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Catalogue 222: EUROPE & OVERSEAS
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  • Lot# : 2328 Collections/lots Europe

    1734/2004ca: Interesting Lot 300 stamps used/unused as well as essays and 40 covers in mixed condition, incl. France Armée de Reserve, 1744 Armée du Roi, and handwritten 1734 Armée d'Italie covers, 1849/50 Cérès 10 c. bistre on cover, 20 c. grey on cover and dispatched at the Assemblée Nationale, 1 fr. vermillon terne, a repaired copy, and 1 fr. vermillon rouge-brun on cover, Presidence 10 c. bistre on printed matter, 25 c. blue unused without gum, Empire non dentelée 1 c. olive in used block of four, 20 c. blue on lilac paper, a single and a strip of four on covers, 40 c. orange unused, Napoleon dentelé 1 c. olive in a strip of seven, 20 c. blue in unused block of four, two covers sent in franchise from the Palais de St. Cloud with the appropriate handstamps, 1871 Napoleon 5 c. green on blue in a strip of three with Cérès 25 c. on a 1872  second rate cover, Cérès 1871/72 2 c. brown with blue Dedeagh numeral, Bordeaux 20 c. type I on cover and type III in a used block of four, 30 c. brown black on cover, 40 c. rouge sang on cover, and 40 c. with Sage 15 c. on 1886 registered cover, 1875 25 stamp vignettes 'Projet de Gailffe', Sage 35 c. violett grey on yellow with printed matter and Shanghai cancellations, postage due 1871 15 c. type II on cover (2), Colonies générales Cérès 4 c. grey unused, Germany Bavaria 1862 18 Kr. green used, Italy Papal States 50 baj. used and 1 scudo unused, 1867 3 c. used, Modena 1852 5 c. without point unused, Naples 1858 50 gr. used, Sardinia 1854 unissued set unused, Republic 2004 definitives without black imprint of the face value (10 blocks of four), Cyprus 1925 £5 black on yellow, Monaco 1885 1 fr. black on yellow unused, Russia 1858 10 kop. used (2), Sweden 1855 24 sk. light-red used, Switzerland Neuenburg used, Strubel 5 Rp., first Munich print on piece. A lot to be studied carefully. 29 certs. Mi = € 138'000+.
    Starting bid : 9,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 8,000 CHF

    Lot# : 2329 Collections/lots Europe

    1850/65ca.: Interesting Lot 87 used/unused stamps and 13 covers from Europe, in mixed condition, incl. Baden 1862 18 Kr. green used, Bavaria 1863 cover to France with 18 Kr. bright-red, 1870 12 Kr. purpur unused, Braunschweig 1852 3 Sgr. unused, Helgoland 1867 ½ s. in type II unused, Sachsen 1856 10 Ngr. used, Thurn & Taxis 1863 cover Nazza to Eisenach with mixed issue franking 1854 ¼ Sgr. & 1864 ½ Sgr, tied by blue '313' numeral, Württemberg 1855 cover Calw to Vincenza with two 6 Kr. green, 1868 cover to the USA with 1865 3 & 18 Kr. rouletted, Austria 1854 cover with 3 Kr. tied by 'RIVA VAPORI' shipmail handstamp, Finland 1875 inland cover with 10 penni in vert. pair, Great Britain 1864 cover to California with interesting cancellations, Italy Papal States 50 baj. & 1 sc. carmine (2), Lombardo Veneto Journal Fiscal Stamp 1858 blue used, Modena 1852 1 l. used, Naples 1860 Cross of Savoy used, Parma 1852 40 c. unused, 1853 5 c. unused, 1859 5 c. blue green unused, Sardinia 1853 5 & 40 c. used, Sicily 1859 20 & 50 gr. unused, Toscana 1853 1 qu. on piece, 1 so. used, San Marino 1877 30 c. unused, 1892 1, 2 & 5 l. used, Spain 1853 2 r. brick-red, and Switzerland 1850 Poste Locale with framed cross unused. Two certs. Mi = € 60'000+.
    Starting bid : 5,500 CHF
    Hammer price : 5,000 CHF

