1864, 7 Schilling yellowish orange in a horizontal strip of 3, fresh colours and well perforated, with neatly upward applied cancellations on piece with adjacent red "HAMBURG (PAID)". Tiny tooth notch on right stamp (postage stamp), otherwise fine. Largest known multiples of this stamp and to our knowledge unique. Signed Jakubek BPP and certificate Huylmans BPP (2022)
Provenance: Schwarz collection (10th Heinrich Köhler auction, 1914)...
Heinrich Köhler 383rd Auction – Day 8 Special Catalogue: German States: Bavaria from 1849 – Auction of 'Missed Opportunities' – Collections – The ERIVAN Collection – 11th Auction
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Heinrich Koehler Auktionen Heinrich Köhler 383rd Auction – Day 8 Special Catalogue: German States: Bavaria from 1849 – Auction of 'Missed Opportunities' – Collections – The ERIVAN Collection – 11th Auction
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The ERIVAN Collection – 11th auction
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11 – 13 March 2024 Monday to Wednesday 9 a.m. to 5 p.m.
14 – 15 March 2024 Thursday to Friday 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
18 – 22 March 2024 Monday to Friday 8.30 a.m. to 6 p.m.
23 March 2024 Saturday starting 8.30 a.m.
Special Viewing: From 1–3 March 2024, no single lots Bavaria can be viewed in our office in Wiesbaden, as they will be at the Philatelia Munich for viewing.
Auction Schedule
Thursday, 14 March 2024 09:00 CET 1001–1841
Single Lots: Europe and Colonies, incl. Great Britain and British Commonwealth, Overseas countries
Special offer: Departements Conquis – The Wilma Droemont Collection
Special offer: Chile – The Colon Issues (part II)
Thursday, 14 March 2024 16:00 CET 6001–6204 Special Catalogue: Danish West Indies 1806–1917 – The "Baghira" Collection
Friday, 15 March 2024 09:00 CET 1842–2109
Single Lots: Olympics, Thematics, Literature
Special offer: Summer Olympic Games – The Fredrik C. Schreuder Collection (part II)
Special offer: Ludwig van Beethoven – The Yukio Onuma Collection (part II)
Special offer: Volkswagen – a German Myth – The Dr Edo-Meino Eden Collection
Friday, 15 March 2024 12:00 CET 5001–5569 Special Catalogue: Airmail and Zeppelin Mail – inclusive the collection of the Sieger family
Monday, 18 March 2024 10:00 CET 2110–2328 Single Lots: German Empire 1872 – 1945
Monday, 18 March 2024 12:30 CET 6601–6960 Special Catalogue: German Reichspost – Shield Issues – The Michael Rehme Collection (part II)
Tuesday, 19 March 2024 09:00 CET 2329–2887
Single Lots: German post offices abroad and colonies
Special offer: Registered Letters of the German Foreign Post Offices and German Colonies (part III)
Special offer: German South West Africa – Cancellations on Private and Field Post
Special offer: German Post in China and Kiautschou – Post during WWI and Trans-Siberian Railway – The Dr Heinz Findeiss Collection
Tuesday, 19 March 2024 14:00 CET 6501–6600 Special Catalogue: German Post Offices in Morocco & German Post Offices in Turkey – The "Waldersee" Collection
Tuesday, 19 March 2024 15:00 CET 2888–3653
Single Lots: German Occupation WWI, German Areas and Plebiscites, Saar, Danzig, Memel, German Occupation WWII, Germany after 1945
Special offer: Definitive Issue Posthorn 1951 – Specialised Collection
Wednesday, 20 March 2024 09:00 CET 7001–7758 Special Catalogue: Germany 1849–2000 – German Empire, German Colonies with Occupation Issues (G.R.I. and MAFIA), Plebiscite Areas, Germany after WWII – The Erik B. Nagel Collection (part III)
Wednesday, 20 March 2024 16:00 CET 10001–10331 Country Collections: Europe, including Great Britain and British Commonwealth
Thursday, 21 March 2024 09:00 CET 10332–11234
Country Collections: Overseas
