FOREIGN SINGLE COUNTRIES continued...

Very much an old time collection on quadrille pages housed in a Simplex album with well over two hundred stamps, mint and used, starting with the Nyassa overprints on Mozambique definitives with good completion mint and used, the 1901 giraffe and camels series complete mint and used including 13 inverted centers ,(#26/38var, with the ludicrously low Scott retail of $50 each), followed by the 1903 surcharges with thin numerals complete mint (#44/46), etc. Then lots of interesting 'republica' o/ps and surcharges to investigate, as well as highly unusual non-Scott listed items prepared for use in Nyassa yet never officially issued. A collector's collection with scarce material present that gets better on each inspection. Please study carefully page for page allowing sufficient time to view properly, much more here than described.

One man's lifetime work in the best of quality housed on old fashioned quadrille album pages, mint and used. Periodically this collector has accompanied the pages with diagrams illustrating the different printings and constant varieties, from their respective positions in the sheet. There are a few 100 stamps here, all imperforate four margined, including multiples. The Moldavia-Wallachia has tete-beche on each denomination, followed by the 1865 Prince Alexandru definitives again uniformly excellent condition with each denomination represented, including laid papers and various multiples. Then the Prince Carol imperforate issues, highlights including mint blocks and pairs of the 10 bani as well as singles of the 5, 10 and 15 bani, the latter 3 values identified by a dozen examples reflecting the broken letter and frame varieties, all extensively researched. Also seen the 1866/67 issues again with every denomination present with shade varieties, as well as superb double concentric circle cancels, colored cancels, varieties, just an absolute delight to view, often there are wing marginal and sheet corner examples, also blue diamond fancy cancels, straightlines, horseshoe, small towns, etc. Unquestionably this is one of the most attractive collections we have had the pleasure to offer from this country. Please study the photoplates to get a flavor of what is here. While is completely  ,without a catalog figure it wouldn't be that relevant anyway due to the highest caliber of quality in this outstanding collection.





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Mint and used housed on old fashioned quadrille album pages, from early imperfs through to the modern era, with the latter having a good number of mint never hinged miniature sheets, perf and imperf some of which have very low printing numbers, adding up to a few thousand euro in Michel, waiting to be incorporated into the main body of the collection. The classics of the collection up to WWII are the best part with the ,19th ,century inc Moldavia Walachia imperfs inc 30par blue used (signed), Prince Alexandru 20 para orange mint and superb used in Bucharest (Bucuresti) in concentric circle cancel, Prince Carol types mint and used through to 50bani inc colored strikes, perforated of the same type through to regular defins King Carol ,1st ,with hundreds of these on various pages from both 1880s and 1890s definitive series, with a wide range of postmarks and specialised material to explore. Turn of the century also useful, for commems and defins including better 1906 mint #196 to #206 complete with 11 values and a similar pattern through to 1918 o/ps, as well as other back of the book. Then an indepth study of further defins of the 1920s with multiples and shade varieties through to semi-postals up to the modern era. An enjoyable collection to view with much more here than described, please inspect carefully page for page.

An extensive collection mint and used, housed in 2 albums, with several 100s of stamps. There is some pleasant duplication in the classics and the collection otherwise virtually all one of a kind, as assembled over many decades by the collector. Starting off with 1862 with four imperfs including subtle shade differences on the 6 para, all four margined examples, followed by the monarch types with the 2fr and 5fr orange and blue with the distinct possibility of further shades, similarly the 1866/67 young head imperfs through to 1868/72 with 20 imperfs, all used with a variety of cancels with values up to 50 bani, including colored cancels, the condition mixed as to be expected. Then the perf issues of 1872 with some superb copies present and excellent postmark interest right through to the turn of the century, again with many shades and superb cancels, 1903 pictorials to high values, etc. leading on to a useful range of WWI o/ps, through to WWII period inc. miniature sheets and lots of mint series, followed by some back of the book with German Occupation overprints non-Scott listed, etc. The second album deals exclusively with 'back of the book', with postage dues from the ,19th ,century onwards, including multiples and se-tenant pairs, then officials, postal tax, postal tax dues, etc. This is followed by extensive occupations with lots of errors inc. o/ps inverted, double, double one inverted etc, as well as revenues from the ,19th ,century onwards, etc, etc. A collector's collection with great potential especially in the ,19th ,century. Please inspect carefully,

