383rd Auction

1934/38, American cruisers during the Spanish Civil War, group of over 160 mostly illustrated envelopes with special ships cancellations, incl. USS Kane and USS Raleigh, most of those vessels were destroyers involved in the protection of the American citizens living in Spain, evacuating hundreds of people in 1936; very fine and interesting selection 

1840/1940 (ca.), very comprehensive old collection, very well occupied, with a variety of better issues, including France 17, Greece with attractive part Great Hermes Heads and Olympiad, Great Britain with many pound values, Gibraltar with 5 pounds, Malta with all 10 shilling values, attractive part Austria and Lombardy-Venetia, Portugal with St. Anthony, Sweden with some values 1st issue, etc. etc.

1840/2000, mostly mint and used collection Austria with i.a. used collection Liechtenstein 1945/2002 and 2x sheet 1 mint/unused, complete mint collection 1945-2000 (i.a. Mi.-Nr. 693-96I, certificate Soecknick BPP + Renner-Kleinbogensatz) and Switzerland souvenir sheets 1-15 twice used and once mint never hinged, plus GB Mi.-Nr. 1b used (certificate Pröschold BPP)

1849/1990 (ca.), extensive duplicate stock with also much early material in 3 large cartons, including yiel France from Ceres; also little oversea. Ex collection Gustav Strunk

1850/2009 (approx.), comprehensive mint never hinged/unused and used collection clean in 16 albums, incl. postage due stamps, emphasis after 1900, many issues, multiples, booklets and souvenir sheets, FDCs and letters, part Switzerland nominals (over 700 CHF), plus Turkey, Yugoslavia, Bosnia and Herzegovina. The condition varies somewhat, but mostly in very good condition

1853/2000 (ca.), mostly used collection in 5 albums, strength in France and Italy, also Vatican and Finland, some better items and sets, with France 1871 5 Francs, Paris-1925 miniature sheet, Italy Mi.-Nr. 514-519, etc.; the condition varies especially in the classics, overall fine to very fine

1872/1991 (ca.), used collection with some covers on albums pages, incl. WWI German Occupation, Memel and Danzig, together with German Empire, Russia, Finland and Baltic States, mixed condition

1900/2000 (approx.), unused/mint never hinged and used collection German Reich, Berlin, Switzerland, Liechtenstein, Luxembourg, Vatican, etc., mostly fine condition, in two cartons

1900/37, mostly unused and used collection Europe and Germany on Schaubeks supplement pages (mostly bound) incl. some oversea with many better and complete issues, including German Reich Mi.-Nr. 456-58, 496-98 and centre piece souvenir sheet 2 unused, Saar Mi.-Nr. 18-31 complete, Belgium Mi.-Nr. 129-142 unused, France mint never hinged, Great Britain Mi.-Nr. 174 unused, Iceland Mi.-Nr. 172-74 unused (signed) and official stamps Mi.-Nr. 44-59 unused.No. 172-74 unused (signed) and official stamps Mi.-No. 44-59 unused, Italy Mi.-No. 188-93 unused and official stamp Mi.-No. 10 unused, Liechtenstein with souvenir sheet 1 unused, Luxembourg sheet 1 unused, Netherlands Mi.-No. 123-33 unused, Austria with souvenir sheet 1 with SST and Dollfuß unused and Poland with overprint stamps ex Mi.-No. 29-53 on pieces as well as oversea with some China and Japan with a.o. Mi.-No. 129 mint never hinged (!). Together in 24 albums or two folders, probably from a subscription and almost throughout in well condition, a very attractive object

1940/81 (approx.), mint never hinged/unused and used sheet stock, including Netherlands, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein, Austria, Iceland, Jersey, Guernsey, CEPT, etc., in box

1945/1990 (approx.), extensive duplicate stock in over 40 stockbooks and folders, including MH. Ex collection Gustav Strunk.

2000/20, Liechtenstein and Luxembourg, mint never hinged collection, many complete issues and sheetlets, plus booklets, clean in 4 albums

1762/1926, group of over 130 covers, strength in the 19th century, mostly mail from Belgium, Austria, Italy and Switzerland, many transit and entry marks, together with some parcel cards; mixed condition

1840/1900(ca.), interesting group of several hundred covers from pre-philately, including Switzerland with some colour frankings Sitzende Helvetia, Old Germany with better ones at Baden and Prussia, England from Penny Black, furthermore Scandinavia, Serbia Mi.-Nr. 18(29; Russia with decorative postage paid, Old Italy with tricolour franking Papal States, Greece with colour franking, France with Ballon Monte, Bordeaux issue with better frankings, somewhat condition varies

