384. Auction

1851/1926, mostly used collection with covers and cards incl. Zeppelin covers, without top values, but the early issues with good stamps, neatly in a preprinted album

1947/2012, in the beginning used, from 1970 in the main catalogue numbers mostly complete mint never hinged collection incl. souvenir sheets, booklets and coil stamps, in five hingeless albums

1966/2016 assembly of mint ZIP Code blocks of four, comprising one stock book, significant part of the continuous series, never hinged condition, additionally a selection of newer blocks of four, noted variety of imperf. blocks of four on three of the birds series Scott 4991-4995, a superb lot. 

1974/1981 large selection of mint plate blocks, contained within two thick stock albums, comprising only the special issues, many larger blocks, some duplication, exclusively never hinged, significant catalogue value.

1980/2016 complete mint collection of Coil issues, presented within a large Lindner green leather bound volume, never hinged, many scarcer, including Scott 1891 with plate numbers 1, 3 and 6 in strips of five, extremely rare assembly.  

1994/2016 extensive mint self adhesive collection, comprising four Leuchtturm black albums, presented on the pre-printed album pages, includes corner marginals, blocks, minisheets, strips, many scarcer, mint never hinged, vast array of extremely eye catching material. 

1998/2016 (ca.), about 130 imperforated mnh sheets and unsevered printing sheets of stamps, booklet panes and souvenir sheets

1785/1868, group of nine covers, with 1785 Nantes to Baltimore with “N. York Aug 29” straight-line; 1807 folded letter datelined “Nantz”, to New York, with  “N. Bedford Ms” c.d.s., this an early New Bedford ship use; 1812 stampless letter from Jacmel, Haiti, to Baltimore (stained); 1840 Grand Coteau, Louisiana manuscript cancel on folded letter via New York & Le Havre to Beauvais, France; 1843 Louisville, Ohio manuscript cancel on double-weight stampless letter to Paris; 1847 folded letter from New Orleans to Austria via Boston forwarding agents S.C. Thwing & Co; 1865 cover from San Francisco to Fontainebleu, via New York & Le Havre, franked with 1858 10c. green and 1862 5c. red brown; 1867 New York to Basel, Switzerland stampless cover via Le Havre; and 1868 New Orleans printed circular to France, franked with 15c. black Lincoln single franking; condition mixed with some faults to be expected in places, but several fresh and fine items.

1860/1940 (ca.), accumulation fo several hundred covers and cards, mostly adressed to Europa. Beginning with three frankings of the 1857-60 3 c. rose, one of which on charming illustrated cover “Brandreth House, N.Y.” further 1875 5c c. blue (Scott 179) on cover to Prussia, Scott 226+236 on 1893 Return Receipt cover from San Francisco to Honolulu, 1908 Jamestown Exposition 5 c. blue (Scott 330) on cover per “SS Deutschland” to Zürich, correspondance to stamp dealer Eduard Luder in Switzerland including 1926 registered cover marked “Found in ordinary mail” and registered letter with 1922 Flat Plate 1c. green and 2c red in imperf. blocks of four (Scott 575+577) or 1942 “Service Suspended” cover to unoccupied France. Varied and interesting though in rather mixed condition.

1925/35, collection of 66 “Roesler” airmail covers including better items such  Zeppelin covers (7) including 1929 Meditteranean Flight with German franking, Hydroplane Mail 1925 (1) or Lindbergh cover 1927 as well as some first fligth covers. 

1927/41, collection of some one hundred airmail covers including Trans Pacific Airmail (30), Trans Atlantic Airmail (61) and 9 Lidnbergh flights. 

1862/1960, comprehensive mint never hinged/unused and used collection, starting from the State Revenues and extensively filled with many interesting items like Scott-Nr. R31c, R79a, R83a, R96a, R97a, R99a-c, R102a-c, R129-131, R150, R223 (some of the former repaired or with the usual small faults), followed by many specialties like Proprietary RB 8a-b, Stock Transfer RD 112, RD 207-208, RD 311, Cordials and Wines RE 179, Silver Tax RG 22, etc., also good section of Documentary and Narcotic Tax issues. Mixed condition, with two certificates, a robust assembly, neatly mounted in one album

1840/1940(ca.), ungebrauchte und gestempelte Sammlung mit u.a. Großbritannien ab Mi.-Nr. 1-2 sowie vier besseren Pfund-Werten, Liechtenstein mit einigen bessere, guter Teil Österreich sowie Niederlande, Norwegen und Ungarn, etwas unterschiedliche Erhaltung

1840/80 (ca.), small holding with stamps from Great Britain from Michel No. 1, Poland, Switzerland and USA, mostly older material, plus stock book with Commemorative Issue Silver Jubilee King George 1937 from Antigua to Virgin Islands

1850/1960 (approx.), interesting small collections from Belgium to Hungary with loose stamps incl. airmail, old covers and postal stationery cards, including Estonia with commercial posts, Russia with registered covers, R-GSK Hungary 1885 and Monako with i.a. souvenir sheet 1 used and Mi.-Nr. 137 mint never hinged, clean on self-designed album pages in three albums

1850/1950 (ca.), rather nostalgic lot comprising a european collection in four somewhat aged volumes with more substantive sections of France, German States, Greece, Italian States, Switzerland from 1851, 5 Rp. “Rayon I” and Great Britain with 1840, 1d. black and 2 d. blue, 1883 2s. 6d. lilac (SG 58) and 1902-10, ½ d. - 5s. (SG 83-95) as well as three historic stamp albums  ("Illustrirtes Briefmarken-Album", c. 1880, “Schaubek´s illustriertes Briefmarken-Album”, 13. Edition, 1891 and the 1912 edition of the same publication), a 1932 Michel european catalogue and a number of loose stamps in stockbooks, cigar boxes and similar recepticles. Mixed condition. 

1850/80, small collection of European first issues used and/or on cover including most German States with Baden, Bavaria, Hannover, Prussia, Mecklenburg-Schwerin with 4/4 S. red (Mi.-No. 1) used folded letter from Rostock to Laage, Thurn und Taxis incl. 6 Kr. black on red (Mi.-No. 9), strip of three on complete entire from St. Goarshausen to Epernay (France), Württemberg, also Belgium 10 C. black, Greece 20 C. blue, Luxemburg 10 C. black, Napoli 2G. and 5 G. Netherlands  5 C. blue and 10 C. red, Spain 6 Cs. black and Sweden 4 Sk. blue each on cover, Papal States, Bulgaria, GB used in Malta etc. Mostly good condition. 

1850/1990 (ca.), Posten auf Steckkarten, dabei viel Altdeutschland inkl. Sachsen Mi.-Nr. 10 auf Briefteil (Registraturbug) und mittlere Blocks verschiedener Gebiete. Unterschiedliche Erhaltung.