    Lot# : 2330 Collections/lots Europe

    1850/70ca.: Lot twelve used stamps and two covers incl. Portugal five over average examples of Maria, Pedro and Luis definitives with crisp numerals, Spain 1850 6 c. black, tied by arana handstamp to entire from Valencia to Motril, 1853 12 c. lilac, and 1865 mixed franking 2 c. rose imperf. and 4 c. blue perf. on entire to Bayonne with '5 c.' French taxation, and Greece five Large Hermes Heads with neat numeral cancellations.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 340 CHF

    Lot# : 2331 Collections/lots Europe

    1850/1950: Lot several hundred stamps used/unused, mainly small values from Italy, Jugoslavia, Baltic States, Liechtenstein and others, good to mixed quality, housed in one album.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 2332 Collections/lots Europe

    1872/1980: Lot several hundred stamps used/unused or in mint condition from Austria, German Reich and Greece, although mainly small values and compl./incompl. sets, some better items may be found by careful inspection, housed in two album, in a KOBRA Box and on a large number of stockcards of various sizes, the whole packed in a box.
    Starting bid : 200 CHF
    Hammer price : 1,050 CHF

    Lot# : 2333 Collections/lots Europe

    1849/1950: Lot few hundred stamps used/unused from various countries in Europe, housed in four very sparsely filled gold plated Schaubek albums in nearly new condition called 'Grosse Ausgabe 1943', inbetween a full set of the Belgian cardinal Mercier set as well a a lovely collection of Malta can be found, arranged in a box.
    Starting bid : 300 CHF
    Hammer price : 650 CHF

    Lot# : 2334 Collections/lots Europe

    1858/2010ca.: Lot thousands stamps used/unused incl. Russia from 1858 imperf, definitive's part sheets, revenues, telegraph stamps, stationery cutouts, postmark interest, Russian Levant with Banderol stamp, civil war issues, Armenia, Aserbaidshan, Georgia, Estonia with Otepää, Latvia, Lietuva, Russian, German & Polish WWI charity vignettes, German occupation Russia & Ukraine during WWII, RSFSR incl. 1923 Philately for the Workers, Doplatit, Soviet Union 1934 Zeppelin with photoessays, 1930s commemorative sets, 1947 October revolution miniature sheet, 1949 Stalin miniature sheet, Russian and Ukrainian diaspora vignettes, Finland  from rouletted stamps, shipmail cancellations, post-1990 independent GUS country stamps from Aserbaidshan, Usbekistan, the whole gamut of ovpts. on Soviet stamps, semi-official stamps from Chechenia, Abchasia, Tuva, Batum, Hungary 1956 partial Sopron set, Romania with Pokutia, Ukraine, Albania, Czechoslovakia, Croatia, Turkey, Bulgaria, Romania, Poland, German areas with post-1945 local issues, Italy, Austria 1945 ovpts., Israel with vignettes, in addition several covers and picture postcards, all albums include a lot of write up, photocopies, bogus and fakes marked as such. A very diverse and interesting lot in 24 albums, has to be studied carefully to be appreciated.
    Starting bid : 2,000 CHF
    Hammer price : 13,000 CHF

    Lot# : 2335 Collections/lots Europe

    1860/1980: Lot several thousand stamps used/unused, mainly small values from Italy, San Marino, Vatican, Monaco, Greece, Albania, Hungary etc., partly in blocks of four, in addition cards and covers coming from business or daily mail as well as some FDC's, good condition and housed in total 20 albums and stockbooks, the whole packed in a large removal box.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 650 CHF

    Lot# : 2336 Collections/lots Europe

    1920/60: Lot several hundred stamps used/unused or in mint conditon from Romania, incl. full sets and a few covers, in addition a bunch of cards and covers showing mixed frankings German Reich/Austria after union in March 1938, also few items from other countries incl. fieldpost WW II, on album pages and in a small box.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 190 CHF

    Lot# : 2337 Collections/lots Europe

    1956/99: Important collection several thousand mint stamps covering Europa CEPT issues, incl. forerunners, related additional productions of various countries worldwide, souvenir sheets, minitature sheets and other products by the new issues departement, housed in four LINDNER albums and an loose album pages, packed in a box.
    Starting bid : 500 CHF
    Hammer price : not sold

