1951: Waterlow Imperforate Plate Proofs for 10 p., 15 p., 20 p., 30 p., 40 p., 45 p., 50 p., 60 p. and 75 p. values, all in fresh and fine unmounted og. blocks of four, most being marginal.
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Auction 196-201
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May 26, 2015 Europe/Zurich
Corinphila Auction AG Auction 196-201
Tuesday May 26, 2015 09:00 to Saturday May 30, 2015 16:00 Europe/Zurich
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Our Online-Catalogues 196 -201 are now ready for viewing. The auction will start Tuesday May 26 through to Saturday May 30, 2015 and will be hold in our premises at Wiesenstrasse 8, 4th floor, in CH-8034 Zurich.
The auction includes besides a decent offer of Southamerica a special collection of Scandinavia, the famous collection built by Peter A. S. Smith Egypt and Sudan. Special collection Thurn and Taxis, classic Switzerland together with a special collection of Zeppelinmail of Switzerland and Liechtenstein as well as another special collection ‘The Lion of the Balkans’
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Lot #501 - Overseas Afghanistan
Lot #502 - Overseas imperial china
Fo-Chen (Fuzhu, Fu'jan, China) 1687: Autographe lettersheet 4 pages, 4to (20 x 30,5 cm) endorsed "A Fo-chen, le 30 novembre 1687 par voye de Pondichéry ", with three fully written up pages by the French Missionary and Jesuits Father Philibert Le Blanc (1644-1720) addressed to his brother Antoine Le Blanc: "advocat au Parlement de Bourgogne A Beaune" (Burgundy) with interesting content concerning the Mail Routing between China and Europe in...
Lot #503 - Overseas imperial china
Amoy (Xiamen) China 1846: Autographed Lettersheet dated August 7th 1846 ".... enclosed is a letter for ... an American in Paris", two fully written up pages signed by William Henry Cumming (1820-1893) an American Medical Doctor and Missionary, reporting to Paris on the situation in China, discussing the famous Sinologist Walter H. Medhurst (1796-1857) and the German Missionary K.F.A. Gützlaff (1803-1851) " ... was here (in Amoy) about a month...
Lot #504 - Overseas imperial china
1853 ( July 11): Entire lettersheet from Rome addressed to the French Sinologist and Diplomat Count Michel Alexandre Kleczkowski (1818-1886) in Indo-China, informing the Catholic missionaries of the papal announcement of Kleczkowski's nomination as "Chevalier Pontifical" of the Pontifical Equestrian Order of St. Gregory the Great, signed by Cardinal Giacomo Filippo Fransoni (1775-1856) of the Congregation Propaganda Fide and countersigned by...
Lot #505 - Overseas imperial china
Ngay Kia Chuong, Anjiazhuang, Baoding, China 1856 (Aug. 10): Entire lettersheet written in "Petchely, Ngan Kia Tchouong, le 10 août" by the Apostolic Vicar of Beijing Joseph Martial Mouly (1807-1868) to the French Missonary Libois, Procoureur des Missions étrangères in Hongkong = Victoria, backstamped with episcopal seal of ADM. AP. PEKING. JOS. MART.MOUL(Y) in red. Two and half fully written up pages with interesting content: "... J»ai reçu...
Lot #506 - Overseas imperial china
Rom - Kuang Tong 1861 (Jan. 10): Entire letter signed by Pope "Pius P.P. IX" to the Apostolic Prefect in Quang-Tong, Quang-si et Hai-nan writtten in Latin by a Roman Curia secretary concerning the planning and building of a catholic church in Guangzhou, which was inaugurated in 1888. Some waterstains and paper-loss on upper edge, but an interesting and rare document, signed on the overleaf by the Pope's own hand. Pius IX (Pope from 1846-1878...
Lot #507 - brit. colonies singapore
Singapore to Rome 1879 (April 16): Two autographed lettersheets in Italian (without outer lettersheet), eight pages fully written up by the Roman Noble Giulio Grazioli-Lante Rovere (1849-1933), in Singapore on his way to China, attended by his Brother Mario (1848-1939). After a successful 'big game' hunting season in Afghanistan, India, Kashmir, Tibet and Ceylon, he lists all his hunting trophies: 4 tigers, 20 bears, 30 buffaloes, 1 elephant...
Lot #508 - europe France
China 1846/1880: Archive Lot 15 original documents sent to Count Michel Alexandre Kleczkowski (1818-1886), the French first secretary in the Ministry of Foreign Affairs under Napoleon III, concerning Kleczkowski's relation to China and the Chinese Language, including nomination as Consul de France en Chine (1847), announcement by Napoleon as his "Secrétaire Interprète pour la langue chinoise" (1862) and as 'Consul Général' (1869) and "...
Lot #509 - Overseas imperial china
1893/96: Interesting lot five documents relating to Chinese Government and it's purchase of British weapons - the Maxim-Nordenfelt Guns and Ammunition Company Ltd., incl. typed letter (1895) signed by the British financier Sir Ernest Cassel (1852-1921) to S. Loewe setting out the terms by which he could arrange a loan of £ 1'000'000 to the Chinese Governement "secured upon the revenue of the Maritime Customs of the Treaty Ports of China",...
Lot #510 - Overseas imperial china
1878 (July): 5 ca. yellow on thin paper, a superb well centred used example, lightly cancelled in blue. Signed Holcombe Gi = £ 800.
