383rd Auction

1939/44, small stock with focus on airmail covers from and to South America, mostly LATI with feeders, interesting postage rates etc., ex Dr Findeiss

1939/45, extensive collection "DER ITALIENISCHE SÜDATLANTISCHE LUFTPOSTDIENST 1939-41 (VIA L.A.T.I)" with several hundred letters from and to South America incl. a good part of the airmail lines after LATI was discontinued in 20 folders. Including several covers from the first flight in 1939 with, among others, feeders from Rodi, Switzerland and the Vatican (without special cancellations), plenty of demand mail from the German Reich including airmail wrappers and further feeders from Bohemia & Moravia, one letter each from the Generalgouvernement and DP Alsace, Belgium, Denmark, Yugoslavia, the Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Sweden, Switzerland, Slovakia, Spain and Hungary. The section with covers from South America is also very extensive, including the "First flight Rio de Janeiro - Buenos Aires" section with better covers and special features. In addition, further special features of the mailing incl. complete "coffee" linen bags", censorship, return mail etc., all on self-designed album pages and lots of literature or pieces with photos from auction catalogues. A certainly unique collection of this kind, it Dr Findeiss

1929/31, high-quality collection with 33 covers and cards, mostly better postage paid South America trip incl. American post multiple and Polar trip multiple, all on self-made album pages with decorative watercolour paintings. Some of the covers are unfresh, the album pages themselves are small works of art and certainly unique of their kind

1924/35, group with 3 Zeppelin covers and a catapult mail letter, including a.o. 2nd South America trip with Danzig postage paid

1929/37, comprehensive holding with emphasis from 1932 with some better flights and specialities, including winner Nos. 34e, 34i, 166c, ex 208A-F, 209ID, 238D with complete Chicagofahrt set and 2x 0352I, plus interesting part of treaty states mail with covers from Belgium, Gdansk, Great Britain, Netherlands, Norway, Austria, Russia, Saar, Sweden and Hungary, good condition throughout, practically no excess quantities.

1924/56 (approx.), substantial group of more than 250 covers and cards, including the majority of treaty states, including Iceland, Denmark, England, Finland, Soviet Union, etc., German Reich sheet 1 (defective) on card with cancellation "FAHRT RUND UM DEN OSTSEE 1930", two registered covers each with German Reich sheets 5+6, as well as some airmail, some signed, mostly good condition.

Austria: 1928/35, interesting collection from FS-01 with many different covers and cards as well as plenty of vignettes including varieties, proofs and specials, including postal stationery envelopes, R-card and some covers from Yugoslavia, together in three albums

EUROPA: 1933/2015, interesting collection with early rocket mail covers, a.o. from Roberti, Smith (India), Schmidl and Zucker with better and interesting part of rocket research in the III Reich with fieldpost covers from Kummersdorf, Peenemünde with a.o. cancellations "Versuchskommando Nord" and sender's form "SS-Rekruten Depot Debica" as well as a card from the concentration camp "Dora Mittelbau". From the 1960s onwards, mostly decorative covers and cancellations (including from Kourou), some with signatures and proofs with, among others, Mauritania Mi.-Nr. 266-68 as imperforated colour proofs in complete sheet sets, clean on 96 exhibition pages (few covers removed by the collector).

SOVIET UNION: 1965/2015, interesting collection of the various space programmes with many different decorative and special envelopes/cards with better and several signatures, including various on-board mail covers with signatures from Soyuz 39 with a.o. S7 and from TM 3 with various covers from TM5-15 as well as R-letter to Mir (22.07.93). In addition a.o. Poland souvenir sheet II, neatly on 80 exhibition pages (few covers are removed by the collector)

USA: 1933/2012, extensive collection from the beginnings to Space Shuttle programme with many different decorative and special covers, partly with autographs (mostly printed resp. with signature cancellation with i.a. "X-15" cover with e. signature of the pilot "William J. Knight" (reached a top speed of 7300 km/hour in 1965) and on-board cover STS-76 with seven signatures as well as proofs with i.o. Mauritania Mi.No. 217 as imperforated colour proof in complete sheet, clean on 96 exhibition pages (few covers removed by collector)