    Lot# : 2338 Collections/lots Europe

    1500/1950c.: Huge stock of autographs and documents with decorative letterheads (vignettes), letters, postmarks, franchises and ephemera comprising more than 2500 items. The main focus is on the 18th and 19th centuries and the countries France and Germany, but also represented are Switzerland, Italy, Austria, Belgium, Great Britain etc. Thematically very diverse: nobility, military (especially the Napoleonic period ]1789-1815]), politics, religion, French Revolution, art, science, literature. Among the huge number of autographs to be mentioned for example: Empress Maria Theresa of Austria and her husband Franz I. Stephan von Lothringen, General Lecourbe of Napoleon's “Hundred Days” (defence of the Huningue fortress in 1815), General Schauenburg as ‘General in Chief’ from Zurich (1798), Marshal Bernadotte as King of Sweden (with letter), several letters of Marshal Berthier, several decorative French congés from the period around 1800, a variety of signatures of Napoleonic generals (Baget, Barbazan, Belliard, Chateauneuf-Randon, Clarke, Cosson, Desnoyers, Dorsner, Dupont, Ernouf, Gueriot de Saint-Martin, Hatry, Lamorliere, Liebert, Marion, Mengaud, Meynadier, Meynier, Moulin, Petit Guillaume, Rousseaux, Schreiber, Simon, Toulongeon, Valhubert, Vernier, Vietinghoff, Vignolle, Vonderweid etc.), French marshals of the ‘ancien regime’ some represented several times (Soubise (1753, 1770), Richelieu (1759), Castries (1766), du Bourg (1714), Contades (1788), Villars (1728), Biron (1740), Noailles (1756 ), Broglie (1773), Clermont-Tonnerre (1778). Also documents relating to Swiss mercenaries in French service (for example the Diesbach Regiment), document concerning the blockade of Belfort (1814), the Imperial & Royal Leopold Medal, certificate from the Restoration Period (1814) for the Order of Lilies (Décoration du Lys), writings of many politicians (Fouché, Montalivet, Villele, Neufchateau, Voyer d'Argenson, Choiseul, Bonaparte etc.), Prussian generals, officials and politicians of the late 19th century. Also worth mentioning are many examples of fiscal stamps (e.g. Kingdom of Westphalia); different and decorative old parchments with large wax seals, some well-preserved; a large and beautiful stock of woodcuts (from the chronicle of J. Stumpf, 1500-1578, ‘Von den Zürichgau’, siege of Zurich and battle scenes, a small collection of lithographs and steel engravings of Napoleon's Marshal Ney (in passepartouts), portraits of French marshals, old posters of for example Karl Albrecht of Bavaria (1730) and of the Helvetian Republic. About 500 pieces have descriptions with a purchase price of over CHF 50,000 according to the seller. As a supplement there are more than 4,000 documents and letters (not calculated), as well as the genealogical collection of the Von Keler family from the period from 1840 to the late 1930s, with the geographical focus on Austria and Hungary (notably Vienna and Budapest), but also Germany, as well as Constantinople, Beyrout, Smyrna, Egypt. The family included scientists, officers, architects including (through family relationships) such as the Viennese City Architect and the architect Georg Demski (1844-1918), professors Harold (1875-1965, historian) and Roland Steinacker (1870-1962), politician, Zoltan Sztehlo, professor in Miskolcz, the Hungarian General Edmund von Keler, partly with autographs. The entire stock is offered without reserve.
    Starting bid : Bid
    Hammer price : 2,800 CHF

    Lot# : 2339 Collections/lots Europe

    1805/70: Album 38 interesting pre-stamp covers with fine strikes of diff. markings and cachets from Italy, France, Germany (only few) and Switzerland.
    Starting bid : 150 CHF
    Hammer price : 160 CHF

    Lot# : 2340 Collections/lots Europe

    1850/1974: Lot mit über 100 Briefen und Karten, dabei Österreich ab der 1. Ausgaben, etwas Zensurpost nach Österreich, Wiener Aushilfsausgaben, Bundesfeierkarten und Bedarfspost Schweiz, Belege aus dem II. Reich, ein paar Vignetten und anderes mehr, vorab in guter Erhaltung, in drei Alben und in einer Mappe.
    Starting bid : 250 CHF
    Hammer price : 280 CHF
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