "CH" Chateaubelair, "CO" Colonarie, "K" Kingston (x5, one in red), "RAB" Rabacca (x2), followed by a strong selection of mostly used classics, many better items like SG-Nr. 10 used (cert. BPA), 28a unsevered pair used (cert. RPSL), 34 both used and unused, 35 used (x2, small faults), 11 wmk reversed and inverted used (cert. Brandon), etc., together with a very fine group of covers and Revenue stamps used postally. Some occasional faults or light sulphurisation in the classics, overall a remarkable lot in fine to very fine condition

1861/1979 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used duplicates in one stockbook, together with a few stamps from Natal, Grenada and St Lucia, mostly fine to very fine

1917/18, „PASSED BY CENSOR GRI SAMOA“,  15 covers with censor marks in green and blue, with censor number 2 and 3, somewhat mixed quality

1890/1988 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used collection incl. some postal history in four albums, starting with a selection of "B64" forerunners, followed by the first issue used (Die I and II), some better items like SG-Nr. Z13 (cert. BPA), Z38 (cert. BPA), Z45, 16a unused, 97 (Die I) used, etc., together with some modern FDCs, Specimen and a couple of postal stationeries, mostly fine to very fine condition

1853/1906 (ca.), mostly used collection with more than 20 cards and covers, starting with Cape of Good Hope, Orange Free State, Natal and Transvaal, containing some better items like Mafeking SG# 16 used with RPSL certificate, Griqualand West with different overprint types etc., mixed condition

1913, 1 d. red lettercard specialized collection with 17 cards, with several red overprint "SPECIMEN" on both Dutch and English versions, misplaced overprint "ZUID-WEST AFRIKA.", "S.W.A." issue, etc.; a very fine group

1925/37, group of 18 covers, with registered mail, airmail, special cancellation "HEALTH RESORT BATHING", mixed frankings, etc.; mostly very fine

1916/22, interesting unused and used collection, containing better items like Mi.-Nr. 33-37, 33-37 with "SPECIMEN", 38-54 with "SPECIMEN"  unused and Mi.-Nr. 38-54 used, furthermore overprint and shade varieties, multiples, plate-numbers, nice selection of cancellations and some covers, mostly good condition

1915/23, an interesting group of 30 cards and covers, containing postal stationery, registered covers, censor marks etc., mostly good condition

1915, extensive unused/mint and used collection with many varieties, shades, multiples, plate numbers, overprint errors like "Small F in French", "Thing G in Togo", "no hyphen after Anglo", "CCUPATION instead of OCCUPATION" etc., also double and inverted overprints, "SPECIMEN" Overprints, also nice selection of cancellations, some better postal stationeries, mostly well described and in good condition

1915/27, interesting group of thirteen covers and cards neatly mounted on exhibition pages, franked with Gold Coast KGV definitives used with cds. "LOME TOGO" during the British Control period, some better items with registered mail and overprinted issues; mostly very fine

1861/1994, large mint never hinged/unused and used collection neatly housed in 2 albums and 6 stockbooks of duplicates, incl. postage due and compulsory stamps, Greek areas with North Epirus, Lemnos, Creta, Therison, Turkey, etc., some better sets like Mi.-Nr. 118-22 used (121 KB Simmermacher BPP), 437-446 used, together with a few covers and two books; mostly fine to very fine

1875/1972 (ca.), unused and mostly used collection, neatly mounted in one album, covering both Greece and Turkey, incl. postage dues, charity stamps, etc., overall condition is fine to very fine

1931/1990, comprehensive mint collection/balance in four albums, incl. 1931 Zeppelin top left corner marginal copies with plate number "1", otherwise from 1945 onwards with a good 1940s/1950s section incl. better souvenir sheets (1947 Roosevelt, 1948 Chain Bridge, 1951 Stamps).

1938/91, mint never hinged and unused collection consisting of over 150 sheetlets and miniature sheets, incl. Mi. 2, 3, 4, 13, 106I, etc., mostly fine, in stockbook

1900/21 (ca.), POSTAL HISTORY OF THE SREM REGION, specialized collection on 35 exhibition pages including many scarce postmarks, some believed to be unique, and other remarkable items such as 1906 35 f. franking on postal stationery card sent by express from the 11. Imperial Dragoons at Ruma to Esseg Fortress, Fieldpost Letter with censor-mark "Zensuriert/k.u.k. Brief- u. Paket-/zensurstelle, Zemun." sent by railway from Austria via Zemun (Srem) to Constantinople, a Hungarian/Croatian mixed franking as fiscal use on 1919 court document or three covers with authorized bisects of Slovenian stamps used in Mitrovica. A fascinating insight into the turbulent (postal) history of this part of the Balkans and in very fine condition. 

 1873/97, unused and used nice small collection, including unused Mi.-no. 1A and used 18AI