388th Auction

1881/99 (ca.), unused and  used small collection including several tete beche pairs

1890/1907 (ca.), unused and used small lot with a tete beche, 3 proof blocks, used postal stationery card, etc.

1890/1985, unused and used collection, including five 1887/1904 postal stationery cards 

1908/79, Collection on Scott album leaves, starting no.1-5, many complete sets including Yv.100-123, later issues including postage due, mostly fine.

1840/60, „AN CANIB-I POSTA-I SHAM“ & „AN CANIB-I POSTA-I HALEB“, clear arabic negative seals on nine Tatar Post‘ printed forms for mail carried to and from Syria, old map of Syria, Palestine and Lebanon, very rare prefilatelic postal history.

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.

1955/75, over 100 covers and FDC, plus five sets of maximum cards, starting scouts and overprinted issue, emperors, paintings etc, mostly fine.

1883/99, album page with 41 classic issues, 1889 different overprint types 1 and 2, unused and fine.

1924/40, 12 air mail covers, including Condor and Air France flights, two air mail sets 1924 on cover, high values up to $5 on cover to Italy, some faults and spots, mainly fine.

1850/1950, interesting holding in little album, unused, incl. better values, perforations and varieties, officials, BoB, dublicates, some reprints, mainly fine.

1850/1950, interesting holding in two booklets and envelope, used with few fancy cancellations, incl. better values and varieties, parcel with perfins, coil pairs, officials, BoB, mainly fine.

1851/2020, from 1912 to 2020 mint never hinged in the beginning somewhat incomplete and from 1974 onwards in the main catalogue numbers apparently complete collection in three Scott albums. The years 1997 until 2018 originate from unfilled yearbooks. As well as a mostly used duplicates stock starting 1851 in nine big stock books. Good condition, in five large cartons

1860/1950, interesting holding in envelope, unused, incl. better values and varieties, officials, BoB with Specimen, few Porto Rico and Shanghai, some local reprints, mainly fine.

1860/1950, interesting holding in little album, early issues unused no gum, later issues mint never hinged, incl. better values, air mails, imperf pairs, Jefferson booklet pane misperf,  mainly fine.

1873/1925 (ca.), Postage Dues and Officials, small group mostly used with duplicates, noted Interior, Navy, Post, etc., better selection of Department of State, Postage Dues (ex Mi.-Nr. 2-43) and Parcel stamps, mixed condition, in one small stockbook

1945/90, in the beginning mint never hinged and some unused, later mostly used collection, incl. many blocks of four, zip-blocks, souvenir sheets, booklets and complete sets, good part valid postage, in four albums

1840/60 (ca.), Harnden Express postal history collection, , neatly-written up on pages, over twenty items beginning with a letter from William F. Harnden to the President of the Norwich and Worcester Railroad (ex Burrus), followed by a range of desirable pieces, including a rare 1847 entire to Russia (Wibourg) showing framed “POSTAGE PAID / TO DESTINATION / BY / HARNDEN & CO / OF / LIVERPOOL”, circular “PAID / H. & Co”, and reverse with “FORWARDED BY / HARNDEN & CO / BOSTON”, 1840 folded letter with “FORWARDED FROM / HARNDEN’S / PACKAGE EXPRESS & FOREIGN / LETTER OFFICE” (Boston), 1840 transatlantic to the United Kingdom with circular “FORWARDED BY / HARNDEN’S EXPRESS / FROM / BOSTON”, 1842 Havana to London forwarded via New York and Boston, 1866 Harper’s Ferry receipt, various types of “HARNDEN EXPRESS” and “HARNDEN NEW YORK AND SOUTHERN EXPRESS” envelopes, full-rigged ship illustrated “FORWARDED BY / HARNDEN & CO / NO 20 WATER ST / LIVERPOOL” oval on two folded covers, four scarce labels from Cincinnati (white), Wall Street (blue), Savannah (orange) and Baltimore (orange), concluding with embossed Livingston & Co “Late Harnden Express Forwarder” envelope with embossed illustration on flap, transatlantic letters carried via the Acadia, Columbia, Caledonia, Britannia, etc, condition varies, some items with faults, but an important assembly of scarce material recounting the history of this pioneering independent express company.

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

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