383rd Auction

1870/1970 (ca.), estate stock in 2 large cartons, including German Reich partial collections, WW II, collection Sweden MH, collection Austria with Renner imperforated, Bund Olympia-MHB, etc. etc.

1878/2000, box with duplicates and modern partial collections Austria, some Great Britain and German Reich, plus handbook "The Work of Jean de Sperati - Part II The Plates" (1955)

1880/1960 (approx.), interesting lot in box, including Luxembourg souvenir sheet 1 unused (2) and on cover, Norway with beautiful no. 1, old stock Persia, etc., etc.

1880/1990 (approx.), extensive duplicate lot in glassine bags and cigar boxes, in 2 moving boxes, including a lot of old material. Ex collection Gustav Strunk

1880/2022 (ca.), massive mint never hinged/unused and used accumulation in 45 stockbooks and one box, some classics yet mostly modern material, many duplicates, cpl. sets or years, the condition varies greatly especially in the early issues, otherwise mostly fine to very fine

1900/50 (ca.), duplicates in lots, including a lot of Europe and oversea, one box full

1912/45 (approx.), unused/mint never hinged stock "Zeppelin stamps" from all over the world incl. German Reich with many better and complete issues in different quantities, plus German Reich "Halbamtliche Flugpostmarken" and Rhine/Main issues as well as DNG Zeppelin stamp 1 M. (14x unused/mint never hinged). Including Aegean Islands Mi.-Nr. 115-120 multiple mint never hinged, Russia with some covers and cards, German Reich Mi.-Nr. IV and VI multiple unused/mint never hinged as well as semi-official air-mail with Mi.-Nr. 1 (6x), 5 (5x), 6-8, and 10 (2). The condition is partly somewhat defective, but mostly in perfect condition

1920/60(ca.), small accumulations of both mint and used stamps and a few covers including good selections of France, Italy and Luxembourg, but also some Australian higher values as well as Bermuda George VI. 2 s. blue on censored Airmail cover endorsed "Internee Mail / Letter in German" to Berlin Friedenau, mixed condition.

1930/2000 (ca.), lot in 3 large cartons, with souvenir sheets (incl. ca. 40 Iceland Bl.1), collection CEPT, stamp booklets, etc.

1990/2001, mint never hinged collection of souvenir sheets and sheetlets, mostly Europe and oversea, including much USA, in four albums

FORGERIES, Accumulation of just over 250 forged stamps from areas as diverse as German States including Lübeck and Bergedorf, Italian States with the usual Sicily and Tuscany, South America with "Bulls Eyes", "Soles de Montevideo" but also many of the early perforate issues and British empire with Sierra Leone high values, Virgin Islands, Mauritius and Zanzibar overprints amongst others

KILOWARE: 1995/2020(approx.), over 114 kg kiloware, much Federal Republic with many Commemoratives, also several albums with mostly simple material, the proceeds will go to a missionary organisation

1770/1970 (ca.), interesting lot of many hundreds of covers and cards with lots of interesting material

1813/1953, Incoming Mail to Wien, charming collection with over 45 covers, spanning from the Americas to Asia with Europe and British Commonwealth, strength in the 19th century, maritime and registered mail, many multi-colour frankings, some scarce origin with Guatemala or Grande Comore, better items like Hungary Mi.-Nr. 1 1871 single franking, Switzerland 16-17 IIBym on 1861 "CHARGEE" lettersheet, Netherlands 4 and 6 on 1867 folded entire, Poland three-colour franking tied by concentric circles on 1873 lettersheet, Hong Kong registered 1933 envelope to the WIPA committee, etc. Mostly very fine and in choice condition, a few certificates, an excellent lot

1815/1970, highly interesting and comprehensive collection "small (mini) covers" pre-philately with much material before 1945 with decorative ladies covers, letters with mourning margin, foreign mail etc., including old German states with much Bavaria (better postage paid and cancellations), well part France, Austria, plenty Switzerland and USA with early covers, together in eight folders, ex Dr. Findeiss

1830/1950 (ca.), about 100 letters, cards and forms, mostly overseas with some interesting early items India, JEIA cover, etc.

1838/1980 (approx.), some hundred covers, cards and GSK with focus on Germany, including airmail covers from all over the world, Switzerland with cash on delivery covers, Austria with interesting cancellations and many airmail covers with Heuss postage paid to oversea, ex Dr. Findeiss

1858/1934, collection of 29 covers and cards, many interesting frankings with better items like Brasil Mi.-Nr. 26 and 28 paying the 280 reis rate to 1871 folded entire to France, USA 1878 10 cents franking tied by cork cancel to cover to London and redirected to Venice with GB One Penny Red added, also Cuba, Ecuador, Palestine, Spanish Guinea, Belgian occupation of East German Africa, many colourfull frankings, one bisected, etc.; some occasional faults, mostly fine to very fine, an interesting group

1868/1980 (ca.), interesting group of over 200 covers, cards and mostly used postal stationery envelopes and cards with many better items, incl. British Commonwealth, Russia, Netherlands with colonies, Switzerland, etc., with many illustrated envelopes, registered mail, airmail, colourful mixed frankings; main strength up to the 1930s, mostly fine to very fine condition

1869/2002, more than 130 simple covers, mostly Germany, some Austria, Switzerland, Russia, also Egypt, Chile and Japan

1870/1980 (ca.), accumulation of a few hundred mostly european covers including some interest for postal history such as registered- or censored mail, parcel-adresses or a handfull of early meter-frankings. 

