388th Auction

1 c. ocher vertical pair, 2 c. red and 10 c. green, tied by large cds “SHANGHAI” to registered postcard to Austria with additional Hong Kong 2 c. rose horizontal pair and 10 c. lilac/red tied in transit with small cds “HONG KONG NO 28 98”, handed over to French paquebot with hexagonal “LIGNE N 3 DEC 98” and registration circle handstamp “R” alongside, arrival “MAIDHOFEN 31 12 98”. The card with a vertical crease barely affecting one adhesive, fine. An attractive combination enhanced by the registration status

1898, Coiling Dragon 10 c. green, neatly tied by bilingual cds “PEKING 23 NOV 99” with additional Japanese 10 s. brown with “IPO.” (Webb Type Peking 1) to red band envelope to Dorchester, USA, handed over in transit to the foreign Japanese Office with “SHANGHAI I.J.P.O 28 NOV 99", reverse transit and arrival; the 10 cents adhesive with small fault, the envelope with minor soiling at top, still fine. An exceedingly rare usage from the IPO marking on a Japanese adhesive, certificate Haveman BPP (2026)

1902, Coiling Dragons ½ c. and 1 c. ochre, two singles of each value, tied by cds “KIAOCHOW 27 DEC 02” to postal stationery card 1 c. to Germany with additional Kiautschou 5 pfg. applied for foreign outbound despatch, very fine. A most appealing multicolour combination franking

1898, C.I.P. 1 c. reply card from Tsinanfu, uprated coiling dragon 1 c. and 2 c. tied lunar dater CHINAN 7.3.06, bilingual CHINAN 7.3.06 and french SHANG-HAI CHINE 14/MARS/06 alongside, to Magdeburg Germany with arrival mark 19.4.06, fine

1888, 20 c. carmine-rose, unissued Horse & Dragon, unused part original gum, small h.r., bright color, light vertical crease, otherwise fine appearance, these stamps were printed by Bradbury, Wilkinson & Co. but were never issued (Chan F16) signed Gebr. Senf Leipzig and Holcombe

1950, First PRC Anniversary, First Printing 100 d. two singles and horizontal pair, 2000 d. three singles together with additional franking, tied by cds. “SHANGHAI 51 1 16” to registered envelope via Hong Kong to London, minor franking faults of no importance, fine and scarce usage

1950, Soviet-Chinese Friendship, 400 d.-800 d. complete set with Postal Conference 400 d., all First Printing with additional franking to airmail envelope to Switzerland, except for some occasional minor perf toning in very fine condition, scarce

1951, 2nd Anniversary of the People´s Republic Founding, 100 d.- 800 d. (400 d. two singles), complete set neatly tied to reverse of an airmail envelope to the Yaroslav Oblast in USSR, on front transit cds. “LENINGRAD ”, very fine

1964, 15th PRC Anniversary, 8 f. complete strip of three (folded vertically between stamps), neatly tied with additional franking on reverse to envelope to Lalitpur, Nepal with arrival cds., president Mao quote imprint at upper left “what is most feared in the world is the word serious. The Communist Party is the one that values the word serious the most”. Fine and scarce usage

1965, People´s Army, four values tied to unaddressed FDC envelope, slightly stained at top otherwise very fine, together with Women in the workforce five values on unaddressed FDC, very fine

1967, Mao´s Poems, 8 f. tied by cds. to inland illustrated envelope, fine, in addition three envelopes with single frankings from the 1967 Poem issues, usual quality, scarce Cultural Revolution mail

1970, Defence of the Homeland 4 f. in vertical pair, scarce perforation type 10:11½, tied by cds. to reverse of an envelope with imprint “Wuhan Automobile Standard Parts, Guanshan, Wuchang”, the pair with a vertical paper pre-fold, still fine, most unusual

1917, Camilo Torres 1 c., plate proofs in black, green, sepia and orange, each in block of ten without gum, the orange block with horizontal crease affecting the bottom row, the sepia one toned and a few minor faults, otherwise fine, scarce assembly

1865, folded registered entire from Mansura to Cairo, large boxed ´per consegna´ mark and blue ´Franca´ alongside, '4' piastre rate in manuscript, written on on l.j.d.l. & cie' wm. paper, on reverse blue arrival mark ´Posta Vice Reali Egiziane Cairo 14/AUG/64´, horizontal filing fold, fine and very rare Posta Europea registered mail. 

1948/49, Wilhelmina overprinted 50 c., imperforated proof in part double sheet of 170 stamps with 10 gutter pairs and errors 'small IN' on pos. 77 left sheet and 'NDONESIA' on pos 47 of right sheet. Most likely unique.

1949, Temples 15 s. – 80 s. as imperforated ungummed proofs, each in gutter-block of 8, vf  

1949, Temples 15 s. - 25 r. as imperforated ungummed proofs, each in block of 24, few with small stains  

1950, RIS overprint, 1-12½,25,45-50,80 s. and 1 r., all as imperforated proofs, ungummed, 40 s. tiny stain on reverse, otherwise very fine. Very scarce.