An extraordinary collection of postal history recounting the alliances and allied operations through correspondence and commemorative postal stationery, mostly from the point of view of the Russian forces in France during World War 1. There are more than 140 items in all, beginning with an open letter of ,12th ,June 1916 from Marshal Joffre addressing the French ,2nd ,Army at Verdun, announcing the achievements of the Russians as allies and the importance of the courage and sacrifice of the Verdun force in support of these victories. This is handwritten and signed 'J. Joffre' is clearly important and offered on its own merits. Then follows a fabulous array of propaganda, a few of the highlights are a postcard from Paris to Rome sent Christmas Day 1917 with 10c sower on top of perforate label designed to frame the stamp with flags and mottos of Russia (motto in cyrillic), France, Britain and Belgium, a folded letter stationery envelope printed with &lsquo,Honneur aux Allies&rsquo, and flags with &lsquo,Vive la France&rsquo, and &lsquo,Vive la Russie&rsquo, on the front, sent December 1915 from a brigadier in the trenches to his girlfriend in Geneva with details of engagements with the &lsquo,Boches&rsquo,, with censor markings and tape and a Swiss 20c postage due applied alongside the 10cts sower! Then a spectacular series of cards with color illustrations of uniformed soldiers or cavalry of the various allies holding their respective flags, with combinations of 1 rouble Russian military stamps affixed, these with portrait of the Tsar in various colors all tied by 'France-Russie-Belgique-Angleterre, Campagne de 1914' postmarks. A series of different stationery items with the flags of the main allies as four-leaved clovers and many other designs, etc. Also seen moves on to mail bearing the large red postmark of the Russian Military Hospital in Paris and the purple cachet of the Russian Empress&rsquo,s automobile ambulance, followed by extensive stationery of the Russian Expeditionary Corps in France with a comprehensive study of the different types with both unused and used cards for each type, including fascinating examples of obliterations of the Imperial arms carried out after the Bolshevik Revolution. Other good items include a photographic postcard showing the funeral of a Russian officer in France, a fascinating small correspondence from a Russian officer to a lady in Lyon, with contents speaking of the succession of Alexis as Tsar and the events leading up to the Revolution, leading on to Russian POWs, and lots more military mail covering a wide range of areas for example 'Convois Automobile &ndash, Group Russe' on card from Venice, 'Section de Discipline Russe' on card from Algeria, etc, etc. This is a wonderful holding of seldom seen material that deserves more pleasurable research to produce an excellent exhibition standard collection. One of the most extensive and attractive collections we have ever seen of this area, with some items that could be irreplaceable.




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Collector&rsquo,s collection of 1000s of mint and used stamps on homemade pages in 9 albums. The collection covers the period from the classics through to modern, with an excellent range of the Russian areas, late ,19th early ,20th century post offices abroad, back of the book, etc. The first album begins with Tsarist issues with hundreds of Imperial arms types including mint blocks on the later issues, all well worth investigating if time permits. Then into the more obvious ,20th century with 1913 Romanov series inc. 5r brown mint, as well as used to 3r, leading on to symbols issues of the early 1920s with better inc. 1922 10,000r blue mint, 1922/23 star surcharges inc. imperf 5r on 20k mint never hinged x2, etc. The 1930s are also well represented with 1930 telegraph office 1r blue shades mint, 1931 Moscow barricades imperfs complete mint never hinged, 1932 fine arts museum complete used, 1934 Lenin complete used, 1937/38 constitution and 1938 child welfare series complete used, 1939 hospitals mint never hinged complete, 1940 10k olive brown worker from the 1937/52 defins used, etc. continuing through the 1940s with 1949 Pushkin souvenir sheet used, etc. 3 of the album are devoted to the back of the book with highlights in the first volume being 1922 philately for the children o/p semi-postals inc. 5k claret mint and used, 1922 farming imperfs complete mint, airposts with 1930 large Zeppelins complete mint and used, 1931/32 Zeppelins with imperfs complete mint, 1931 North Pole imperfs complete used, etc. The second album is for the Soviet Republics with useful Armenia, Far Eastern Republic inc. tete-beche, Georgia surcharges in multiple format inc. 1923 15,000r on 15k mint block of four, similarly Siberia with multiples on the first issues inc. 1r on 4k carmine imperf block of ten mint, 1921 o/ps through to Priamus o/ps inc. on 35k on 2k green imperf unlisted in Scott, Ukraine tridents with more than fifty virtually all different inc. 1r block of four mint, these are all completely unchecked for better types, followed by steamship and navigation Company locals, etc. The third and fourth albums are equally interesting with White Russian armies and generals, Baltic occupations, revenues, etc, as well as extensive Post Offices Abroad with much POs in China inc. pre-printing paper fold on 1917 50cts on 50k mint seen, plus POs in the Turkish Empire with page after page of Wrangel o/ps, mostly one of a kind and again with the high likelihood of sleepers. The other 5 albums are just crammed packed, virtually all one of a kind all chronologically ordered, with of course some better stamps as they appear in the Scott catalog. One man&rsquo,s collection offered intact as received, considerable potential here for the specialist, particularly in the classics leading through to the overprints of the Russian areas and of course the extensive back of the book in general.