1875/1920 (approx.), over 60 letters and cards with some interesting pieces, registered mail, postal stationary with additional frankings, etc.

1880/1920 (ca.), old stock of about 400 covers, cards and postal stationary, including German and British colonies, Latin America, Crete, etc., including many registered letters, often to Bickel, but also much from private correspondence

1883/1960, interesting collection "Daguin - an early cancelling machine" with covers from France and its colonies, Romaniam, Austria and Chile, neatly on self-designed album pages with inscriptions in three folders, plus the manual by René Geslin, ex Dr Findeiss

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

1893/1985 (ca.), group of over 180 cards and covers and mostly used postal stationary cards and covers from Egypt, India, Switzerland, Ned.-Indie, Austria, British Commonwealth, Belgium, etc., with many registered letters, airmail, censorship marks, first day covers, parcel cards, e.g. registered cover from Addis-Abeba, etc., mixed condition

1898/1919 (ca.), over 120 cards and covers and postal stationary cards with censorship marks and field post from Ireland, Russia, Austria, Germany, etc., an interesting group

1900/44(ca.), group of collections including Great Britain 1909 ½d Yellow green,two folded cards from "Credit Italiano" of London with affixed address label to Amsterdam, each with a circled "F.S." cancel, printed inside messages concerning financial transactions and rates, COLUMBIA MACHINE CANCELS COLLECTION of approximately 365 covers/ cards and 370 on piece (most post-1910 without stamps) in two large binders, Algeria H&G DB1, 1939 2.25fr Red brown and blue, large-sized envelope prepared for UPU Congress members, postmarked Alger and addressed to "Madame James H. Knox, Delegation de Etats Unis d'Amerique, Buenos Aires", Japan Censored Postal Cards to Japan POWs in the Philippines and Honduras Postal Stationery Collection, approximately 100 (mostly mint) postal cards, envelopes, and wrappers, note better including H&G 26 used and B1 mint and San Bernardino County Postal History Accumulation, approximately 220 covers in a binder, mostly San Bernardino (and some Riverside mixed in), arranged in more or less chronological order, back of binder with a number of smaller towns and DPOs, mostly good condition

1900/60 (ca.), interesting lot covers, cards and GSK incl. Germany, including Zeppelin letters with a.o. SAF 2 and 4 stamp (postage stamp) on card, three submersible letters Bavaria (one very defective) and some Asia with China-GSK with additional franking and letter from Hanover 1919 to Japan with pictorial stamps of Japan Post.

1939/49 (ca.) 80 cards and covers with prisoner of war post and censorship marks, with the majority from the USA, Soviet Union, Germany, Australia incl. States, an interesting lot

1940/47 (ca.), ca. 100 cards and covers, all either with British or American censorship marks, including some airmail, the majority from Germany, Britain, USA, Austria, Poland, etc., an interesting group

Germany: 1900/90 (approx.), mint never hinged/unused and used stock with a partial collection Bund and countless loose stamps, sheets and booklets in a small box. Varying condition.

GERMANY AFTER 1945: 1945/2000, comprehensive mint never hinged/unused and used collection in 71 albums, with Bund, Berlin, Bizone, SBZ and GDR, with complete issues, duplicates, booklets, FDCs, plus many letters. The condition varies somewhat, but mostly in very good condition

BUND UND BERLIN: 1949/2002, extensive mint/unused and souvenir sheets collection, with complete issues, multiples, sheetlets, souvenir sheets and other specialities, plus booklets and souvenir sheets, FDC, many duplicates in pairs and souvenir sheets of 4, etc., also two albums with telephone cards; the condition is partly somewhat defective, but mostly in good overall condition, in 28 albums and 30 stockbooks

1949/2013 (approx.), used lot of subscription goods with an apparently complete set of first day sheets and many used stamps and blocks of four, for the years 2006 to 2013 on the respective form supplement deliveries upward. In addition, many unused postal stationary from subscription and three boxes with kiloware Berlin 1949/55. in three large boxes.

EUROPE: 1960/2022, mostly modern issues Bund, Berlin, Liechtenstein and Austria, with many motif books and yearbooks, including Liechtenstein yearbooks 2007-14 and 2019-22, Bund with some numisheets 1997-2001 with Melanchthon and Austria with stamps, booklets and yearbooks after 2001, together in four boxes