Auction 309-320 - Europe & Overseas - Day 7

1898/1997ca.: mostly used and partly unused collection in 6 albums, covering China, Brunei, Labuan, India, Sarawak, Persia, Ceylon etc., incl. some Chinese Coiling Dragons and Junk issues, PCR with some reprints, duplicates, also multiples and souvenir sheets, condition varies from poor to very fine.

1950/2000ca.: Collection Israel used/unused, with emphasis on mainly unused issues of the 60's to 80's in corner blocks of four, together with FDC collection 'Year of the Child' (1979/2002) issued by various countries from Argentine to Zaire.

1860/2000ca.: Remainders in a large box, stockbooks with Spain and Israel, a file folder for souvenir sheets with mostly Bulgaria, there are smaller stock books, Finland definitives and Great Britain unmounted and one stock book with older from Russia; a few letters and card Germany and German occupations.

1833/1917, Selection of worldwide stamps and postal history, comprising eleven items, including New Brunswick SG1 bisected on 1859 fragment used in combintion with SG3, a 1833 feather mail cover, two illustrated cards franked with 1917 Italian Emmanuel Express airmail stamps, several stamp varieties and early Philatelic Exhibition labels, a useful assembly in mixed condition although some fine. 

1890-1960ca.: ADVERTIZING LABELS, Very varied accumulation of several hundred items, mostly around 1900 with advertising labels, 'Art Nouveau', from many countries including Switzerland. Embossed labels, labels made of gold foil e.g with quite a lot of labels for the 'Buffalo Exposition 1901' and 'Louisiana Purchase Exposition 1904' etc.., there is also a French passport and some Swiss print-proofs are included.

1878: Age old album issued by 'Alwin Zschische', there are many genuine stamps, most often in extremely mixed (bad) condition, but good examples occur too eg from Switzerland a stamp Rayon I lightblue on piece appears perfect. Some stamps mostly from France and from Switzerland have been removed, saved under Hawid-mounts and laid back. There are also forgeries. An additional sheet with stamps of German City Post Hamburg (probably all reprints...

1850-1990: Amazing assortment of various remainders, the best part - a quite ample collection Italy (up to 1950) and Italian Colonies in two stockbooks, stamps are unused mounted or unmounted and very fresh, unfortunately, about the lower half is stuck to pages, as moisture affected the albums  from the bottom to about the half height. A very nice used Rayon II from Switzerland, a few modern Switzerland useful for franking, several better...

1852-1955ca: SHIP-MAIL, Accumulation with letters, covers and postcards transported by ship or, which concerns the most recent documents, simply ship topic on cover or cards. Mounted on album pages including stampless cover from Le Havre to Lima, another from VALPARAISO to SAN FRANCISCO, two letters French India with colonial issue, registered cover Russian Levant 1893, there is a single stamp 1 Centime from Diego Suarez and a registered...

1860/1970ca.: Accumulation of stamps from different countries in glassines and envelopes plus a small album with France, kind of a  treasure trove. Discovered In a folder good stamps und souvenir sheets from Portugal 1940/47 mostly per two (minor wear and two souvenir sheets folded in the margin besides the stamps) and one souvenir sheet Poland 'culture' from 1948, all these unmounted og.

1840-2005: Accumulation of stamps from many different European and oversea countries, mostly from earlier issues on to 21th century often heavily duplicated, but including most often better stamps or sets to modern issues. Total 32 albums of which 31 are stockbooks and just one collection, Isle of Man, which is housed in a preprinted Album. Noteworthy are Albania, France, Great Britain (2x Penny black), Italy, Norway, Poland, Portugal, Russia...

1855/1980: Accumulation of several hundred covers, mostly from real postal use, with a few intersting items, such as censored covers, stationery, a few philatelic frankings etc. A bit mixed condition.

1910/58: Accumulation of  twenty-two entires mostly Airmail and related including Zeppelin flight POMMERNFAHRT 1931, DANZIG Airmail 1935 to Sweden, US LZ 129. Flight, a ten year PRZEMYSL baloon 1915 souvenir flight, a DDR German Chinese Friendship set on entire and other items.