Mint and used collection with thousands of stamps in three well-filled Minkus albums, starting off in the Tsarist period including 1863 5k black and blue mint never hinged, 1865 30k green and carmine used, 1868/71 to 20k used, 1875/79s complete used, etc, through to the 1913 Romanov series complete to the 5r brown used, extensive workers defins, with hardly any empty spaces from the 1920s onwards and with better varieties noted inc. 1927 7k green Smolny Institute perf 11½, used (#377a), 1931/32 1r dark blue telegraph office imperf used (#467), etc. Some of the better series present in the 1930s are the 1932/33 ,15th ,Anniversary of the Revolution complete used (#472/478), 1932 Fine Arts Museum complete used (#485/486) and the Exhibition surcharges mint (#487/488), 1938 Crimean views complete mint (#666/677), etc. The back of the book also has some of the scarcer stamps including the 1922 'philately for the children' semi-postals inc. 1k orange imperf mint (#B29, signed), 1923 'philately's contribution to labor' 1r+1r surcharge in bronze mint (#B38), useful airposts including the imperf sheet used (#C75a), through to Offices in China and the Turkish Empire, Civil War issues, Tannu Tuva, Ukraine, etc., an unusual grouping, viewing suggested for full value.

Mint and used collection from the first issues to the mid-20th ,century, with well over 1500 stamps virtually all one of a kind housed on old quadrille pages. The collection begins with several pages of the Imperial Arms issues with values to the 20k on the earlier series, lots of thunderbolt rouble high values mint and used, vertically and horizontally laid papers, etc, the later arms issues with shades distinguished and a study of varieties inc. dramatic offsets, misplaced centers, etc. inc. 50k green and purple corner block of four showing misplaced background network with much of it in the sheet margin. Then royal portraits series mint to the 50k and used to 5r, backprinted currency issues, etc, followed by more pages of the Imperial Arms also with many additional varieties, both listed and unlisted in Scott, especially on the rouble issues inc. imperf pair with background double, background color shifted on imperf pair with marginal markings on both sides, as well as large mint multiples of the perf high values, leading on to White Russia issues etc. Then 1921 science and arts issues with shades and varieties inc. 300r green on pelure paper mint, non Scott listed paper varieties on the 1922 'workers of the world unite' issues, followed by worker/soldier/peasant issues which should be investigated for better perfs, then useful singles and series of the 1930s and 1940s through to good back of the book with two pages of the 1914 /15 Murometz semi-postals inc. 3k perf 13 1/2 ,mint, airposts with zeppelins, polar bears, stratostat, 1933s with and without watermark to the 20k carmine, followed by special deliveries, postage dues, etc, etc. A useful collection with the distinct feeling that there will be many more discoveries to be made, completely uncataloged, please inspect.

Mint and used collection in a thick and well-filled Minkus album, with lots of useful material, beginning with the Tsarist issues including a 'beat-up' #1, #9, #10 and #16, some other 'coat of arms' types have minor surface scrapes, mentioned for accuracy's sake only, yet all presentable, as well as Tsarist revenues including those postally used, followed by the Romanov portraits complete used, Murometz semi-postals and 1922 Volga famine relief o/ps complete mint, 1924 Leningrad flood semi-postals on a range of papers, etc, as well as airposts inc. Zeppelins large and small, followed by better regular series of the 1930s inc. 1934 Lenin complete used, 1935 anti-war series complete used, 1938 Crimean views complete used, etc, etc. Also souvenir sheets from the 1930s onwards, ,20th ,century strong, with lots of good used series pre-WWII. A collection with much merit, well-filled, needing not that much for completion.

