385th Auction

1851/2016 (ca.), massive mint never hinged, unused and used collection, strength in the modern area with some huge facial postal value, many duplicates, multiples and complete sheets, some better items like Recalled Scott-Nr. 2870(3), together with a good selection of modern booklets, some occasional faults in the early issues, overall in very good and fresh condition, neatly housed in 56 albums and stockbooks

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

1855/2020, mixed collection incl. a good part valid postage, booklets, souvenir and miniature sheets, etc., in 19 hingeless albums

1860/1996 (ca.), large mostly used accumulation, incl. Fiscals, many duplicates, together with some souvenir sheets and a few covers, mixed condition, in 21 stockbooks and 3 albums

1861/1979, mint never hinged/unused and used stock with approx. 2–3000 stamps, in the beginning mostly used stamps and later MNH blocks of four, sheets and part sheets, further some European miniature sheets

1870/2022, in the beginning mostly used and later from 1976-2022 in the main catalogue numbers apparently complete collections featuring complete sets, early and modern souvenir sheets, booklets and booklet panes, etc., a good part valid postage, in the beginning strongly mixed, later in good condition, in four hingeless albums

1870/90, small group of 22 plate proofs on India paper, mostly in good condition

1969/1990, mint assortment of more than 40 varieties and specialities, comprising imperf. stamps mainly in pairs, missing colours/missing value/missing inscription etc., 

1976/2014 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used accumulation with covers and FDCs, incl. UNO, mostly mint with a fair amount of facial postal value, many duplicates, booklets, souvenir sheets, etc., neatly housed in 10 albums

1998/2012, in the main catalogue numbers apparently complete mint never hinged collection incl. many souvenir and miniature sheets, blocks of ten, booklets, etc., enormous part valid postage, good condition, in two large stockbooks

1799/1940, interesting group with approx. 100 covers and some cards with good frankings

1801/75, 21 letters from or (few) to the US, almost all transatlantic with several transit- and accountancy marks

1835/1900 (ca.), nice group of postal history with about 50 items, including "VIA VICARAGUA…", transatlantic mail, etc.

1838/1995 (ca.), group of covers, cards and postal stationeries, incl. Revenues, some better items with an early 15 cents franking tied by cork cancel to transatlantic mail from New York to Hanau with three-line “AMERICA ÜBER BREMEN FRANCO” and red cds. “NEW YORK BREMEN PAID” alongside, small group of stampless covers with Lancaster 1845 folded entire with 5 cents carrier rate struck in blue, also some early single frankings, Columbian Exposition illustrated postcards(7), First Flights covers, parcel cards, etc., mixed condition, in 9 albums

1850/1910, interesting group of more than 30 cards and covers, some better frankings, Wells Fargo Express Envelope to San Francisco, cover with red provisional octagon rate stamp “PHILA 5 Cts PAID” etc., mostly good condition

1880/2015 (ca.), large unused and used postal stationery collection with around 2500 items, some duplicates, strength after 1950s, together with a few foreign stationeries, mostly in very fine and fresh condition, neatly housed in 19 albums

1880/2014 (ca.), large accumulation of over 750 covers, incl. Official Mail and Canal Zone, together with a large group of over 900 FDC from 1937 to 1987, some occasional faults, mostly in fine and fresh condition, neatly housed in 17 albums

1880/1950 (ca.), balance of apprx. 400 covers, good percentage of used/unused stationery envelopes, also uprated, registered, censored and airmail, vignettes, etc., mixed condition from postal wear/faults to fine.

1880/2006 (ca), accumulation of covers, cards and postal stationeries, some better usages incl. airmails, combination frankings with some Colombus values, catapult mail via the Bremen, USS Akron 1932 training flight, several covers to Germany via Graf Zeppelin, etc., together with some litterature, mixed condition

1929/89 (ca), American First Flight collection with well over 3500 covers, strength before the 1970s, also “American Air Mail Catalogue” in five volumes, overall in very good condition, neatly housed in 36 albums

Western Mail & Express Companies consignment balance, with over thirty five nineteenth century covers, several express company printed franks, noting Pacific Union Express (including one on Matteson & Williamson full-front advertising entire), one Pacific Express “Volcano” blue oval handstamp, stagecoach illustrated Coast Overland Mail Company cover, Lamping & Co's Express, Langton, Adams & Co, Greenhood & Newbauer, and four Wells Fargo including blue oval “Ophir” handstamp on missent cover to Gold Hill, scarcer cancellations including Santa Clara and San Buenaventura manuscript cancels, Silver Mountain c.d.s. on 12c. rate transatlantic cover to London (faults), attractive El Paso de Robles Hot and Cold Sulphir Springs advertising cover, dual Union Pacific Railroad from North Platte and Wells, Fargo & Co Express from Stockton labels on redirected cover from Santa Cruz to San Jose (flaws), City Express / G & H PAID label on Wells, Fargo cover from San Francisco to Oregon, and unusual California usage of 1873 3c Official on cover from Grass Valley, condition varies significantly, but with several scarcer covers noted, worthy of close inspection.

2005/2009, interesting group of 8 souvenir sheets, most with artist and engravers signatures, including Scott# RW73b, RW74b and RW75b, 4 certificates PSE.

Also including 2 x the  $15.00 2005 Hunting Permit, souvenir sheet with the Atrist's signature in black (Scott RW72b, mint never hinged, each catalogue value 1.900,-) Extremely fine quality. 1.000 souvenir sheets were printed and sold for $ 20,- each, all are signed by the artist, approximately 750 in black, 150 in blue an 100 in gold.

1859/1991, mint never hinged/unused and mostly used collection, including Fiscals and Officials, also some souvenir sheets together with a few covers, mixed condition especially in the classics, neatly mounted in one album

1866/67, used collection on neatly written up pages, including 1c. (2), ½r. (61), 1 r. (20), 2r. (4) and a page of forgeries, mostly good condition

1948/90 (ca.), unused and used collection, including Officials and Postage Dues, with a good choice of the 1945/46 Democratic Republic issues, some better sets and items throughout, together with a 1951 special presentation booklet “Première Émission des Timbres-Poste du Vietnam”, also a small part of Indochina and other areas, some occasional faults and dubious cancellations, overall in very good condition, in four albums and one stockbook