1933/45, interesting collection with 55 entire items, including 29 rocket mail covers and cards German Reich (8 x autograph G. Zucker), 2 covers Austria, 1 letter GB, 14 covers France, 4 x Netherlands, 3 x Australia, 2 x USA, clean condition

1970/2000 (ca), mixed lot with motif collections from various subscriptions, including "Film" (3 albums), "Madonna" (3 albums), "Deutsche Sporthilfe" (5 albums), "Weihnachten" (4 albums) and various football World Cup/Olympics, together in 25 albums

ANIMALS OF PRIMEVAL TIME: 1996/2011 (approx.), mint never hinged/unused and used collection, including letters and numismatic covers, as well as limited booklet "Ancient Reptiles of New Zealand" with numbered souvenir sheets and phase prints, furthermore a part EURO nominals, in four pre-printed albums

COMPUTER PHILATELY & A PHILATELIC LOOK AT THE METRIC SYSTEM: Interesting collection in 5 written up volumnes, containing stamps, imperforated stamps, covers and postal stationary, cancellations and Epreuve, good condition

EMERGENCY MONEY: Wiesbaden and Langenschwalbach, 13 notes in 6 denominations

FOOTBALL: 1962, World Championship Chile, souvenir sheet, special edition in light brown, 500 pieces mint never hinged. Michel refers to 605/608, 6.500,- €.

Gulf: 1900/2006, interesting collection incl. duplicates with early picture postcards, picture postcards (a.o. Belgian Congo), machine slogan postmarks and special cancellations, postage stamps from all over the world and non-philatelic material in two albums

MARKSMANSHIP: 1903/90 (ca.), collection with motif stamps, special cancellations and private stamps, neatly on album pages in two albums

RAILWAYS: 1841/1962, small exhibition-like mounted collection with a total of round 40 covers and cards as well as some loose stamps and on pieces, including Spain, Switzerland, Austria and Romania; plus group Belgium railway stamps.

SPORT: very large unused and mostly covers collection, in two large boxes, covering a wide array of sports and countries, many special cancellations and cachets, FDC, souvenir sheets, specialized material like proofs and photo-essays, also some Olympiade material (Anvers 1920, incl. a congratulation telegram), unusual items like Japan illustrated postcard of the 1923 6th Far Eastern Championship Games, etc.; overall fine condition, an excellent connoisseur lot

1882/1988 (approx.), small mint never hinged/unused stock with over 15 covers and cards, incl. private mail, including a telegram from world record holder Jules Ladoumègue (1906-1973), interesting postal stationary such as 5 Pfg. with box cancellation "JÜTEBORG SCHLIESSPLATZ" and encr. "DRESDEN TURN-FESTPLATZ", mostly well preserved

GERMAN SPORT FESTIVALS:1863-2009: Highly interesting collection with hundreds of entire items as well as stamps (postage stamp) and on pieces, including 1863 "Turn-Fest-Platz Leipzig." Ra3 on blank envelope, comprehensive private postal stationery, special cancellations, franking marks, well postage paid, also Federal Republic Mi.-Nr. 292U, all clean in 7 self-designed albums

Sammelbilder-Alben: 1930/54 (ca.), extensive stock with ca. 40 albums, including Zeppelin cruises, "Deutsche Kolonien", "Gestalten der Weltgeschichte", "Schiffsbilder", "Malerrei der Gotik", "Deutsche Uniformen" etc., cover pages partly defective

THEOLOGY: Documentation on the German theologian Martin Niemöller from the year 1971, consisting of a photo with autograph, two covers written by his own hand, which mainly deal with his knowledge of the Hitler assassination attempt in 1939 in the Munich Bürgerbräukeller and his acquaintance with the assassin Georg Elser, whom he met multiple times as a prisoner in the Dachau concentration camp, as well as a kind of assessment of Niemöller on the issue by a pastor Gerhard Muras