388th Auction

1900/24, 24 covers & cards including P.O. abroad, Cavalla, Salonique, Levant P.O., censors, registered and incoming mail, mostly different condition

1917/25, 48 parcel cards and money transfers, mainly early republic, including 1917 order from Elvechre with bisect stamp to ministery of war, good cancellations of Dardanelles, Sparta, Chorlou, Tarsus, Manisa etc., some different, mainly fine.

1875/80, KATCHAK overprints (contrebande) in black, blue and red on 74 Duloz stamps including inverted and tete-beche overprints of different types, unusual, scarce and attractive.

1925/60, Turkish Air Assosiation Collection of stamps, covers and documents including early issues, revenues, aid stamps with covers, mounted on 25 album pages, mostly fine.

1900/30, hundreds of revenues on documents mainly cancelled with all arabic ottoman cancellations.

1848/1916, 23 envelopes & cards including lost territories of Ottoman Empire, good cancellations, Pirlepe, Cerkes, Ayvalik, Hania, Camaran Jemen, Telegram receipt Jerusalem and Kerkuk, Remle, Jaffa and Bethlehem, some different.

1974/99, seemingly complete mint never hinged collection in album including proofs ('örnek' overprints), miniature sheets and WWF issues. 

1974/99, Large stock in album, mainly mint never hinged, including blocks of four and part sheets, miniature sheets and in some cases with high quantities.

1918/47 (ca.), eclectic group including Vienna printings and Regensburg camp issues, also noted Shagiv and Tridents, some better items with Regensburg 1948 top horizontal row of the sheet unused with five se-tenant values, Vienna issue printer´s trials, 1921 Svyatoshina local provisional, etc., except for the occasional fault overall in fine condition, neatly housed in one booklet

1918/20, Ukraine Tridents, over 100 unused and used stamps, including some multiples, with a fine choice of local overprints including the Romanov issue, noted Kiev, Kharkov, Poltava, etc., small part of postmarks with usages from Olgopol, Sarnovskoe and Murafa, a few values signed, neatly housed in one booklet and expertly attributed to Bulat numbers. Except for the occasional fault in overall fine condition

1918, unused, mint never hinged and used accumulation on stockcards, partly pre-sorted and classified, slightly different condition, some signed Bulat, Seichter and UPV

1929/97, mostly mint never hinged and some unused, in the main catalogue numbers complete collection incl. parts postage due and revenue, incl. Mi.-Nos. 39-44 unused (cert. Diena), 45-50 MNH, 51-58 unused (49 and 51 with cert. Raybaudi), 72 signed Raybaudi, further airmals and a used part collection from 1929-80, in two hingeless albums

1918/64, lot with mostly mint never hinged Stamps, covers and varieties, with u.o. Mi.-Nr. 243+245-48 as sheet set, varieties with Mi.-No. 472Ul, 477U, 479U, 480U, 480Uu, 483U and 484U (all mint never hinged) and Mi.-No. 776-87 on to registered airmail First Day Covers, mostly fine

1918/85 (ca.), mint never hinged/unused and used collection, including complete, miniature and souvenir sheets like Mi.-Nr. Block 4 A and B mint never hinged, Block 5 mint never hinged (2x) and unused (1x), mixed condition in the beginning after that in mostly excellent condition, in ten albums

1894/1984 (ca.), group of over 220 covers and cards, including some forerunners with Montenegro and Bosnia Herzegovina, many attractive multiple frankings, some better items throughout with 1933 Day of the International Association of Writers Mi.-Nr. 249-254 complete sets on both FDC envelope and card, Express covers, etc., except for  the occasional fault in overall very good condition, neatly housed in one album

1919/29 (ca.), 30 fiscal documents franked with adhesives from the 1919 issue used as fiscals, some interesting usages and combinations throughout, interesting specialist lot

1945/47, unused/mint never hinged and used collection with five covers/cards, with u.o. Mi.-No. 32Y mint never hinged, rare Mi.-No. 48 “Epreuve de Luxe” and  horizontal pairs Mi.-No. IV/V, mostly fine

1871/1945, Armenians in Turkey: 20 covers, postcards and documents from Ottoman Empire to Republic with armenian imprints, senders and addresses, monastery document Samsun 1908, two nice postcards armenian village and Ararat, some faults and missing or added stamps, but an interesting collection for collectors with an interest in history.

1770/1880 (ca.) Mail across the North Atlantic from-, to and via Cuba, exhibition collection with around 100 letters/letter sheets, four of which date from the 18th century, various handstamps such as ‘ISLAS DE BARLOVENTO’ in various types, ‘DE YNDIAS’, ‘PENINSULA’, etc., also various franked letters, including postal forgery and France Napoleon 5 fr. on letter. A very interesting object.