1951, Asian Olympic games 5-35 s., the complete set as imperforated proofs on ungummed paper in sheets of 100 (10 s., 20 s. and 35 s. one stamp each removed) with marginal inscibtions and manuscript printing dates of early January 1950. Also sheet 5 s. (one stamp removed) without marginal inscriptions, dated 1.11.50. Few values slightly stained. A most likely unique ensemble.

1954, Definitives 10-25 and 35-90 s. as imperforated proofs in gutter-strips of 4, ungummed, 50 c. folded in the gutter and one tiny stain, otherwise very fine.

1899, Wrapper 6 ch. orange, violet arabesque control handstamp, cancelled with oval "TEHERAN MAIDAN" addressed to Lancesshire England, rough opened, otherwise fine and very scarce. PROFI archive has recorded only one used.  (Persiphila PW5A, unpriced)

1905, Jaffa – Jerusalem Railway: Turkey 10 para green tied by very rare bilingual “Bur.Amb. Jaffa-Jerusalem 1”, without date segment, blue handstamp (Steichele 53/05) to postcard sent from Bethlehem to Prague, alongside arrival cds., fine.

1908, Jaffa – Jerusalem Railway: Turkey 20 para rose-carmine tied by very rare bilingual “Jaffa-Jerusalem 6/4/908” cds., (Steichele RP7) to postcard sent from Jerusalem to Rastatt, alongside arrival cds. 14/4/08, fine.

1934, Airmail souvenir sheet, fresh colours, lightly hinged, vf

1895/98, Taegeuk 25 p. lilac-red, second printing, fresh colours, tied by bisected circle to envelope to Seoul with arrival cds. “SEOUL 29 UIL 02” alongside, the adhesive one short perf at bottom, of no importance, still fine

1897, Tai Han 10 p.- 50p., orange overprints type I, together with 3 ch., neatly tied by cds. “SEOUL COREE 29 DEC 00” repeated alongside with red framed handstamp “R SEOUL N°” to registered envelope to St Petersburg, Russia, reverse transit via Shanghai and arrival cds., 50 p. light corner crease, some minor peripheral toning at top of no importance, still very fine. A rare and early UPU cover, signed with certificates Robineau (2011) and Scheller (2011)

1 ch., horizontal pair with upper sheet margin, neatly tied by cds. “SEOUL 20 JANV 02” repeated alongside to illustrated postcard to Tokyo, engaging text in French describing the Korean hairstyles and hats, negligible soiling of no importance, still very fine

1900, Plum Blossoms 1 ch., horizontal pair of fresh colours, neatly tied by cds. “SEOUL 20 JANV 02 COREE” to illustrated postcard to Tokyo, interesting text in French “somewhat like Korea itself, moving at a tortoise´s pace and weighed down by the heavy masses of old baroque customs … Note that the Japanese sit on it!”, very fine

4 ch., fresh colours, neatly tied by cds. “CHEMULPO 20 APRIL 03” to UPU illustrated postcard to Graz, Austria with transit and arrival marks, very fine and scarce usage

4 ch., fresh colours, tied by cds."SEOUL 6 JUIN 3" with transit “CHEMULPO” and “SHANG-HAI 12 UIN 03” to UPU illustrated postcard to Paris, very fine

10 ch. horizontal pair, used with bisected postmark repeated alongside with cds. “SEOUL 4 AOUT 3” and boxed “R SEOUL N°” to registered envelope to Bulle, Switzerland, reverse arrival cds. 18.IX.03, negligible toning on a few perf, otherwise very fine, scarce and attractive usage

10 ch. neatly tied by cds. “SEOUL 6 SEPT 04” to envelope to USA with reverse arrival “BOWLING GREEN OHIO OCT 14 1904”, the back flap with small closed tear, still very fine and attractive

1901, UPU postal stationery card 4 ch. used from “Syen Chyun” with transit cds. “CHEMULPO 31 JUIL 03” to Paris, fine (Higgins & Gage-Nr. 2)

1901, UPU postal stationery card 4 ch. used with cds “CHEMULPO 28 SEPT 01” repeated alongside via Shanghai to Braunschweig with arrival cds., very fine (Higgins & Gage-Nr. 2)

1951, Participation in Korean War 500 wn. complete set of 44 stamps and 22 souvenir sheets, unmounted mint as issued. 

1870, Turkey postage due 20 pa. brown, 1869 issue perf. 13¼, horizontal pair and single, tied to entire letter from Beirut to Damas, paying the rate for three dirhems up to 100 route hours; each tied by fine strikes of small triple boxed "BEIRUT / 81" handstamps in blue (Coles & Walker fig. 4), tiny toned, stamps and postmarks excellent.