383rd Auction

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

Music: 1903/70, group with stamps and covers on the subject of "Ludwig von Beethoven", including German Reich private GSK 1903 (slightly trimmed) and proof "Johannes Brahms" Czechoslovakia 19083

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

WINTER SPORTS: Hockey, Nordic Skiing, Shedding, interesting collection, neatly written up in 8 volumes, containing better items like Austria FIS set on cover and used, also Epreuves, imperforated stamp, Special cancellations, cards and covers etc., good condition

1896, mint never hinged, unused, used and covers collection, better items like Mi.-Nr. 97 used gutter block of four, 96 strip of three and 98 single both used with cds. "ATHENS 25 MAR 1896" (first day of the games), also cpl. set unused and used, one forgery noted, condition varies, mostly fine, a scarce assembly

1906, selection of covers (20) and used, incl. a 30 l. colour proof on carton, 2 cpl. sets used, some with cds. dated during the event, also an illustrated postcard with 1 l. and 2 l. tied by cds. "ATHENS 22 APR 1906", overall fine to very fine, a scarce group

1936, small group with over 50 letters and cards, with registered covers, single and multiple frankings, many special cancellations and machine cancels, including three Olympia telegrams (one used from 5.8.36), Mi.-No. MH 42.2 (incomplete), etc., mainly well preserved

1960/92 (ca.), mainly mint never hinged stock of mostly subscription collections in a total of about 100 ribbons

1972/80, 1972 Summer Games, 1976 Montreal and Moscow 1980, extensive mint never hinged and used collection with worldwide issues, plus FDC and some letters, very clean in 9 albums

1912, attractive assembly of covers with machine cancels "STOCKHOLM OLYMPISKA  SPIELEN" (7), one dated 22.7.12 (sailing finals and closing ceremony), also "JEUX OLYMPIQUES + STOCKHOLM 1912 + LE 29 JUIN-22 JUILLET" publicity cachet in black on cover with pair of 10 ö. to New York, together with one unused Granbergs card, mostly very fine, a very scarce group

1924, four covers with "JEUX OLYMPIQUES PARIS MAI-JUIN-JUILLET 1924" in box, and two cards incl. with cds. "COLOMBES VILLAGE OLYMPIQUE 4 7 24", the day before the opening ceremony, together with a group of covers and postal stationeries from the French 8th Olympiade set, fine

1928, attractive specialized group of covers and cards (15), mostly with the special pentagonal cancellation, incl. better items like Mi.-Nr. 205-212 tied (except 30 c.) on the 28.07.1928 (first day of the games) to registered cover, together with private presentation sheets "UNIVERSALA ESPERANTO ASOCIO" (3), mostly fine, a very scarce assembly

1940, group of 8 covers and cards, with four machine cancels "XII OLYMPIA 20.7.-4.8.1940", a card "OLYMPIADE 1940", together with three illustrated envelopes representing runners and the stadium, overall fine to very fine, scarce assembly

SPACE: 1933/2000 (ca.), mint collection in 21 volumes with also some covers, including better early issues Russia and Poland, French areas, etc.

1969/1972 (ca.), SPACE, collection of apprx. 520 thematic souvenir sheets (26 sets of 20 different pieces), all bearing signatures of American Astronaut's.

1798/1916 (ca.), stock of over 80 covers and documents, including 3 covers with labels from Reggio, various Levante covers, 3 German covers (a.o. Töpen), Malta desinfection, and a lot of Italy.

1924/38, USA, 20 letters and cards on the exploration of the Arctic/Antarctic: a postcard "The Trans-Polar Flight Expedition 1924", 3 letters "Wilking-Ellsworth Tans-Arctic Submarine Expedition 1931", 12 illustrated airmail covers welcoming Admiral R. Byrd (return from 1st Antarctic Expedition 1931, 3 letters from his expedition 1935 and a Danish postcard on the Northeast Greenland Expedition 1938/39, well preserved

1875/1939 (approx.) comprehensive stock with more than 400 cards, many used, mostly with motif "Gruß aus...", "Briefmarken", etc., with interesting postage paid, airmail, zeppelin mail, se-tenants, official mail, including yellow dog on Rhine-Main airmail card (2) (oxidised), etc., mostly good condition

1890/1945(approx.), Germany, Uelzen and nearer surroundings, collection of 41 old picture postcards before 1945, mostly up to 1914, with many scarce maps (streets, buildings, places), mostly good condition

1891/1900, Germany, collection of 47 forerunner lithographs (2 forerunners cancelled 1907/8, but issued much earlier), including 7 private postal stationery, (41 forerunners topography), in good condition

1897/1910, Germany, 430 lithographs, (96% topography), with many better views, in two old picture postcard albums, in good condition

1897/1950 (approx.), attractive picture postcard collection SYKE and surroundings with well 150 cards. Including several lithographs and better collotype views of small inns, street sections partly with railway, stagecoaches or automobiles, occasion cards and scarce motifs of the small districts such as "Gruss aus Okel" with a view of the "Okeler Dampfmolkerei". An attractive collection in mostly good condition.

1897/1960 (approx.), mainly Germany, over 650 mostly used maps, mainly topography, including lithographs, good overall condition

1897/1974 (ca.), Germany, over 280 mostly used maps, mainly topography, including lithographs and motifs of ships and aeroplanes, etc.

1900, Germany, album with 47 lithographs "Halt gegens Licht!" (4 pieces from 1915) including 37 pieces topography, in good condition

1900/1945 (ca.), round 500 used cards, including topography, greeting cards, military, etc.; condition as needed