1870/1918, Postal History of Ottoman Iraq including four covers with cancellations of Kerbela, Bagdad and Nedjef Echref, on stamps Kerkuk, Remadie, Kizlar Bad, Süleymaniye, Hanekin, Hille and Mosul.

1924/79, interesting unused, mint never hinged and used collection including some better issues and souvenir sheets, mostly fine

1900/82, interesting holding in stockbook, modern part unused, noted Italian Post Offices in Libia, Eritrea, Somalia, Benadir and Africa Orientale, overall in good condition

1851/1912, delightful exhibit collection with 37 covers and cards, covering the Ottoman, Italian and French Offices in Tripoli including the consular postal services, many better usages with 1851 entire letter from Livorno via Marseilles and Malta to Tripoli de Barberia, 1881 envelope from “TRIPOLI DI BARBERIA” to Livorno with Italian Levant 5c. and 10 c. (x2) tied by mute “annulo a rombi”, official envelope headed “R. CONSOLATO D´ITALIA”  and on reverse its large seal handstamp, 1893 envelope to Constantinople with French Sage adhesives with pearled cds “TRIPOLI BARBARIE 14 FEVR 93” in mixed franking with Turkey 1 pi. adhesive (opened for display), etc.; except for the occasional fault in overall very good condition. An alluring specialist assembly, neatly mounted and described on album pages

1856/1918, Postal History of Ottoman Syria (7), including prefilatelic cover Alep, Tatar post document with cancellations of Damas and Beyrouth, postcard 1890 from Aleppo via Alexandrette and Port-Said via french ship to France, censor marks of Aleppo and Damas, 

1915/57, 43 covers and cards from ottoman period to first fights, including WWI censor cards from Aleppo and Damas, parcel card cancelled Damas 5 to Bagdad overland mail, french mandate with T.E.P.528 and 614, several modern censor marks, parcel tag to USA, additional few old photos of Damas and Egypt ship at harbour, mainly fine.

1840/1976 (ca.), mostly unused and some used group incl. a collection of booklet panes starting with German Empire until federal republic of Germany, including better issues, further a mostly mint never hinged collection Croatia 1941-44 incl. better souvenir sheets, also SAFE Signoscope 2, in carton

1840/2018, unused/mint never hinged and used stock of part collections, incl. e.g. Great Britain Penny Black used, further some Switzerland incl. valid postage, Austria from 1957-87 in the main numbers complete, etc., mostly good condition

1850/2000 (ca.), large mint never hinged/unused and used collection with some covers, many duplicates, often starting with the classic area, some better values throughout, noted Belgium from 1849 on, Portugal from 1853 on and with some modern facial values, Switzerland, Netherlands, etc., Liechtenstein with some souvenir sheets, etc., mixed condition especially in the early issues, neatly housed in 31 albums/stocbooks

1860/1978 (ca.), mostly used collections, incl. better parts Greece incl. Hermes Heads, Turkey, Italy, Austria and Spain, further Poland, Bulgaria, Hungary, Vatican, etc., in 33 hingeless Albums

1870/2020 (ca.), accumulation of mint never hinged/unused and used, mostly modern material from Kosovo, Georgia, etc., some booklets, duplicates, together with a few older issues and other areas as well, in four stockbooks/albums and some loose sheets

1879/1990, large accumulations of mostly modern material including covers, mostly Germany and UNO and CEPT, in addition a small written up collection Bosnia and Herzegowina, some Russia with a small collection of St. Petersburg Numeral cancellations, mixed condition

1880/1980, interesting lot in box, including collection Austria with good issues, Netherlands with 10 g. values, GB Mi. 1-2, etc
 

1880/1980, unused/mint never hinged dealer stock on cards, including a lot of material with better issues from Denmark, Italy, Luxembourg, Liechtenstein and the Netherlands

1880/2001, mostly unused/mint never hinged and used dealer stock with Denmark, Netherlands, Norway and Sweden, housed in 14 albums

1880/2008, unused, mint never hinged and used accumulation, mostly duplicates but also a collection of Poland and Austria, the latter containing valid postage, in addition some overseas material, slightly mixed condition 

1937/2022, mint never hinged and some used collections Europe, CEPT, UNO and forerunners in over 87 hingeless Leuchtturm albums and approx. 1000-1500 loose pages, with strength on valid postage, souvenir sheets, booklets and se-tenants from Germany, Liechtenstein, Austria, Switzerland, Denmark, Norway, Great Britain, Greece, Cyprus, etc., many multiples, starting with e.g. PAX-set, also some parts Ukraine and Russia, further some thematic parts “astronomy” incl. some memorial cards, an attractive stock in 19 cartons