Delightful mint and used collection housed in an old fashioned Behrens album with their numbered pages. , Starting off with the Germania overprints complete, superb used on piece, Scott #1 to #17 followed by the Bavarian o/ps complete mint with the exception of #38. Then follows virtual completion as well as the various pictorial sets complete for Burbach Steelworks i.e. Scott #68 to #83 and #95 to #98, #99 to #116. Then the Madonnas, various airmails, 1927/32 defins, followed by an important range of semi-postals including the best, the Raphael #B15 used canceled 11^th January 1929 – Scott retail $3600 offered on its own merits. Similarly with the #B16 to #B22 complete again superb used, through to the semi-postals of the 1930s inc #B37 to #B42 again superb used (Scott retail $577) with concentric circle Friedrichsthal cancels. Also seen definitives 1935 Volksabstimmung o/ps (#139 to #154) further semi-postals #B54 to #B60, then the diagonal dienstmarke o/ps complete, leading on to post WW2 virtually complete except souvenir sheets and a few commems. A delightful collection to view with much important material throughout especially for WW2. This was part of the original Behrens house collection. All the Saar offered intact as received, as with Memel and Danzig collections also in this auction.

Several hundred stamps mint and used, all one of a kind, housed on album pages specifically for Salvador although we noticed much material 'outside the box', making this a somewhat chaotic but interesting viewing. All periods are represented here, starting off with the volcano issues inc o/ps though to the allegorical figure type #A7 with lots of different series here, some Seebecks through to turn of the century. Page after page virtually complete including o/ps and no doubt specialised material present. Similarly early 1920s very well filled through to 1930s, discus throwers with and without hablitado o/ps, comprehensive 1940s/1950s with virtually everything complete through to the airpost, again with plenty of good series including those with low printing numbers, as well as more obvious such as athletics #C36 to #C40 complete, virtually all other pictorials, city charter m/s perf and imperf, 1949 UPU further m/s soccer, finally ending with the officials from 1896 onwards, again virtually complete with hundreds of different stamps here through to turn of the century, all different. Had this been any other country, this collection would have been worth multiples of our estimate and that clearly Scott retail grossly underestimates this material. A very attractive collection with much more here than first meets the eye.

Collection of several hundred, predominantly mint stamps on Scott pages with lots of items present that are often missing from collections. The collection begins with - mint unless otherwise stated - Hejaz inc. #1 and #2, useful o/ps and surcharges inc. on 1923 Arms of Sherif of Mecca, the gold Caliphate o/ps 1924 with extraordinary missing date error on ,the 1pi not listed in Scott(#L44 variety) - seldom seen and a world rarity – then excellent Jedda with the gold on red o/p inverted on 1/4pi green roulette 13 (#L62) and inverted blue o/p on 1/2pi red roulette 20 (#L64) both signed, followed by the same overprint on provisionials of 1922 (#L68, #L70/L73, total cat. $600+), continuing with the vertical o/ps on 1/4pi green issues inc. red ‘reading up’ used (#L78, cat. $450) and blue ‘reading down’ (#L77, cat. $175), further inverted o/ps on the Sherif issues as well as a range of Jedda o/ps on the Caliphate issues inc. black on 11/2pi violet, 3pi brown and 5pi olive plus red on 11/2pi violet (#L125/128, #L130, total cat. $500), then a good range of handstamp surcharges, etc. through to Nejd, with plenty of elusive stamps, through to Kingdom of Saudi Arabia with the issue of 1934/57 categorised by the different printings over two pages including a complete series mint (#159/172, cat. $270), followed by the challenging ‘dam’ and ‘plant’ definitives and the contemporary airs with very few empty spaces, including highlights such as the 1960/62s complete (#211/242, #C7/C21, cat. $675), 1965/70 100p dam (#312, cat. $450), 1966/78 200p plant (#450, cat. $350), 1965/70 23p airpost (#C53, cat. $150), 1968/76 4p dam (#464, cat. $175), etc. Most of the other regular issues from 1960 onwards seem to be present including comprehensive and specialised showings of the mosque, stallion, camel/derrick defins with lots of non Scott listed watermark X and watermark Y, as well as combination with different dies, etc. leading through to the back of the book with airposts 1949/58 series first printings complete on the scarcer grayish paper (#C1/C6), a useful range of Hejaz/Nejd postage dues, first officials complete, etc, etc. A great collection with the distinct likelihood of further discoveries to be made, please view carefully page for page this lifetime’s work.





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