388th Auction

1848/60 (ca.), Eastern Express Companies, just over twenty items, written-up on pages, noting Adams Express Company, New York, two stampless covers with different embossed corner cards; Bryant & Spear’s / Penobscot Express, Boston, green label on cover to Maine; rare “Forwarded by / Prince’s / Boston & Portland / Express” label in red on folded cover (untied, vertical crease); Wells & Co’s Express, with 1848 entire from Albany to Buffalo, 1849 cover from Buffalo to New York with yellow “Wells & Co’s” label, 1850 entire from Albany to New York with pink label, small group of receipts for payment showing the partners, offices, agencies, etc; Livingston, Wells & Co Express group with 1854 entire from Paris to Massachusetts forwarded with blue cachet, c. 1855 envelope with cachet of Paris agency forwarded to New York; Wells, American Express Co. covers with yellow “Buffalo, Albany & New York” label, “St. Johnsville” in red, “Albany” in green, varying condition, some covers and labels with faults, crease, etc, but a fascinating group to continue further study of this popular field.   

1860/1930, over 100 covers, postcards & stationerys, including early issues, blue and interesting cancellations, bisects, registered mail, many usages to Europe, Canal Zone, some different.

1865/1960, ca. 160 covers incl. many airmail covers, cards with better picture postcards and postal stationeries, with u.o. patriotic cover “The Union Forever" with 3 c., registered covers, many postal stationeries with additional frankings and advertising covers and cards. In addtion some modern mint never hinged and used stamps ex 1983/94 with sheets and express stamps inkl. booklet 1983, mostly fine

1878/1995, about 500-600 covers, with the focus on unused and used postal stationery envelops, in the beginning some early and better airmail and Zeppelin-mail, including varieties, in six big binders

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

1920/1980, X-Mas, Charity and Welfare, large and interesting accumulation with thousands of cinderella-stamps, comprising christmas-seals, various welfare funding stamps for children, handicapped persons, anti-tuberculosis stamps and further items. Many complete sheets. In addition several catalogs and price lists for christmas-seals.

1904/78, very interesting and substantial unused and used collection with covers, starting with MI.-Nr. 1-3 unused and on cover, Mi.-Nr. 2 and 3 each on cover, Mi-.Nr. 4-8 unused and used, Mi.-Nr. 29-37, 54-68 unused, 1912/16 2c. inverted center, Unissued I-VII, many multiples including plate-numbers, overprint types and varities like Mi.-Nr. 59 as “tete-beche” pair with right stamp showing inverted “CANAL”, Specimen, booklet panes, different perforations, many varities throughout, also Officials and Postage Due, cards and covers, postal stationery including Cordoba 2 c. with variety “Vignette & CANAL ZONE” only, and a few items incoming mail, all neatly written up on pages, some certificates and literature, mostly good condition

1956/58, four airmail covers to Germany with various combination frankings, all with departure cds. “HANOI”, mostly fine

1854/2000 (ca.), large overseas mint never hinged/unused and used accumulation with duplicates, noted China, USA, India, French Colonies, Latin America, etc., neatly housed in 34 stockbooks

1860/1990 (ca.), mint, unused and used holding in 7 stockbooks and albums 

1860/1980 (ca.), Partie in 17 Alben und Steckbüchern, dabei altes Schaubeck-Album

1860/1950, assembly noted USA, British Colonies, South America etc., some different, mostly in good condition, in one album.

1880/2006 (ca.), ca. 600-700 covers and cards, incl. postal stationery, registered, good part airmal, early material incl. e.g. Tibet Mi.-No. 7 on cover, etc., interesting cancels and cachets, etc., in box

1895/1975 (ca)  unsued and used collection French Colonies and successor states, with stamps from a.o. Algeria, Dahomey, French Sudan, Obock, Gabon, Guinea, Cameroon, Madagascar with better overprint stamps, Réunion, Senegal, Somalia and Togo. Plus two page with the general issues 1859/86 incl. postage due, mostly in good condition

1847/1991, mostly used and later mint never hinged part collection incl. some better values and valid postage, in two albums

1880/1980, Asia from classics to modern with Bhutan gift book, circle and 3D stamps and covers, some China in glassines, some different, mainly fine.

1880/2000, mint never hinged/unused and used assembly, noted Afghanistan, Azerbaijan, Iran, China, Japan, Vietnam, souvenir sheets etc., mostly in very good condition, in large album

1937/2025 (ca.), Macau and taiwan accumulation of covers, noted a group of 1937 First Flights Macau-USA, etc., mostly in good condition

1944/82 (ca.), group of 18 covers and cards with various frankings and interesting usages form Indochina, Vietnam and Cambodia, noted military free frank envelope with large red “NHA XA-HO Q.D.V.N.C.H” (Nha Xa South Vietnam Military Forces), Indian incoming postal stationery card from “SALEM 12 JLY 52” to Saigon with additional postage dues applied on arrival, 1982 envelope from Vietnam addressed to the French Republic President in Paris, etc., overall in good condition

1919/85, mint never hinged and used selection, including French Syria, Jordan, Jemen, etc., mostly in very good condition, in two small stockbooks

1880/1990, Collection of Australia in a pre-printed album from the classics onwards, accompanied by two file folders of covers and postal stationery, over 200 in total. Together with New Zealand several album pages from classics on and stockbook with stamps in two albums with covers and postal stationery, containing both earlier and more recent examples.

1854/90 (ca.), Afghanistan to Zululand, magnificent unused and used collection, only classical and semi-classical issues nicely arranged by regions in an old time “Jugendstil” album, spanning Americas to Asia with British Empire, among many areas noted Afghanistan with Tiger Heads, Straits Settlements from the Crown Colony 1867, Sungei Ujong, excellent group of Indian Feudatory States with Bamra from 1888, Jammu and Kashmir with early watercolours, early Bhopal, many medium level sets and better values like China 1878 Large Dragons 1c.- 5c. used, Barbados SG-Nr. 64 used, Cyprus 1882 SG-Nr. 5 unused without gum (FA Knopke), St Lucia 1863 Sg-Nr. 7-8 unused, St Pierre & Miquelon 1885 5c. on 75 c. Mi.-Nr. 9 unused (signed A. Brun), South Australia 1855/56 1 d. green imperforate used, Western Australia 4 d. perf 14 unused, etc. Some old-time forgeries noted, some values signed. Slightly mixed condition as to be expected, in one superb album with embossed binding and gold-like gilding