Collections and Lots: General collections All World / Europe / Overseas, Airmail and Zeppelin, Thematic collections, Picture Postcards, Literature, Coins
Collections Germany: German States, German Empire, German post offices abroad and Colonies, German Occupation WWI, German Areas and Plebiscites, Danzig, Memel, German Occupation WWII, General collections Germany, Germany after 1945
Friday, 22 March 2024 10:00 CET 8001–8097 Special Catalogue: Grand Duchy of Baden – Frankings and Postal History – The Klaus Peter Geis Collection
Friday, 22 March 2024 11:00 CET 8201–8299 Special Catalogue: Kingdom of Bavaria – Postal History and Social Philately 1806–1875 – The Oliver Reifenrath Collection
Friday, 22 March 2024 12:00 CET 8501–8571 Special Catalogue: Free Hanseatic City of Bremen – The Karl-Hillard Geuther Collection (part III)
Friday, 22 March 2024 13:00 CET 8601–8815 Special Catalogue: Heligoland – The Dr. Hans Friedrich Häuser Collection (part II)
Friday, 22 March 2024 15:00 CET 9001–9244 Special Catalogue: Schleswig-Holstein 1850–1867 – The Rolf Beyerodt Collection
Saturday, 23 March 2024 08:30 CET 3654–4207
Single Lots: German States Baden – Wuerttemberg, North German Confederation
Special offer: The Principalities of Lippe – The Gustav Strunk Collections (part II)
Saturday, 23 March 2024 14:30 CET 1–160 Special Catalogue: German States: Bavaria from 1849 – Auction of 'Missed Opportunities' – Collections – The ERIVAN Collection – 11th Auction
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Lot #101 - hamburg stamps
Lot #102 - hannover stamps
1/10 Thaler black on vivid reddish yellow, fresh colours and full to large margins with black double circle cancellation "GÖTTINGEN 3/11" on envelope to the Minister of Justice of the Principality of Moldova, Constantin von Stourdza, to Jassy with various transit cancellations and arrival postmark of the Austrian postoffice. The letter was fully paid for with a total of 5¼ silver groschen, but only the Postverein fee was affixed, the...
Lot #103 - hannover stamps
1855, 1/10 thaler narrowly netted, all four corner margins, all full to large margins with full border margins, nicely cancelled, the bottom corners on pieces. The left bottom corner with plate number 11 A., the right one with year number "56.". The left bottom corner fine, otherwise inconspicuously defective. An attractive and very rare ensemble. Each value certificate Jäschke-L. BPP (2022)
Lot #104 - hannover stamps
1856, 1/15 Thaler blue netted, right at bottom corner margin with year number "1856", fresh colours and full to large margins, with neatly upward and adjacent blue single circle cancellation "LINGEN 3/9" (1858) on complete folded cover to Münster with issue cancellation. An extraordinarily scarce and attractive letter in perfect condition. Corner margins of this stamp (postage stamp) are very rare, with year number only one other piece is...
Lot #105 - lübeck Lübeck - stationery
Envelope 1½ shilling rose with additional franking 1863, 4 shillings medium olive brown, scissors separation on the right outside of a roulette that has come only faintly, otherwise perfect, with neatly applied double circle cancellation "LUEBECK 28/12" (1867) to Helsingfors in Finland with "ANK3 1" on face. The envelope minimally shortened by opening, part of the reverse backflap missing. An attractive foreign cover; the Heinrich Köhler card...
Lot #106 - mecklenburg-schwerin stamps
1867, 2 shillings grey, fresh colours and well rouletted with clear double circle cancellation "SÜLZE 31/12", additionally set aside, on envelope of 2nd weight to Rostock. The envelope folded multiple times, resulting in a minimal pressure mark in the outer left margin of the stamp (postage stamp), otherwise perfect. The grey 2 Schillings of Mecklenburg is one of the scarcest stamps (postage stamp) of the old German states on letter, on last...
