384. Auction

1950/2020 (ca.), mint never hinged collection, appearing to be complete from 1999 to 2020, when the country famously decided to stop issuing postage stamps. Fine. 

1922/35, unused, predominantly mint never hinged collection of the overprint issues including many specialities like multiples, controls, varieties, coil joins and leaders. Beginning with six overprint trials including the two in red on British ½ d. stamps (Hib. PR 8+9), there follow the issued stamps with Seahorses Hib. T12-14 (2), the very rare Thom Rialtar 1d. carmine with inverted watermark (Hib. T26wa), 2d., watermark inverted and reversed (Hib. T29 wc), Seahorses Hib. T59-61 as well as a set of three vertical pairs with “S over E” variety and bottom sheet margin (T59g, T69c, T61f), Harrison overprints with long, serifed “1” (Hib. T62a-65a), Seahorses “Narrow Date” Hib. T66-68 including a number of varieties, composite vertical pair 5s. (Hib. T70v), horizontal pairs 2s.6d and 5s. (Hib. T69h+T70h) as well as 2s.6d. horizontal corner-marginal strip of three from top left, “Wide Date” Hib. T72-4 (T74; cert. MacDonnell AIEP), also including a number of varieties and Re-Engraved T-75-77 (T76 cert. Hamilton-Bowen BPP) including T75-6 in horizontal pairs. Finishing on proofs with Dollard Monocolour (17), Dollard Bi-Colour (26), Valdivia perf. (9) and imperf. (10), Angel Victory monocoloured (6) and bi-coloured (3) as well as O´Loughlin, Murphy & Boland (5) and Pictorial Machine Printing Co. (2) and two photographic essays. A remarkable collection in fine to very fine general condition. 

1922/2020, extensive unused and primarily mint never hinged collection, profoundly specialized with shades, varieties, coil leaders, ends and joins, gutter pairs, booklet pains and other specialist aspects. Beginning with the First Definitive Series with a fine mint never hinged set, values to 1s. with selvedge and a used 2s.6d. with watermark inverted there follow better coil stamps such as 1933, 1d. perf. 15 x imperf. (single perf., Hib. D2ci) and with watermark inverted (Hib. D2ci wa), 2d. in a vertical strip of twenty showing two coil-joins (Hib. DJ8) and various paste-up leaders, booklet panes including 1931, 6x ½ d. (Hib. HP 1) and 1931, 3x 1d. plus three labels with watermark inverted (Hib. HP 3wa), gutter pairs with 1941, Easter Rising 2 ½ d., block of 36 with four gutter pairs, or 1968, 5s. and 10s. (Hib. D49-50), many uncommon varieties including 1922, ½. d. “green dot right of sword” (D1c) or ”broken lattice" (D2e), 1 ½ d. “broken fraction bar” (D3b), 1941, overprinted 2d. with “snub-nosed e and malformed 1” (C17a/d), 1949 Republic with “dot over Chimney” (C34a), 1952, Moore 2 ½ d., block of four from cracked plate (C39b),1954, Marian Year, block of four, one showing „hand flaw“ (C45a) and finally more interesting Postage Dues with a marginal set of the 1924 issue as well as 1d., watermark inverted and reversed (PD2 wc); 2d. , wmk. inverted (Hib. PD3wa) and sideways left (Hib. PD3wd), 1 d. with variety “inverted Q for O” (Hib. PD2a), 1940, 1s. watermark sideways left (PD14 wd). A fascinating collection in mainly fine to very fine in nine volumes. 

1922/2020, large used, unused and predominantly mint never hinged duplicate stock from a strong section of the 1922 overprint issue including an Overprint proof as well as a 10 s. dull grey-blue, overprinted shiny blue-black, narrow lettering, by Thom & Co. (Hib. T61) and 5 s. rose-red overprinted in black, wide lettering, by Thom & Co. (Hib. T73). Later on better high values, inverted watermarks, unused coil stamps including 1933, ½ d. imperf x perf. 14 (4, Hib. D1ci), and more surprising items such as 1948, airmail 1 d. handstamped “Specimen” in red (2) or 1922, ½ d. handstamped “SPECIMEN” in black. Interesting and in good general condition. 

1931/2019, extensive mint never hinged collection of stamp booklets in four volumes beginning with some incomplete examples of the very rare early issues Hib. HB1-5, HB 6, Edition 29-46, HB 7, Editions 31-48 and 33-50, HB7a, HB8, HB9, HB10, HB11 and seemingly complete throughout the issues form HB12. Also some postal stationery. 

1948/65, specialized mainly mint never hinged and used collection of the airmail issue with a strong focus on varieties, often as part of unused multiples, perforations, sheet markings and individual FDCs. Fine to very fine general condition. 

1953/2006, seemingly complete mint never hinged collection including booklets, souvenir and miniature sheets. 