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Lot #511 - Overseas imperial china
1897: Small figures of value, ½ c. on 3 c. orange-yellow, wmk. Yin-yang, perf. 11½:12 in a block of four, top left stamp showing variety: 2 and fraction bar omitted, cancelled by two strikes of Shanghai seal in blue. A scarce and attractive block. Opinion Holcombe (1995).
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Lot #512 - Overseas imperial china
1898: 1 c. ochre-buff used on local cover to the German Post Office, tied by 'Pa-kua' in black with 'Shanghai Local Post' cds at left (Jan 5). Straight line instructional marking RECEIVED IN Dirty CONDITION in violet with 'Dirty' in manuscript crayon. Extremely rare, also a further matching 1899 cover without the marking.
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Lot #513 - Overseas imperial china
1900/1906: CIP Coiling Dragon 1 c. brownish-orange, no wmk., Waterlow archive file examples, three vertical panes of 20 (4 x 5) with interpanneau margins, all with individual security punch-holes, with faults and unused with some backing paper attachments, nevertheless a very rare archive piece dated in manuscript '23/8/1906' at right.
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Lot #514 - Overseas imperial china
1900: 1 c. brownish orange and 2 c. deep red (3), used on 1907 Imperial Chinese Railway Administration envelope sent registered to Shanghai, tied by SIANGTAN chops with reg'd cachet at left and reverse with 'Changsha' transit (May 16) and 'Registered / Shanghai' squared circle of arrival (May 22). Cover tear on reverse but scarce.
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Lot #515 - Overseas imperial china
Postcard of Tientsin mailed to the German Postmaster in Shanghai franked by 1900 2 c. deep red tied by Tongku chop, mis-directed with manuscript 'Try Imp. German P.O.' at base and struck with oval DISTRICT POSTAL OFFICER / SHANGHAI cachet (June 15) in violet. Two strikes of 'Shanghai Local Post' cds alongside (June 15 and 17) in black. Rare.
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Lot #516 - Overseas imperial china
1900: 1 c. brownish orange pair and single 1905 5 c. mauve used on reverse of registered cover to Shanghai tied by WUHU datestamps (July 25) in black. Shanghai arrival cds alongside and obverse with Wuhu registration cachet.
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Lot #517 - Overseas imperial china
1900: 20 c. maroon, single example used on registered cover to Germany tied by local Tientsin chop with bilingual 'Tientsin' cds alongside (Nov 7) and registration cachet below. 'Shanghai / Chine' French P.O. transit cds at right (Nov 14) and Seegen arrival verso (16/12).
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Lot #518 - Overseas imperial china
1901: Postcard to Italy with China CIP 4 c. brown tied by 'Canton' cds in black used in combination with Hong Kong 4 c. carmine tied by 'Victoria / Hong Kong' cds (Nov 30) in black. Some slight peripheral aging with Roma arrival (Jan 6) on front.
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Lot #519 - Overseas imperial china
1924 April (2): Special printed envelope franked with 1 c. yellow pair cancelled by "Peking 2.4.24" cds. with full content written in Chinese and sent to Cardinal Costantini, the first Apostolic Delegate in China from 1922 to 1935.
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Lot #520 - Overseas imperial china
1935: Two official envelopes with full content bearing the seal of the Ministry of Foreign Affaires Wang Zhao-Ming (1883-1944), one franked with 1932 13 c. deep green tied by Nanking cds (April 17) concerning diplomatic relations between China and the Vatican, the other franked with Sun Yat-sen 5 c. yellow green and 13 c. deep green also from Nanking (23.5.) with a confirmation to exchange their Ambassadors. Wang Jingwei born as Wang Zhao...
Lot #521 - Overseas imperial china
1900: 1 c. brownish orange, single example used locally to F. Pape at the German Post Office, underpaid on 1907 envelope and tied by 'Shanghai Local Post' cds (July 23). Taxed with large 'T' mark at left and 1904 Postage Due 2 c. blue tied by Chinese only cds in black. Rare.
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Lot #522 - Overseas imperial china
Japanese P.O.'s 1902: Cards (2) both mailed from Peking to Vienna; with Japanese P.O. 2 s. green tied PEKING / I.J.P.O. cds (June 26) and German P.O. 10 pf. carmine alongside cancelled on the following day; also a similar card with Japanese P.O. 5 s. orange with German P.O. 5 pf. green (2) cancelled on the same day. An attractive pair.
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Lot #523 - Overseas imperial china
1898: Cards (4) all with Dollar Chops, with 1 c. red stationery card used with 1897 1 c. orange tied by bold HANKOW Dollar chop in black, 1898 2 c. red tied by HANKOW Dollar chop, Russia 4 kop. card from Moscow with SHANGHAI and CHEFOO Dollar Chops in black and blue and an in-coming Germany card with CHEFOO Dollar Chop in black. Condition variable but a scarce group.
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Lot #524 - Overseas imperial china
1899/1905: Lot four picture postcards, two locally used in Shanghai, third to Milan, Italy, incl. view of Tientsin 'coming from the Railway station' or 'Wheelbarrow' original photcard (little faded) of the women in their traditional costumes (issued by 'Frères Lumière, Lyon) as well as Japanese 1 s.stationery card used in China.
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Lot #525 - Overseas imperial china
1926/30: Small correspondence of 14 registered business covers from Shanghai 'via Siberia' to Zurich, Switzerland, showing diff. frankings with Junk - issue, some values in multiples up to blocks of four.
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