Heinrich Köhler 385 Auction – Day 3

Jersey, in-depth postmark collection, pre-stamp to modern, a highly specialised study comprising over six hundred covers, postcards, postal forms, and receipts, plus single stamps, representing well over a century of postal history, showcasing the myriad types of cancellations used on the island, including squared circles with foreign destinations or uses as transit marks, a range of Parcel Post cancellations including on £1 Victoria and Edward VII stamps, various instructional markings such as "Too Late", "Undelivered", "Liable to Letter Rate", and "Contrary to Regulations", PAID markings, notably a scarce 1891 violet oval "Post Office / Express / Paid", and a 1943 usage on a newspaper, as well as an oval "PD" on an 1873 folded letter bearing three 1d red stamps to St. Malo, plus single franking covers with 4d stamps from 1859 and 1862 to St. Beziers and St. Brieuc, over 100 examples of slogan and machine cancels, a detailed study of single-circle postmarks, "Boite Mobile" Jersey/France datestamps, including a scarce 1866 usage from Dinan to Jersey via St. Malo, later paquebot postcard usages, rate markings, numeral cancels such as "409" including on a 1s Embossed cover to Naples, duplex cancels, Maltese Cross cancels including an 1840 Penny Black cover to Edinburgh, over 35 examples of double-arc cancellations, registration markings including a rare Crown registered marking on an 1860 cover from Jersey to Great Britain, an extensive study of oval registered cancellations, with scarcer origins incuding First Tower and private postal stationery usages, including 1894 and 1898 registered envelopes to Brussels and Paris, an exceptional and comprehensive study, the product of many years of diligent research and accumulation, offering a wealth of scarce and elusive material, condition somewhat mixed, particularly among earlier covers, but many are fine and highly desirable, a collection worthy of close inspection by the specialist to fully appreciate its scope and significance.