1892/1940, 4 covers including incoming mail

1850/1953 (ca), mint never hinged/unused and used assembly with some covers, incl. postage dues, parcel and fiscal stamps, good part of Triest and Italian occupied territories, better items like Triest Mi.-Nr. Bl. 1A-1B, GNR18I used (signed Richter), many interesting covers from the occupied regions, together with one album of CNL with many cpl. sets mostly mint never hinged (many questionable overprints), together with some duplicates ; an interesting group

1850/1960 (ca), interesting collection from Italian states, colonies, San Marino and some Trieste A/B, including old postal stationery cards and covers and airmail issues with, among other things, a prepaid forwarding letter from 1855 with tax note, parcel registration card to Austria in 1912 with postage due stamps, registered card to an Italian forced laborers in Germany and a small collection of fiscal stamps, including covers, as well as Trieste Michel No. 47-50 mint never hinged (signed A. Diena) and Tripolitania Michel No. 209-215 and 216-22 unused, neatly arranged on self-designed album pages in two albums

1852/1969, comprehensive mint never hinged/unused and used collection, incl. officials, postage dues, parcel stamps and Italian territories, strong start with the Italian States, many better items like Papal States Mi.-Nr. 10-11 used, 13 used, Modena 5-6 on cpl. 1857 folded entire to Philadelphia, Newspaper tax stamp 4 used, Napoli 9 Croce di Savoia used (thins), Romagna 8 used, Sardinia 1 used, 6 used, Sicilia 1 used, 7 used and unused, the collection unfolds with Italian Kingdom, Mi.-Nr. 12 used, 153-156 used, 479-487 mint never hined, Official D9 unused, advanced Agean Islands with 34-42 unused, 115-120 unused, 146-165 unused, etc., together with a few covers. Mixed condition in the early issues, overall in very good condition, many good values signed or with certificates, an alluring holding in one album

1851/60, unused, mint never hinged and used group containing better items like Modena Mi.-Nr.  9 unused pair and block of four, 10 unused block of four, Romagna Mi.-Nr. 1 used pair, Mi.-Nr. 8 unused pair, Mi.-Nr. 6 unused block of 15 fromn the lower right sheet corner, Sardinia Mi.-Nr. 11 and five examples Mi.-Nr. 13 on piece with red cds. “MILANO”,  Tuscany Mi.-Nr.  7, in addition Switzerland Rayon II  10 Rp. as strip of three, mixed condition

1852/67, extensive mint never hinged/unused and used collection, great number of duplicates together with some multiples, some better items like Papal States Mi.-Nr. 10-11 used, Sicilia 1 used, 7 used, etc., many reprints and some forgeries noted; mixed condition, a few values signed Diena, Pfenninger or with certificates, a useful lot, in one album

1852/60, unused and used collection with a group of covers, many forgeries noted, also some interesting material, some duplication and a few multiples, an exotic lot in mixed condition

1406/1860 (ca.), massive postal history collection with circa 800 stampless covers, strength with Republic of Venetia, starting with 1406 entire from Venezia, 1456 and 1524 "Cito, Cito" from Milano and Bergamo, 1594 forwarded letter from Turin, followed by a strong assembly of the Republic of Venice with many better items from the 18th century, some scarce postmarks with 1722 "SS.L.F.D.BR", 1785 "SAN VITO", 1781 red "PADOVA", 1767 red "BASAN", 1784 ornamental "CFC", 1746 ornamental "PORTOGRUARO" (Vollmeier Type 48), two rare mails from the Perarolo Post, some scarce incoming mail with 1709 Corfu, 1710 Caneat, 1748 Smirne, many annotations and taxes, etc., as to be expected some occasional forged postmarks noted. A delightful connoisseur´s assembly in overall good condition, many signed Paolo Vollmeier or illustrated in his opus "Republica di Venezia", in 16 albums

1455/1860 (ca.), outstanding postal history collection with over 750 stampless covers, large section of Republic of Venetia with a wide range of city postmarks and usages, starting with some early merchants mail from Ferrara, Rom and Florenz, good section of disinfected mail with label "UFFIZIO DI DISINFEZIONE IN REGGIO", 1790 "Spagata alla Sanita", 1847 Italian post office in Constantinople marked with disinfection crosses, many transit and tax annotations like "Porto Pogato", Subito", etc., some Chargé covers, soldier´s mail with manuscipt "Service Militaire" and handstamps "MINISTRO DELLA GUERRA", 1808 mail under French rule of the Two Sicilies with scarce "POSTE FRANÇAISE À NAPLES", and more. An excellent specialist´s assembly in overall good condition, in 13 albums and one box

1701/1812 (ca.), French Military Post in Italy, extensive collection with over 140 covers, spanning from the Spanish succession war to the Napoleonic campaigns, starting with 1702 entire with manuscript "DL a italie", followed by a selection of Polish succession war mails (6) with manuscript and handstamped "AR. DITALIE", 1734 "ARMEE DITAL.", Austrian succession war with "AM. DE FLANDRE", end of 18th century campaigns with 1793 three-line "ARMEE REVOLUTIONNAIRE DU MIDI", 1797 "ARMÉE DES ALPES", some better items like 1810 red "N°19 PORT-PAYÉ ARM. D´ITALIE", 1806 red "N°22 ARM. D´ITALIE", rare 1799 boxed "ARMÉE D´ITALIE 1ERE DIVON" (Reinhardt 25 pts), 1809 "BAU GAL ARM. DE DALMATIE" (Reinhardt 21 pts), 1806 red "2EME CORPS GRANDE ARMÉE", etc.; a fine specialist assembly, in 5 albums