1840/1900(approx.), interesting group of several hundred covers from pre-philately, including many foreign covers, transit postmarks, better old Germany and Scandinavia covers, Switzerland with registered colour frankings, Serbia Mi.-Nr. 12 MeF, France, England with colour frankings, old Italy and Russia etc., somewhat varying condition varies

1840/1919, 28 covers and cards, strength in the classic period, starting with Mulready lettersheet (form 3, A19) used with red Maltese Cross, many interesting frankings like Hungary Mi.-Nr. 11 on postal money order 5 kr. red (form A6), GB SG.-Nr. 211 (x3) as a combination franking on registered envelope, Papal States Mi.-Nr. 17 and 15 on 1868 envelope to Bordeaux, Sardinia 10-13 with several two- and three-colour frankings, some private issues like Spitzbergenpost vignette and Hotel Post Hohen Pinne on postcards, Koltchak Army 1A block of ten on R-cover to New York, also Greece Hermes Heads three-colour frankings, Serbia, Ukraine, etc.; some occasional faults, mostly fine and usefull group

1880/2009 (ca.), extensive mint never hinged/unused and used collection neatly housed in 9 albums, some classics yet mostly modern, incl. good selection of Poland, Albania and Soviet Union, many cpl. sets together with some booklets, miniature sheets, FDCs, many covers, etc.; mostly fine to very fine

1855/2021 (ca.), massive mint never hinged/unused and used collection neatly housed in 20 albums, among others good selection of Portugal, strength in the 20th century, many cpl. sets with better issues like Portugal Mi.-Nr. Bl 1-4, Vatican Bl 1, etc., together with modern booklets MNH, some miniature sheets, aerograms, FDCs, many covers and a selection of early postal stationeries etc.; mostly fine to very fine condition

1852/2000 (approx.), collection stock in 24 albums and 2 folders, collections and partial collections, including better values such as France sheet 3 (2) and 311, also little oversea. Ex collection Gustav Strunk

DEPARTEMENTS CONQUIS: 1798/1813 (ca.), holding of wide over 200 covers and envelopes, mostly exhibition-like mounted, with many better covers and quite mostly in very good condition, including "V.Bercheim", many Debourses cancellations, a.o. "DEB.DE TREVES", etc.,etc.. A very interesting item, ex Wilma Droemont.

1990/98, Estonia, Latvia and Lithuania, mostly mint never hinged and used collection in 3 albums, together with a few miniature sheets, very fine condition

1865/2010 (ca.), extensive mint never hinged/unused and used collection neatly housed in 7 albums, many cpl. sets together with some modern booklets MNH, miniature sheets, FDCs, covers and a selection of early postal stationeries etc.; mostly fine to very fine condition

1924/2008, comprehensive mint never hinged holding in 15 albums, incl. airmails, parcel and railway stamps, many better sets and items like Luxemburg Mi.-Nr. Bl. 7, Netherlands some good values, Belgium with a selection of modern cpl. sheets in two albums, together with some booklets and miniature sheets, etc.; overall in excellent condition

1858/2007 (ca.), unused/mint never hinged and used stock Scandinavia, including Sweden, Norway, Greenland, Denmark, Iceland, Faroe Islands, Finland on stockcards with many early and better values, booklets, sheetlets and souvenir sheets, modern stamps often with CTO cancellation, besides over 8000 SEK Swedish nominals, etc., in box

1864/2008 (ca.), extensive mint never hinged/unused and used collection neatly housed in 11 albums, with a better selection of Island, Norway and Denmark, many cpl. sets together with many modern booklets MNH, some miniature sheets, aerograms, FDCs, covers and a selection of early postal stationeries etc.; an interesting holding in mostly fine to very fine condition

1954/55, drift envelope experiment in the North-East Atlantic, 4 cards from Faroe, Iceland and Norway to the National institute of oceanography at Wormley, GB

1890/1939 (ca.), over thirty covers and cards, mostly incoming mail to Lithuania, noted departures Argentina, Serbia, Romania, Sweden; mixed condition

1914/41, interesting lot of over 90 letters and cards, including a large group of subsequent issues, a large number of good postage paid items, including some interesting mixed frankings, registered mail, censorship, postal stationary, many different cancellations, four letters "On Active Service - Stamps Unavailable" etc., mostly good condition

1914/15, excellent and rich, unused/mint and used collection, all neatly mounted on pages and with specialities very competently described, including a large number of better values, partly in multiples, an interesting collection of cancellations and later issues with some letters, partly competently signed resp. with certificate/photo certificate, mostly in good condition

1914/41, interesting group of over 60 covers and cards, including a large part of the subsequent issues, including a large number of well postage paid items, registered letters, censorships, Ganszachen etc., mostly good condition