Worldwide Stamps and Postal History

1878 Dom Pedro 10r-1000r green, composite American Bank Note Company proof sheetlet (on thin india paper) folded through the vignettes horizontally and vertically, some thinning (probably removed from card backing), otherwise fine, very rare -

1930 Pan-America flight from Rio de Janeiro to Friedrichshafen, franked with the set of three Zeppelin adhesives (scarce on one cover), plus additional stamps, filing folds and minor cover wear away from the stamps, with appropriate cachet and arrival pmk -

1899 (18 Oct) registered AR commercial cover franked with 5c and 10c (2), sent to St Georges, Bermuda, with Santiago, Valparaiso and New York Registered labels on the front, numerous transit cds on both sides, including arrival in Bermuda on De 18, 1899, some cover toning and wear, uncommon destination -

1887 (16 Mar) cover with blue "Shanghai Local Post" departure postmark on back, franked on front with 3 Can red, cancelled (not tied) by oval chop, perf. faults, sent via the French Post Office in Shanghai, with 25c Type Sage added for further transmission to Gross Salze, with arrival postmark (24 Apr), wax seal removed from back, filing folds away from the stamps, some overall wear and toning, otherwise a fine and rare item, signed Roger...

1888-98 Small Dragon, 3c lilac, also CIP 5c and 50c, plus 20c and 100c Revenues, each with green or red surcharge, fine and scarce -

190 (Apr) registered picture postcard from Shanghai, franked with two each 1/2c and 2c, also single 10c C.I.P. Coiling Dragon, sent via the French Post Office where 10c and 25c Chine overprints were added for further transmission via "Ligne N Paq Fr. No.1" to Germany, with Stuttgart arrival cds, card creases, otherwise fine -

1901 (Apr) German Feld-Postkarte with 5pf and 25pf overprints, tied by Tientsin Deutsche Post cds, registered to Potsdam, with additional stamps of Japanese, French, Russian, India C.E.F., United States and Imperial China added alongside and cancelled at their prospective post offices, fine card, with arrival postmark -

1905 native cover, registered from Amoy to Saigon, franked on back with two pairs of 5c C.I.P., Tay Ninh and Saigon Cochinchine postmarks on front, little toning, scarce usage -

1986 $2 Macaw, 300 copies (three sheets of 100), n.h., folded between the stamps, v.f. -
Cat. Val. $ 420

1854-1856 two letters to New York, first outer FL from Bogota, with "Encaminada por Pedro Macia Cartagena" in black, also red "T. R. Cowan, Navy Bay Chagres" (rare); second complete FL with contents from Barranquilla to New York, with red "Forwarded Ramon Leon Sanchez Cartagena" in oval, also "Received and Forwarded Druce, Eckhart Cartagena" in black on reverse, Steamship 20 on arrival, fine pair of double forwarded letters -

1919 First Experimental Air Mail Flight, Barranquilla to Puerto Colombia to Barranquilla by American aviator William Knox Martin, June 18, 1919. On this occasion, 200 copies of 2centavo stamps were overprinted at Barranquilla Printing Office. This was executed in horizontal strips of ten, which were severed with a guillotine knife, causing horizontal perforations to have a "cut" appearance. Of the total stamps issued, 160 were used on covers...