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Bolivia

Catalogue 222: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
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  • Lot# : 1466 Bolivia

    1856 (March 18): Entire letter from Tupisa to Salta struck with superb strike of TUPIZA oval framed despatch handstamp in red showing Condor & Mountain. Exceptional and rare.rnrn 
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 460 CHF

    Lot# : 1467 Bolivia

    1876: Cover to Valparaiso struck with rare CORREOS DE BOLIVIA / LA CHIMBA / MAYO 16 76 handstamp in blue with framed CANCELLADO in blue adjacent. Reverse with Valparaiso arrival cds (May 20) in black. The envelope with faults but very scarce.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1468 Bolivia

    1867/1912c.: Collection on Schaubek leaves with Condor 5 c. green used (3), 50 c. yellow unused, thereafter largely complete with much cancellation interest incl. 1869 9 Stars 10 c. vermilion with intaglio "CC" cancel in blue, 1892 cover from La Paz to New York franked by 1890 1 c. rose and 10 c. orange tied by target cancel in black, an interesting lot.
    Starting bid : 120 CHF
    Hammer price : 180 CHF

    Lot# : 1469 Bolivia

    Development of Bolivian Airmail 1905-1945: The Gold Medal exhibition collection on 104 album pages, including 1925 Junker's Demonstration flights with first return flight Sucre to Cochabamba (Aug. 7) and Junker's Inaugural flight La Paz to Oruro (Aug. 11), Cochabamba to La Paz (Aug. 14), Santa Cruz to Cochabamba Demonstration flight (Sept. 3), first flight Sucre to Cochabamba - rare: only 14 covers flown (Muller #9), all with certs. Moorhouse. Further 1928 Lt. J. Doolittle Experimental flights Lima - La Paz (Feb. 25), La Paz - Santiago (March 22), 1929 L.A.B. domestic services with first flight Vallegrande - Santa Cruz (April 12), fine and scarce envelopes (2) from Cochabamba to Todos Santos or Santa Cruz - Yacuiba, first flight roundtrip cover Cochabamba - Oruro (Sept. 4) addressed to L.A.B. agent. 1930 external connections with Brasilian Condor with first flight covers (July 30), Zeppelin mail 1932 (6) with incoming mail on 1st South America flight from England to La Paz, Panagra and L.A.B. joint service with Experimental flights to Chile and one incoming from Ecuador (May 21), six covers from the Chaco War period (1932/36) as well as 1935/45 Expansion connections with Panagra first flights (2) from Oruro (18. Apr. 37) or La Paz (2 March) to Argentine, both with certs. Moorhouse, various destinations in North and South America and Europe showing different routings with the corresponding rates noted, DLH air service with Crash cover 'Tapajoz' (Nierinck 340503), Air France with two items to Poland (1939) and L.A.T.I. flights with covers to Vienna (1940) and fine L.A.T.I. stationery to Switzerland (1941). A fine collection with a lot of information about Bolivian airmail history of an interesting land locked country within the Andes. Ideal for further studies and expansion. The complete collection will be shown in our online catalogue.
    Starting bid : 5,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 5,000 CHF

    Lot# : 1470 Bolivia

    1924/37: Collection of Bolivian airmail issues starting with Perkins Bacon Die proofs (2) of 1924 Aviation school, 5 b. block of four imperf., SPECIMEN and MUESTRA sets of seven with marginal blocks of six 10 c., 25 c. and 50 c. unused, 2 b. block of 10 of bottom of sheet, 1930 Zeppelin part set to 50 b. unused (lower values only), 1930 July 24 set of eight unused, 1932 Aztec issue mint set of seven with two usages on cover during Chacos War period, 1935 map issue as well as 1937 surcharged airmail set together with six covers.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 700 CHF

    Lot# : 1471 Bolivia

    1931/38: Bolivia - Railway, three bisect usages, incl. 1931 cover from Tupiza to St. Louis USA endorsed 'E.U.A. via Buenos Aires' with diag. bisected 1927 Waterlow 20 c. olive green, 1937 'Lloyd Aereo Boliviano' envelope sent from Cochabamba to Liverpool, bearing airpost 1935 map issue 10 c. plus one vert. bisected as 15 c. surface rate to England, both with certificate Moorhouse (2013/15) as well as bisect usage of 1932 Aztec issue 15 c. and 30 c. tied by railway cachet on envelope from Chulumani Sudyungas to Buenos Aires. Scarce.
    Starting bid : 120 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1472 Bolivia

    1933/42: External Airmail Connections Panagra - Pan American Airways, 32 covers to and via USA and, besides 1933 official cover from  'Legacion de Chile Ecuador'  in Quito to Santiago de Chile (23. March), all commercially used, including 1933 cover sent during the Chacos War Period to NY, 1936 envelope sent via NY to Germany, 1940 registered covers to Morocco and to Denmark (2), censored covers to England, FAM-9 Panagra to Argentine (2) as well as 1940/42 covers via NY to Switzerland (2). Fine.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 200 CHF

    Lot# : 1473 Bolivia

    1936/40: Group of 32 commercially used airmail covers from Bolivia to Europe either sent by Condor - DHL connection (15) or by Condor - Air France link (15), showing rectangular 'CORREO AEREO 7 SOBRETAS Bs' with inserted rate in manuscript, including interesting destinations as envelopes to Czechoslovakia (2), Netherlands (3) and Switzerland (3) as well as two covers franked at surface rate to Vienna and Koeln.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1474 Bolivia

    1937/50ca.: Assembly of 70 airmail covers from Bolivia with interesting usages and frankings, besides two registered envelopes from the British Embassy in La Paz to England, all commercially used, between covers to USA, also covers to Denmark, Switzerland and Yugoslavia noted.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 1475 Bolivia

    1940/41: Lot eight L.A.T.I. usages from Bolivia, all commercial usages, incl. envelopes to Switzerland (2), Germany (5) and Denmark (1). A rare group.
    Starting bid : 120 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold
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