Lot #107 - oldenburg stamps
⅓ Silbergroschen blue-black on green, fresh colours and full to mostly large margins (a tear left above closed outside the stamp-face), with neatly upward and adjacent blue boxed cancel "WILDESHAUSEN 22/2" (1861) on striped folded printed matter to Apen with transit cancellation of Oldenburg and arrival postmark. An attractive and very rare single franking. Signed Georg Bühler, Ebel and Hunziker, certificate Stegmüller BPP (2021)
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Lot #108 - oldenburg stamps
1861, issue on white paper 1/3 Groschen moss green in vertical strip of 3 in typical, nice fresh colour, the upper stamp (postage stamp) above slightly touched, otherwise full to large margins with blue DKr. "OLDENBURG 23 11" on envelope to Delmenhorst with reverse arrival datestamp of the next day. An attractive and extremely scarce letter. Even single frankings of the moss green shade are hard to find, only one other letter with a 3-stripe...
Lot #111 - prussia stamps
1 Silbergroschen black on rose, fresh colours and full to large margins, with neatly applied red numeral obliteration "973" on complete folded cover with adjacent boxed cancel "MÜHLHAUSEN R.B. ERFURT 19 8" (1856) to Duderstadt, with transit postmark of Worbis and arrival postmark. On face blue pencil cancellation "10 Stk" as marking of a group posting of 10 covers. The stamp (postage stamp) was detached for inspection, otherwise perfect and...
Lot #112 - prussia stamps
3 Silbergroschen on yellow in a horizontal strip of 7, fresh colours and mostly full to large margins, cancelled by number "103" BERLIN, the upper margin of the 3 left values supplemented, otherwise perfect. A scarce multiples. Signed Pfenninger and certificate Jäschke-L. BPP (2023)Provenance: 137th Grobe auction (1967)
Lot #113 - prussia stamps
3 Silbergroschen orange in a horizontal strip of 6, very attractive fresh colours and full to large margins on all sides, cancelled in pairs by neatly cancelled "SCHWEDT 29 9" boxed cancel, fine, only 2 Kruschel signatures somewhat visible on the back. An attractive and extraordinarily scarce strip; we have only registered 2 others, both on letter. Quality expertising certificate Maria Brettl (1987) and certificate Jäschke-L. BPP (2023)...
Lot #114 - prussia stamps
4 Pfennig green in horizontal pair, fresh colours and full to large margins, in mixed franking with 1861, coat of arms 4 Pfennig green, with neatly applied double circle cancellation "BRESLAU 13/7" on complete folded cover to Maltsch. The letter paper somewhat weak in the folds; the letter has been cleaned, the stamps detached and repositioned, otherwise perfect. An attractive and scarce mixed franking. Multiple signed and certificate Jäschke...
Lot #115 - prussia stamps
1858, Gittergrund 2 Silbergroschen blue in horizontal strip of four, torn right instead of imperforated and here with short very small margins, otherwise full to mostly large margins, on envelope of 2nd weight to the Prince of Rheina-Wolbeck in Brussels, with transit and arrival postmarks. One value of the strip with very faint trace of a hint of a hump, otherwise perfect and very attractive condition. Certificate Jäschke-L. BPP (2023)
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Lot #116 - prussia stamps
2 Silbergroschen dark blue in horizontal stripe of 5, nice deep nice colours, left well full- otherwise on all sides large margins, with boxed cancel "KATSCHER 31/12" on large part of a letter of 6th weight to Kremsier in Moravia, Austria. Attractive and perfect condition (2 small margin gaps in the upper margin do not touch the stamp-face). Largest known stripe unit of this colour shade and as such unique. Signed Kruschel and Kurt Maier,...
Lot #117 - prussia stamps
3 Silbergroschen vivid yellow-orange in a block of four, very attractive fresh colours and large margins on all sides, with approx. 6 mm sheet margin at bottom, unused with original gum, the left bottom stamp mint never hinged. Attractive and fine condition. Signed Kosack, Köhler and Georg Bühler, certificate Wasels BPP (2020)
Provenance: John Boker jr. (1992)
Lot #118 - prussia stamps
1861, 2 Silbergroschen ultramarine, 2 pieces as a pair pasted with vertical pair 3 Silbergroschen ochre-brown with boxed cancel "RASTENBURG 15 8" (1864) on envelope with routing mark "via Ostend, England + Canadian Steamer" to Arnprior, Ontario, Western Canada with purple "P.D." and red "LONDON PAID" upward, reverse transit and arrival cds. The postage is divided into 2½ silver pence association postage and "8" pence English onward postage,...
Lot #119 - prussia stamps
3 Silbergroschen ochre with neatly upward and adjacent DKr. "HAMBURG 19 1" and also adjacent country postmark "Uhlenhorst" on cover front with reconstructed envelope back to a military address in Güns near Oedenburg in Austria. The stamp (postage stamp) slightly glued over the margin and slightly defective here. The country postmark of Uhlenhorst is scarce in combination with Prussia; we have registered only 3 wide covers. Certificate Wasels...
Lot #120 - prussia stamps
3 Pfennige graulila, fresh colours and well rouletted (on both sides with scissors separation outside the roulette), with clear upward and adjacent small Taxis double circle cancellation "SCHLEIZ 5 9" (1867) on folded cover to Tanna with reverse arrival datestamp of the next day. The stamp (postage stamp) has a small margin gap at bottom, otherwise perfect. This piece is a very first franking rarity. Single frankings of this stamp (postage...
Lot #121 - prussia Prussia - postal stationery
1863, cover 3 Silbergroschen brown with additional value stamp in embossing above in the centre of the cover, both value stamps cancelled with boxed cancel "BERLIN POST-EXP.3 / 21 10 65", addressed to Saalfeld in Thuringia with arrival postmark of the next day. Slight vertical fold mark going through the embossing, otherwise in good condition. Such varieties are extremely scarce among Prussian postal stationery envelopes (we still have 3...
Lot #122 - prussia Prussia - postal stationery
1867, cover 3 Pfennige purple with additional franking 1865, 3 Pfennig dark purple, fresh colours and well rouletted with Taxis single circle cancellation "WALTERSHAUSEN 4 10 1867" to Gotha. A reverse seal was removed, otherwise attractive and perfect condition. A scarce combination. Certificate Jäschke-L. BPP (2021)
Lot #123 - saxony stamps
1851, King Friedrich August II. the misprint ½ Neugroschen black on matt Prussian blue in a souvenir sheet of 4, very attractive fresh colours and full to mostly wide margins on all sides, unused with original gum, the upper right stamp with a small light spot (partly rebacked), the two left values have - like almost all stamps of the misprint - very few small sand grain holes, of which only one is noticeable in the outer margin of the lower...
Lot #124 - german states saxony
1851, Friedrich August II ½ Neugroschen on matt grey in a horizontal strip of 5, large margins on all sides, with complete centre line and corner angle on the left, neatly cancelled by No. "1" DRESDEN. One value with smoothed bow mark and one with minor pressure mark, otherwise perfect. Largest known used multiples of this stamp; we have registered another such large strip. Sign. Pröschold BPP and certificate Vaatz BPP (2023)
Provenance...
Lot #125 - saxony stamps
1863/67, coat of arms issue ½ Neugroschen vivid reddish orange, two single values together with 1 Neugroschen magenta and horizontal pair and single stamp 5 Neugroschen grey ultramarine with double circle cancellation "DRESDEN 23 JUN. 65" on envelope via France to Porto Alegre, Brazil with transit and arrival postmarks on face. The letter fell into the 1st German and 2nd French weight class, accordingly correctly franked with 3 Neugroschen...
Lot #126 - saxony stamps
2 Neugroschen blue and 2 single values 5 Neugroschen grey-ultramarine with no. "12" and neatly adjacent DKr. "FREIBERG 1/IX 64" on envelope with pre-printed address to Virginia City in the 'Nevada Territory'. It was carried via Aachen, England and Boston with on face red "BOSTON BR. PKT. 28 PAID" on the front, then wide via the American overland or Wells Fargo route by ship across the Mississippi and then by mail coach overland and through...
Lot #127 - schleswig-holstein stamps
1¼ Schilling with wide wavy ground, fresh colours and full to large margins with neatly applied no. "113" and adjacent single-circle cancellation "ALTONA 5/3" (1864) on complete folded cover to Heide with arrival postmark of the next day. Very attractive and fine condition. This stamp (postage stamp) is one of the scarcities of old German philately; we have registered a total of only twelve covers, most of which rank wide behind the one...
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